Don't you hate when you get in one of those super productive moods, and you know you're getting yourself into trouble?

A few days ago, I was laying around in one of the public areas at the Beach Club Villas, killing time until the bus came to take me to the airport, and thinking about some redecorating I wanted to do at home.  The seeds were planted in my brain- new paint here, a new shelf built there... I'm sure you can see where this is headed!

Right now I'm totally cleaning out my bedroom, a) because it's super messy and really needs a major cleaning, b) because I'm getting rid of my bed and stealing the bigger, more comfy one from the guest room upstairs, and c) because I want to paint the walls.  Or at least one of them.  I haven't really decided yet. 

The main reason I decided to do it this way, though, is that I seem to have a mental block when it comes to cleaning this room.   I come in here with the intention of cleaning, and then I sit down and stare at the piles of stuff, and I never, ever get anywhere.  I figure that if I clear everything out, it might shake that up a little.

Let me tell you this much- you will never realize how much STUFF you have stuffed into a room until you try to take it all out!  I should take a photo once I get it all piled into my living room!

The really good, yet really bad, thing about this method is that once you get everything out of the room you're cleaning, you're stuck- you HAVE to keep going.  Organizing one drawer or pile of dirty socks at a time gives you too many easy ways to only do a little bit, or to get distracted and forget to come back.  When you can't walk through your living room because everything from your bedroom is in it, you've got some major motivation to get it back out!  (The trick is making yourself put everything back into the room in an organized way, not just shoving it all under the bed to get it out of the way!)

I have almost two months before I go back to work, if I'm going to clean/paint/reorganize my house, there's no time like the present!  It's either this, or watch a lot of bad tv.

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