I’ve recently moved back in with my parents. I WAS living with Mike but felt the need to move back with my folks after experiencing a lot of stress and depression, and so now I’m back. Moving back in with your parents after living with a partner for 3 years is a bit strange. We treat each other like we used to before I moved out which doesn’t work too well of course because I’ve grown up a lot in those three years, but somehow living here has transformed me back into the teenager (well, 21 year old) girl I was when I left.

Take my room for example. I’m not the tidiest person in the world and it’s quite easy for me to get distracted because of some huge project I’ve decided I’m going to finish right now, which means my room ends up in a bit of a mess. It wasn’t quite as bad when I lived here the first time round because I had the big room with lots of places to hide my rubbish and most of my stuff got put in drawers and boxes and cabinets, hidden away never to be seen. But now my room has room for a bed and a dresser and that’s it. There’s a small cupboard in there too, but that’s full of stuff-that-isn’t-mine and I can’t really start putting stuff in there.

My solution for this so far has been my usual one – find a surface, any surface, and dump everything onto it. If it’s off the floor, that counts as tidy. With the amount of paper, notes, scribbles and doodles I do on a daily basis, you can imagine what my room looks like. I need a new solution.

My new solution, which I’m slowly putting into action is this:

• Every week, sort through JUNK.
• Sort junk into two piles – “keep it” or “bin it”.
• Sort through “keep it” piles into catagories and organise them appropriately onto Evernote.
• Review Evernote regulary! (Using my ipad, which will make life easier)

I’ll let you know if this works.