Making big houses into smaller houses

I've begun to suspect that maybe I have been making a fundamental mistake in my vision of the perfect home. For years now, I have thought that the answer to all of my organizational problems was "More Space"... The problem with that is, no matter how much space I have, I manage to fill it up until the walkways through the house/studio are constricted, and so that my little sitting areas are walled off from the rest of the world.

Maybe what I really need is less space. Less room for less stuff and a home that has comfortably constricted pathways and archetecturally walled off seating areas... something like this

http://www.tumbleweedhouses.com/houses.htm

In a perfect world, I could have little plots of land all over the country with one of these on each of them. I could bounce from house to house to house changing scenery with the seasons. We should all have our dreams, right?

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If only it were this easy. I need to flylady my house, my business, and my finances. I have a growing collection of organization books which have utterly failed to produce anything resembling organization in my life.

While flipping channels the other day, I heard something on Dr. Phil that has been haunting me... Before you scoff (or perhaps that should be, before **I** scoff) there's potential wisdom in a great many unlikely places and even if I don't like the person delivering it, when something makes the impression that this has, i need to at least consider it. So, anyway, Dr. Phil was saying that you only continue behaviors that pay off for you in some way.

So, I guess that maybe I need to figure out if that's true and, if so, what I am getting out of the disaster that is my life.

Guilty Pleasures

Why must all pleasures be guilty? Perhaps it only seems that they are from my current vantage point. These are tough economic times, especially for anyone trying to run a business from their home.

Right now I really miss smoking. I quit smoking in 2001 in anticipation of having a baby. In the end, it took almost 3 years for our baby girl to arrive. Even so, after 4 years without a cigarette, I still find myself craving them often.

Other things that I've been wishing for lately... Dinner out. Really good mead. Imported chocolate.

I feel particularly guilty about this right now because all of these things cost money... money that we don't have. I have friends who are in worse shape financially than we are right now, but that doesn't change the fact that it is too easy to resent the constraints.