little compulsions

Following on from the wonderful little.red.boat telling us all about her cute weird behaviour and worrying about people thinking she is scary - here are my little compulsions....

toilet rolls must be hung so the loose end is at the front - I sometimes change other people's round...

MUGS - interested that so many other people worry about mugs and glasses and plates and bowls and cutlery too - as soon as I open the cupboard door and discover someone else has put the clean crocks away WRONG I have to sort them out so they are RIGHT (i.e. put away my way).

Dishwasher or sink - wherever the dirty things are they have to be stacked properly - in the dishwasher this is about fitting the maximum number of items in. And yes they have to be washed in the right order if washed by hand - cleanest things (i.e. glasses) first, dirtiest things (i.e. pans) last.

I always leave my desk at work very neat and tidy at the end of the day/ if I go out. This means things in neat piles according to what day is needs to be done on - filed in trays, nothing on the main desk apart from PC, keyboard, mouse mat, drinks mat, phone message book, phone, pen tidy, notepaper and stapler.

I had my own room at home - a condition of moving in together - but it is now a shared room - but still when I go in there things have to be just so.....

CDs/DVDs must be in the case they came with!!! Preferably in genre order all those by the same artist together. CDs were filed in genre and then alpabetically within genre but most are now just A-Z as the genres are blurry. Folk is still all in it's own little corner - British A-Z and US A-Z.

Books - A-Z of course if fiction. Or by genre....

Chairs must be tucked under the dining table when not in use.

Table mats must be stacked - in the right order - when not in use.

Coathangers must all face the same way when the clothes are hung up. Spare coathangers should sorted into separate bags according to category (and metal hangers- the horrible bendy wiry smelly ones should be in hell where they belong!).

Window key has to be in the front right hand corner of the windowsill so I know where it is when I want it.

I have to have a dessert spoon to eat my yoghurt/ pudding with. T has to have a teaspoon...weird.

Keys are kept in the drawer not on the side - how many times do I have to tell you!

and finally for now - I am always very disturbed by having unpaired socks - I have been known to search the house over and over to find the missing sock and some socks are still missing and I miss them a lot and will celebrate should they ever return........

Just to note - as a child my mother used to say I had St Vita's dance as I used to have to take an even number of steps if I walked anywhere which led to me doing a little extra step on the spot a lot. Don't do that anymore.

I am certain that we all have things we do. We just pretend we don't.