address book | organised castle

Early in January, I wrote a post about my Christmas plans for 2012. It is here.

As I suspected I did not get everything done on 25th January as planned but I am making progress. Here is what I had on the list.

January

Sort and file Christmas cards and letters – DONE
Make sure any contact details are updated in address book – DONE
Update Christmas card list – DONE
Set up complete contact list for 2012 e-cards – NEEDS A BIT MORE WORK

In conjunction with updating the contact details in my address book I embarked on another project which took me a couple of weeks. I have made sure that I have current contact details for all of my friends and relatives in my physical address book as well as my email contacts address book and my mobile phone address book. The Duke checked that he had the relevant ones in his mobile phone and we also have some that we need at our fingertips in the home phone speed dial. Now all I have to do is make sure that I update all locations when I am given new contact details for anyone. I really hope that I keep on top of this issue as I do not want to have to do the sorting and cross-referencing of the past couple of weeks. The memory of that should be enough to keep me on track.

I have also been doing some sewing today and have finished making the first 2 of my Christmas gift bags. They are not for anything or anyone in particular but my aim is to have a collection in a variety of sizes so that I will have one suitable for whatever the gift happens to be.

Today I have been working on sorting out my email address book and making sure all of the details for my contacts are current and also that they match my hard copy address book which sits on the bookshelf. This is an arduous process and I have also linked it to other jobs such as cleaning out the business card folder.

This is necessary and even admirable but sometimes you need a job which is small on effort but big on results to give you a boost. This morning I did that by cleaning out the utensil drawer in the kitchen. It was a spur of the minute decision as I was putting the clean dishes away. I noticed that there were crumbs everywhere and it looked rather grotty so I took everything out and wiped the drawer out thoroughly.

In true minimalist fashion everything really had to earn a place to go back in. This drawer has been seriously decluttered before so there was not much to go – just a corkscrew and multipurpose bottle opener. Many would say I still have too much but it suits me at the moment.

Here is the finished project which gave me the incentive to go on with my other jobs today.