Day 3: Tidy mind, tidy stitches

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Day 3: How do you keep your yarn wrangling organised? It seems like an easy to answer question at first, but in fact organisation exists on many levels. Maybe you are truly not organised at all, in which case I am personally daring you to try and photograph your stash in whatever locations you can find the individual skeins. However, if you are organised, blog about an aspect of that organisation process, whether that be a particularly neat and tidy knitting bag, a decorative display of your crochet hooks, your organised stash or your project and stash pages on Ravelry.

TO DO:

1) Organise physical yarn stash (in buckets, by gauge). I (not very) secretly really enjoy this, but it's sort of reached its limit until we work out where the frame for the remaining buckets will go.
2) Enter yarn on Ravelry so I can appreciate quite how unnecessary buying new yarn would be. This is a passionless process so I've mostly just accepted that it won't happen.
3) Control the works in progress, take stock and rip/finish as required. This moves in spurts, right now it feels like it's going well. I've ripped and reknit the back of a tank I started last year. Can you see my halo?

With thanks to Eskimimi for hosting :) View other posts for day 3 here. Todays tag: 2KCBWDAY3

Getting Organised

I have been sorting through the ebay/freegle pile and have finally put a few items onto ebay. There's still more to go but it seems to be one of those jobs that takes longer than I expect. It's taken me most of the afternoon to list a grand total of 9 items for sale.

Six Guide Badges:

And three random unwanted, unused things that have hung around the house for two long (a KVM, a cat flap and a little mechanics project):

Still lots more odds and ends to sort through but this is a start... here's to more productivity.

PS - You can check these items out on my ebay listings page. Funds raised from the sale of the Guide badges will go towards my fundraising for the GOLD (Guiding Oversees Linked With Development) project in Armenia this summer.

Organising

Been sorting out paperwork for the London trip tomorrow. Went through all the forms getting very confused when they didn't seem to match up to the right people - think it's all there now though. I've packed my bag and so I think it might be bedtime.

The house smells of bathroom cleaner

The smell of Mr. Muscle gently fills the air
To erase the stains on the bath, sadly still there
Oh Lush, you shop of sweet delights, you've lined the bath with peach
And what with all the builder's dust it feels like Blackpool beach!

(An as-I-type-it poem by Saffy :))

Mind-wandering-ness

Pizza for tea tonight?

An evening of doing things!

That well-known prompt of study deadlines being just far enough away and just close enough has meant that I've made some move to getting lots of the things on my to-do list done. The last week has generally been pretty good for doing jobs (I've even applied for my provisional driving license), but my achievements are mostly grouped and tonight has been a guidingy group.

It's not entirely been a night of procrastination though; I did go to the university library on my way home to get some sources for my essay and have spend a chunk of time trawling the net/books making some notes.

A day of doing things?

Today I have apparently been productive. If I sit down and make a list it certainly seems that way:

- did a food shop
- did tutoringness
- met Hobnob for lunch
- joined medical centre
- joined sports centre
- got passport photos
- submitted bank details form to department
- sent an email with my new address to people who asked (and some who didn't)

I'm not sure it feels that productive though, weird.

No longer vagrant Saffy!

I have a place to reside - hurrah! Moved into Chancellors Wharf today with the help of Hobnob and Clare. Have mostly been trying to decide where things should live in my new room.

Woo, all packed!

Finally got everything where it belongs. I've still got to shower, vacuum and make beds before it's
time to go a-journeying!

Packing at Midnight...

... and later. I went to bed earlier but then I woke up and went downstairs. Coming upstairs I noticed that some boxes could be tidied away. One less job to do tomorrow. It's horribly tempting to just carry on organising myself and not go to sleep at all.

Packing and Chaos

I'm so very nearly packed now which is good but still not quite. Rather pleasingly, I have managed to restrain myself on clothes packing for uni. - yay! (I was going to list what I've packed but I figured that may actually be even duller than my usual witter). I still seem to have a few things that feel like they may never get packed; it's good to know I'll be journeying to Lancaster tomorrow so it will all have to have been done.

Other things done today... I bought birthday cards for Harry and Emily (who next have birthdays in 2008) - they were pretty!

Coding or Packing...?

I'm sure I'm supposed to be packing today. Mostly I seem to be looking around at my chaos. When I'm not looking around in confusion I am... coding. I said I wasn't going to code today, not until I've packed lots anyway. I'm sure I could easily get all my packing done today but I know it just won't happen.

(And when I'm neither packing nor coding, I'm sorting out the new PC, hurrah!)

Can't sleep

And I don't really have anything to write - I guess that means I should be not writing and maybe trying to sleep.

Today (yesterday) has been a bit of a rubbish day. I haven't left the house which is a mistake because days always seem more pointless when you don't go and do something somewhere. I packed all my clothes up (again) this morning so they all have homes now. I still need to decide which ones to take with me to uni. This afternoon I mostly sifted through things, moving them from pile to pile and generally achieving nothing at all. I did some forum setup but that was all wasted when I discovered you could convert the phpBB2 data to phpBB3 anyway. I did the conversion this evening but it needs some work to get it sorted out.

I need to do some more useful organisation tomorrow I think otherwise nothing will ever move from the bedroom floor. I also need to decide what to do with all the books, lots and lots of books! I'm also going out tomorrow so there should be less feeling useless. I have three BookMooch parcels to post and then a trip into town to meet work people for evening entertainments.

My eyes are tired. Maybe I should try sleep again.

Beer, Organisation, Chocolate

I'm not entirely sure about this beer lark. I don't drink much of it, and I don't drink anything else (alcoholic) but I'm not entirely sure it agrees with me. I have drunk beer twice that I can recently remember (and no, I haven't been drunk enough to not remember). Both times I have been squiggly-tummied in the morning. Will I learn? Not likely.

In unrelated things, I am organising. I have been upstairs and looked at my box of kitchen-ness for uni. I have 2 plates, 2 bowls, 3 mugs... 1 knife, 1 fork. Cutlery is one of those magical mysteries of every university kitchen. You start the year with some, you buy some more, you buy yet more and still there is none. Amazing.

In still more unrelated things, does chocolate go stale? I got lots of chocolate for Christmas. I don't eat lots of chocolate at once so I nibbled some of a box and left the rest behind. Having discovered some yesterday I ate another handful. The chocolates are individually wrapped and I assume since they were from this Christmas that the dates on them can't have been too awful but they didn't quite taste as I thought they should. Clearly, next time, I shall have to take them with me for more immediate nibbling.

Bag-lady

This morning I got up and packed whilst Lizi and Joss were still in bed. I seem to do a lot of packing at the moment. I spent all morning making lists and packing and organising until I remembered to look at my watch and noticed that I needed to leave the house ten minutes later!

Still, my travelling went well and now I am somewhere else. I shall organise myself some more and then relocate myself back to where I have come from in order to move myself to somewhere else else on my way to another somewhere else. It's an exciting life! :)

Almost all packed up!

Yep, it's starting to look like I might actually reach the end! It does now look like my room is getting nearer to empty. It's never all going to fit in the car! Another time perhaps.

In other news...

* I'm thirsty
* I need a shower
* I really like this Godfrey Birtill song

Or indeed, there is no news!

The Chaos That Is...

Packing.

I'm surrounded by chaos.

It's a very curious thing is packing. I sort of feel I'm doing a good job because I have packed a big pile of boxes and it's not midnight the night before someone comes to collect my things. On the other hand, I feel like I've really done nothing. I look around my room and it's still full of stuff - the only difference now being that the stuff is all over the floor. It's very satisfying when you're done but until the last thing is hidden in a box I suspect I shall continue to feel I have achieved nothing.