25 Random Things About Me

1. Define, "random."

2. I start my day with a healthy breakfast.

3. I can play a drumset and have played one on a stage in front of other people. Twice.

4. I cannot touch my toes.

5. ran-dom adj: CHANCE, HAPHAZARD

6. Diet Coke is not an option.

7. I have not had my 15 minutes of fame.

8. If you didn't see me write it down, I won't remember to do it.

9. Peeve - if you have kids over the age of two, do not tell them to, "Say, thank you." It doesn't mean anything if you say it first.

10. I don't do, "random."

11. My therapist said that fb would be a good outlet for me. I wonder what she meant by that?

12. I mix my lights and darks.

13. Oh, crud, I left wet towels in the washer...

14. Peeve - when people use more than 3 dots.........

15. I make lists to reduce my anxiety. Then I lose them.

16. During his rehearsal dinner speech, hubby told his brother that he loved him more than anyone else in the world. Then they cried.

17. I get a lot of mileage out of #16.

18. I will be a published author - someday.

19. About five years ago, I gave up on the 10 o'clock news.

20. I get current news from Twitter and follow-up the next day with the Chicago Tribune (old-school newsprint version).

21. I have never needed a passport (Though I have been to Canada.  Didn't need one back then.)

22. I intend to change #21 before I turn 50.

23. My first kiss happened on the same night as my first hickie. Ewwwww.

24. I am not capable of a one word answer.

25. You're not gonna believe how out of hand it's gonna be.

#napo2011

My 100th tweet.  Whoot!

When I started my professional organizing business on 1/1/11, I did not give Twitter much thought.  Declare Order professional organizing was hooked up with Blogger, a domain - www.declareorder.com, and a fb page.  That was enough - right?

One day, out of curiosity? I checked out the site.  To my delight I fell in - as I tend to do when inspiration strikes.  It has been 20 days now.  TWENTY DAYS.  In those 20 days, I have tweeted 100 times.  And I don't even know why!

Tweet #1...

a reply to @normmacdonald.  Yes, the comedian.  

Tweet #10

Link to my blog post.

http://declareorder.blogspot.com/2011/03/spring-in-big-box-store.html  

(Actual URL.  Had not yet attempted bit.ly maneuver.)

Tweet #20

Retweet from @GreySkyThinking
"Do you feel like you're stuck on the outside while all the cool stuff is inside? Then you're probably a loner. Or a fridge magnet."

Diversions...
I do speak Parseltongue, but with a thick Bronx accent.

I am not going to write about @BronxZoosCobra.  I mean, I did.  But I am not going to here.  Something went awry there.  Pre-recaputured tweets had different voice.  Unfollowed...

Tweet #50 - Learning To Pound

"Donating Declare Order packages to local PTA silent auctions. Kind of a "Spa Day 4 Closets!" #professionalorganizing

Fast Forward to this Friday... 

Was #FF by 2@s.  (Had to Google to figure out what it meant.)

Reading Twitterville by, Shel Israel.  Followed the NAPO 2011 conference in real time.  In awe of this profession.  In awe of this communication tool.

@Lifeisgood_.

Tweet #48
If a twitter #tweet falls in the global village
but no one reads it, does it say anything? #jw

Does Anyone Really Know What Time It Is?

If you want work well done, select a busy man - the other kind has no time.  ~Elbert Hubbard
 
This time next week it will be 1 hour later than it is right now. 
Daylight Savings Time

I object to being told that I am saving daylight when my reason tells me that I am doing nothing of the kind...At the back of the Daylight Saving scheme, I detect the bony, blue-fingered hand of Puritanism, eager to push people into bed earlier, and get them up earlier, to make them healthy, wealthy, and wise in spite of themselves.
~ Robertson Davies, The Diary of Samuel Marchbanks

"Time flies like an arrow; fruit flies like a banana"

Groucho Marx

"Time is on my side, yes it is."

Mick Jaggar

  
Time is what prevents everything from happening at once.  
~John Archibald Wheeler

Book Whisperer

 

"My aim is to put down on paper what I see and what I feel in the best and simplest way." ~ Hemingway

Not sold on the e-book trend.  Real books wilt in the attic.  Live in stacks.  They eat, pray, and leave (perhaps in a tote bag at a book club, or a seat on the train).  Occasionally they meander back.  Or they don't - making room for more!

Books comfort.  Enrich.  Beg to be handled.  Removed.  "Take me with you!"  Then, "Pass me along..."

Make a home library if you must - sorted by subject and/or size.  Author, color, or treasure factor.  Keep track of them when they go.  Fret until they return.  But cherish.


The Book Whisperer 

Not-So Smart Balance

Last week I wrote about my practical stack of Smart Balance containers.  Today's post is...well...NOT so smart.

Define, "balance."  

an amount in excess especially on the credit side of an account 

     Did you ever lose a gift card?  With a really high balance?  Perhaps you thought you were soooo clever because you made a file folder marked, "Gift Cards," so you wouldn't worry about it falling out of your wallet.  But you forgot.  And it was two years before it tumbled on the floor while you were purging your files rearranging your home office.  $100 in little green plastic.  Has that ever happened to you?  Yeah...me neither.

p.s. Lettuce Entertain You honors old gift cards.  Just thought you'd like to know.