What my surroundings say about me…..and Eric

I’ve been a member of a bulletin board group that focus on journals and journal writing. Originally I joined to get ideas for scrapbooking but now I’m looking at it a little differently. Today’s thought was about YOU. meaning your surroundings. The challenge today, take pictures of things around you and write about what it means to you and describes who you are…. Here goes..

Here’s some pictures I took today…

These are pictures of our pantry and more specifically, all my baking stuff. You’ll notice that everything is in a nice air-tight container and labeled. What you can’t see is on top of each one is another label indicating when the item went in the container. Yeah, to some that mean seem crazy and uber organized but I think that’s me. I love organization. I think organization is great. If things are organized they’re easy to find. It’s easy to see what you have and what you don’t. It prevents me from collecting a mountain of junk because I’ve got a good idea of what I have and what Id really use. I know being organized is really hard for some people but to me, it’s a relaxing thing. I remember visiting my friend Cyndee one time ad we were sitting on her bed talking. I couldn’t help but look in her walk in closet and notice how much of a disarray it was. She noticed I was looking at it and being the great friend she was we worked at getting the closet organized so she could find things. I love it and to some I guess it may seem like an OCD but to me when things are organized the area is usually clean as well. There’s nothing better than cleanliness and organization. I mean think about it. You’re looking for a book and you’re in a library. If they didn’t have it organized and categorized, you’d be there forever. It would be like finding a needle in a haystack. I know some people think it’s nuts, Eric did when we first started dating. It’s actually sort of funny because my organization used to drive Eric nuts because he’s such a free thinker and very organic and I’m not. I’m procedural, task oriented and organized. Now, after 4 years of being together Eric has become more organized while I’ve toned down a bit too. I actually showed Eric the pantry and I think his comment was something like, “That’s scary!” I’ve tried “flying by the seat of my pants” and I just can’t do it. I mean if I don’t keep things together and everything then things don’t get done. Pretty soon you’re staring at a dirty house, can’t find anything and really don’t know where to start. I can’t even imagine that. I would go nuts. I so appreciate that’s not the case for Eric and I.

After looking at the pantry I came upstairs and looked at the difference between Eric’s desk and mine. You’ll notice that his has stuff all over it, everything from mail, CDs, pens and other paraphernalia. Then you look at my desk. Pretty clean with a little clutter but clean for the most part. Interesting to look at as an observation as I really think it shows our personality and a little about us both.

Eric’s Desk

Jona’s Desk

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