Radar O’Reilly Looks Disorganized Compared to Sheryl

Library

Sheryl is an organizing machine. (I was going to say she’s an “organizing fool,” but it would be foolish of me since I’m the family fool.) She got everything up and out of the basement because we’re getting it finished. That was a huge effort, and she spent inordinate amounts of time organizing that. But she wasn’t done.

I came home the other day and she said, “I’m rearranging the office.” Now, that’s no small statement. We had hundreds, if not thousands, of books in our office-library. Honest to gosh. And the furniture in there is heavy.

Well, Sheryl doesn’t stop mid-project. Sheryl doesn’t hesitate. And Sheryl doesn’t dally. A day later, the office was rearranged, with the books culled down to the few hundred that were keepers. And guess what? They’re arranged by subject and author (that’s a picture of the end product). Like in a real library. I call her Dewey now. She calls me Dopey.

Sheryl is the most organized person I know. In fact, when I get up to pee in the middle of night, she makes the bed before I get back. Radar O’Reilly looks disorganized compared to her. There are upsides to her Organizing OCD.

I know where the books are. Heck, I know where everything is. She might have invented the phrase, “A place for everything, and everything in its place.” I just try to make sure that I’m not going to be put in my place.

Posted on August 31, 2007
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  • Jess, that's a nice thing to say. Sheryl is very good at putting things in order...and it's good thing because it's a house of boys. Fortunately, she has Snickers the Wonder Dog as her female companion. Thanks about the office...we like it. And this winter we're going to do wainscoting and built-in bookshelves.
  • Moni, lol. I think you, as a librarian, would have been appalled. We threw out a LOT of books...it's difficult to do, but we needed to prune them down.
  • Like I said, she reminds me of me! There's a reason why I'm a librarian.
  • Sheryl is a pretty name and she is my kind of woman! I LOVE rearranging and organizing! I limit myself to once a week perfecting so as not to drive everyone in the house crazy with my cleaning.

    Your office looks handsome.
  • Mark, I like order too. We don't have anything laying around the house.

    Pax, LOL. Sounds like you need it. One thing about Sheryl though -- she challenges about whether you "need" things. I'm not sure that Whatshisname would like to be asked if he needs his comic books and action figures.

    Pinky Bear, we're lucky guys, huh? Organizing spouses is a good thing....maybe they can make a club together.
  • Sheryl needs to me my hubby. Together, they could organize to their hearts content!
  • Can Sheryl come over and help me organize a Smithsonian-size collection of comic books and action figures? Whatshisname has enough of this crap to fill a damn store!
  • That's awesome! I'm a big fan of the organized work space. I can't do anything in the evening if I haven't done the dishes, for example. Klutter Kills, baby! ;)
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