On Organization

As I sit in my apartment, surrounded by piles of paper everywhere and a mess nearly indescribable, it occurred to me that the cleaning lady might be coming tomorrow. Yikes. She's been away so I'm not sure when she'll return, but she generally comes every other week and it's been two already. I'll have to do some major tidying in case she does come. Unlike most Israelis, I don't *clean* before the cleaning lady comes, but I do tidy.

This mess is all rather ironic, given what I've been doing for the past two weeks. A couple of weeks ago at the Soup Salon, noorster asked me to come over and help her get her apartment in order. So I did and after some resistence, she realized that she would have to get rid of the table and chairs because she had just too much furniture in her wee little apartment. Fast forward to the following Friday's soup salon, and noorster can't stop talking about the wonders I performed in her apartment (all I did was throw out some suggestions - she did the rest). I went over later and indeed - the place looks awesome. She tossed, rearranged, cleaned and generally made the place a lot less cramped. Savta Dotty, hostess of the weekly salon came over later that evening and was duly impressed, and asked me to come work my miracles at chez dotty. So I did. There's still lots left to do, but we threw out a ton of stuff (the fine paper non-recycling from yesterday's entry, for starters). The momentum was only stopped due to savta dotty's impending travels. In return for whipping my leash, I was rewarded with savta dotty's lovely company (she's the awesome) and with two fabulous meals - lunch at Orna & Ella (a favourite restaurant) on Sunday and a lovely dinner at Orca yesterday. Yum!

Following savta dotty's enthusiastic gushing about the progress we had made after the first day Nominally Challenged called me and asked to hire my services. Help people get organized while getting paid for it? There's a concept! I went over this past Friday after soup and we worked for a couple of hours - mostly just rearranging the configuration of the living room/office to create some more space and make it more welcoming. We have a bit more to do, but I think it'll turn out perfect.

It's bizarre, but I love doing this kind of stuff (less so for myself, obviously). And with that, I'm off to do some filing :). (Not really.)