12 Steps of Disorganization

I am at the comic book store because Spazdog is being locked up for Muscular Dystrophy Association.



But as I was switching out with our favorite daytime helper, she told me that Shawn admitted that the chaos in the store was totally his fault and that is glad he is surrounded by people who want to help him stay organized.



That made me think of the AA 12 steps. I wonder which one he's on? If you think of me and other excellent organizational goddesses as the god referred to in the steps, he might very well be on step 6 or 7.

THE TWELVE STEPS OF DISORGANIZED COMIC BOOK STORE OWNERS ANONYMOUS

1. We admitted we were powerless over disorganization — that our lives had become unmanageable.
2. Came to believe that a Power greater than ourselves (Girl SpazDog and friends) could restore us to sanity.
3. Made a decision to turn our will and our lives over to the care of Girl SpazDog and friends as we understood Her.
4. Made a searching and fearless moral inventory of ourselves.
5. Admitted to Girl SpazDog, to ourselves and to another human being the exact nature of our wrongs.
6. Were entirely ready to have Girl SpazDog remove all these defects of character.
7. Humbly asked Her to remove our shortcomings.
8. Made a list of all persons and comics we had harmed, and became willing to make amends to them all.
9. Made direct amends to such artists and writers wherever possible, except when to do so would injure them, the store or others.
10. Continued to take personal inventory and when we were wrong promptly admitted it.
11. Sought through organizing and diligence to improve our conscious contact with comics wanting only for organizational skills of Her will for the store and the power to carry that out.
12. Having had a spiritual awakening as the result of these steps, we tried to carry this message to all customers and to practice these principles in all our affairs.

We'll see how he keeps it up once it's organized.