[ NEAT FREAK!!! ]

sooooooo... i have been untidy all my life. i walk into a place & create a mess! i won the 'messiest desk' award at work, it's my creativity! a brain can't be creative & tidy... well that's my excuse & i'm sticking to it!! now... add 2 young boys, a husband, a dog, 2 cats, a bird & fish to the mix & why am i surprised that it isn't any better!!!! i would really like to get organized, i don't want one of those houses where when i sit on the couch & try to make myself as small as possible because i feel like i'm making the place look untidy just by being there ~  well lets face it even if i did want that it would NEVER happen! i came across a local 'organizer' online & got quite excited! my friend, jackie, said save your money, she'd help me ~ i'd love that but i'm scared we have a big 'girl fight', hair pulling & screaming, over what i should throw away. [ whenever i think about women fighting, which isn't that often, it's always in the 70's, so maybe we should be wearing flared catsuits & flicked back hair...] when my mum came to visit me, i asked her to help me declutter. (everyone in my family is SUPER tidy... except me) i'd read that when you go through clothes you should bag up what you don't want & put them straight in your car to take to the donation drop off. i did that but couldn't sleep that night, thoughts of what my mum had bagged were racing through my head. before my mum got up the next morning i'd gone through it & pull some things out... it took about 3 months to not be stressing over one pair of baby trousers i'd got rid of... when we talk about people being tidy everyone mentions OCD... but i looked up the definition & i have it!!!!!! extensive hoarding!! how do i change that to have a pinch of the tidy stuff? i'd like to think that once i've got things sorted they'd stay like that, i need a system, i'm just clueless how  ~ i just must have been having coffee when they gave out this kind of info. soooooo... i love to hear all your de-cluttering, organizing, tidying tips please!! the best books you've read, ANYTHING!! maybe we'll all get something out of this! you can do it anoymously if you like, but please be nice :) here's some of things that bamboozle me! what on earth do you do with: ~ all your old greeting cards? (i keep mine in a box!) ~ odd socks, where on earth do the other ones go? (i keep these in a box!) ~ bills... & papers in general! (i keep mine in a box! ~ i'm sensing a pattern here...) ~ most of the stuff i put in boxes breeds. ~ keep the shoes tidy? you get the picture!!! jackie... just say the word ~ i'll dig out my curling tongs! i emptied out my bag the other day... as you can see i have all the essentials!! including the 'must have' acorn...

[ pass the popcorn... ]

sooooooo... my husband, mike, & i decided to take our boys to the cinema between christmas & new year. mike read reviews. gulliver travels, we decided, would be a bit old for them, sadly, as it's starring jack black ~ who is on my top 25 people that i wouldn't mind getting stuck in a lift (elevator) with!!!


to tell you the truth there wasn't a lot to choose from... we went for 'tangled', a disney adaptation of rapunzel. of course lets see it in 3d, 2 adults, one 3 year old & a 5 year old please ~ that will be $54. sorry i thought you said $54! oh you did!!! do i sound like a really old person complaining about cinema prices??


so we settle in to watch & i have to say i really enjoyed it, i even shed a tear behind my 3d glasses! basically the queen is going to have a baby (rapunzel) but is very sick & needs the power of a golden flower to survive. this crazy lady has been hiding the flower because she's using it to keep her young. but it gets found, cures the queen & the flower's power is now in rapunzel's hair.


the crazy lady tries to cut some of rapunzel hair but when cut it dies & won't grow anymore... so she kidnaps the baby, locks her in a tower & uses her hair to stay young blah blah blah.


in the end rapunzel has fallen in love with a guy who got in the tower, the crazy lady stabs him & he's going to die... rapunzel promises that if she can heal him (her hair heals too) she'll let her stay young & remain her prisoner forever...


but just before rapunzel gets to do this, the guy cuts off her hair, so there's no power left...


the reason i'm telling you all this is because mike and i spent a long time after the movie 'discussing' this (& we still don't see eye to eye on it!!!)


i said it's a shame he cut off her hair before she healed him.


mike thinks that that wouldn't be right because she had made a promise to the crazy lady....


yes but that promise is to someone who had her locked up in a tower for 18 years!!! & once her hair was gone the old lady wouldn't need her anymore.


i can't believe how long we discussed this for!! how we are both adamant that we're right & that i'm now blogging about it!!! not to mention the reckless way he cut her hair (it won't grow anymore) ~ so she's stuck with that 'do' forever...