Nothing To See Here

It's Thursday for all you wonderful people. I'm pretending it's Wednesday. I work all weekend long and my only day off was Sunday. I get excited when the week goes by fast but when I work all weekend it doesn't matter. So my Sunday was really Monday. Get it? Ok, well I do. Congratulations on the fact that after today you only have one more day of hates work!

I was traveling through the interwebs reading everybody's blog, when my girl Jordan posted a really good idea. It was along the lines of giving something up for a week. Then something different for the next week that month. Fast food, soda, etc. My only problem is, I don't know what the hell I'd give up. I mean of course fast food and pop but what the hell else? It's not like I do much of anything. Hmmph. Give me ideas???

Also, I was thinking of a doing an uncluttering project. Thinking 40 bags in 40 days. But, I live at home and can't throw all my mom's stuff out. Well, I could, it's easy for me but she'd cry. And we don't like to make people cry. Well, that's a lie. Sometimes people deserve to cry. So I was going to do like sections in my room...but I need ideas for that too. I have my closet as bag number one. And 2-40 are empty.

That's all I've got today. Nothing. Nada. My mind has been empty for two days now. I'm starting to worry. Eeekkk. I'm gonna go start planning out my daughter's birthday party so that I have it all planned but I procrastinate too long and all my planning goes to shit. See ya tomorrow cupcakes. Hopefully something comes to mind by then.

How I feel today. You have no idea.

I'm linking up with Jena at Recently Roached for This 'n That Thursday. Because it's all this and none of that.

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Woahhh...two posts in one day. Crazy right. Especially for me at this time of the year. But that's exactly why I'm here. I'm the most unorganized messy person ever. Y'all I need help. I'm not worried about the messy but the organization-less is killing me!

I've worked 7 days in a row and tomorrow will be 8. Saturday and Sunday I'm off. Thank goodness. And with the crazy work schedule and having online classes, the little bit of brain space used to be kind of organized has disappeared.

So my question is what the hell do you guys do to stay organized? I have a planner but I can't get myself to write in it. Shit, I have two of them. I'll have a day where I'll grab a paper and write down my to do list. But when that happens it's rare. I carry two planners in my purse, I have a paper calendar in my room. Is there anyway to get me to write in them?

I have two swaps I'm participating in, my work schedule, the little had a Christmas program tonight, Saturday is boyfriend's dirty thirty, there was a work party this week, I need to buy Christmas presents, I need to buy birthday presents.And who knows what else I have that I've forgotten about right now.

except it's all on my bed. I can't sleep on the damn thing.

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What are your ideas? How do I keep my head above water?? Lemme know!

Budgeting & Organization

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I decided that I needed to start budgeting better. I want to become a more organized person and part of organization is money. And who doesn't like to have extra money or pay off their debts!


I don't know the first thing about starting a budget really though. I'm just a frugal person who doesn't want to spend more money than I have to therefore, sometimes I have a little extra.

I've been looking at many ways to (my computer just did that stupid mouse thing I talked about in my last post) get a little bit organized too.

I've heard that mint.com is a good budgeting tool. I tried to use it once, but I really didn't understand it. I've also looked into the envelope system of budgeting. I saw how handy it can be, but you really have to stick to it. You have to be devoted to not take money from one envelope to another, because then you're in "debt" to that certain envelope. The goal is to be out of debt and have a little extra money like any other budgeting system. I bought a book while I was celebrating being cigarette free for a month (ha! shameless plugging for myself) about budgeting. I don't know what it's called though because I left it at home =( and I'm at my bf's house =). I can't wait to start reading it though! I was really disappointed when I realized it was at home because I was already to far away to turn around.

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For organizing I wanted to start a household binder or notebook. It's goal is to manage mine and my daughter's lives a bit easier. It's a binder that has different sections in it to keep track of important things in our lives. Since we live with my mom right now, I can't really decide if it's something I want to explore. I really do love the idea though. Keep in mind that there are many ways to create this binder and this example is only the right way for the person who uses it. If somebody were to start their own household notebook only they know what will and won't work for them. Everybody will know what works for themselves after a couple of months of use.

Well, maybe I was a bit of inspiration for you, because I know that other blogs with these ideas were inspiration for me. Tell me how you feel about these things, also feel free to share any organization or budget tips and tricks with me!