SleepDeprivedMomma sure got my motor running with her suggestion on how to organize my disasterous cabinet. She said, “Put things you only use once in a while down there and rearrange cabinets that aren’t at back-breaking-stooped-over level so you can access your day-to-days.” Such a simple, basic concept, yet it eluded me for years. You see why I have to ask for help? I’m blinded by the obvious. . . and frustrated on a daily basis dealing with my lack of imagination, ie. this complete mess.

Disorganization makes me feel . . . icky (that’s a technical term). I’m just not happy when anything is that messy and unorganized. Clean, organized and functional bring me such peace and harmony, and I even hear little angels singing. That’s how much I love it. So when my cabinets start looking like this:

I’m a miserable mess, and I must clean it out and start fresh so that I can hear my little angels singing again. But while my brain was paralized by the obvious and before SleepDeprivedMomma straigtened me out, I was at a loss.

Now she had me rethinking the whole concept of how my kitchen is set up and I realized that I’d been fighting against myself for years in my kitchen. There IS a logical flow plan to a small (tiny) kitchen that could greatly improve its functionality. So while the Inauguration was on and had pre-empted my recorded soap, The Young and the Restless, the other day, I set out restructuring the whole layout of my cabinets. Oh I was listening to the TV, and I even stopped and watched a little of it

(I’m so lame that I took pictures of our new President and First Lady dancing on my TV with Beyonce in the back singing – a historical moment captured in digital), but mostly I was organizing.

THIS is the very refreshing results. All of this fresh start in my kitchen just in time for Super Bowl Sunday. It’s coming soon people!! Arizona vs. Pittsburgh! I love any excuse to cook tons of food.