#41 Magical Organizer

They say that when you add "god love him but..." before talking about someone it means they are an idiot.  Not sure what "god help me but..." would mean but I am guessing I fall squarely in between the 2.  I'm no Rhodes Scholar (though I do have a t-shirt from my college visit.  Wait, no I dont, that was DeVry Institute) but have done fairly well with my career so far.  And though I yearn to be more organized (aside from my well cataloged clothes, shoes and outerwear) alas, I am not.  Not with work stuff anyway.  Well, let me tell you something, research has shown us that not only do Sasquatches exist, but as for humans, we can be classified in 2 camps of organization types - filers and pilers. If they had a secret club for us, I would declare 'hi, I'm Demetrius and I'm a piler...though I secretly wish I was a filer.'.  Hi Demetrius everyone would answer and listen to me lament all my wrongs, from misplaced memos to overdue proposals.  Ugh my list of wrongs would be long.

Well, today is a new day my friends.  I recently started a new job and I said 'you know what, it's time to make a change.  From now on, I'm gonna be organized.'. I bought one of those fancy Moleskine journal things that depressed people and hipsters swear by and started using it to take all my meeting notes.  They're all in order so I just need to flip to the date and I can recall the meetings I was in (since my memory is for shit to top it all off).  I also bought a To Do list which allows me to keep track of my tasks that I need to get done.  Lastly, as you may  have guessed by now, I have my trusty pink post-it notes.  I use them for everything.  Well, I'm almost 3 months into the new job and while I am far more organized than I was at my last job, I find myself thinking of or remembering things to add to my To Do list, but when I dont have that pad with me.  Or I may want to give someone I note, but I dont have my post-its.  See, I'm not at my desk much but I also dont want to carry a ton of crap around with me.  What to do....  well, I'll tell you what, have the organization fairy punch you in the face by way of an amazing dream on a random Tuesday night.  That's what happened.  And I ended up with my new invention (which has no name yet but is TM anyway).  Here it is in all it's glory:

It's a Moleskine, that I cut the lower third of, then inserted 2 small pads, a to do list and a post-it pad.  Now I can take sequential notes in a meeting but always have my to do list and post-its "active" below.  It's like an analog digital thing.  In hindsight, I could have probably done all this crap on my iPad all along and spared myself the stitches, but it would be far less rewarding to use.  FYI, typing with band-aids on is a pain in my ass. 

Getting My Whims On...Again

I have been neglecting this blog (as I do with all blogs I start) for many months.  I dont know why to tell you the truth.  The whole point of this blog was to easily capture all my many ideas that I come up with daily.  Well, it's definitely not from lack of ideas, so it must have been boredom and busy-ness.  On a sidenote, as I just wrote that, it dawned on me that business and busy-ness sort of look the same, but are definitely not the same.  Ok.

Well, as it appears it's been several months since I've written anything on here so let's cover what has occurred.  First off, I quit my job and moved to LA for a new job.  I was about to write more but that's pretty much it.  Hate your job.  Look for a job.  Get a job.  Quit a job.  Move your shit.  Start a job.  Now.  Sounds so simple.

I have during this time also failed to document some great ideas on here.  Fortunately I have still been keeping some notes, so here are some examples of brilliant things that I have failed to document:

1. Garden Hoes - Like garden Gnomes but dressed like prostitutes.
2. Starting a Barber Shop Quartet, but with whistlers.  This is pretty self explanatory.  And awesome.
3. A website called Yea of Gay.  It would have pictures of clothes and stuff that could be rated as to whether it's well, Yea or Gay.  This is now a game with two former coworkers.  I'll count that as realized.
4. A Blog dedicated to writing about all the awesome things you cant do because you're married.
5. Reversible Sweater Vests - Imagine a sweater vest that one might wear to work but then when they go out they could turn it inside out and it would have like cammo or neon stripes or some shit.  Business on the outside, party on the inside.  Amazing.  And I may have already written about it but I cant remember since it's been so long.
And my favorite...
6. Quba shirt - It's like a tourist t-shirt for Cuba but Cuba would be drawn like Q-bert style.  That would be hilarious.

Ok then, so now that the ole "getting back on the horse" part is over, I can resume the writing.  But read the disclaimer.  These might (will) not be daily.