So, I’ve been organizing bills, important documents, etc., into binders so that I can have them at my fingertips - without allowing them to take over the counter top.
I’m excited about it because I’ve been trying for years to come up with a plan that I’ll follow through with in regard to actually putting the papers where they belong. Before I had a lovely file system that seemed to produce more offspring at the rate of rabbits. It got scary because I never filed anything - and it looked really awful too. (There were rabbit kittens strewn everywhere.)
Anyway, my goal is to make things a little more controlled and get into a routine. In doing this I’ve devised a binder system that will allow me to hole-punch and tuck the papers away in the front pocket until I do my bills - at which point they go into the binder.
How. Ever.
It’s a little difficult to three-hole-punch a piece of paper in an 8.5×11 punch when the paper is a little over 1/2 inch longer. (Same width, different height.)
I first noticed it when A printed some stuff for me at work. I figured it was just legal paper. (I thought legal was longer than that, but whatever.) Then I was putting papers in order and I noticed that every single piece of paper that came from the UK was that way.
OK…first off: ANNOYING
Second: Why can’t they just stick with the US. paper system…. Oh. Oh wait. Could it be BECAUSE THE U.S. IS ONE OF LIKE THREE COUNTRIES IN THE WORLD THAT DOESN’T USE INTERNATIONAL PAPER SIZES.
God, we really are jackasses sometimes. I mean seriously…we chose paper as an area of differentiation? WTF?
So, I’ll be cutting the bottoms off of the UK paperwork to make it fit into my binder.
There is one good thing I get out of it…I’m feeling a trip to the craft store for a small paper cutter is a must. Mmmm hmmm. There’s an Archivers gift card smoldering in a drawer waiting to go back to the homeland. There won’t even be time for it to burn a hole in my pocket…that thing is spent.
The rest of the day I spent cleaning.
(Yeah. Yeah, I know I have a cleaning person, but she just isn’t cutting it. No one is going to make this place shine in five hours the way Fili did at our house in KC. All of you out there with Fili coming to your house? Be happy you have her…even if she doesn’t dust the stair spindles. She ROCKS.)
Anyway, I’m going to sack our domestic help and do the cleaning myself. BUT…I’m going to send out ALL of the laundry!!!! I don’t think you can possibly understand the joy I feel at the thought of not having to do eight loads of darks in our soccer ball size washer and dryer. And the house is so quiet and peaceful when the two are not running. OMG…it will be heaven!
I’ll still have to do a few loads of stuff, but who cares? Someone else will be folding Aaron’s 80 million pairs of black socks - and the white ones too!
It just keeps getting better! (I’m squirming at the thought. I can’t hardly sit still!)
Ok, the rest of the day for posterity.
- I’m cleaning because Y, the Israeli woman from L’s school, is coming over tomorrow after school to visit and let the kids play. This place hasn’t ever had a deep cleaning, so I decided today was the day for the 1st floor. It looks amazing. Well, except for the kitchen table…because it has all of my crap on it… but I’ll take care of that tomorrow morning. Before school. I hope.
- Liam did take a nap today, but only after an hour and a half of fake crying. I don’t know what the deal was…I told him he could just play as long as he was quiet. I understand that he doesn’t want to miss anything that’s going on down here, but dude, I wanted to take a nap.
- Elena stayed in her jammies all day. She’s down to needing her diaper changed about five or six times a day (cloth diapers) and let me tell you: THAT KICKS ASS.
- A is in Omaha having dinner with some peeps. I just know he’s going to come home and be totally amazed at how good the house looks - I even wiped down walls. The entryway looks completely different. And I also know that even if he doesn’t notice? that he’s going to tell me it looks fantastic and that I worked so hard I deserve a break and he’s cooking dinner AND cleaning it up. Yep, I’m pretty sure that’s how it’s going to go down.
L has his xmas program tomorrow and he’s one of the wise men. I’m taping it for AJ since he can’t attend. Perhaps I’ll be able to give you a little peek later on.
