Hall of Shame
Tuesday, February 10, 2009 at 04:38PM 
2008 was not a good year for Detroit. We had to endure constant commenting on TV, by friends and relatives from other states. Yes our now ex-Mayor Kwame Kilpatrick brought a new level of publicity to the Big D. Old Kwame walked out of the county jail last week and boarded a plane for Texas. Seems he’ll be down there to bring his hip hop Gangsta stylings to the Lone Star state just in time for rodeo. And all the good people here say, “keep on riding and take that Amazon wife with you, please!’ Have you noticed the similarities of when a public official gets caught in something naughty? They trot out the trusty wife and invite the most high profile preacher over for a photo op. Never fails.
Then there are our shining sports franchises. Detroit Lions, worst season ever. Tigers, not so good either. Don’t you agree 162 games is a bit much? It's too darned cold in the spring and fall to mess with baseball and I am annoyed when the World Series screws up the television line up in the October.
If that wasn't enough public humiliation for 2008 we got to finish out the year with
the Big 3 (talking auto industry here) getting their butts whopped publicly by our oh so superior government officials. What, may I ask has happened to common sense? Even I, a worn out SAHM would have known I needed to hire a top notch publicist and not arrived in DC in my corporate jet.
Well there is not a thing I can do about most of that mess. Here at home we have our own personal Hall of Shame to work on:
Now, you all know I can be a bit of a neat freak. There’s a whole section of my home I try to spend very little time in because it MAKES ME CRAZY. My new tired line (to add to my repertoire) is, "I would like to come in there to kiss you good night but your room makes me want to throw up". And do not tell me about one more buy one pair get another for half price sales at Delia's, if I can't make it across your floor without falling into the abyss we are not going to the mall. We have no shortage of storage space around here. We are talking ample closets, private bathrooms, dressers, shelves...anything you can imagine. Yet they still choose to be slobs.
Keeping your room freaky neat is not all that hard if you pick up as you go. That's my secret (no one around here wants to listen to). That advice is as about popular as the clean plate club which we all now know just leads to eating disorders. The bonus to a picked up room is that you know where your stuff is. Amazing.
Detroit, organization, sloppy young'uns
Reader Comments (4)
Eeeekkkk....I have a confession. I'm not neat at all. Between working all day (being gone from the house for 10+ hours) and trying to raise my kid all by myself, I just have to let that stuff go. There's not enough hours in my day to take care of it all.
So, I let clutter build up and clean it all up a couple of times a month.
I want to be neat, I just don't have the time.
Oh, and if that's your bedroom on the bottom? Gorgeous!
Wonderful pictures! They make me feel better about my room!
Oddly enough, I am reading this as I make a swing through the kitchen on the way to the master bedroom where my children have left all of their CRAP for the entire weekend. Mamma is not happy at all today in Dallas. Being a neat freak is so not easy!
would something between the dahlia's sale rack, 1/2 off 1/2 price, almost willing to pay us to take the goods out of their store and disperse non-strategically throughout one's bedroom and the oh so current colors, right out of a magazine style be acceptable?