How Are You Getting Organized This Year?

I spent a few hours today working through my bookshelves. Josh and I are married now so I finally feel fully comfortable combining our movie and book collections. I'm very protective of my belongings. We've been buying each other movies and books as presents and with combined money so it's been getting harder to tell what belongs to who anyway.

We have three bookshelves in our bedroom. One under our TV which is now designated for video game systems. There is the bookshelf next to Josh's desk which mostly holds his books. Then there is the tall bookshelf by the window. It has a lot of my stuff on it. But now holds all of our movies in one place.

And yes there is still a bunch of stuff sitting in a pile in the middle of the floor until I figure out what to do with it. But most of it is probably garbage anyway.

Also Josh does own 8 godzilla figurines.

Computer Bookshelf Before

Computer Bookshelf After

Tall Bookshelf Before

Tall Bookshelf After

TV Stand Before

TV Stand After

My 5 New Habits for January

I've been working on a few new habits for this new year. They aren't resolutions just ways I'm trying to better myself.

1. Bullet Journaling
Mid December I learned about Bullet Journaling. It's a free form sort of day planner. I'm loving it. I'm learning and changing each day what works for me. I use it more for recording my day then planning what I'm going to do next. I write down chores sometimes and I keep my shopping list in it. My job has really slowed down now that Christmas is over. I keep my journal with me at work and I write stuff down as I think of it. I've also been feeling more productive because I am actually looking at my lists and wanting to get things done.

Bullet Journal Complete with Sudoku Puzzle

2. Morning Pages in my Bullet Journal
I've been doing morning pages on and off for years. For a long time I did them online through 750words.com, It was tough though, if I forgot to get online, or I was somewhere that I couldn't easily connect to the internet then I didn't do them. I broke my 100 day streak because I went to Anime Detour and there was no wifi.

So now I'm doing them in my bullet journal. I try to do a page every day. I usually write before I go to work. Some days I only get halfway through the page and some days I don't write at all. I'm not pressuring myself about it. I also let myself have as much time as I need. With the online site it was always a race to see how quickly I could finish, because after you submit it will tell you how long it took you to reach 750 words.

I've been using it to work through some of my daily anxieties and worries, as well as using it to talk myself through new projects.

3. Drinking More Water
I have check boxes in my bullet journal for each 20 oz bottle of water I drink. At work I get a break every two hours so this schedule allows me to easily drink enough water for the day. It's when I'm at home and I don't remember to drink enough water. I'm getting better. The checkboxes help.

4. Taking My Vitamins
I'm trying to eat better but I know I'm still not getting the vitamins I need. I have one of those pill boxes with spots for each day of the week. I keep it in my lunch box so I can take them with food on my dinner break at work. This is by far my favorite life hack.

5. Eating Meals at the Table
I've been searching Pinterest for some better dinner recipes. I'm not searching for health, I'm searching for straight up delicious food. My mother doesn't eat meat and is a bland cook. She is a picky eater and her idea of flavor is topping her mashed potatoes with cottage cheese. I'm learning how to use spices and I taught myself to like bell peppers a few years back. So basically I can cook you a potato five different ways but if you hand me a chunk of meat I won't know what to do with it.

Pinterest has come to the rescue and I've been finding some great stuff. If I'm making good meals I want to be able to sit down and enjoy them. So I've implemented dinner time at the table. We usually have dinner on the couch in front of the tv because we don't actually have a real table, just a sad card table. So now we have sit down dinner together on my days off when we can actually eat dinner together.

I'm learning to love cooking and I can tell that Josh is really enjoying eating something other than potatoes.

I'm Obsessed with Notebooks

I really like notebooks a lot. Back to School season is hard at Walmart because there are just so many pretty notebooks that are also really cheap. Why yes I would like a box of one subject notebooks for ten cents apiece. It's bad.

I already have so many notebooks. My biggest vice is pocket notebooks and journals. People used to always buy me journals because I was a teenage girl with emotions who was also a  writer. Journals were the perfect gift. Now I collect those little Moleskine notebooks. I use the first few pages and then I buy another one. I can't rip pages out of notebooks. But I'm a perfectionist so each notebook has to have a purpose.

I like tiny notebooks a lot. I decided to put them in a stack the last time I cleaned. 

I also like binders and how they allow me to be organized. I have binders for all sorts of stuff. A lot of them are filled with my organized poetry. I have it organized by date. It's actually really cool. I started putting dates on my writing very early on. Within a couple months of beginning to write when I was in 5th grade. I'm very proud of myself for thinking to do that.

I have a binder for all of my important paperwork, and I have one for all of the user manuals and receipts for all of my major appliances and stuff.

I like binders and full size notebooks too.

Now I Have an Amazing Keyboard

I got my keyboard in the mail yesterday shortly after posting. I immediately had to go out and buy batteries for it because it takes AAA and I only stockpile AA. Good job. So now I have a keyboard and it is amazing and it will definitely help me write more and more often. It's not even noon yet and I've already done my 750 words and I'm writing a  blog post. Look at me go. After this I'm probably going to work on my Hubpages articles a little bit more. Because I am on a roll. Then I will probably be so hungry that I feel like I'm gonna die because Josh might forget to make lunch because he is sucked into his computer as well. Oh well. That's how we choose to live. Then I can go work out and then use his computer to finish up my articles before I go to work. Yay!

My super cute workstation. 

Garage

The other project I was working on today was cleaning out our garage. Since Steve is moving the garage is getting cleared out and we're gonna store stuff there. What stuff? I don't know yet. Bikes and camping equipment I guess. But it's a mess right now and needs some work.

Oh, you can also see my car in the background of the third picture. It still needs quite a bit of work as well. But at least it looks pretty. And yes, there is also purple carpet on the floor in our garage. We're just classy like that.