Happy Friday!

It's Friday! I love Friday's!

I wasn't hungry for breakfast but I needed some kind of caffeinated beverage. I opted for a bottle of Diet Dr. Pepper but only drank half.

I love that the Diet Dr. Pepper bottle resembles a football. Do you see it?

Lunch was pretty good today. I had roasted barley and lentil soup with a side order of pasta salad. I'm a total pasta addict, it's crazy!

Soup doesn't look all that great but it was tasty and filling.

I was so excited to see peppermint soft serve frozen yogurt in the cafeteria today. After I ate my soup and pasta I high tailed it back to the cafeteria and got me some fro-yo!

mmm...looks good, right? Wrong, it was awful!!!! Tasted like strawberry peppermint and those are two flavors that don't work for me. I was totally bummed!

Dinner

Poor Patrick has been working long hours which means we haven't been seeing very much of each other. We decided that tonight we would stop at Elephant and Castle to grab some dinner. After dinner he went back to work and I went home where I did some cleaning and organizing around the apartment. I'm getting so old, Friday nights used to be all about going out and now my rocking plans are to go home to clean and organize. Oh boy, who knows what I will be doing when I hit my 60's!

Inside Elephant and Castle:

I was a bad girl and ordered a hamburger with cheddar cheese and french fries.

To drink I had a fun cocktail named Morticia's Kiss. It is made with vodka, chambord and blue curacao with a splash of cranberry, lemonade and sprite. A lot going on with this cocktail!

Question:

What cocktails do you like to drink?

I really like Champagne and Kettle One Cosmo's.

Organization of life

My life is really chaotic. I just got married a couple weeks ago and my husband (so strange to type that) and I are trying to get our house and lives in order. We are both in our 30's which means we have each individually accumulated everything a person needs to run a household. So we have at least 2 of everything crammed into a 700 square foot condo. So the equation looks something like this:

Lots of stuff + 2 Adults + 2 Dogs = Chaos

I freely admit that I have a lot of clutter type stuff all over the condo. I need to get my magazines under control and learn how to keep my closet organized (sharing a closet is harder than I thought).

House
My husband and I are both committed to organizing the house. When we are going through all of our things we will have multiple "piles". Everything we touch will have to go into one of these "piles" - Keep, Donate, Sell, Storage or Trash. We are going to go through the different rooms in the Condo and get organized. I know this will be a long process for us to complete but I would like to get things done by the end of this year. Start off 2010 with a organized slate!

Work
My work life also feels cluttered. I have been working in the same company for many years but I have been in multiple departments. This means I have accumulated a bunch of paper filed and laying on my desk. To me this is not just paper. It is my hard work that caused stress, tears and sometimes anger. It is hard to just throw these things away. However, I'm not using them and I don't see myself using these materials in the future. I need to go into work with a clear head and just trash everything that does not pertain to my current job. For some reason this has been something that is really hard for me to do. But, with that said, it will get done, promise!

Finances
Weddings are not cheap, especially weddings in big cities. Finances are hard for me to talk about, I tend to get defensive and not much fun to be around when the topic comes up. This probably is due to the fact that I don't know much about personal financial topics (ex: stocks, 401K, credit cards).
This is not a topic I will spend time discussing on this blog but I felt it was something I needed to mention. Finances stress me out and when I'm stressed I make poor food choices. I will get my head wrapped around a budget that my family can live with. I think knowing where the money is going and how it will be spent will help with the financial stress therefore aid in eliminating stressed food choices. Keeping my fingers crossed on this one!


I'm really thinking that when my life is more organized that I will feel better. I will sleep, eat, work and exercise better.

Does anyone have any organization tips that have worked for them?