"Oh my god this apartment is so dirty, don't you ever clean it?"

First of all, there is a huge difference between dirty and messy. Dirty is grime, mold, and dust. Messy is just stuff, thrown everywhere. But no matter what, that quote right there is a prime example of why I never ever have people over to my apartment. No matter how often I say I am going to go home and clean after work, I know that really only consists of doing my dishes (maybe) and taking out my trash. 85 percent of the mess in my apartment is clothes that I don't even wear. I usually throw them on thinking that for some reason it will look okay, even though they haven't looked good on me in years and then get mad and throw them on the floor. The other 15 percent is my art supplies and creations, blankets, papers, and just plain stuff. My real problem, however, is that not only is my apartment messy, my whole life is messy. Beginning with my brain. On a daily basis, I find myself trying to remember things that should be right there in my memory but get lost in my mess of a storage bin that I call my brain. I have bills to pay and for some reason, those get lost the most. So, fellow messy girl who also has a past due phone bill and went over her data limit yet again, you are not alone, and yes those shoes were worth it, you can pay your bill next week. With being a messy person and not having things written down or organized to perfection comes some flaws, like my credit. But there are also many pros, I have read many studies on how being messy, makes for a more creative person. Which I think is so so so true. Go on with your messy self, and throw that shirt on the couch. Or that chair in the corner, or the floor. Which ever feels messier. Because, who cares.

I often got called a "Hot Mess" or "Barn Cat." At first I was a little taken back by the names because I thought to myself "Jeez, I really am a mess and people don't like that." Then I thought, do I really honestly care? Because if I am super organized people can say things about me just as well. So if I have lots of things going in one day that I forgot to put on a calendar (my calendar is still on October 2015) so that I wouldn't overlap and am running around like a crazy lady, then let it be so. If organizing doesn't come easy to you either, then I say, don't worry about it. Life is way too short and if you are getting by just fine, and reminding yourself that your happiness is the very first thing that should be on your priority list, then go on and be a hot mess, be a barn cat. Schedule 6 things in one day and do them all because you simply can't say no. Then, maybe someday when we are really, really sick of people telling us we are dirty because we fumble, lose things, drop things, forget things, and leave our clothes on the floor, maybe then we will finally clean out all of our things and use them, but only to throw at those people. And then we will simply say "thank you" because they just made more room for even more mess.