Now comes the hard part. Getting all the boxes emptied and trying to
find out where we have put all our “little items.” These are the things that are going to take
us weeks to get sorted out and adjusted to get our lives back into some type of
“working” order.
How were we ever able to function in our
lives without all the little notes, tables, files, and other documents that we
use on a day-to-day basis? I sit in my
office chair and now I’m trying to imagine how to put things into place so I
can function around my computer.
I look at things that are not now within
arms-reach. How am I going to operate
with those files now on my left when they used to be on my right? There are actually some items that I am going
to have to get up out of my chair and get off the bookshelf instead of having
them there in my desk file drawer!
In only three days I’ve noticed that my
computer is now 8.5 inches further away from my reach than it was before. I don’t think I’m gong to be able to get the copies
out of the tray without straining my back in the reach.
I’ve also realized that there is a “slight”
slope in the floor where my desk chair is located. If I don’t get it positioned exactly right, I
slowly begin to drift toward the center of the room. How am I going to get my processing done
during a day’s work? I’ll been spending
most of my time repositioning my chair so I can function!
Within all this confusion I have also had
to “down-size” again! It is almost
unthinkable trying to sit in your seat and make a decision: “Do I keep this or
throw it away?” I just know that what I
throw today is the ONE item I will need tomorrow. My wife says I’m beginning to display a tendency
of being a hoarder! I don’t think of
myself that way, but I can see some of the anxiety building when I have to make
that final decision on each specific item.
I know in the end I will get it all
figured out and my office routine will be back in “ship-shape” order and I will
be once again churning out the blogs, reports, and other necessary items as I
was in the past. However, until that
time I feel, in some cases, like I have had to cut off part of my arm as I
attempt to find and return to “normalcy” my office routine. That’s when my wife tells me she is having
many of the same problems as she deals with other household items that have
been moved. It just goes to show
regardless of who we are: we’re only human!
QUOTE TO CONSIDER
THOUGHTFUL GEM
"My life is presently
organized chaos."
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