52 to Fabulous – One Wall at a Time

Feb 7, 2010 WAHM Life

While as it states in the post it is to take one wall of your home and start there to organize it, I am going to take it much deeper and kinda off the home mentality subject and really dig in for a moment about the walls in yourself.

I have decided to take this inwardly and organize the walls, if you will I have disorganized personally within myself. I am going to start with my scheduling wall. I schedule my work time and my family time….trying for that balance of work and home but completely forgot about me.

In the winter I will admit I work more hours behind this screen. Even in my offline socialization I was limiting myself to things that we involve ourselves in such as our Pow Wow committee, as well as traveling with the Pow Wow drum Night Eagle. So yes, I socialize offline but only in a limited realm of people.

Most of my socialization is online, sadly enough. The people I have come to know I would not throw back for anything in the world…amazing people I would not know if I wasn’t socializing online! The thing is I need to balance that with a life offline, my own life.

Family game night in place, family outings scheduled few times a month BUT date night with hubby, meeting up and hanging out with friends just about non existent…that’s where the disorganization was at.

We got invitation to come out and visit with some old friends and few times…until my husbands friend called up one day and said to get his butt over there and come see them. So I dolled myself up and we went out and caught up with some old friends.

All I can say was DAMN, I really, really enjoyed that and NOW know what it was in my life I felt missing…that spot I couldn’t seem to fill, leaving me frustrated and somewhat bummed regularly. I needed human contact, I needed the offline socialization that I so enjoyed online.

Deciding to meet up with them again this past Friday was again one of the best decisions I could have made. I feel refreshed, renewed! I feel whole and I can tell you that has made my creative juices really start to flow!

Now I just need to balance it with my online life. So I am organizing a very important wall in my life…and that is recognizing my life is far beyond my computer screen and organizations (which are very much part of my life & help with my walk in life) but my other life…the life before the computer is still there and very much real!