Organize = Mezmerize

SO grateful for a job where I get a
name plate,
I get to watch New Girl,
and decorate my office space!
I feel like a grown up...or something.

Realized this week how much of a girl I can be. I spent five and a half out of the seven hours at work organizing my desk space and I couldn't get enough of it! I updated Alexx with my progress in the office throughout the day, and his response:

Yes he may have been right on in his response, but boys just don't get "it".

It.

{acronym}: Interesting Things

Organizing spaces is incredibly therapeutic for me.
I get so lost in finding homes for various items that I sometimes spend a half hour rearranging an area that is 12" x 12". Madness.
Madness results in gladness. In this instance...I suppose.

Now, I don't keep up spaces all that well...at all, but hey, you can't organize the space if the space is not unorganized. 

There's order to my madness.

At least, that's what I tell myself and all who ask. 

I can organize inanimate objects wonderfully, but when it comes to gatherings with live people and not just my stuffed animals...I blank. My birthday is a little less than a month away and I'm way too excited for my age! But also, way too under-qualified to plan a successful birthday bash. As you read last week, my party organization skills are nearly nonexistent as they are last minute and are dependent upon winging it...not so sturdy a foundation. So...I'm getting Alexx planning my birthday party! Or at the very least, helping me...by planning it.

Tipi party?! Totally making this up as I go.

Like, if there were different Tipis set up and Tipi hopped! Like they do in Spain, where they bar hop, but instead, we'd be Midwest Tipi hopping!!! 

Painting objects in one, playing music in another, having a snack buffet Tipi accompanied by a dessert one?

Yeah. This sounds like a dream come true for me. I might cry.

Chances of this happening next month? Not sure! 

But the dream is A L I V E.

Hand-painted Tipis can be found on Etsy
(Can't wait to make one myself!)

If I could live in this I would. In a heartbeat.
 Disclaimer: no toilet.
But I am willing to dig holes.

This simple setup accompanied by a few more tipis of course, is probably what the Tipi Party
would look like WHEN (speaking it into existence folks) I have one.

Currently working on organizing my life. Aren't we all? I was told once that you can put all your ducks in a row but God's just gonna shoot them. Hilarious. The Big Guy truly does have a way with throwing us off course-according to our feeble minds. And for that, I am eternally grateful! Yeah, truly it sucks, but, He knows what He's doing. That is a concept I don't think our human minds can fully grasp. Although we may never fully understand that concept, it doesn't discount the truth of it.

Instead of working on organizing my life into a pretty box of false reality, I need to actively exercise my faith in God. That means I need to surrender my sense of control to the Author of my life. When I put it that way, it seems silly that I really think I've got this life figured out or that I actually have any control because without God's grace, I wouldn't even have breath. 

So shoot my ducks oh Lord, because I have no idea what I'm doing. 

Calling it before it happens-The next southern gospel hymn will be titled: "Shoot my ducks oh Lord".

Surrendering to your Maker is the most liberating form of trust. 

-BIE