OCD often?

Signgurl has a new post asking if certain traits are OCD or obsessions. I think rather than answering her question, I should plead the 5th.

But of course, I am too... well, too something, I'm not sure what, perhaps too obsessive... to not tell you my own traits.

A long time ago, before I stopped this blog for about a year, I posted 3 things about my bathroom and promised a similar post about other rooms. And then, of course, I didn't follow through. So today we give you...

*drumroll please*

Three Unique Things About My Kitchen
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How I make people wonder about me in three easy steps

1. I seldom drink coffee and have never owned a coffee maker. I seldom drink ANY hot drink. Yet this entire shelf is filled with coffee cups. Which all have to be stored with the handles in the same direction. To the right, not the left. If someone puts them away wrong*, I fix them.
2. I used to store my spices alphabetically. When we put in new kitchen cabinets, I had to use this tall, narrow cabinet for spices. To fit them all in, I needed to use turntables and wire shelves to add more space. Certain spice containers were not the right size to fit where I wanted them, so I could no longer alphabetize my spices. It still bugs me that they aren't alphabetized. When we move to a new house, I plan to alphabetize them again. Even if I need to buy new spice containers to get them all consistently sized so they will fit!
3. My silverware drawer has to be arranged like this. Yes, really. Every time. Spoons and forks MUST be lined up like this*. Don't even consider doing it any other way.

You will be assimilated. Resistance is futile.

*Wrong, in this case, means any way other than the way I do it.

Three Unique Things

I've been so busy lately that thinking of something to post and actually DOING it has been a rare occurrence. However, a few days go, I had an idea that sounded sort of fun. I call it "Three Unique Things".

The rules are as follows...
Pick a room of your house.
List 3 unique things about that room, and explain a little.

I plan to do this about a number of rooms in our house... it'll be my new space filler when I don't know what to write about. I think it would be a fun way to learn a little about people, so I hope I'm not the only one who does it!

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Three Unique Things About... my bathroom.

1) There are holes in the walls covered with white poster board (which is taped on with yellowing packaging tape). We replumbed our house about 6 or 7 years ago, and the plumbers had to cut through the bathroom walls to get the plumbing vents in. We planned to redo the bathroom soon, so we just taped white poster board up (the walls are also white). "Soon" is a relative term. Take my word for it!
2) I hate the flooring. I wanted black and white checkerboard type flooring, but my husband refused. He thought it would look like a 50's diner. I told him that was my idea. He wasn't impressed. When we redo it, it will have taupe stone-look linoleum. I don't care if he likes it or not, the man has no decorating taste. I'm not letting him choose any more!
3) The paint snows off of the ceiling. Well not so much any more... we scraped as much of the loose paint off as we could, but it's still peeling. We hope to redo it before long... we'll be stripping the paint off the walls, covering some of them with new sheetrock, etc. The surface is so smooth on these walls that the paint has never stuck... it peels all the way back to the original surface. So we can see white, purple, green, and orange paints. (What WERE the previous owners thinking??? Green, orange, and purple paint in a BATHROOM???)

Sorry, no pictures. I do have SOME pride! LOL

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Coming soon... Three Unique Things about my kitchen. Warning... it might tell scary stuff about me!