Reason Behind the Insanity?

I just had an exciting thought...

I've been trying to be more organized for most (OK, all) of my adult life. I've been praying to be more organized for years. Now, I don't live in filth or anything, but I will admit that my desk is rarely (never) cleaned off, my closets are rarely (never) all cleaned out at once, and let's not even talk about my laundry/storage room (or as I fondly refer to it, The Pit).

So MAYBE the only reason we've felt inspired to move forward on this house thing is so that I can get organized! Wouldn't that be great? I'll have a cleaned up, organized house that has to be buyer-ready every day, and I'll learn all kinds of great habits that will carry over into the rest of my life.

And my house won't sell, but that will be OK, because we'll be so in love with our clean, hip, decorated and organized home that we won't even need to add on, let alone move to this scary new place.

So that's my new idea for the day. Maybe it will help me get through the mountains of tasks I have ahead of me.

(My neighbor keeps telling me I should get excited about the move. I'm just not there yet. Can you tell?)

Essay

Hey, I got an essay published. Well, kind of published. OK, not really published, but it's on a website for Mormon women. Therefore, you can assume it's about spirituality, and you've been duly warned. If you'd like to click over, you are welcome.

Anyway, this makes almost three posts in a row on a spiritual bent (if you ignore the Poptarts. I am ignoring Poptarts. I only eat them when I run a really long time). I apologize to those of you who prefer programming as usual and promise I will get back to normal now.

On Temples

So I read this post about Mormon temples, and although I believe most of my readers are LDS, I know there are a few that are not. I hope this isn't too churchy. I tend to keep my spiritual stuff on my Small Plates blog, because I hate to drench people in my spiritual life who don't share my same views. However, I thought this post was just about how I feel about the temple, and with the whole hubbub about the Big Love controversy, I thought, well, what the heck? (And I must say, the first paragraph is a little strong for me. I don't have QUITE the same reaction as the post's author, but the rest is really spot on for me.)

So, here it is. You certainly don't have to click on it if you don't want to... (Did that make you want to? Good reverse psychology, huh?) No, really, you don't have to. It won't bother me a bit if you don't.