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Yesterday walking to T's car we passed a garage sale and I was the lucky buyer of a wooden bookcase for only $2!  Such a deal for a book crazy person like myself who really needs to organize her tiny apartment.  I am mired in magazines and papers that need to be gone through, thrown out, rearranged, etc.  It is driving T a bit crazy and he has a point.  I get a bit overwhelmed when I try to dig in and start working on it, but I'm trying to move forward with a new mindset that I have plenty of space for everything and everything will have a place.  I'm trying not to make it a huge job to organize my apartment because I have the tendency to make everything a big work project.

Pandora.com is playing some lovely songs on my "Rickie Lee Jones" channel this afternoon.  It's a very ecletic mix and today I heard both one of my favorite Alison Krauss' songs of "My Ain True Love" from "Cold Mountain" and "Get Happy" from the "Partridge Family" plus some great K.T. Tunstall and Corinne Bailey Rae.

The need to create space in my life is a big theme right now.  I tend to cram it full full full, full of ideas for projects, full of article ideas to pitch to try and get in national magazines, full of my day job, and other possible jobs to help fill the gaps still lacking in income.  It comes from that delightful old protestant work ethic feeling that if I'm not working I'm lazy.  And having been so slow for so many years with the migraines and fatigue the minute I feel better I think I have to start making up for lost time.

But I'm trying to be open to the fact that no time has been lost and if I take the time to organize my apartment that's just fine - no matter how long it takes and how many baby steps it takes to get there.