Wednesday, March 4, 2009

So today I...

Today I sorted through my freezers. We have two, the one in the fridge and a small chest freezer in the basement. 

I have always been a food saver/storer, even the beautiful Los Angeles sun shine couldn't keep me from stocking up on frozen peas in September. 
I was raised to clean my plate, regardless of how full I am and "waste not want not". However, I was never taught the domestic arts of cooking, planning, organizing and so forth. (yes, I'm sure some one tried)

I found some great resources on about.com (Ooops! This link is not working, sorry) for determining how much and what one might want to have on hand. The information is posted by the Later Day Saints who feel you should have a years worth of essentials on hand. (they make no mention of pet food etc. please don't forget your pets!) I found this a good starting place and went on to more gardening oriented information, root cellering cold frames and so forth. My motives aren't quite the same as the LDS community, I am more interrested in being able to "put by" as it were, but they have really thought things through, check it out. 

Which brings me back to my freezer. I was pleased to find the oldest item was only 3! (years that is) Maybe it will still be OK in a soup, I can't throw it out!  

So, one organizing project knocked of the list in less time than it took to write about it! Yeah for me! 

Getting it all together...





I have come to the realization (yes, rather late in life, but better late than never?) that I REALLY need to get my **it together. I have known this all along but just couldn't bring my self to do it. Not entirely true, there seem to be phases... The point is, I have been looking for a point for this Blog and think I've found one. How'd you like to watch me transform myself from 40 year old struggling pathetic weenie into 41 year old successful organized FABULOUS weenie? You would? Great! So lets start with where we are now.... The above photos were taken during the last couple of weeks of the various spaces in my life. I own my own home and have never settled into it really, never set about to decorate, never really made it my own. Would you like to know why? Perhaps another time, for now let's just say I never gave myself the time. Well, the time is now. So here goes! :)