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Dec. 4th, 2005 02:22 pmThe best analogy I've got right now is that I have about a hundred different puzzles. Some of them are over a 1000 pieces, while others are only 5. Most are probably about 500 or so - average, the kind everyone works now and again. Sometimes, they're 3D puzzles. Or maybe there are Legos thrown in there too (with a few of the Kubrick mini-figs thrown in, just to confuse things.
I love puzzles. But there's a little problem here.
The boxes they came in? They're gone. Some of the peices are broken, or ruined, or missing. The remaining peices are in bags, boxes, drawers, and cabinets, or just scattered on the floor to be tripped over and stepped on. Some of them are on the computer, scattered across harddrives and disks and the 'net.
I want to work the puzzles, to put them together and decoupage them with mod-podge and frame them and put them on the wall. I'm just not sure HOW. Where to start, what to do, or how to go about it. All the flat surfaces are covered with the bags and boxes of said peices - so's the middle of the floor. (And the edges. And the corners.)
So, ok, they're not really puzzle peices, they're my stuff, and other aspects of my life, but the problem is still the same.
And now we're seriously considering moving into the duplex with my about-to-be mother-in-law and some other friends, which could be really good for us, financially and in other respects. But I hate to take this mess there too... just like I've moved it from my first apartment, to my parents where it got a little worse, to Beck's where it got even more out of order, to this apartment where it got worse still.
Logically I know all the various methods to organizing, I've read the books and the sites and have even watched people do it and have even done it myself. It's just not working now... partially because there's simply NOT space to organize and sort things, and partially because I quite simply just can't make myself get up and do it.
Yeah. That about sums it up.
I love puzzles. But there's a little problem here.
The boxes they came in? They're gone. Some of the peices are broken, or ruined, or missing. The remaining peices are in bags, boxes, drawers, and cabinets, or just scattered on the floor to be tripped over and stepped on. Some of them are on the computer, scattered across harddrives and disks and the 'net.
I want to work the puzzles, to put them together and decoupage them with mod-podge and frame them and put them on the wall. I'm just not sure HOW. Where to start, what to do, or how to go about it. All the flat surfaces are covered with the bags and boxes of said peices - so's the middle of the floor. (And the edges. And the corners.)
So, ok, they're not really puzzle peices, they're my stuff, and other aspects of my life, but the problem is still the same.
And now we're seriously considering moving into the duplex with my about-to-be mother-in-law and some other friends, which could be really good for us, financially and in other respects. But I hate to take this mess there too... just like I've moved it from my first apartment, to my parents where it got a little worse, to Beck's where it got even more out of order, to this apartment where it got worse still.
Logically I know all the various methods to organizing, I've read the books and the sites and have even watched people do it and have even done it myself. It's just not working now... partially because there's simply NOT space to organize and sort things, and partially because I quite simply just can't make myself get up and do it.
Yeah. That about sums it up.
