Cleaning up – Day one

It’s a common problem with creative thinkers.  Their workspaces and homes suffer neglect at the hands of the creative process.  Things get cluttered, clutter turns into a mess, and the mess turns into chaos.  All the while the person or people who should have cleaned up after themselves go on, oblivious to the problem for days, weeks, even months, until one moment when they aren’t actively creating and then stare horrified at the maelstrom that surrounds them, and the seemingly impossible task of getting things back in their proper order.

I am this type of person.  So is my wife.  We are both thinkers, intellectuals, writers, artists and semi-gourmet cooks.  Add to that parents, grandparents, friends, sons and daughters.  My wife has a full time job, and I am a Work at home Dad.  The mess just seems to be there one day, but the painful fact of the matter is that it got that way gradually, adn it could have been prevented…

But it wasn’t.

In an effort to motivate myself, and possibly others that share this habit of procrastination, I’ve decided to share what’s become of my office with all of you, and then I’ll show you the end results of the cleaning and purging that is to come.

Read on, if you dayre.

(Warning, this is not for the faint of heart..  I’ve let this go for far too long.)

Part of this mess is from the move in August…  The rest is simply neglect on our part.  I’ve been working on the issue off and on all day, and I’ve got a dent in it, but there’s still plenty to do tomorrow.

I’ll let y’all know when we’re done.

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