You will recall, on the infamous Fall To Do List, a seemingly minor task, "refinish the landing at the back door".  Easy peasy.  Yeah.  No.

Look at this!  How hard could it be?



Turns out an average size woman with an electric sander and 60 grit sandpaper isn't enough to get what's left of this finish off.  Oh no.  It takes an average size man with a belt sander.  Crap.  I hate that.

Bottom line it's taken longer than expected.  This is my landing space and coat closet.  I'm starting to miss it quite a bit, because instead of my organized, contained space I have this:



You're darn right that's my kitchen table, not looking very good, is it? 

One organizing rule is "Contain everything".  My little back landing is my container for the stuff that goes out the door with me.  I miss it.  I'll be working pretty hard to get it back, because I really, really need my container.

In other organizing news I'm getting a smart phone.  I think I'm going to make the ginormous transition from a paper organizer to electronic.  I use Outlook in the office but have been reluctant to give up the paper calendar I lug around.  You see, it's more than a calendar.  It's the home for my lists, like Christmas lists, menus, favorite dishes, websites to look at, books to read, etc.  With all the apps available on smart phones it's starting to feel like I can capture my lists in an easy to use format.  We'll see.  It's just an experiment at this point, no promises yet.

Number of years it's taken me to try to go from a paper organizer to electronic:  Five.