The Perfect Space (The Avett Brothers)

     My theme for this next year of life will be "restore order".  It carries over into everything.  I will clean up my space...physical, emotional, mental and all the little places in between it all.  I will clear away the things that have been bogging me down...from the countless pages of emails to the closet of a woman who is no longer here to wear the clothes that hang there.  My dvr is loaded, my pile of bills is overwhelming, drawers are bursting and full of things that are no longer needed or useful.  There is a basement full of molding yesterdays and maybe tomorrows and a garage that would make it jealous.   I was surrounded by people who find it hard to say goodbye to anything...so things were kept to keep it simple and easy.  For them.  I am here buried in it all.  I am the girl who owns a label maker.  I find solace in charts.  I smile at a new batch of colorful dry erase markers for the calendar that keeps me fooled into thinking I am in charge of anything.  I am giving myself one year...to clean it all up. 
      Keep an eye on the "free rock" out front because you might just find something juicy.  Let me know if you've had your eye on anything.  I will be selling, donating, giving, tossing and purging.  Life needs to be simple.  Time should be spent with my growing children... not on moving things from one pile to the next.   Time should be spent with the man who might forget who I am sooner than I'd like to think...not on dusting things I don't care about.  Time should be spent digging myself out of the rubble...not out of the piles of clothing nobody wears.  It's time to find the perfect space to free up the time to frolic.  Time is my most valuable commodity and will not be wasted on people who don't appreciate it.  Now hand me my to do list and don't stand still for too long!