The organisation matrix
Please, do not be alarmed by what you are about to read. It’s just that I have become organised. More than that, I organised myself to get organised. Lists of what I needed to do to be organised have been penned by my own hand. I know. It’s all a little too much.
There is a list of jobs the kids need to do each week before any cash is handed over. There is a menu plan. That has been stuck to. The menu plan has an attached shopping list. Which has been adhered to.
There is (and I am loathe to admit this) a weekly planner decal on the fridge. You know it’s a weekly planner because apart from the giveaway detail of the days of the week being on it, above the days it says WEEKLY PLANNER. In red. Clearly the planner means business. It is a whiteboard style planner. Wait, there’s more. The decal whiteboard WEEKLY PLANNER is branded Martha Stewart.
I know.
I am more than a little tempted to write meeting with parole officer under Monday.
The weekly planner alone would be one thing, but adjacent to this is a calendar. Here whole months of itineraries can be penciled in. Just waiting for the week to arrive when they are given pride of place on the WEEKLY PLANNER.
Now when the always hungry teen asks what’s for tea, I just have to point at the menu plan. Which I have craftily attached to the weekly chores chalkboard. If the daughter wants to know if her father or I are available to taxi her, she has places to look.
Don’t get me wrong, I have nothing against being organised. It’s just that I have never done it before. Well, not in my house. Work is a lot more organised. Mostly.
I am curious now to see if it lasts. If a menu plan is stuck to. The weekly planner used, homework done, chores carried out. The problem is I feel bored already. I don’t like being told what to do, even when I am telling me to do it. See? Organisation is a nasty black hole of a matrix.
Fear not. I will not be updating progress. I have a feeling my own boring cleverness will swallow me whole and spit me out the other end, a little worse for wear. At my feet a range of unfinished tasks and half used menu plans, fallen from an overflowing recycling basket.
If all else fails, I can simply wipe the WEEKLY PLANNER clean and write gin and tonic on every single day.
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Good luck. I find it really hard to stick to x And there should be gin and tonic every day anyway x
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Naomi Reply:
January 20th, 2013 at 12:11 pm
So far so good, the real test will be when we are all back at work and school!
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The setting up bit is fun, I’ll admit though that the sticking to it usually doesn’t last more than the first hour in my house…
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Naomi Reply:
January 20th, 2013 at 12:12 pm
I love the setting up too. But yes, sticking to it can be a bit tricky!
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Where’s my sister and what have you done with her?
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Naomi Reply:
January 20th, 2013 at 2:08 pm
I know where she is, but if you want to see her you’ll need to pencil in an appointment.
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I have written NO BOOZE in big letters on Monday. Sigh.
Ours is totally necessary if I don’t want things to descend into mayhem and for dinner to be lebo bread and dips every night.
Boring but necessary. We will be here, holding your hand.
Pass the gin xo
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Naomi Reply:
January 20th, 2013 at 2:07 pm
I may have to write NO BOOZE too, seeing as work is going back.
I think the older the kids get, the more there is homework and high school and the likes, I need this more and more. And the booze. Except for when I have written NO BOOZE.
xo
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Well, I’ve never had a weekly planner (go you) but yes, do the pre-planned meal thing all the time, because it does actually give you more time … to be less organised
. Hope it all works out.
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Naomi Reply:
January 22nd, 2013 at 9:06 am
You know you’re right. I love the thought of more time to be less organised.
I think as the kids get older, with the demands of high school and the final year of primary school, our house needs to be more organised. As much as it goes against my inner rebel. The structure of different starting times, homework, blah de blah kind of needs the inner (small) organiser to come out. Ugh. No one told me having kids would mean I needed a weekly planner…
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Yeah, no. I have tried and failed at this. And despite best intentions, knowing full well how much it helps things with Poss, I just can’t stick to it…
Maybe less gin would help
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Naomi Reply:
January 22nd, 2013 at 9:07 am
Less gin is never the answer. Ever.
I have failed more times than not, I wonder how I’ll go this time…
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