My Organizational Spreadsheet Staycation

Well hello! I spent the weekend on my annual post-mothers-day weekend away at a hotel, working on a project I haven't been able to make the time for during everyday life. It's my mom work trip mother's day present to me. This year my project was making an inventory of all the items in our home, and designating good organizational systems of places for everything to go in our next house, since we know what the floorplan will be. I realize this makes me sound a bit OCD, but the truth is that home organization has never come naturally to me and has been a pain point in all our other moves, I've realized that if I can make organizational decisions well before the move, then it's a fun task for me. It's fun to imagine our future home and what it might be like and how it can function best. When I put off organization until after we've moved, it becomes a chore. A chore that takes up all my free time for months and months. So I tried making it a fun part of my getaway over the weekend while watching wholesome hotel movies in the background, and it was a 10/10. Here are a few other moments from our last week:

^^Jack had his flag football tournament on Saturday to finish off the season. They won the first game but lost the second game. Jack has enjoyed this season and done really well, but his coaches are intensely competitive collegiate athletes, and also screamers. And these are a bunch of 6-year-old kids. And so that aspect wasn't great. Jared has volunteered to coach next season to avoid Jack (and the other kids) getting another screamer of a coach. It wasn't just a little screaming. His coach would get SO mad about everything, and he'd be shaking in anger when a play didn't go how he wanted. It was a bit much. Glad it didn't completely ruin the game for Jack. 

^^We took a little field trip to the Holdman glass museum at Thanksgiving point. It was really inspiring. Jared and I would love to take a stained glass beginner class together someday. 

That's pretty much it! I've been using Chat GPT to help me figure out my color analysis season, and it turns out that the colors that look best on me (I'm on the border between bright winter and bright spring) are not the colors I naturally gravitate toward and have filled my wardrobe with in the past. I tend to gravitate tward soft earthy colors, but bright, saturated colors really do look better on me. So today I took myself on a thrift store shopping spree to buy t-shirts in a bunch of the colors that allegedly work best with my color type, but that I've never worn before. It's a good time in my 30s.