I think I am a defective OCD person. That is to say that I am somewhat obsessive in that I really like things neat, organized, clean and very \u201cship shape.\u201d But unfortunately I\u2019m not compulsive about getting things that way. So if the mess gets too big it bothers me a lot but I\u2019m not motivated to clean it up. Rather I am motivated to leave it behind.<\/p>\n
Take my office for example. When I get in the midst of a lot of travel the office quickly becomes a mess. Now you are wondering if I am away so much how could it become a mess? Well the way it works is that when I come back from a trip I empty out all the things I picked up so that I have a clean backpack for the next trip. But I don\u2019t really have time to organize it well. I think \u201cI\u2019ll get to it later\u201d but of course I don\u2019t. The next time it is even harder to organize and I don\u2019t have time to fix things so it gets worse. Until finally I take my laptop and I work in the dinning room or the family room or some other place.<\/p>\n
This cannot last though. In fact soon it will be over because Mrs. T will be on summer break. It is much to distracting to try to work outside of my office when she is in the house. We\u2019ll not go into the details but it is enough to say that soon I will clean out my office \u2013 it will likely take about two days \u2013 so that I can work comfortably there again. That has been the pattern for the last four or five years now. Some how I really need to find an easy way to keep the office neat and tidy. <\/p>\n
I figured it out for clothing. About two years ago I \u201coutsourced\u201d cleaning of my shirts and dress pants. Rather than trying to wash them with everything else and iron them myself (or try to talk Mrs. T into doing the ironing) I started taking them to the dry cleaners. They come back clean and very pressed. I ask for starch so they really feel neat and clean all day long. It\u2019s a reasonable trade for my money. The office is not so easy though. Sigh. Maybe I need a fully functional OCD office mate. \ud83d\ude42<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
I think I am a defective OCD person. That is to say that I am somewhat obsessive in that I really like things neat, organized, clean and very \u201cship shape.\u201d But unfortunately I\u2019m not compulsive about getting things that way. So if the mess gets too big it bothers me a lot but I\u2019m not […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11,15],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-90","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-life-thoughts","category-mrt"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.n1zyy.com\/mistert\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/90","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.n1zyy.com\/mistert\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.n1zyy.com\/mistert\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.n1zyy.com\/mistert\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.n1zyy.com\/mistert\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=90"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.n1zyy.com\/mistert\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/90\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.n1zyy.com\/mistert\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=90"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.n1zyy.com\/mistert\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=90"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.n1zyy.com\/mistert\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=90"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}