If you have read this blog for any amount of time, you know that I like to have Moments (with the capital M!). In fact, I have so many that I have a
blog tag for them. I like to think it's because I am a deep thinker rather than the fact that I have so many due to the fact that I am a silly girl who is not yet well versed in the way of the world and the way that I interact with that world. Right? Well, something like that. I think. It made sense in my head, anyway.
Moving on.
This weekend I did not have a Moment. I had a
Not-Really-A-Moment, Moment. Why would I call it a
Not-Really-A-Moment, Moment? Well that is actually quite simple: I realized something that I have realized on
many,
many,
many (times infinity) times before this last time that I realized it. Which sounds repetitive because this thing that I realized (again, for the
eleventy billion-th time) is something that is a reoccurring theme in my life. You could even go so far as to say that it
haunts me. It follows me around like some
Sad Little Ghost that doesn't know what to with itself.
If only the solution would be to hold a seance and tell it that it's
ok to leave me alone now. Unfortunately, the solution is not simple (or even close to being that simple) or else I would have gotten rid of my
Sad Little Ghost a
loooong time ago.
Want to know what makes my
Sad Little Ghost sad? I'm a lazy, messy, bum of a person/roommate. Always have been.
Armini can
attest to this.
{This is where I would normally start going on and on about how I don't mean to be a lazy, messy, bum of a person/roommate, but I'm
TOO LAZY to stand up for myself. Plus, they are all excuses and this is about getting past the excuses to the root of the problem. Right? Right. Let's continue.}
My
Not-Really-A-Moment, Moment (which, as a result of writing this very post may have turned into an actual
Moment), is when I realized that the messiness of my living space is having a direct effect on the level of
Teh Craziness that I am feeling in my life outside of my bed/apartment. It probably is also having a direct effect on how hard I find it to get out of bed in the morning (because I don't think that there are many people who are itching to jump out of bed in the morning when their life feels like it's spiraling
out of control). But, like I said, this is not
even remotely (not even
a little bit) close to being the first time that this thought has crossed my mind.
It's also not the first time I have sat down and thought to myself, "What can I do to be a pro-active, organized, gem of a person/roommate short of moving home and having
SuperMama yell (in a tough-love sort of way, of course) at me every day for being a lazy, messy, bum of a person/roommate?"
However, this is the first time that I have sat down and looked my
Sad Little Ghost right in the face because, until I started writing this post (and not even until the
second draft!) I didn't know that I was being followed around by a
Sad Little Ghost. Well, I mean, I knew there was
something, but I didn't know
what it was until about 20 minutes ago.
{This
Moment brought to you by
Havi the Pirate Queen (
@Havi on Twitter, if you're into that sort of thing) because she is awesome - and also, she has
monsters and
walls and encourages others to find their own versions of
their stuck. /
PSA}
So now I am in the process of working out a way to lay my
Sad Little Ghost to rest, aka
Step Two in my Brilliant Plan to rid myself of Teh Craziness (
Step One is here). Which was the whole reason that I started writing this post, but now, because I have a
Sad Little Ghost that I need to talk too, has been rendered useless. One cannot go about dealing with ghosts unless one first holds the seance to find out what they
want or
need in order to leave you alone.
