More organization

The four boxes from Amazon arrived and they are just the perfect size and helped me get further organized.  I now have a box for the postcards I've received that I want to keep (I discovered I have a full shoe box full of postcards I received the first  time I was on Postcrossing). There is a box for the "stuff" that will be used in ATCs and journals.  I have a box for all of the blank cards that have been sent to me where I can find either a card to send or a card to include in a package to send to a partner.  And I have a box for Compassion letters, which seem to pile up quickly before I answer them.

In organizing my desk, I found waaay in the back under my monitor, a pamphlet that came with our Stonewave  pots many years ago.

We used to use these little pots all the time.  They are great for making things like single serving omelettes in the microwave.  But we haven't used them in years because I "lost" the pamphlet that came with them and can't remember exactly how to use them.  A couple of days ago, someone emailed me a link to where I could order the cookbook for the pots and I was thrilled, so I ordered it (though postage was about the same as the cost of the book...I hate  that!).  Wouldn't you know that two days after I ordered it, I find this pamphlet!

I wouldn't say that my office is neat now, but in my head it's a lot more organized than it was.

I also finished my month-long High/Low list project...a daily list of the "high" thing for the day, and the "low" thing for the day.  My low thing for today is that Facebook changed how you can upload photos.  Since I have an apple phone and a PC computer, I can't connect my phone to my computer so the way I get photos from my phone to my computer, so I can use  them for letters, or for  this journal, is to upload them to Facebook.  When we are on a trip, like to Santa Barbara, most of the many photos I take get uploaded to a photo album on Facebook.  Now you can't do that.  Facebook has something called "Story" where you can post ONE photo with a story about it and that's the only way you can upload photos now.  There is a LOT of negative reaction to this and I hope that Facebook will be forced to change back to the old day.  In the meantime, I have to email photos to myself if I want to get them to my computer file.

I also mailed off my latest Magpie Journal.  Actually, it's a journal that I made months ago, "accidentally" making 2 journals for the same swap.  I thought I had lost the information on a swap and figured my partner would be sending me her journal and I'd find out who to send this to, but that has not happened, so I'm just sending it off for the current Magpie Journal.

I still have postcards that have to be organized.  Lots of postcards that I've either ordered or that have been sent to me that have to be put in categories.  I dropped one of the two shoeboxes that I have my blank postcards in some time ago and while I got most of it back in order, there are still loose postcards that have to be put in order.

Someone sent me this blank postcard yesterday:

I can hardly wait for the next  "ugly postcard" swap to be posted.  This is absolutely perfect for it!

It feels like there is a lot going on today, but it feels more organized than usual.  I think.  I realize that "organized" for me is chaos for everyone else.

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PHOTO OF  THE DAY

The butterflies in the package
with Jeri's birthday cake

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