Carrie Bradshaw Here

The Sex And The City movie is coming out on Friday! I'm excited to see how great this movie turns out to be. From the movie clips, I am just cracking up.

You are Carrie. You know what you want out of a relationship and you're not afraid to keep moving until you get it. Wit and charm are your biggest turn-ons, and you like guys who appreciate you for your mind as much as your body. You have fun playing the dating game, but secretly you just can't wait to find the guy who sweeps you off your feet and carries you into the sunset.

Which Sex and the City Character Are You?

"Life doesn't always turn out like a fantasy. That's why you need friendships to get you through it all," thank you Carrie Bradshaw!

Which character are you?

Better Tidy Up After Yourself

OK.
So, if you are trying to come up with your next excuse why NOT to get organized, perhaps these commercials from IKEA will help you to turn that thought around and just get organized.

They made me crack up.
Hope you enjoy them, too.

Thank you John from OrganizingLA for sharing.

What's your story from not being organized?

My Proud Motorcycle

Women have a way of banding together to support one another. I'm not a guy, so I can't speak to what y'all do. Guys are great, I love um, especially when I have a really, really, really hard jar to open.

My friend, Julie Higby, bought me a motorcycle!! (see this post for the story why)
She shot right up my favorite friends list. Julie wrote:

Angie,
I heard you decided against buying a motorcycle so thought I would
buy one for you. .... Stick this card up in your garage somewhere, at least you can brag you have a motorcycle at home.
Julie

How AWESOME is that?!
You bet my new motorcycle is going to be prestigiously placed in my garage. (that's 'gare-raj' as Julie says, crazy Aussie)
Julie you ROCK!!

Women are amazing. You give so much of yourself, sacrificing your needs before others, compromising when you should not, triumphing against life's challenges and pushing yourself to reach your dreams. The road you take is long, hard and at times lonely. In the end, you know to look around at where you came from, see what you have endured and you should be proud.

Take a moment and reflect upon what you are proud about yourself. This is not about what your kids/grandkids did.

This is about YOU.

Simple self pride.
It's OK to dabble in this deadly sin.

"Everything in moderation," is what I believe.

What three women are you proud of?
... ya need to go tell them.

Peace Baby!

Little surprise waiting at my doorstep this afternoon.
A box delivered from the USPS.
Hmmmm, who is this from. I have no idea.

Like a kid on Christmas morning, I start getting really excited and frantically search for the scissors to tear into the box.
It's a PRESENT.....from SOUL!!!!!

Little "Meeow Baby!" statue, now prestigiously placed next to Hong Kong Phooey on my desk.

Soul, I am beside myself with your thoughtful gift, kind words and love for my grippy toes. You are an inspiration to me, too!

"Peace Baby!" is something my Aunt Dottie started with me and now it's said daily between my boys and I. The peace sign is a non-verbal way to communicate with each other when we can't talk. "I love you" and "Peace Baby" are always said between the us as they run off to play, leave for school, or when we chat on the phone.

Try it out. "Peace Baby" just makes people smile.
...... and more smiles is what we all need in this world.

Please take the time to visit Soul
and throw out a "Peace Baby!" to her.

She made my day shine. Spread the smiles.

PEACE BABY!

Snap, Crackle ... POP!

Long ago I was forced to hold in my thoughts and feelings, which in the end tore me up inside. From this I have learned the more I share my honest feelings with people, the more support I receive.

Well, this has been a helluva couple days for me. Pretty much a mental breakdown, a train wreck of emotions, perhaps a momentary lapse of reason. Funny because it began after I returned from a wonderful weekend voluteering as a mentor at a Girl Scout Camp CEO (read about it here on Debby's blog).

Like most breakdowns, baggage has been building for months. Carrying the pressure of being a single parent, supporting a family, creating a business and enjoying life - my levy broke. Spending pretty much every other hour or so crying about everything for the past 36 hours.

I realized as I shared my woes with pretty much everyone (big Thank You to those who listened), we ALL do this. Juggling life's stresses is done by everyone and sometimes you have to stop, drop and roll to survive.

I am happy to say that I will not be purchasing a motorcycle and driving off to some remote seaside hut to live out my life away from everyone as I count seashells on a beach. My crying fits have subsided and I am ready to get back to enjoying the wonderful life I have.

My pity party has ended.
All sorts of stress has been released and "it's game on baby!"
..... well, until the next mental shakedown .......

What do you want to do when you have a mental snap?

A Farrah Fawcett Glamor Head

"OMG! Is that a Farrah Fawcett Glamor Head?
I must get a picture of that!"


Then Andrea and I just laughed at not only how unglamorous Farrah was looking, also, why did she still have Farrah after 20+ years.

Andrea needed help with her extra storage unit. These storage facilities have a quite useful function: say you're moving or having home remodeling done and need some temporary storage. Not so functional if you are using the space to store stuff that just doesn't fit into your home - costly too, mininum $100/month.

In Andrea's case it is a bit of the later, though she is also storing some memoribila from her mother's home. She had me help her sort through all these boxes and find out what is hidden.



Andrea took pictures of all the family items to see if anyone wants something in particular. She has a ton of older items that an antique dealer may be interested in purchasing.


We had a beautiful, sunny day to pull out all the boxes and see what was inside. Then organized Andrea's family items to the right side of the storage unit and her personal items to the left. I hauled away all the now empty cardboard boxes to Kroger for recycling. Andrea loaded up her SUV with the 4 bags of trash.

Now, Andrea will return to sort through the remainder of the items to get out of this storage unit and save some cash every month.

The fate of Farrah was not good: Her face was stained from decades of old make-up, hair twisted, matted and showing signs of balding. Farrah had seen much better days long ago. Her time had passed. The box was recycled. Farrah was not.

It's springtime! (Here in the USA)
Grab some bags & boxes to clear out your long-term storage.
You're not using it, get rid of it.
Plus, maybe you'll find a long lost toy and have a good laugh.

What made you laugh that you found in storage?

2 Men Watching Alvin and the Chipmunks ... Oh and another CBS appearance!

Sounds like a great opening line
to a joke, right?

Well, not quite.

See CBS WTOL asked me to help get a family a bit more organized. They would bring the camera crew and I get the job done. Awesome!

So here I am installing the shelves in a closet, sweating my butt off, balancing one shelf on my shoulder as I drill holes into the wall. As I finish and stand up, the husband and the cameraman are sitting laughing at the movie Alvin and the Chipmunks.
....ummm, guys...watcha doing? We had a good laugh over it.

Now I posted on this project earlier (click here).
Here's the news segment that aired:

Thank you CBS WTOL and
Melissa Voetsch!
You ROCK!!!!

Look next week for the follow-up to this segment.

A client onced said I am like Rachel Ray only with a hammer drill.

That fits me pretty good!

Who do you match up with, though a bit different?