This was a great Easter! It was a lovely sunny day, we were back in our church - which is almost completely repaired since being damaged in last December's earthquake - we got to spend time with our family . . . it was just all good!

After all that good stuff, I spent the rest of the day sleeping, though I didn't mean to. I meant to take a quick nap - maybe an hour tops - then do some homework or read a book. The nap turned out to be a bit longer than expected, however, and now there's no time to do much of anything but get ready for the work week. My lunch for tomorrow is packed, and all the veggies I need for the next few days are cleaned and chopped up. My gym bag is packed, and I've got my outfit for tomorrow hanging up behind my door. I'm all set.

I never imagined I'd ever be this organized in my life. I always dreamed of being organized, neat and tidy, but it just never happened. My brain just didn't work that way. I'd see a pile of stuff to be sorted through, organized or just plain delt with, and I'd quietly freak out. I'd get too overwhelmed, and end up not doing anything. Now that I've done all the purging and initial organizing, however, I find it's much, much easier to stay organized. Now that I don't have 50,000 pairs of shoes, and I have a nice place to put them all, they're not in a pile on the floor of my closet, and I'm not spending 10 minutes frantically digging for the pair of shoes I need. Now that my closet is organized, I don't have to dig through everything to find a top and a bottom - tops are on the right, bottoms on the left, sorted by style/type, then legnth. And it's so nice to not have piles of magazines and books or CDs to step over or dodge around to get to my bed. It's just so nice to be organized!!

And, it really doesn't take as much time as I always thought it would. I only spent a half hour cleaning and chopping and separating the veggies into ready-to-grab baggies, and it took all of five minutes to get my gym bag ready for tomorrow. Tomorrow evening, all I'll have to do is repack my gym bag, but my dirty clothes in the hamper, toss some baggies into my lunch bag, take a shower, and I'm done. Relaxing for the rest of the evening. It's wonderful! My life is so much easier now!

Reading: The Lovely Bones by Alice Sebold; Inventing the Truth: The Art and Craft of Memoir by William Zinsser

Classic Book: Pickwick Papers by Charles Dickens; Mrs. Dalloway by Virginia Woolf.

Previously: Animal Farm by George Orwell.

Listening to: Nothing.

Writing: I've got two assignments for my memoir class next week: a 400 word memoir we're all doing for class next week, and a 5 - 10 page memoir to be work shopped on the 22nd, because I was foolish enough to volunteer.

Gratitude: Being back in our chruch.