A Super Quick Update On Real Life Because There Was a New Project Runway Last Night

Thanks for all your good wishes yesterday. Thought you'd be pleased to know that it went very well.

Confidentiality is something we organizers value (people aren't going to have you sorting through their stuff if they think you're going to blabbity blab about it to other people). Thus, I can't give you details. But I can tell you this: I was nervous. It rather surprised me, the butterflies that leapt to my throat as I pulled up to the house. Then I realized it was because this was the true test. Sure, I've been organizing people - friends, bosses, family - for years. But this was someone I didn't know. All a sudden, I wasn't so sure if I had the chops to dive into some stranger's project without knowing any of the sorts of personal stories/details/what-have-you that make it easy to sort out a friend's kitchen.

Pleasant surprise: I have chops. The space was benignly Dickensian in it's towering bookshelves and dusty piles but in 4 hours I had done an initial sort-purge-and-tidy that impressed even myself. I go back today. And The Client was making noises about "other projects".

Point is, I actually do understand basic principles (or have made up ones that make sense to me...not sure which) that allow me to do this stuff for strangers. And that is wicked.

But wait. There's more. 2, that would be t-w-o, people asked me for my card while I was on this project. One, a professional person who doesn't really do what I do but has clients who need someone who does what I do. The other, a friend of The Client.

Hold on. It gets better! This is so a niche for me. I knew that when I started this little enterprise but it was so nice to have that confirmed. The 4 hours I spent yesterday absolutely flew by. When I left I was was positively buzzing with energy. See, that's the thing I really love about this work. It is physical work, it's mental and it's work that has an almost immediate result. It's not abstract, it's right there in front of me in the neatly stacked boxes and revealed table tops. And I'm telling you, only a very few other things in my life have ever given me that sort of energizing feeling and those, my friend, are precisely the things on which I intend to focus this year.

Yes, this is all brand new. Somewhere along the line there will be some impossible client or evil job. Sure; practically speaking handing out cards doesn't guarantee work. But what a fab start, huh? And how blessed am I to be able to do something enjoyable for ducats? And how further blessed am I that so many of you are rooting for me? Pretty darned blessed, I reckon.