Mental Energy
Yesterday I spent the day 'cleaning my room.' I know this sounds somewhat juvenile, but really I find it one of the most taxing personal tasks I have to do. That's because cleaning my room does not mean just cleaning, but also includes paying my bills (on my desk in my room), organizing my finances (through my computer in my room), and addressing other sundry miscellaneous pieces of paper that might be floating in my room.
As one may imagine, cleaning my room normally ends up with me making my bed, hanging up clothes, and then looking at the pile of papers and then making them into an even neater pile of papers and then placing them in an important looking 'to do' pile, waiting for me the next time I want to 'clean my room.' In other words, in can be months and months before I actually come to grips with the annoyingness of the pile.
One may ask, what is in this pile? (yes I am in a weird third person mood today). This pile does not have anything truly toooo important (or it couldn't wait months) but has what I deem to be 'too important to throw away.' I have coupons I decided I will need to use (usually discovered expired in the pile), articles from magazines I have decided I need to glean information on (I have this one article about calcium and Mg intake to prevent PMS that I have literally had at the bottom of this pile for about 3 years....and btw, it's still there. I feel like that is life saving information that may be useful one day). I have pieces of paper like information from my last doctor's visit (which will need to be filed into a mythical filing system one day), and bank statements which I have decided I need both in paper and online because.....well just because. Who knows? I may decide I need to glance back at my grocery bill last May, and the internet could be out?
Then there are all the medical handouts that I get from lecture. This past month I accumulated a myriad of developmental pedi handouts. Can I just throw these away? Of course not. So then I had to put them into a folder and pile them with the other folders of stuff which I am not sure what they have in them, but hey, if one day I need to look back, I know it is all there.
The point of all this? Well, yesterday I went through most of the pile. Really more of the pile than I have been through in a long time. You will be happy to know I am now down to my Step 3 sign up stuff (must stay), information about heart rate from my gym (which I need to keep on hand because, well, because) and of course, my PMS article (ladies it's all there don't worry. I am here for us in our time of need.)
And now I feel like I have some of my mental energy back. I feel that good. You know when you hear an annoying sound that is very soft, it still takes away a lot of your focus. That's how I felt about the pile. It's not that I consciously thought about it too often, but it was always there, sucking the life out of me.
So hurrah! I think it will take me at least 4 weeks to build it back up again....
:)
Frieda
As one may imagine, cleaning my room normally ends up with me making my bed, hanging up clothes, and then looking at the pile of papers and then making them into an even neater pile of papers and then placing them in an important looking 'to do' pile, waiting for me the next time I want to 'clean my room.' In other words, in can be months and months before I actually come to grips with the annoyingness of the pile.
One may ask, what is in this pile? (yes I am in a weird third person mood today). This pile does not have anything truly toooo important (or it couldn't wait months) but has what I deem to be 'too important to throw away.' I have coupons I decided I will need to use (usually discovered expired in the pile), articles from magazines I have decided I need to glean information on (I have this one article about calcium and Mg intake to prevent PMS that I have literally had at the bottom of this pile for about 3 years....and btw, it's still there. I feel like that is life saving information that may be useful one day). I have pieces of paper like information from my last doctor's visit (which will need to be filed into a mythical filing system one day), and bank statements which I have decided I need both in paper and online because.....well just because. Who knows? I may decide I need to glance back at my grocery bill last May, and the internet could be out?
Then there are all the medical handouts that I get from lecture. This past month I accumulated a myriad of developmental pedi handouts. Can I just throw these away? Of course not. So then I had to put them into a folder and pile them with the other folders of stuff which I am not sure what they have in them, but hey, if one day I need to look back, I know it is all there.
The point of all this? Well, yesterday I went through most of the pile. Really more of the pile than I have been through in a long time. You will be happy to know I am now down to my Step 3 sign up stuff (must stay), information about heart rate from my gym (which I need to keep on hand because, well, because) and of course, my PMS article (ladies it's all there don't worry. I am here for us in our time of need.)
And now I feel like I have some of my mental energy back. I feel that good. You know when you hear an annoying sound that is very soft, it still takes away a lot of your focus. That's how I felt about the pile. It's not that I consciously thought about it too often, but it was always there, sucking the life out of me.
So hurrah! I think it will take me at least 4 weeks to build it back up again....
:)
Frieda
posted by Frieda at 6:41 PM
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