Ok, so the operation is actually called Sh- Together but it’s not classy to swear in blog titles and, besides, I think part of getting my sh-…stuff…uh…let’s use shiz (like the university in Wicked!) together is swearing less so it’s all good.

Sidebar: Why does that phrase not work without the expletive?

Anyway, there is this Garfield comic I have memorized for reasons I would prefer not to discuss that I cannot find to just post so I’ll have to describe. Garfield is rooting through the fridge and finds like 12 heels of bread, 3 half finished bottles of ketchup, etc (basically, things you would normally finish and only then get new) and walks over to Jon, smacks him upside the head and says, “Organize yourself!”

My subconscious has done this to my active brain. I was mentally cleaning out the old brain fridge (where you store the mind grapes for you 30 Rock fans) and discovered that it is a mess of unfinished things I should have finished before I got new ideas. It’s not a perfect metaphor.

Basically, it’s been messing with my head, bringing me down and making me get angry at myself all the time for being so disorganized. I need to catch up to at least buy myself a few years of organization before I get to this point again.

So phase one of this is a massive cleaning/organization of my office and all my eBay merchandise. I have been doing this for a day now and it has been hugely helpful. A part of phase one is cleaning out my bedroom closet which is a small space with a good deal of mess. This “cleaning” process is a lot more work than it sounds because everything in the closest not currently listed on eBay has to be listed as a part of this process AND I have to, as I make room, move new items from other storage up here.

Phase two, which is going to be a real pain, is organizing my computers and server. I want the file structure on all of them to match so that I can a) freakin find stuff! and b) synchronize between machines more easily. The deadline for this one is the end of October when Windows 7 comes out because I am getting a new computer then and I refuse to put this disaster of disorganization on the new machine. (Don’t weep for my old computer. Old as it is, it still works better than my husbands’ so I am giving it to him and we are getting rid of his old one.)

Phase three is a bit bolder. It involves finishing several long standing projects so that I can move onto new things. Some of these are small things I have just been putting off. Others of these are big things like finishing that new novel I started in advance of NaNoWriMo. It is just an exercise in a mental break with this spaz phase I am going through so that I can mentally move on to better things.

So it’s fall cleaning….for my mind! Surely I am not the only person in need of that.