A place for everything and everything in its place

Next week is going to be a week of happenings. The English course ends, the classes start (4th year at college! Still two to go though...) my sister turns 19... and so it will be a week full of consequences (I have a composition to handle in, an exam to do, a party to throw, and lectures to attend to *sigh*). On top of that I still have some personal notes from last semester to organize. Busy week ahead.

But first things first. I was going to work on the composition, or maybe study for the exam, but I felt like postponing it and blog-posting before. I know, surely, waiting until the bottom of the ninth to do things is an old and bad habit I must drop, and that is right on top of my goals for this year (cross your fingers, I might manage it). But some twenty-minute delay won't do any harm.

Secondly, I would like to share two expressions I came across recently. Take a peek at the example below:

'You'd better not drop the ball this week again.'
'Why that? You say it as if it had been me, who'd broken the scanner!'
'Just wake up and smell the cofee, all right? You know you were the only one at the office when it happened!'

When someone "drops the ball', they make a blunder, or fail in some way. And 'wake up and smell the coffee' is something you say to someone in order to make them aware they're wrong about something they should realise.

Finally, a note on the expression

A place for everything and everything in its place.

It is used to say that the best way to keep tidy is having a place in which to place each thing, and to keep them there. A nice and funny definition can be found at the Urban Dictionary:
http://www.urbandictionary.com/author.php?author=Reginald+Spaz
compare to the definition at the Phrase Finder:
http://www.phrases.org.uk/meanings/14400.html

My farewell!