The Desk, The Life!

Have you ever noticed that your desk/workspace often reflects your life and how it's going?

What kind of desk/workspace do you have?

I have a wooden (unstained) self contained unit that has two doors that I can close to hide all the clutter....hmmm I wonder what that says about my life? Oh and the item is unstained because I was going to stain it when I got it but when my hubby put it together for me and my computer and "stuff" got in there....well needless to say it never got done. Now it's too dirty to stain so I'm going to have to paint it. I am planning on painting it the same colors as my kitchen and it's a high priority spring project for me....if spring ever gets here.

How is your desk/workspace "organized" if it is organized?

I am a visual person and if something needs to be done I need to have a visual reminder, usually a piece of paper or an entry on my outlook calendar or inbox to remind me that something needs to be done. Yes this creates a lot of clutter for me but I know if I didn't have that I would forget to do a lot of "important" things!

In addition to the reminder clutter, things happen to "fall" onto my desk, yes I am mostly allways the culprut - someone gives something to me or I pick something up while cleaning and not knowing where it should go (or being too lazy to put it where it belongs) plop on my desk it goes to deal with it later!

I do have some attempts at organizing my space -- I have 3 wicker baskets (large, med and small) that I try to contain similiar type items. I also have a drawer (mostly where I hide more "things" as well as a cd organizer and a file organizer on the bottom.

What have I noticed about all these attempts at organization....I never look in/at them. I know it's there but I never use the stuff that's in there, it just sits there showing the world that I'm attempting to be organized.

So what does all this have to do with my life?

I think I love clutter -- I think it reminds me that my life is busy and necessary and that somehow I am important. I think I need to be reminded of this daily and I think the clutter is my attempt at reminding others that I am important and busy.

I think the organization items tell me that although I'm "attempting" to be organized that "life" as I know it is not in the organization....life is in the clutter.

Yes it's nice to be organized -- you can find things and things look neat and tidy especially to the outside world but that sounds well ....like not living.

Life happens in the clutter.

But then there comes a point where there is too much clutter isn't there?

I can't find ANYTHING, important things! In addition to feeling needed I feel smothered, I have no time for myself or because of all the paper in front of my computer screen I can't get the solitude and relaxation I need from the reading of my friends blogs and emails.

LIFE has gotten out of control! Mama needs to clean her desk!

I just cleaned off and reorganized my desk yesterday, boy was I in need of that!!

Now I can get back to life again and start adding clutter back to my nice clean desk!