Back to the prompts: "Blogging is about sharing the love. Tell us about 5 blogs that you love reading regularly."
Rantings of an Aboriginal Feminist - Celeste Liddle is increasingly getting her writing into the Guardian and the Fairfax papers, but her best writing is at the source, her blog. I also follow her on Twitter, among the many Indigenous Australian women I follow.
Jim Hines - a Michigan-based feminist sci-fi/fantasy writer. I'm promoting this one rather than Scalzi's "Whatever" (Google it) because awesome as Scalzi is, he has enough promoters and Jim needs the extra eyes. Jim will be among the Guests of Honour at Continuum this year, although it's more because of Amber Kwaymullina (a young Indigenous Australian sci/fi author) that I'm thinking about going to Continuum this Queen's Birthday Weekend.
Adventures of a Subversive Reader - and related blogs. These are the blogs of a dear friend, who blogs about pretty much everything, but started out blogging about reading to and visiting libraries with her baby son.
No Award - Social justice, media, fandom, drop bears. Half of "No Award" is a friend of mine, the other half is an acquaintance. They are an awesome media fandom feminist anti-racism blog from an Anglo-Australian and Asian-Australian point of view.
The Organised Housewife - I love this blog because it's an organisation blog by an Australian! The seasons are right, the holidays are (mostly) right (she is a Queenslander), and she's just that bit more down to earth than people like FlyLady.
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Saturday, 17 May 2014
Monday, 3 February 2014
Decluttering 52 things in 52 weeks
Because I always join all the challenges, and because I love the Australian-based Organised Housewife, I'm joining her 2014 Declutter 52 Things in 52 Weeks challenge. It's week two five, now, but what the hey.
Step one was to set our goals. Here are mine, according to the OH's rubric, with my additions/changes in bold.
I want to feel relaxed while I’m at home, and I won't while there's all this clutter and mess and disorganisation.
I want to spend more time writing.
I want an area of the home where I can craft, (especially Project Life).
I want to organise the whole house first. (Yes, I know this is a problem. Let's go with kitchen in the realistic version.)
My partner always loses her keys.
I want to be decluttered by 1st April 2014.
The most disorganised cupboard in my home is the tupperware cupboard OMG.
Something that I don’t need anymore, but am having trouble parting with is random stuff I collected/bought for scrapbooking, which doesn't quite work for the Project Life context.
To be honest, I'm not sure how applicable these are anymore. We're moving house soon - hopefully in six weeks, assuming the Titles Office comes through for us - and so while decluttering and organising are still major needs, (and April 1 a nice goal) the timetable and the logistics are completely different.
That said, I'm still trying to keep up with the weekly challenges (sort of). The first couple - at least initially - struck me as not applying to me necessarily. At some point I need to get back to my pinboard, but it's not that bad for now.
Tasks #3 and 4, however, are entirely applicable AND useful to us right now. I haven't done them yet (OMG the heat! Means I get very little done at the moment other than work, watch television and attempt to sleep.) When I get to them I'll write them up and let you know how I go.
Step one was to set our goals. Here are mine, according to the OH's rubric, with my additions/changes in bold.
I want to feel relaxed while I’m at home, and I won't while there's all this clutter and mess and disorganisation.
I want to spend more time writing.
I want an area of the home where I can craft, (especially Project Life).
I want to organise the whole house first. (Yes, I know this is a problem. Let's go with kitchen in the realistic version.)
My partner always loses her keys.
I want to be decluttered by 1st April 2014.
The most disorganised cupboard in my home is the tupperware cupboard OMG.
Something that I don’t need anymore, but am having trouble parting with is random stuff I collected/bought for scrapbooking, which doesn't quite work for the Project Life context.
To be honest, I'm not sure how applicable these are anymore. We're moving house soon - hopefully in six weeks, assuming the Titles Office comes through for us - and so while decluttering and organising are still major needs, (and April 1 a nice goal) the timetable and the logistics are completely different.
That said, I'm still trying to keep up with the weekly challenges (sort of). The first couple - at least initially - struck me as not applying to me necessarily. At some point I need to get back to my pinboard, but it's not that bad for now.
Tasks #3 and 4, however, are entirely applicable AND useful to us right now. I haven't done them yet (OMG the heat! Means I get very little done at the moment other than work, watch television and attempt to sleep.) When I get to them I'll write them up and let you know how I go.
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