Black & Brown

Black & Brown.  Those are the colors in our office area.  Nothing super fancy.  When we moved into this apartment Bud & I decided rather quickly that because we didn't have room to entertain we would eat in the living room or at the bar.  Our dining room we decided would be an office instead.  It's worked out rather well and although I can't wait until Bud commissions and we get a house again with an actual office and an actual dining room complete with a dining room table and chairs, etc., I can honestly say that I have been completely content as is.
A down fall of mine (well some may say it's a blessing) is that I have a DEEP desire to be organized.  I organize, reorganize, and then start all over again and purge and organize what is left.  Right now we are entering a stage of purging.  Bud & I are getting ready to set a date to empty our 2 drawers worth of files and condense it down to only 1 drawer.  We keep papers for far too long, we probably even keep papers we don't need to keep.  So any day now the purging will begin and the organizing will follow.
In the meantime I can start to control what comes into our home from here on out.  I don't handle Bud's mail.  I can never tell if it's important military paperwork or junk mail.  Thus, his mail tends to accumulate and pile up....this drives me crazy.
So after quite a bit of Google-ing and research I found something that I could use to organize papers as they come in.

This is a magazine holder, but I figured it could work as a paperwork organizer.
So far I only have the dogs records in the top (easily accessible if someone is watching them), and the bills are in the bottom.

So this is the beginning.  I bought the cute brown striped paper clips at Wal-mart (they will hold the labels).  Also at Wal-mart they have a ton of cute solid colored office supplies.  Well since our office area is all brown and black (with a few splashes of UT orange) I purchased 2 brown magazine holders to hold Bud's Scuba & Air Force Magazines.  I also purchased a cute little brown box to hold CDs.  We don't have but a couple now, but we do have a lot of burned CDs.  Anyways...here is to a more organized me!  I hope everyone sleeps and has a blessed evening!

P.S. I just finished Eat, Pray, Love.  Earlier today I messaged a few ladies and we are all going tomorrow night at 7pm to watch the movie.  One of the girls was almost done with the book as well..I hope she finishes!  Overall I will say that the book was very enjoyable.  I think I liked the 1st two countries best as they were the ones where most of my excerpts came from and they inspired me most.