The Beginning of A New Era

My life is a mess.... Beyond all the other stuff in my life, my house is a disaster. I continuously find myself standing in the middle of a room having a panic attack trying to figure out where on earth to start. There is stuff EVERYWHERE. So after hearing me whine about it (repeatedly) my mom gave me a book to read that is supposed to help. It's called "Sink Reflections" by Marla Cilley or the FlyLady. She swears it helps. So I took it home read the first chapter and did what it said, thus gaining the status of FlyBaby (new members to the FlyLady idea). Then I got the crazy idea that maybe if I blogged about (which in my mind entails me writing about it everyday) I might ACTUALLY do it so as to not let down my (currently non-existent) fans. So. Day 1.

Apparently the first step to getting your home in order all revolves around a clean sink... Count me slightly skeptical but I'm trying to go for this right? So after procrastinating the whole day I finally dragged myself home (where I procrastinated some more by making a "Cleaning" play list on my I-Pod) and stared down my sink. Let me explain about my sink, it's TERRIFYING. I can't actually see the bottom of the sink since it is being covered by the mass of dishes of every shape, size, and varying degree of disgusting-ness. Back to the book! Apparently you don't even need to do the dishes, you can set them aside and just clean the sink. I though can't see the point in scrubbing down the sink and then washing the science projects into the clean sink so I tackle one of the worst chores humanly possible (at least in my opinion.) After filling the dishwasher and setting the rest aside I follow 6 or so of the 12 steps to a clean sink. Now in my defense, some of the steps are for maintaining the clean sink. So when all is said and down the sink is as clean as it gets (for such an old sink) and it is reasonably fulfilling to have one shining spot of non-madness in my home. On to step two!

Step two I have a problem with....I own 80+ pairs of shoes, and I HATE wearing shoes. So step two involves getting up every morning and making yourself presentable no matter your plans for the day. And the key part of being together involves putting your shoes on (particularly lace-up shoes since they're harder to slip out of.) Now I understand the principle behind all this. You have more confidence in yourself when you feel you look good and you act it. But I don't want to wear shoes all the time!!!! Ok, temper tantrum over. So I'm going to try to stick to this one minus the shoes....

P.S. it seems to me like I should be going at this in more of an all or nothing type adventure but I suppose it only works if you cater it to yourself.

So the last step of day one is nice and easy which makes me happy! =) Lay out your clothes for the next morning. THIS I CAN DO! This step was greatly helped along by the fact that I just did laundry and therefor actually have clothes to wear.

Well, I have successfully enough made it through day one as a FlyBaby. We'll see how tomorrow goes seeing as I will leave home at 7:45AM and not get home till 9:00Pm. Wish me luck!