It definitely worked

Categories: house

Date: 04 February 2010 10:11:01

I'm sleeping loads better than I have been for months!

I'm also confining my clutter to one room, and one room only! The kitchen, for various reasons, had become a semi-transit camp for many things until I'd found homes for them, and for my work stuff that wanders between work and home. Everything now has a home, and I'm making sure I dump my work bag in the right place when I come in and change out of work clothes, and not just by the kitchen table, and ignoring it until time to check I've got the correct folders/files for the next day just before I go to bed, as I've been doing.

It would seem I do really rather like my kitchen, and living room to be clear, clean calm places, but have no qualms about living with the mess and chaos of a work room, as long as I can shut the door on it when I want to ignore it! So, restoring my kitchen to tidiness, as well as cleanliness, and having all the untidy work stuff in one place has helped my sense of well being enormously.

Which, given this has been a week at work where I've needed to be at my best emotionally to help others through a very difficult time, has all been very good.

It seems strange to admit, but this is the first time in my life I've been living on my own, in my own space, and going out to work five days a week. I've spent almost all of my adult life living along side other people, and in unusual circumstances... I've always worked, and often much, much hard than I do now. (I'm out five days a week, with three different jobs, which don't add up to full time hours or pay... but that is about to change, I hope!) My tiredness is more to do with the excessive amount of travel I'm doing. But, I've mainly worked in and from home, and fitting in and around other, complex needs, with occasional part time jobs.

I'm having to think about so many things I've never really had to think about before! Decide which matters are things that have been inflicted on me, or things that really are part of who I am and that I would choose to do regardless of whether it affects only me, or twenty others. Big things like jobs, and little things like buying a mop.

And, getting more sleep is definitely good!