National Dress Up Your Pet Day Uh, okay? Since it isn't halloween I'm a little confused why you would dress your pet up today. Organize Your Home Day 31 Smart, Low-Cost Organizing Ideas The Home-Organizing Tips You Need to Know Hot Pastrami Sandwich Day Hot Pastrami Sandwich Recipe Dude, I love pastrami. Bring it on! If I were in the City today (you know, the Big Apple) I would hit Katz's for one meal for a sandwich and Carnegie for the other meal for a sandwich. They both serve up 'da bomb diggity pastrami and other foods! Poetry at Work Day It's Poetry At Work Day! (this is a dated article but all the content is relevant) Poetry at Work Survival Kit More Poetry at Work Resources I'm no good with poetry but in December I did consider rewriting MJ's Smooth Criminal into a parody called HR Criminal.  Maybe I'll work on that today and call it poetry put to music.  *wink*

Marzipan Day The Origin of Marzipan Make your own Marzipan What's the Difference Between Marzipan and Almond Paste? A twist on traditional marzipan: Zesty Orange Marzipan Recipe Marzipan Christmas Kringle (Juleskringle) Recipe Almond Marzipan Cookie Recipe Cherry (MARZIPAN) Almond Streusel Cake Recipe Pharmacist Day The Profession of a Pharmacist Clean Off Your Desk Day Right before I took vacation time at the end of 2014 I had to clean up my desk and surrounding work area. I couldn't come back to it in 2015 the way it was.  I gave myself a space of time that had a hard time limit and got everything done I wanted to plus a little more!  It's because I had a time I needed to be done by so it made me focus in and get the job done.  The time limit also helped me from indecision.  I didn't linger over anything, just made the decision and moved on.  In 40 minutes my desk and drawers were done and I walked out of my cube for the last time in ...

When we clear out stuff, we make room for people.   http://www.imperfecthomemaking.com/2011/10/31-days-to-organized-home-day-one.html This is not a new topic to the 365.  :)  Obviously, however, it is one of my most favorite topics! I love clearing out stuff that we haven't touched, used, thought about in 6 months or more.  In fact, I'm getting ready to go through some tubs again and see what we can get out of our home because it is taking up space. My house isn't a place where stuff is takes precedence over people but I practice keeping our material possessions to a minimum because I don't ever want it to get to a place where it does.  When I watch shows like "Hoarders" and see how family members and friends don't feel welcome and feel pushed out of their loved ones life because of stuff I feel sad.  How tragic to send the message that this thing (whatever it may be) is more important than a spouse or someone else who loves you. This got me ...

Clutter is the meaningless getting in the way of the meaningful.   http://www.imperfecthomemaking.com/2011/10/organizedhome-day-8-defining-clutter.html I have quite a few framed pictures of people I love around my house.  I happen to have a rather large collection on this counter top that separates our kitchen from our "dining room".  I love those pictures.  I think that they are a representation of what's important to me and my family and that's simply we have people whom we love and whom love us.  (At the end of the day - and life - that's what is going to matter the most but that's a different blog!)  But that counter top is like the bane of our family.  It has become the clutter catch-all.  It's kind of the first surface that is easy to lay stuff down on when you walk through the door.  So it gets cluttered pretty quickly.  Some weeks we keep it fairly cleared and then other weeks...well I'd prefer to ...

There is beauty in simplicity.   Unknown Today I'm working on this quote in my home.  I'm constantly saying "less is more" and working at making that happen in my life.  So today I'm looking around my home and evaluating what more can I get rid of, that is unnecessary, to bring simplicity and therefore more beauty into our home and more importantly our lives.  Sometimes simplifying for me means I have to be realistic about what I have time for in my life.  Like a few years ago I had to face facts about my desires to scrapbook.  I hadn't in a long time and I knew that, realistically, I wouldn't be able to for years to come.  So I simplified by making the painful decision (and it was painful to the creative part of me!) to get rid of my scrapbooking supplies and make some room in my life for things that I would still have time for (still creative things just not scrapbooking). By simplifying we bring beauty in to our lives.  It's s...

At the worst, a house unkept cannot be so distressing as a life unlived.   Rose Macaulay I agree with today's quote...and I don't.  At first read it is right on but dive below the surface of it and you can see that the two are actually quite intertwined.  Why do I say this?  Ever watch Hoarders ?  If you have then you don't need to read on (although you can if you'd like) but if you've never watched it (or shows like it) then read on. Sure my house is messy at times, more often than I'd like actually, but it doesn't hold me hostage to myself and my emotional/mental baggage.  An unkept house that never gets picked up and cleaned up but just gets worse and worse and worse becomes a holding cell for that person (or that family).  Their unkept house becomes their prison and they are held captive to so much baggage that outsiders, even family members, don't recognize who their loved one is any longer.  It eventually, slowly and subtly, isolates the...