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Monday, May 18, 2009

Is This SHEET Serious?

As I sit here typing this, I am in the process of doing one of my favorite chores (insert sarcasm here), and that is LAUNDRY. Yuck! And while taking the sheets off the beds, I am forced to contemplate one of my obsessions. I am a complete lunatic about my sheets. When I put the sheets on the bed, they have to be perfect, and even the pillow cases have to face the same direction. And when the sheets come off the bed in one spot in the middle of the night (always on my husband's side of the bed), I wake up like a bolt of lightning hit me and try to fix it. Even crazier is that I can't get back to sleep until it's fixed! I cannot sleep on a bare mattress (ICK!) ever since watching an episode of Oprah about germs around the house. She did a segment on dust mites that live in mattresses and pillows. Since that show, I have never been the same. I know it's a little over the top, but I just can't help it. My husband doesn't mind when the sheet comes off the bed. That man could care less about dust mites.
Another obsession of mine along the same lines as the husband and laundry, is socks! My husband always complains he can never find clean socks or underwear. Well, after 5 years of being together, I figured he'd be able to find the dirty clothes hamper. After picking his clothes up for such a long time, I finally got tired of it, so the reason he can never find them, is because there aren't any. If he would just find the dirty clothes basket, he'd ALWAYS have those items clean. ALWAYS! Even our 4 year old son does a better job of getting his clothes there...and he's FOUR!
I have a couple of old high school friends who I'm always teasing for being OCD about cleaning their homes. Yet, I have this obsession with sheets. Seriously? Hello, pot, meet kettle!
I am not a neat freak at all. I enjoy a clean house, but it's near impossible to keep that way for any length of time. My kids run right behind me and return it to it's original state! So, I've completely given up on the immaculate house pipe dream. Plus, a few dirty dishes and a few specks of dust never hurt anybody. Like, I said, IMMACULATE my house is not, but clean it is. It's vacuumed every night before bed and picked up and tidy.
My cleaning day is Monday, because that is the day of the week that I have ZERO activities going on. So, on that note, I should get to it.
Thanks for reading!
Until next time...

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