I'm Back!

Last week was even crazier than I thought it would be.
Between 6pm on Friday and 6pm on Saturday I was home for a grand total of 45 minutes.  Although I did meet up with my family out of the house for about an hour in there. 
It was intense.
And I dropped the ball on the 40 days.
And now I'm playing catch up.
While it's not the point I was trying to make to myself (about being consistent) it's a useful one none-the-less.  If I hadn't been blogging about this (even though I don't know who might be reading this) I think I would have quit.  I would have determined this an exercize only for more organized people, people without little kids, people who were anything but what I am. 
But I can't improve if I'm not willing to change myself, right?
Even once I stood back up I put off writing this post.  I thought I could once I had completely caught up.  But eventually I realized that I couldn't wait until 'everything was perfect'.  
So it's not an A+ by any stretch, but here's what I've got.

Day 10: office shelves - I picked one shelf/bookcase, my lia sophia stuff, and went through it.  Most of the shelf just needed tidying up.  What I really went through was my files.  I was holding on to a lot of records that I didn't need.  So I let them go. Yay!  Point for clean me.

Day 11: closet, my clothes-went through them and filled at least half a garbage bag.  The pack rat side put a few things in my sewing box (read: large skirts and such that screamed "but I'm a large piece of fabric, upcycle!").  Point for the pack rat.

Day 12: closet, my shoes-pseudo-fail. I started through them but didn't finish.  Then I left the bag of shoes out and the kids so kindly put all the shoes back.  Fail.

Day 13: John's side of the closet-I shouldn't have included John without letting him know (sorry!), but he was so sweet.  I pulled a few piles out of the closet and he went through them, but we certainly didn't get to everything.  All the time I spent away this week meant time he had the kids and couldn't really work on his lesson plans.  So it's a meh on this one.

Day 14: dresser drawers-kinda weird here. I hardly use the dresser.  Right now it's strictly for intimates, and it seems I don't 'pack rat' there.  So I'm not sure how this one ranks.

Day 15: toy bags-failed.  I haven't touched them.

Day 16: my bookshelf-I read at night.  And my little bookshelf has gotten overrun.  And I went at it.  And I even have a picture!  Not the greatest, but this is what I pulled from my shelf.

3 boxes and a trash bag.  All on one little shelf.  I didn't get a shot of the shelf before or after.  But I ended up with the smallest of the boxes to take back to my little shelf.  Point to the clean me!

Days 17 and 18: entertainment center tops and inside.  This was yesterday and today.  And it didn't happen.

The biggest question I had to ask was 'Do I keep playing catch up or do I start on today and pick up the lost days as I go?'.
I've decided to start on today.
I can't change yesterday and I can't do a whole lot of good fussing about it. 
So I'm going to change today.