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Fracas’ The Monday Melee for January 28, 2008

Happy Anniversary to The Monday Melee!  
The first edition of The Monday Melee was published on January 29, 2007, and so today, while being one day short of the technical anniversary, is the Monday Anniversary of the Melee. Wouldn’t it be nice if Johnny Depp (or perhaps Uma Thurman for you menfolk) jumped out of a cake in honour?

To bring the Melee back up to speed and ready it for another year, today’s Melee will be all about getting organized!

I’ve decided to send out a call to all those on the Master Melee list, to find out if any of your details need updating. There are a few of you that I know have moved to domains of your own, or changed blog hosts. Often though… the old blog isn’t gone, just stagnant. I’m hoping that some of you do still check them from time to time and so might see a trackback, but I will start visiting all of your sites individually to try verify them. You don’t have to be doing the Melee every single week to remain on the list, just have to at least occasionally post a Monday Melee and I’m happy to leave your link. If you’re totally not doing it, then I will remove the link because I do think it’s fair to give me a link by doing it at least once every so often, if I’m going to be keeping your link up.  

The master link list has been copied to today’s post (below) to give you a bit of attention. If you see yourself here and your address has changed, please post a comment to let me know so I can change it.

1. The Misanthtropic: Name something about humanity getting organized you absolutely hate.
I hate that getting organized is so much work. I suppose if we were all organized right from the get-go, it wouldn’t be… but life happens and even the organized sometimes get busy and things slide. Getting back there is always so much effort.

2. The Meretricious: Expose something or someone about getting organized that’s phony, fraudulent or bogus.
Those people that do the “get organized” reality shows make me crazy. Do they think we’re stupid, and might think it’s that easy in real life? Ok… they have a crew, I don’t. They get to spend tons of money at once on neat folders and boxes and shelves and all that. I don’t. A real reality show would be nice. You know…  where the host goes into a home and starts going through boxes and files and stuff, is interruped thirteen times because the kids can’t find the ketchup or the toilet paper (add the urgent screams to that one), the phone rings, you realize everyone is hungry so you prepare food (and then must clean up after said food preparation) and, well… at the end of the day instead of having some kick-ass contemporary-looking family room, you have one that looks like hell in a handbasket (or basement). So you tell the crew to come back again the next day… and the next, and the next.

The host? Oh… she’ll be fine. The doctors tell me the medication will kick in in a few days and those ticks will go away.

3. The Malcontent: Name something you’re unhappy with (about getting organized).
See my answer for #2…. minus all the television crew stuff. That’s really how it is when real life people try get organized.

4. The Meritorious: Give someone getting organized credit for something and name it if you can.
The good part is, once you’ve gone through that torture that would have the toughest of combat soldiers crying for their mommy, you feel like you can do anything. There’s nothing like knowing where every little thing is, to make a person feel like they rule the world.

5. The Mirror: See something good about yourself getting organized and name it.
Being organized (and staying organized) also means less cleaning later. That… is always a good thing.

6. The Make-Believe: Name something (about getting organized) you wish for.
I wish for the budget to just run out and purchase massive quantities of shelving units, and all manner of boxes and storage units, little pull out drawers, shoe racks, gift-wrap/craft supply station accoutrements and the like, that I would need to barricade myself in my home (tossing out all those who can’t find ketchup or toilet paper or need to be fed of course) and not come out until my home resembled Martha Stewart’s.

The home that is, not the fracas. I have no burning desire to look like Martha Stewart. I mean… seriously.

Now it’s your turn.

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