Late Night Thoughts

By Lynn, on October 22nd, 2007

I know, I know. I should go straight to bed when I come in from work at 10 p.m. or so, but who can come in and just slam their eyes shut and go right to sleep after waiting on customers all night? I know I can’t. Anyhoo, I’m sure I have about 500 junk e-mails that I will gently fling into my virtual trashcan. Then there’s the fun stuff — the real e-mail – funny things from my sister, notes from friends, forwarded jokes and pictures, and comments from people who have come across my website. I like those the best.

I was pretty overwhelmed before I left the house for work earlier today. I had been noticing (again) the clutter around the house. Oh my goodness it’s overwhelming if I let it be. I use the big basket idea. It’s a perfect way to keep things looking neat, but I still sometimes feel like my mind might explode if I have to look at one more pile of clutter and figure out just what it is and where it came from.

Then I had an experience that made me think I’m gonna miss this clutter one day. I should be embracing clutter. In fact, it was such a sweet moment today to go to the file cabinet for the stapler (the place where the stapler should be) and find that the stapler had grown legs and walked off, but there in its place was Bitty Bear, a toy gun and a broken Strawberry Shortcake camera. Who cared about a stapler anymore??? I just flung whatever it was that I was going to staple into the file basket, which will probably also explode some time soon, and had a few tender moments with Bitty Bear. Does life get any better than this?