Thankful

Wishing you happiness and blessings

 on Thanksgiving Day!

Comments are off while I enjoy time with my family

 and lots of delicious food :)

This is a Test!

Last Saturday, I was grocery shopping.

With a full cart, and this banal chore almost done, I zipped into the checkout line

 expecting to be back home in no time.  It was then that I noticed the woman in front of me.

She was moving reeeaallly, reeeaallly slooooowly as she placed her groceries on the counter.

I looked for an escape route behind me, but two women already stood in line

(why is it most of the grocery shoppers are women?  Don't men eat?).

Trapped, I turned to watch the sloooow woman.

As I watched, my frustration turned into fascination.

Under her hand, all like-height cans stood together.

 These cans were also sorted by diameter size, with all labels facing one way.

Similar shape fresh veggies and fruit were grouped together, etc. 

Then came the bread... 4 loaves of cheap, gooey white bread

(ok, I admit I'm a bit of a bread snob since I like to make healthy bread in my bread machine).

Oh my God, one bread end was facing the wrong way!

Luckily, this was quickly rectified and all the butt-ends were matched up.

I bet you get the picture - 

this woman had a serious case of OCD!

So, here's the test - How are your OCD qualities looking these days?

1) Can you match or top this woman when you go grocery shopping?

(not me!)

2) Do you compulsively keep all your pencils sharpened to the same length?

(true story - a guy at my husband's old office)

3) Do you only drink coffee at pre-set times of the day

 and only from a freshly brewed pot?

(another former co-worker)

4) Is your clothes closet arranged by color family groupings?

(I confess, that's me.  After years of messy closets,

 I decided mine could at least look like an attractive rainbow)

5) How about your spools of thread, beads, or any other item you collect - 

obsessively arranged by color, size, or some other quantifiable  characteristic?

(bet you can guess my answer when it involves color!)

6) Do you sit in the same seat on the bus each day?  Pew at church? 

Chair at the business meeting table?

(hmmmm...)

7) Is your work or studio desk/table perfectly organized and 

continually kept that way?

(guess that's not me...my beading table currently looks like a bomb hit)

8) Do you always park in the same lot at the mall,

 preferably in the same relative spot?

(pass on this one, no malls in my world)

9) Finally, here's a fill in the blank question.

What's your favorite OCD activity?

(tell us please... we won't think you're nuts -  

apparently mine is picking out colors for the word OCD) 

Life's crazy, so why not channel a little OCD-ness today!!!

Happy, crazy day to you :)

November Dawn

It was early, and crisp.

Mist was swirling across the lake as golden 

light cut through the haze.

A magical bit of lighting,

there one moment and gone the next.

Wishing you great light,

if only for a moment!