Yet again my wonderful morning has started with a nice hot shower, nice clean clothes and then a nice big coffee stain on my effing shirt (and yes Dustin has already teased me about it)! Grrrr... I was thinking that I should maybe invest in some coffee bibs and then after watching the Jersey Shore I came up with the "pre-work" shirt, something I started doing my first day back to work. Having a baby means your clothes don't stay clean long whether it's from slobber kisses or spaghetti hugs. And given my tendency to spill coffee everywhere I have adopted the "pre-work" shirt, which is really just a shirt that I change out of just before dropping the Muk Muk off to play for the day (similar to the "pre-club" tank tops that the guys on the shore wear).
Yesterday my boss sent out a work wide e-mail joke about employees wasting time, he even marked it as an urgent read. Not too sure if it was funny or ironic, but I laughed pretty hard. I should have saved it to post here as well, but I pushed delete as soon as I finished reading it. I like a nice clean inbox, no e-clutter. I'm happiest when all of my stuff is nice and organized and where it should be and labeled and all lined up nice and pretty. I have wondered if I have OCD or if I am just really organized. I took an online quiz thing once. The total was out of 36 and anything over 25 was supposed to mean that you have OCD. I scored a 28, which, given that it was an online test, to me is pretty borderline (30 might be a better indicator). I do wash my hands a LOT, but I don't bathe in Lysol or anything weird like that (and I commonly sport coffee stains on my clothes). I find myself checking multiple times that the door is locked, but I don't feel the need to flick the lights on and off three times every time I leave a room. I get anxious if things aren't done right and I have troubles delegating to others because I'm worried that things won't be done to my standards, but I do still delegate. Regardless of whether or not I have OCD it doesn't really impact me in a negative way, in fact I find it quite helpful. How many people can honestly say that they have 40 gigs of perfectly organized music on their computer?
Excellent idea. I have walked around many a time with spit-up down my shoulder and just assume people will think I was unlucky with a flock of birds. I definitely have OCD to some extent and I see it in Kylie as well. But it's not a cleanliness OCD by any means. The only reason I wash my hands a million times a day is because I'm a nurse. Sometimes I wish I had OCD for organizing. :)
ReplyDeleteI think there is OCD and then there is organised people. I too have very organised music (itunes sorted by artist or genre, yes I update the genre) and CD collection, first my genre, then artist) and movie collection (genre, of course. And Epic, is a genre).
ReplyDeleteSome people are driven crazy by having to organize and others if they are not. I think it makes us awesome and joins in with the other quirks to make us unique.
Your post-it note fetish still doesn't push you into OSD, as who doesn't LOVE stationary and all things associated?
Yeah not so much the post-its as the needing to check if the door is locked several times, and washing my hands so much that I HAVE to lotion them. Oh, and don't forget the inability to sit still if something is out of place lol.
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