How did the year creep by so quickly? I swear it felt like I was just making my New Year's resolutions about dieting a few months back. The year started out pretty horribly, but I can say it's turned out pretty great so far, mostly due to the change in job.
I'm quite happy to be working in a totally different work environment in which my coworkers and boss are great people. I can't say I'm passionate about my job, but I like it enough. I'm also super stoked about being able to become the merchandise coordinator after just four months of being in the customer service position.
As for the goals and projects, I'm still trying to work on most of them. I'm still trying to work on "The Flat Stomach Project", although, I haven't been exercising consistently lately. At least I've been able to drop a few pounds and maintain it with conscious eating.
I've decided to abort the project that I've been working on when I was hermiting. It's not something that I was really into, and I need to find something that I'm more interesting in working on, instead of forcing myself to work on it.
My decluttering project is still active, although, it's quite a daunting task. Going through all my magazines is taking a lot longer than I had though. I haven't even gone through my other stuff yet. Perhaps I need to do some prioritizing and time management.
10.29.2010
10.17.2010
Decluttering
It's another one of those sleepless nights because I wasn't feeling well and went to sleep earlier. So, I guess it's time to blog as I find late night/early morning is the best times for me to write. I've been reading a book lately called "Stress-proof Your Life". (It was one of those on sale books that I found at Border's, but it does give some good tips)
It says that one of the reasons people are stressed is because of the place they live in. I think that's absolutely true and believe that's what's happening to me, but I've just never wanted to admit it before. Although, life is going pretty dandy currently, it does bother me that my room is a mess. I'm one of those people that look totally normal and up keep with on the outside that you wouldn't know I had a messy room if you didn't know me. However, I know I have too much stuff in my room, but I've just didn't want to deal with it or convince myself that the stuff is ok to have. There are so many other things that I would rather be doing than de-cluttering and throwing out stuff, but I think it's time to own up to my crap. I want to be able to come home from work and not feel overwhelmed with what I see everyday. Sometimes I feel guilty being out instead of trying to clean out my room, but yet, I don't even know where to start because just thinking about it makes me not want to do it.
Things I need to take care of:
-Go through all my clothes and donate the ones I don't wear anymore. I have a lot of clothes, or so that's what it feels like. I have so much clothes that part of it consumes my bed and I have a hard time keeping up with doing laundry. I'm beginning to notice that some of my clothes still have the tag on them. *sigh*
-Going through magazines and books, and getting rid of some of them. I must say, this one is a hard one, because it's very dear to my heart. Although it's just fashion magazines, I feel like it's a part that represents me. I have parting issues because a part of me still one day wants to use it as inspiration to do something fashion-related again. I still also own most of my college books and projects, as it's something that I think might be useful in the future that I'm not ready to let go yet.
-Organizing my sewing essentials and fabric. This one falls in the category of the previous one. I think I have about five boxes of fabric that I've collected through my college years, bought thinking I would use in the future, and from one of my previous jobs. Although I'm in no way ready to give it up, I think I need to organize it better. Perhaps a few of those plastic drawers.
-Throwing out old bills, statements, pay stubs, etc and organizing my papers. I don't keep a lot of papers, because I don't like having to store them and I also would rather go green and be emailed something. However, the papers I do have aren't really kept in one place. It's scattered in different places around my desk, and I need to find a better way of organizing everything. Maybe investing in a hanging file thing would help.
-Finding a way to organize my knick-knacks. I just have things around in my room that doesn't really belong to any prominent category, so therefore, it's not organized and just laid around the desk where there is space.
-Putting up wall decals. This is actually a project from last year, when our apartment was renovated. I bought some flower wall decals thinking it would be nice for my new room. However, after cutting out a good 50+ flowers, I gave up on the idea after thinking about how time consuming it would be to lay everything out to how I want it and to stick each one on with the sticky paper. This isn't top priority, but still something I'd want to do.
This is definitely not one of those one weekend projects for me, however, I want to at least be done by the holidays. October seems to be a busy month for me: October birthdays, film festival, and Halloween. I hope I can manage my time more wisely and be able to slowly work on it.
It says that one of the reasons people are stressed is because of the place they live in. I think that's absolutely true and believe that's what's happening to me, but I've just never wanted to admit it before. Although, life is going pretty dandy currently, it does bother me that my room is a mess. I'm one of those people that look totally normal and up keep with on the outside that you wouldn't know I had a messy room if you didn't know me. However, I know I have too much stuff in my room, but I've just didn't want to deal with it or convince myself that the stuff is ok to have. There are so many other things that I would rather be doing than de-cluttering and throwing out stuff, but I think it's time to own up to my crap. I want to be able to come home from work and not feel overwhelmed with what I see everyday. Sometimes I feel guilty being out instead of trying to clean out my room, but yet, I don't even know where to start because just thinking about it makes me not want to do it.
Things I need to take care of:
-Go through all my clothes and donate the ones I don't wear anymore. I have a lot of clothes, or so that's what it feels like. I have so much clothes that part of it consumes my bed and I have a hard time keeping up with doing laundry. I'm beginning to notice that some of my clothes still have the tag on them. *sigh*
-Going through magazines and books, and getting rid of some of them. I must say, this one is a hard one, because it's very dear to my heart. Although it's just fashion magazines, I feel like it's a part that represents me. I have parting issues because a part of me still one day wants to use it as inspiration to do something fashion-related again. I still also own most of my college books and projects, as it's something that I think might be useful in the future that I'm not ready to let go yet.
-Organizing my sewing essentials and fabric. This one falls in the category of the previous one. I think I have about five boxes of fabric that I've collected through my college years, bought thinking I would use in the future, and from one of my previous jobs. Although I'm in no way ready to give it up, I think I need to organize it better. Perhaps a few of those plastic drawers.
-Throwing out old bills, statements, pay stubs, etc and organizing my papers. I don't keep a lot of papers, because I don't like having to store them and I also would rather go green and be emailed something. However, the papers I do have aren't really kept in one place. It's scattered in different places around my desk, and I need to find a better way of organizing everything. Maybe investing in a hanging file thing would help.
-Finding a way to organize my knick-knacks. I just have things around in my room that doesn't really belong to any prominent category, so therefore, it's not organized and just laid around the desk where there is space.
-Putting up wall decals. This is actually a project from last year, when our apartment was renovated. I bought some flower wall decals thinking it would be nice for my new room. However, after cutting out a good 50+ flowers, I gave up on the idea after thinking about how time consuming it would be to lay everything out to how I want it and to stick each one on with the sticky paper. This isn't top priority, but still something I'd want to do.
This is definitely not one of those one weekend projects for me, however, I want to at least be done by the holidays. October seems to be a busy month for me: October birthdays, film festival, and Halloween. I hope I can manage my time more wisely and be able to slowly work on it.
10.09.2010
Accessory whore
Yes, I'm an accessory whore. I really don't have that many things I give into, but accessories are one of them, and desserts being the other. Since I'm watching my food intake, I have been declining desserts more and that just leaves accessories to tempt me more. I have a lot of accessories from jewerly to scarves to shoes and even accessories for my phone. The only jewerly accessories that I don't have are earrings, belly button rings, etc. and that's because I don't have any piercings. I refuse to get piercings because I know I would go crazy splurging on earrings. Without ear piercings, then that eliminates the temptation.
My favorite accessory would have to be scarves hands-down. Despite living in hot, sunny Hawaii, my collection of scarves is in the 30s, some of which I haven't even had a chance to wear. What's worse though? It still doesn't seem like I have enough scarves. I had an outfit which I wanted to wear a scarf with one night, but couldn't find the right black scarf to match it. The scarves were either too patterned or too fancy--nothing plain or casual enough to go with that outfit.
My next favorite indulgence are phone charms, especially the unique and cute ones. I think my collection is currently at ten or so. I have some just on my bag as accessories. There really is no real purpose to have a phone chain, but some of them are so cute that I simply can't resist them!! (No picture cuz I'd have to take them out from my bags and gather it together)
Then there's all the fashion jewelry I have, which includes necklaces, rings, bracelets/bangles, and brooches. I've bought quite a bit over the years, but don't wear some of them as much now as I work in an environment in which I need to dress business casual and my taste has kind of changed. (No picture either because it's all over the place)
Last but not least, there's bags and shoes. I do have a fairly decent amount of shoes and bags, although I'm not nearly as crazy about them as I am about scarves. However, my collection of shoes is increasing and I'm using work as an excuse to buy more.
My favorite accessory would have to be scarves hands-down. Despite living in hot, sunny Hawaii, my collection of scarves is in the 30s, some of which I haven't even had a chance to wear. What's worse though? It still doesn't seem like I have enough scarves. I had an outfit which I wanted to wear a scarf with one night, but couldn't find the right black scarf to match it. The scarves were either too patterned or too fancy--nothing plain or casual enough to go with that outfit.
My next favorite indulgence are phone charms, especially the unique and cute ones. I think my collection is currently at ten or so. I have some just on my bag as accessories. There really is no real purpose to have a phone chain, but some of them are so cute that I simply can't resist them!! (No picture cuz I'd have to take them out from my bags and gather it together)
Then there's all the fashion jewelry I have, which includes necklaces, rings, bracelets/bangles, and brooches. I've bought quite a bit over the years, but don't wear some of them as much now as I work in an environment in which I need to dress business casual and my taste has kind of changed. (No picture either because it's all over the place)
Last but not least, there's bags and shoes. I do have a fairly decent amount of shoes and bags, although I'm not nearly as crazy about them as I am about scarves. However, my collection of shoes is increasing and I'm using work as an excuse to buy more.
(One pair missing that's not in the picture)
(Three more bags not in the picture that's somewhere in all my piles of stuff)
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