Personal Organizer: Day Two
Oh. My. God.
I am so exhausted. I ache all over. Even my palms hurt. It’s all a good hurt, but still, I hurt.
We worked until 10:30pm last night and yet the kitchen is still not done. I’m beginning to think it’ll never be done. 
The cabinets above are done. They’re beautiful. I got rid of a few things, but not much. She made me whittle down my Corningware, made me pick a few choice pieces of the infamous white and blue set and get rid of the rest. I got rid of my old glass set that I thought I’d already gotten rid of. All my plastic cups went away — my mother would be so proud.
But when we got to the kitchen drawers…apparently normal people don’t have five or six spatulas or four or five slotted spoons or three laddles. I was o.k. getting rid of most of the knives. I only use a few. Heck, I don’t know what most of the knives in the drawer are for, honestly. Most of them came from grandparent’s homes and were thrust in my drawer by my mother. Meanwhile over the last few years I’ve carefully invested in a few knives I really like.
There was a small recurring battle about the fact that I have two garlic presses and that I refuse to give one up. It’s just not going to happen. On heavy cooking weekends, I do end up using both. One ends up in the dishwasher (they are a pain in the ass to clean) and I need the other. It just has to be that way. 
I got rid of my Pampered Chef Apple Corer/Peeler/Slicer and stand — one of my male co-workers is currently playing with it and having great fun. The Corningware was also very quick to go. Actually, it was like a feeding frenzy over at my cubicle. I’ve enjoyed the giving away. Whatever’s left will go to Goodwill.
The funny part of all of this is that I now actually need to go shopping to buy some stuff. Believe it or not.
I had to go buy cable wraps/ties last night, which are pretty nifty things. Actually, I bought like a pack of 50 and Sunny says I’ll never run out. Good to be over-prepared I guess. Anyway, they’re like twist ties but velcro so you can wind up your cord and store it neatly in a corner or a cabinet or a drawer. What a awesome idea. Sunny sent me looking for them so I have to thank her.
She’s sending me on a shopping spree to Linen’s N’ Things and Bed, Bath & Beyond this weekend to replace my icky blue plastic step stool she made me throw out with a nice wooden one for the kitchen so I can reach the top shelf, particularly where my measuring bowls are now residing over the stove. Plus, I’m looking for hard to find exceptionally small 10″ lazy susans for my spice cabinets, which have been sorted but really could be more easily assessible.
We lined the upper cabinet shelves with self liner I’d previously bought for the purpose but ran out of in the process so I need to go buy more of that and liners for the drawers. I also need to keep an eye out for a silverware organizer in a style I actually like. Since I’ve only ever seen the one style I don’t believe Sunny that there are more out there. I hate the design as it doesn’t appear to be designed for people who actually have silverware.
Monday’s battles will be over the lower cabinets involving the plasticware, the FoodSaver, and the Pots and Pans, the Cubit Cabinet Peter and I built which stores the odds and ends and the all important coffee, and the baker’s rack which currently holds the Pampered Chef stoneware among other things. I think we should get to the utility closet as well, I hope.
Between now and then to surprise her, I’m going to try to get the laundry out of the downstairs and into the bedroom at least, even if it’s not put away. I’m going to really good clean all the litter boxes, vacuum, sweep and mop the tile floors downstairs, get all of the cans in the house picked up and at least bagged for recycling and try to figure out why my stereo’s rear speakers weren’t working. Seems reasonable enough, right?
Oh, and I’ve totally decided I’m going to tell my mother about Sunny after all. Sunny has already decided she wants to introduce me to this guy friend of hers. My mom would totally love her.
tags: personal organizer, Clean Sweep
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on April 7, 2006 at 9:50 am
Tamara said:
Ooh, clean cabinets and a new guy to meet? Awesome!
on April 7, 2006 at 12:46 pm
n. mallory said:
Well, you know what my mother’s priorities are.
on April 7, 2006 at 12:48 pm
Tamara said:
Hee! I am still motivated to try this myself. We’re going up north for our anniversary weekend (we were married on July 4) and I’m hoping to have at least the entire main floor done by then, if not the basement (hope to have started on it, at least).
The garage … not so much.