What day is it?

What day is it?  It’s hard to keep track these days and the sameness of each day waits for me when I get up in the morning. Even when I look at the paper, or check my phone, a few minutes later, I wonder again, What day is it?

While I try to do something productive each day, whether it is work related or something that needs to be done around the house, I find it hard to concentrate. Hard to keep focused on my task.

I start a project, then get interrupted and move on to something else.

 In my home office, I have started going through all the “school and office supplies” that were located throughout the house, combining them by category, than sorting by individual types.  Over the years, Mike and I have changed jobs and changed offices. In some jobs, office supplies were provided, in others we had to bring them in ourselves. When my company closed offices recently, I brought home things that were destined for the trash if not “claimed”, that I thought should be recycled to someone who could use them. Many things were given away at that point, but I’m finding items now that got missed. Then we started going through our sons’ rooms and the things that they left behind and found more office/ school supplies. Seriously, I have 8 staple removers and 8 staplers in one pile, and I’m fairly certain that this is another stapler on the kitchen table, and one in Mike’s office as well. How many staplers and staple removers does one family need???  Now I have piles of things on every surface including the floor, and I need to finish going through the category piles and sorting into specific item / types and deciding what will be kept and what will go away. Yet, I find it too easy to get distracted by laundry and other household tasks, finding reasons to work outside while the weather is lovely and warm, by clients who need attention, or things I need to do for work.