January is for "Just get organized already"

Trying to organize my desk/paperwork/resipes/old art work/sketchbooks/journals. This is proving to be a a slow process. How much paperwork can I honestly have accumulated over the last 18 years of my young life? A lot it seems. I wish my drawers were as pretty and perfect as those above.

Speaking of getting organized, has anyone been to the ikea website recently? Their full-page bedroom view application is incredible, check it out.

First Entry

I just bought this skirt.

Russel and Hazel has the best stuff for writing memoranda. Their store in Edina makes my heart go pitter-pat.

" (She) was a perceptive, graceful, sophisticated, woman who was sensitive to everybody's weaknesses but her own and found everyone absurd except for herself. She laid great, fastidious stress on small matters of taste and style. She was always augmenting things. Approaching events were never coming, but upcoming. It was not true that she wrote memorandums praising herself and recommending that her authority be enhanced to include all operations; she wrote memoranda. And the prose in the memoranda of others was always turgid, stilted, or ambiguous... It never escaped her memory that neither black nor white was a colour, and she never used verbal when she meant oral. A virgin audience was a stimulating opportunity was grist for her mill, a stimulating opportunity to throw open her whole dazzling erudite treasure house of puns, wisecracks, slanders, homilies, anecdotes, proverbs, epigrams, apothegms, bon mots, and other pungent sayings. "
- Joseph Heller, augmented.