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01/07/2006: "Wigged out by the FlyLady"
A good friend sent me an e-mail with a link to the FlyLady's website. She's a very good friend and she knows I'm always fighting this organizational/messy house battle (not that it'd have a thing to do with the fact that I live with two slobs who move from room to room leaving a slime trail ). I'd heard of her before (yet another friend had recommended her once before) and the miracles she could bring to ones life. I'm also a firm believer in the things you need coming to you when you need them, so...I'm thinking it's a sign that I'm ready for the FlyLady in my life. 
I really didn't have a lot of time to fool around on her website so I just became an email subscriber. I'm expecting a daily reminder/tip to pop into my box each day--sort of like my daily astrology reading. Uh...I got 13 FlyMails in one day. I don't want 13 emails a day from my best friend--much less the FlyPeople.
But the wiggy part was the content. One asked if I never had people over becaue my house was always a mess? What the....How could she know that about me?
Then there was the email asking if I had wet clothes sitting in the washer for more than a day? We're seriously hitting freaky-ville now. I jumped up from my desk where I'd been dutifully working on my book and ran downstairs and rewashed the load of jeans that had been languishing, wet, in the washer and tossed the underwear from the dryer to the clothes basket so the dryer would be available for the newly washed jeans.
Then...I get an email asking where my shoes are--they wouldn't perchance be laying (or is it lying?) in the floor? (Throw in music from Twilight Zone here for sound effect.) I cut my eyes to the left of my desk. There they are--my running shoes, toed off and in the floor ... in the kitchen, next to the door from the basement, a pair of my clogs and my kickboxing shoes.
I'm definitely getting nervous. And defiant. The missive goes on to tell me to put my shoes on my feet cause then my feet will be happy and my shoes won't be in the floor. Okay, maybe my shoes and my house will be happier if my shoes are upstairs in my closet, but my feet aren't going to be happy with those shoes on them. I don't like to wear shoes in the house. My feet don't like it either. In fact, that's always one of those funky hang-ups I have when I'm writing. Say the hero is going over to the heroine's house...it feels weird to me to have her greet him at the door wearing shoes because hey, she's in her house, but I do usually put shoes on them because I think that's how most normal people live. I should take a poll...how many people wear shoes when they're just hanging out in their house...oh, well, back to this FlyDeal....
As I said, I was getting a little nervous, but then the clincher zinged into my in-box. Do I have too many books in my house? Are they stacked about? That does it!! I'd begun to have my suspicions, but now I'm convinced--even though I'm no more paranoid than the average Joe (or would that be the average Jane?)--obviously FlySpies are checking me and my house out. 
It's the only logical explanation. And it's wigging me out. My hands were shaking when I unsubscribed myself from the FlyLady e-mail. I guess I just wasn't ready for the FlyLady after all....
Replies: 5 Comments
on Saturday, January 7th, Anna said
For your poll, no shoe-wearing in this house, either! And I also had to unsubscribe from the flylady. I have enough organizational problems without the fly folk hounding me deeper into a sense of failure!
Anna
on Saturday, January 7th, Jen said
I'm so glad to hear this!! I'm elated I'm not the only FlyFailure out there. Maybe we should organize a counter FlyCulture.
on Monday, January 9th, Alyssa said
I don't wear shoes around the house either. Once I get home, they come off almost immediately.
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