The Crumbs Under the Toaster are Mocking Me

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ORDER - Let all your things have their places; let each part of your business have its time. [Order week begins here. Click for this week's Bliss Initiatives.]

I'm all amped up! It is two o'clack in the morning and I am sitting here writing  in my  blog. My Sweetie and I were given the rare gift of our girl going to sleep a little early so we decided to watch a couple of movies that are not particularly "Girl Friendly" as we like to call it. We watched the new Star Trek Movie followed by the Dark Knight. My sweetie fell immediately asleep as soon as the last movie was over but after all that adrenaline I'm pretty wired!  


Order week has been a pretty great success over here but I may surprise you when I award myself  a 7 out 10 for my weekly score and only 2 Bliss Boosts. Yes I did some great clean up but now that the frenzy is over I can feel the pull toward my slovenly ways... Katina was right when she said Order wasn't an occasion! While I do think I had a great orderly occasion it is not a way of life for me yet. Earlier today I send Sweetie and The Girl out to a park so I could clean up a bit  (it is truly amazing the havoc one little three year old can reek!) and I noticed that on several occasions I said "that's good enough" to my self.


It was good enough to wipe down the stove but not to move the toaster and coffe maker to clean under them. It was good enough to toss all the toys in the bin but not to vacuum under the couch. It was good enough to wipe down the couch but not to vacuum under the cushions (even when I know they could use it.) You see I was interested in the appearance of clean, not the reality of clean. I am not interested in having my life be about  cleaning but I can see there is further in this Order game for me to go! 


I was amazed by the amount of lightness cleaning my garage and car gave me. These two things were done all the way right and I can feel the difference versus the sloppy kitchen job. The crumbs under the toaster are mocking me. Nothing in my car sneers at me. On the contrary, my car is now a place of Bliss.  Eccentric side note - I name my cars. I've had one named Gilgamesh (a green Pathfinder) and another named Chakotay (A steel grey Maxima) and the one I've been driving for the past 9 years is Ananda (a cherry red Elantra hatchback.)Ananda is Bliss in Sanscrit . She is returned to her verity since her detailing.


I want to have all areas of my life feel the same as Ananda does right now. I realize that crumbs will fall and drinks will spill but when I have Order established as a way of life, it will be the mess that is the occurrence and I can live in the ongoing Bliss of Order. Yep a 7 may even be too high. Let's call it a six and I'll go wipe up some crumbs now!

Any crumbs mocking you too?
[images from google images]


Next Post: Creativity week gets started!

My 13 bliss virtues are 

joy, order, creativity, passion, whimsy, serenity, inquiry, community, 

romance, gratitude, moxie, humility, and surprise.



This week we are exploring Order. 

Next week is all about Passion.

Working away...

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ORDER - Let all your things have their places; let each part of your business have its time. [Order week begins here. Click for this week's Bliss Initiatives.]


Wow! It is already Saturday! I'm busy working on my Vision board, which may or may not be ready for the big reveal tomorrow (If not, next week's creativity week will work just fine!) But I didn't want to leave you without a little bit of Bliss, so I am pointing you to: 

You may remember Stephanie of The Scoop on Poop did her very first guest blog on the topic of Moxie over here. Now I'm returning the favor and doing my very first guest post over at her place. She winds up her guest blogger posts with a little "one question" survey on Friday's before the guest blog appears. My question was:

"What's the one thing you hated your mom doing and promised yourself you wouldn't do as a mom yourself yet find yourself doing anyway?"

Go here to see my response to that question and then go here to see how my guest post with the prompt "love and fixation" turned out--- You get to hear how I met my sweet Hubby!

I'll be back tomorrow with the wrap up for Order week!

What will you be up to this weekend?

Next Post: Orderly Conclusions

My 13 bliss virtues are 

joy, order, creativity, passion, whimsy, serenity, inquiry, community, 

romance, gratitude, moxie, humility, and surprise.



This week we are exploring Order. 

Next week is all about Passion. 

Ok, for two days I've been telling you next week is Passion week. 

Actually it is Creativity week... 

hmmm wonder what my passionate anticipation will bring?!

The SPACE of Order

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ORDER - Let all your things have their places; let each part of your business have its time. [Order week begins here. Click for this week's Bliss Initiatives.]

Soothing Image from the fascinating site Tonic

So I started this order week off with a bang! And I am here to report the momentum has been inspiring. Since the momentous garage cleaning over the weekend, I've gotten the car detailed (9 year old car totally looks new! SO worth the money!), sorted and tossed mismatched toys resulting in all of Sweet's stuff fitting in her bins, and I have even cleaned my kitchen floor! We have drawers that fit all of our stuff and I no longer need to spend 20 minutes before leaving the house to locate sun hats water bottles and sunglasses... they are actually where they belong!! SO liberating I must tell you!


One hears organization experts tell you about the freedom and lightness that can be felt when a desk is clean but I have never been one to experience this. Clutter has been my middle name since I can remember. When I was a kid it got so bad in my room that my parents moved me up to our attic just to keep my space from being the eye sore on our main floor. Now I LOVED my banishment and freedom to decorate and do pretty much what ever I wanted with my new space but cleanliness was never its crowning feature.


I have had bouts of orderliness in the past, usually induced by my vanity (I would not want any visitor to know I am a slob at heart) but I feel the hopeful feel of the turning tide. I am currently compelled to pick up things as I walk by them and I look for little blocks of time to clean out the cupboard on top of the refrigerator and even rescue all the toys from behind the sectional in the living room. I feel slightly possessed but it is fabulous. 


When I first read (sometime last week when she sent it to me) in Katina's guest post that Order should be a way of life, rather then an event I remember thinking, "Oh wouldn't that be nice?!"  never guessing that I could make such a transformation so quickly. I am clear that I will need on going training not to slip back to my former slovenly ways but that first grand gesture of cleaning out the garage has caused a tidal wave of change for me. The resulting space both literal and in my head is allowing me to think more creatively (How nice that Creativity week is coming up!) and I have the actual feeling of room or space in which something new may arrise.  Making it the PERFECT time for my new "opening and allowing" vision board.


I'm so excited to feel the new space in and around me! 


How about you? Any SPACE opening up in your world?


Next Post: Tidy thoughts

My 13 bliss virtues are 

joy, order, creativity, passion, whimsy, serenity, inquiry, community, 

romance, gratitude, moxie, humility, and surprise.



This week we are exploring Order. 

Next week is all about Passion. 

Ok, for two days I've been telling you next week is Passion week. 

Actually it is Creativity week... 

hmmm wonder what my passionate anticipation will bring?!