By 4am I had decided exactly what I'd be doing at least half of my New Year's Day: cleaning and reorganizing my pantry! After that I was going to clean out all the papers in my office and create a new filing system, and then fill all those photo albums with the pictures I had ordered months ago. Oh, and do just a minor reorg to the storage closet in the den/my office as well. (In case you haven't figured it out, "nesting" isn't just for people having babies...it's also for people who are about to return to work after a 2.5 year hiatus.)
By 8:30(ish) the next morning, I was hard at work. I recruited Jeff to sit with me and go through everything that was in there and vote whether to keep or toss. For instance, anything that was branded "Harris Teeter," which was our store in Virginia - we decided was probably worth tossing at this point. By 10am, with the entire room in complete disarray, it was time to make trip #1 to Target (hooray for stores who don't let their employees take holidays off!). No comment on how long I spent there sorting through storage options. Armed with what I believed would certainly be way too many things, I arrived back home and began the task of putting everything back together. By about 1pm, with Ian halfway through his second movie and still in his jammies (whoops) and Elena taking marathon naps, it was clear I still had a long journey ahead of me...and not enough storage items. Enter trip #2 to Target. Still, I was not ready to call "uncle" on my other planned projects for the day. After all, it was only about 3:30pm by this point. There was still time!
By 6pm as Jeff was opening the wine, finishing the mashed potatoes and pulling our New Years prime rib out of the oven - I was strategically placing the last containers of cereal into our newly organized area. Needless to say, I was exhausted and had to give up my dream of finishing the other projects for the day (but fear not - I got some done today!). But let me tell you, it is a beauty. Of course here is where it would seem natural that you'd look below this paragraph and see a picture of the finished product - but this is where I see that it's nearing 10pm and rather than go get my camera, take a pic and download it to the blog, I must be off to bed. After all, I do have a job to get to in the morning, you know.
Until I write again.
