Yeah, I know I was all talk about changing up the site. I got a little bit busy doing other things and forgot about it. I have been consumed by decorating a school float for a local children’s parade (not a big thing). What I have also been working on is COUPONING!.

That’s right! What a great thing for an unorganized person with messiness issues and a tendenancy to hyperfocus on things she prefers to do instead of housework and picking up the messes that quickly pile up around here. Man…was that a run on sentence or what?

OK, I am not going to change the look of MessyMom, unless I have maybe cleaned up everything else and have gotten caught up with all of my chores and looking for something to do to fill my time. Please refer back to this statement and give me a hard time when I do actually change things on the site. I am pretty darn sure that if I do…it is not because I am done with all that needs to be done around here!

I have decided, on a whim, of course, that, since I am still a messy mom, and this is MY blog, it doesn’t really matter what I post about. Sure, I could start another blog with some cute domain name that fits the mood of what I maybe ranting about at the time. IfI do that, I will own 50 domains and never post anything. As it is, I was only posting here if I had something to say about housework or messiness. Well, I can still do that, ‘cuz, gosh darn, I still have a mess here, and I am still a mom! I just think that I am going to start to post about my new obessession…couponiong!
Couponing is a great subject to talk about since I spent all day on the computer yesterday finding coupons to print online. Now, if that is not the perfect housework avoidance outlet, I don’t know what is!!
With the price of gas and electricity, I decided that it was time to become more proactive in my everyday life. I realize that there are ways to spend less. {trying to get on a soapbox, but needs to go get ready for church}. I have started hanging clothes to dry outside instead of always sticking them in the dryer. This is great since the dryer not only uses electricity, but it also warms up the house and causes the air conditioner to work harder, using…more electricity. I am also trying to not use the oven so much in the summer, for the same reason as the dryer. In the winter, warming up the house with the dryer and over will be nice, but not when it is 98 degrees!
Well..I need to run to get ready for church.
I will start to post some the awesome forums and sites that I am finding coupons to print for groceries latter. Don’t let me forget…even though I never forget to to anything!

Since I have not been willing or had the desire to post anything in awhile, I have decided to change directions with MessyMom.com. Yes, my house is still messy, although I have been making attempts to keep it not so messy. In my attempts, I have noticed that I am not so laid back about the untidyness. Have you ever felt like you are a hampster on one of those wheels? I had an moment where I realized that that was what I was doing, only my “wheel” was the loop of “why is all of this clothes lying around on your floor? You did not wear that, and i gave you that to put where it belonged after I washed it.” and “Oh My God…, why are your Littlest Pet Shop things all over the floor? All of your stuff has a place and a container.”
One of my favorites is…
“Oh YUCK that stinks! Clean out the littler box!! You wanted those cats, and you need to clean up after them.”
and, of course…
“who didn’t eat all of their cereal and dumped it on the clean dishes. That is not even the side that has the garbage disposal. Ya’ll need to stop wasting that cereal….it costs alot of money and so does that milk!”
“why do ya’ll keep doing this…I guess ya’ll like to hear me rant.”

That is just a few of my “wheels”.

It isn’t just the mess that is making me come unglued. I have other things that just make me go into a tissy. I can control myself around people, but apparently, my husband and kids are not people. I have come to the realization that, a week before my 41 birthday, that I am definately perimenopausal. Yes, I have got some serious mood swings. My poor husband doesn’t even know which way to turn.
I am ready to switch MessyMom. com into focusing more on this than anything else. I have talked to my very soon to be 18 year old that this is why I am so moody. I am really aware that the mees that the kids and I (and hubby a little) is a huge mood altering trigger. Who knows, perimenopause may just be what I need to get me to have a clean house. So, in coming weeks, I think I will give MessyMom.com a new look and feel. I should do that to myself too.
Strap on your seatbelts, we are in for a bumpy ride.

I have been trying to go thru stuff in my office at home, but it is so hard to decide what to do with this stuff. All of this stuff I have in boxes are there for a reason…I didn’t want to deal with it or make a decission about it. Do I keep it? I can’t throw THAT away. I might need that piece of paper…it goes on and on. I need to take the girls to the summer reading kickoff at the library this morning, so I don’t have much time. So far, I have moved a bunch of “junk” out of the office, but it is now trashing the living area. Oh yeah…that makes sense. I have piddled with this for a few days, and avoided it yesterday. I think I need to make an attempted to put a little bit more where it belongs and then store the rest for my next burst of “in the moodness”. This way, I got a bunch of it done, and I am not looking at the crap I am no longer in the mood to deal with.
I did get a lot of it done. It is ok to not finish what I started because I lost the steam. The pile is sitting there and I am not getting anything else done because I can’t possibly start something else with that sitting there in the way. I know, some organizers would say…finish what you started. For someone like me…that doesn’t work. I just get irritated and annoyed by the leftover stuiff sitting there.
I am finishing this cup of coffee, and I am going to box up the left over stuff that I am no longer in the mood to deal with. This way, my room gets cleared and I can move on to something else. I may get more mental energy this way to finish it sooner that you might think. The office does look better and I did get rid of a bunch of clutter. Glass have full, not half empty
So, if you have an unfinished project sitting around that you are in no mood to finish, pack it up and get to it latter. It’s ok. Go find something more productive to do besides start in shame at the project. You can get back to it when you are in the mood. Getting something else done around the house will make you feel better.

As I sit here in my office that I never use (since the internet splitter thing ~ a router I think ~ doesn’t allow me to go to sites like yahoo mail on the other computer when it isa being spit to the 2 computers….I know…get a better setup…), I am avoiding continuing to organize my stuff AKA junk mail, old mail, report cards, pictures…
Well, I decided a few days ago that I should perhaps write here more often. I also decided that I should write about more things than my organization drama. Perhaps I was thinking that because I was in the middle of doing something like washing the dishes. I was probably thinking that I could write something RIGHT NOW. You know…instead of finishing the simple task of putting gross dishes into the dishwasher. I may have actually decided to write this very post because there is left over dinner just waiting to be put away and the dishwasher is just dying to was those dishes that are sitting in the sink. What inspiration to do a post, don’t you think?
Now that I have confessed the real reason I am sitting on my computer, I suppose I had better go do the dishes. Maybe this site will actually help me.
Naaaa…but it doesn’t hurt to try.

OMG!!!!!
Last night my daughter wanted to make some Hidden Valley Oyster Crackers. When I was taught this recipe over 20 years ago…yeah, I am that old…
we would add dill to it. The dill gives it a bit more zip!
Anyway…
I started looking for some dill in the cabinet where I keep all of the spices. I know that awhile back, I made potatoes with some dill, and thought it was a new recently purchased bottle and thought I had used all of it. I thought this as I was looking for the dill (too bad I hadn’t thought of this when I was in the store).
Any who…
I found a bottle of dill all the way in the back of the cabinet. There was a price tag under the bottle from a store I shopped at when we lived in New Hampshire 14 years ago. We only live there for 6 months, so I know just how old this stuff is, and how long I have had it. I have moved 5 times since then. The really sad thing is that there were 4 other bottles of spices that had the same price tag on them.
Needless to say, I threw out all of the spices, and the crackers were not going to get the dill mixed with them. My daughter thought it was not a good idea to use the dill (I had to agree)!!
I bought a brand new bottle of dill today!
So…do you think you might have a historical bottle of spice in your cabinet? It is time to maybe clean out the spices for anything that has crossed state lines, was bought in the 90’s, resided in several different homes, has seen your family grow, or any other major live events.