{"id":22359,"date":"2011-06-16T16:05:47","date_gmt":"2011-06-16T23:05:47","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/travelswithmiranda.uskeba.ca\/?p=12487"},"modified":"2016-09-17T14:33:03","modified_gmt":"2016-09-17T11:33:03","slug":"how-being-organized-can-help-the-scatterbrained","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.raecrothers.ca\/blog\/how-being-organized-can-help-the-scatterbrained\/","title":{"rendered":"How Being Organized Can Help the Scatterbrained"},"content":{"rendered":"

In February, when I moved to Blaine and had the coffee shop nearby<\/a>, I thought it would be good to bring my travel mug with me instead of using a disposable cup. But I couldn’t find the travel mug; it wasn’t anywhere in the kitchen and I wondered if I’d left it somewhere.<\/p>\n

For the next few months, getting a new travel mug was at the back of my mind. Just a niggle. And I couldn’t help but wonder about the fate of my travel mug, that good Thermos-brand one I bought for the Chilkoot trip<\/a>. But I never thought about it at a moment when I had time to think about the last time I remembered seeing it.<\/p>\n

Last night, being unable to sleep, I decided to raid the cupboards one last time even though I’d just recently gone through them. All I could find was the stainless steel non-travel mug with tea strainer that I had bought in Inuvik<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Waitaminute.<\/p>\n

Inuvik.<\/p>\n

Where I purchased the stainless steel mug with strainer because I’d bought a bunch of strong teas and didn’t like how they transferred their taste to my travel mug.<\/p>\n

The light bulb that went on was as bright as the bat signal! I suddenly knew exactly where my travel mug was!<\/p>\n

I grabbed a shawl and raced outside, never mind the rain and darkness. I opened up the driver’s side rear pass-through door, pulled out the water hose and\u00a0 miscellaneous hook-up gear plastic drawer, grabbed the tote with the camping supplies, and voil\u00e0!<\/p>\n

See, if I’d been disorganized, I would have had no idea where the heck I put my camping stuff after I came back from Inuvik. But because that stuff has a home, I was able to put the tote away immediately in the rush of getting back to the madness of my second Klondike summer.<\/p>\n

I really do need to get going on my ’empty out the entire basement and inventory it’ project. \ud83d\ude00<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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