For those of you who've seen what I call my office, you know it's very rare to be able to see the floor, the walls, the desk, etc. Now, they have been seen, but only by the select few who have been here the rare 2-3 times in the past 6 years when I had spent 4-5 weeks cleaning it out. It has everything in it. All my different crafts, knitting, clay, jewelery, genealogy stuff, computer stuff, Xmas minature wreaths, etc, etc. Well, by lucky happen stance, I met this great gal Jill. A few weeks ago she helped me out of a very sticky (literally) situation we had with exploding toilets. She is an "Organizer", like on those TV shows. When she saw my office she didn't cringe or faint dead away, or up her life insurance before entering the room, she started shooting out ideas to make it a better place to work. I hired her and she spent 2, six hour days at my house. The first was taking everything out, sorting as we went and elimating what I hadn't actually used for a long while. I have done this in the past myself but it took me 2-3 weeks and I could just never part with anything. Jill asks all those pointy questions that when you answer them - you yourself decide to let go of what you really no longer need or have use for. Then our great son Russ came over 2 weeks in a row and painter the room, ceiling and walls. No more dingy builders off white! then jill came back and I heled her put everything back in the room - but as she put things in she set the room up very different from how it had been. Now I have a seperate project table. The computer office area is completely clear to work at, the TV works (Jill has many talents) and you can find everything in the closet. Because the paint hasn't set yet, I have one pile of boxes waiting to go in that high storage shelf, and the wall shelves have a bracket that reg needs to fix before I can put all the organized knitting o the shelves. Oh - I vacuumed the room - right up to the walls ! It is sooo clean your feet sqeak when you walk in ! Look at the Sept 18 "Help Has Arrived" to see the mountains of stuff (stored in the living room) Jill got back into the room.
