Jenn Martinelli Blogging in Boston

I need someone to tell me how to fix my life.

Now I'm not saying everything needs to be perfect all the time of course, but why can we never catch up with our chores?

Why is there never time to do the stuff we need to do much less the stuff we want to do?

Why does it always seem like we have to choose between eating dinner at a reasonable time or having a clean living room?

Or between going grocery shopping and going to bed before midnight?

Or between watching an hour of TV and balancing the checkbook?

Seriously, are we the only ones who feel like this, or is this something everyone has to deal with and they just hide it when you come over for tea?

Is it because our society is totally f-d up? Is it because every household needs 2.5 incomes just to support two adults without any kids?

Give me the days when one person worked and the other stayed home. I'll even be the one who works, I don't care. I just need to make at least twice as much. Or everything needs to cost half as much, I'll take either scenario.

One thing is for sure, unless I become a millionaire, I'm not having any kids to pass this crisis on to.

No not medically, mentally. I am to the point already in my life, and I'm only 29, where there's very little that I actually care about anymore. I've narrowed my focus down so much to what I care about that it encompasses very few things and people. And even for the things I'm supposed to care about I don't do a very good job of showing it.

If you want to read more about what's wrong with me, click below.

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I need some serious organizational help, advice, wisdom, brainstorms, etc. Trust me, if I had some money I'd just pay someone to do it for me, but I don't, so the only thing I can spend money on is things that will help me get organized like nice bins and boxes and drawers and shelves.

This is the situation... we moved from a giant 2 bedroom apartment where we used one of the extra bedrooms almost the whole time as a junk depository to a tiny studio apartment with one small closet which is mostly filled by our clothes. We have a surprising amount of furniture and things to fit into this space, some of it being extremely problematic. These include a couch (which is dying and may be replaced but for now it stays), a TV and the console it sits on, a 29-gallon fishtank inhabited by one turtle, a large computer desk, a full-size bed, a dining table and chairs (just replaced a large square expanding dining table and folding chairs with a much smaller bar-height circular table and stools), an armchair, and bicycles one and two (the model isn't on their site anymore - the Cyclone). While these things are problematic enough, the real issue is our stuff. I think if we got that under control we could get our furniture situation figured out.

So what am I looking for? Clever and inexpensive ideas for storage and organization. We have hardwood floors and pets that shed a lot so there is hair all over. I'd prefer closed things rather than open things that will fill with animal hair and also tempt cats to do things like sleep on our tax records. I would do something drastic like hang things from the ceiling, like our bikes, and patch the holes later (I'm a fix-it kind of girl, I wouldn't worry about that...) but we have a dropped ceiling with tiles so that won't work.

Any suggestions??? Help!

Well, life just keeps getting better. Too bad Verizon thinks it's OK to offer DSL service to me at my home, but doesn't allow any other carriers to do the same. That sounds a lot like a MONOPOLY to me, Verizon.

I'm not joking around, I'm contacting the FCC on this. Of course, conveniently, Verizon's DSL service also sucks. I wanted to actually get DSL from a decent provider, but I can't.

This is about how everything sucks. If you don't want to read about how everything sucks, then you shouldn't read the rest of this. I'll save you from being forced to read it by hiding it - you'll have to click the link below.

Suffice it to say that if you are someone who knows me (or even someone who doesn't know me, but is just feeling philanthropic like all those people who gave Karyn money) who has a lot of money that they'd like to loan or give to me, now is the time.

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