Getting organized has required a lot of time and work. I'm still adjusting to find just what systems will work best and easiest for me to maintain. Bill recently introduced me to Google Notebooks and I am so hooked. It's a free, web based note recording system that can be shared. So far I share these notebooks with Bill ( Read more... )

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I don't know why but every time I go on a trip, I treat the day I leave as a deadline for all sorts of things. I want the house and all my affairs in (near) perfect order, "just in case." I don't think of it as morbid. In fact, I kind of find it invigorating. I take the time to try and consider where I'm at and where I want things to be when I' ( Read more... )

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Most of the creditors have been called and I feel the weight of this ordeal beginning to thin a bit. I spent a few hours last night designing a system for paying bills. I’m realizing that I am a very tactile person. Spreadsheets and electronic files aren’t fun or useful to me ( Read more... )

I’ve been purging, organizing and re-feng shui-ing the space - I’m far from finished but pretty spent. We had a fire this weekend that we fueled with old journals, letters, bills and work documents. It was so cathartic to transform that energy into their lighter manifestation (ash). We’ve more cremating to do still - maybe this weekend. The ( Read more... )