Procrastination turns into production

I hate working sometimes.  I am sure I am the only person on earth that procrastinates, but today i just wasn't feeling like getting stuff done. My work day started at 9am.  Here is what I did today at work so far:

Went and talked to the Secretary for a while
Made an ass of myself to my boss yet again
Emailed parents
went looking for my boss all over the building, but instead found a bunny burrowed into a snowbank against the window in the day chapel
Looked at the bunny
Went back into my office and found my boss
Talked to my boss
Wrote out a to do list
Called my cousin
Worked on attendance
Looked at my to do list
Made lunch for all my co workers (Sandwiches and heated up leftover mostaccioli from the weekend)
Ate lunch
Did the lunch dishes
Washed the dishes of a co worker that didn't eat lunch with us
Washed my water bottle
filled up said water bottle
Drank said water
Looked at my to do list
looked for a book that I brought into my office last week to work on projects from last week that are on my to do list
Decided it was time to clean up my office
Hunted down a box for recycling old books and papers
organized one of my bookshelves
went through a bunch of old crap
Threw some stuff away
Moved my file cabinet that I never use
Moved my heavy desk a foot and a half to the left
moved my monitor to sit on top of the PCU
Looked at my to do list
poo'd
checked one thing off my to do list
decided to blog

So here we are at the end of that list.  I got to thinking about how funny it is that I wanted to clean my office.  Really, its hilarious. 

2 years ago, My office became messy.  While I was in Iowa City for a meeting, apparently some representative from the parish insurance company did a surprise visit to walk around the building and write up any "potential hazards" in the building.  There were 2.  The first is that the parish stores the casket cart for funerals in a doorway that is literally only used for funerals.   The second that my office was messy.  I admit that it was sort of a pit, but there was CLEARLY a safe walkway from my door to my desk.  Apparently if there were a fire, I would be too stupid to leave my office and instead panic and run around tripping over everything.

Fast forward to this year on my maternity leave.  Merry Christmas!  I got written up again.  But I firmly state that this time, my office was WAY cleaner than the last time I got written up. Still sloppy, but everything was stacked and shoved up against a wall so there was no need for a safety path.

So today, I noticed almost immediately that if you organize your bookshelves first, it makes everything else look better!!  I also learned that if a binder full of curriculum is more than 5 years old, I won't  use it.  Also, I won't use anything that I haven't looked at in 2 and a half years.  Which is basically Every other binder on the shelf.

And the whole time I kept thinking, why do we save stuff?  Why do we keep the clutter?  When I was pregnant, I wanted to throw everything away to make more space for the baby's stuff.  I'm glad I did it because not only do we have more room for baby items, I don't have stupid trinkets from my childhood, I can just fill the house with his stupid trinkets.

But now back to my office.  Not that my office wasn't functional before, but now I have a renewed sense of work ethic.  I feel like I can work for the next hour!  I'm so proud of myself!