I have a problem and I'm willing to admit it. I actually think a lot of people know about it, at least people that I grew up with or roommates in college, but maybe not everyone I know. I am a slob. Well, that one everyone who has ever stepped into my house know that one, no surprise there. But I am majorly terrified of germs. I've decided to blog about it because I can never say it in person and I really hope I don't offend anyone who has ever done any of the things that I am about to say. It's not you, it's me, but at the time, it's you.
I think everyone knows that I am a germaphobe. I'm not sure to the extent of how bad it is. Here are some examples:
1. I wash my hands a ton. After each step when I am cooking, I wash my hands. If I touch someone, I can't touch anything else until I wash my hands. In fact, my hands are so dry that there is a visible line on my wrist where I stop scrubbing my hands. My mother-in-law even said it looks like I am always wearing pink gloves because my hands are just raw.
2. In college, I had 3 anxiety attacks within a week of each other. I was doing the dishes, but I just pictures the germs on the plates spreading around my kitchen. Luckily I talked to my psychologist brother who gave me a few tips and breathing exercises to help me get over it. I told the doctors that I saw that I must have been stressed from school which must have triggered it. It was really germs.
3. I hate public restrooms and I hate public people using my private restroom. There is a reason why I have an upstairs bathroom and a downstairs bathroom. Down is for guests, up is for me. The other day, I have a good friend come over, but the downstairs bathroom was out of TP (I don't go in it very often), so she went upstairs. I had to wait 5 hours until Olivia went to sleep so that my toilet could be bleached before I could go to the bathroom.
4. At church, I am the assistant Achievement Days leader which just means that a bunch of 8-11-year-old girls come to my house and do an activity. Yesterday they came over to do pedicures. They soaked their feet then exfoliated and painted their nails. Several of the girls asked if I would paint their toenails, but I just said "No, I'm not good at that". What I really should have said was, "no because I don't want your toe fungus germs to crawl up my arms, don't want to have to bleach my hands, and even worse, don't want to breath in dead skin cells." Even worse, their foot-soaked-water-bucket water was poured down my kitchen sink even though there were a few dishes in there. (I baked several cakes and watched 5 children all day yesterday). Then I couldn't use the kitchen at all until I bleached my sink.
Those are just a few examples. Embarrassing, yeah, probably. But, I guess this is my way to say don't use my bathroom please.
Thursday, March 14, 2013
Saturday, March 9, 2013
Facebook for Everyone!
It kinda bugs me when people refuse to "give into peer pressure" and get a facebook page. It has only been very recently that I just wished everyone I knew had a facebook page because it's actually can be more helpful than harmful. Yeah, it can get addicting sometime. I went through times like that. I think I blogged about this before. I'm having flashbacks, but here are some recent examples about how great facebook is.
1. I love to google stuff. Googling a question that I have then finding an answer makes me feel smart, but it also takes a lot of time because I have to read the same thing on 4 or 5 different websites before I believe that it's true. You know how much time that takes! Too long when ya got 2 kids under 2. When Jocelyn was first born, she was colicky. Posted it on facebook asking for advice, went to bed, then I woke up in the morning and had a billion different answers. It was pretty awesome.
2. Our pipes froze when the temps dropped in the middle of the night to the negative teens. Did I know what to do? No. Posted it on facebook and within 30 minutes, 4 people from my ward called to see if they could help, and my home teacher was already over fixing the problem! First of all, I have a great ward, and second, I was able to shower and brush my teeth by noon! Thanks facebook.
3. Someone in my ward just adopted a baby, but it was totally a surprise. She doesn't have any kids so she didn't have any kids stuff and I think by the time she found out that she was getting and actually having the baby didn't give her time to go out and buy stuff. Someone made a group on facebook to get this lady baby stuff and she got the baby shower stuff she needed without the baby shower. Just a few years ago, that would have taken many phone calls and obviously too much work and human to human communication for it to be successful.
I'm not one that posts a bunch of stuff unless I need to. But I do like to find out who is having children or getting married without actually talking to them. I wish we could utilize it a little better. For example, if my ward could have a facebook group, we could have all the activities posted and links to the lessons at church on Sunday. See. It's pretty awesome. Yeah, I agree that it pushes some people into reclusive activity, but you gotta get bored of facebook stalking people sometime. Right?
1. I love to google stuff. Googling a question that I have then finding an answer makes me feel smart, but it also takes a lot of time because I have to read the same thing on 4 or 5 different websites before I believe that it's true. You know how much time that takes! Too long when ya got 2 kids under 2. When Jocelyn was first born, she was colicky. Posted it on facebook asking for advice, went to bed, then I woke up in the morning and had a billion different answers. It was pretty awesome.
2. Our pipes froze when the temps dropped in the middle of the night to the negative teens. Did I know what to do? No. Posted it on facebook and within 30 minutes, 4 people from my ward called to see if they could help, and my home teacher was already over fixing the problem! First of all, I have a great ward, and second, I was able to shower and brush my teeth by noon! Thanks facebook.
3. Someone in my ward just adopted a baby, but it was totally a surprise. She doesn't have any kids so she didn't have any kids stuff and I think by the time she found out that she was getting and actually having the baby didn't give her time to go out and buy stuff. Someone made a group on facebook to get this lady baby stuff and she got the baby shower stuff she needed without the baby shower. Just a few years ago, that would have taken many phone calls and obviously too much work and human to human communication for it to be successful.
I'm not one that posts a bunch of stuff unless I need to. But I do like to find out who is having children or getting married without actually talking to them. I wish we could utilize it a little better. For example, if my ward could have a facebook group, we could have all the activities posted and links to the lessons at church on Sunday. See. It's pretty awesome. Yeah, I agree that it pushes some people into reclusive activity, but you gotta get bored of facebook stalking people sometime. Right?
Monday, March 4, 2013
To Do
I have a life list. It's my bucket list, but I don't like the phrase "bucket list" so I call it a life list. I think it's pretty obvious that it's just a list of things that I want to do before I die. I actually have a "to do" list and a "to go" list. I have to admit, I have some pretty awesome things that I want to do on there and I'm going to do all of them. Some are a little iffy like going to the moon that greatly depend on me being oober rich, but we'll see.
So I've always had this life list, but I actually just realized something today. I wasn't actually really pursuing the things on my list. They were just a list of things. Then today when I was casually cruising on facebook, I noticed my friend Michelle started a new blog called 30 before 30: 30 things she wants to do before she turns 30. Then I realized something. I need a goal when I do all the things that I want to do.
Today I was inspired to start my "to do" list for the year. They aren't goals because I think of goals as ways to improve and not necessarily things that I know that I can easily achieve. All the things on my list I know I can do. My goal is to just do them all.
The list isn't done yet, but here's what I have so far. And it's a little long, but I want to hear what you think about them. It's both my to do and to go list.
1. Make a crafty thing that I can display in the house that I didn't make at a Relief Society meeting.
2. Read 50 books.
3. Finish my inandaroundrexburg.blogspot.com blog with all the things that we've done since living here.
4. Go to the zoo.
5. Do a California Road Trip
6. Yellowstone
7. Tetons
8. Craters of the Moon
9. Craters of the Moon star gazing
10. Family campout
11. Watch sunrise on top of Cress Creek with the entire family
12. Make a quilt
13. Go on an overnight trip with John (thanks Amanda. You're watching me kids)
14. 100% visiting teaching March-December
15. Update a blog once a week (I have 4. It should be pretty easy)
16. Hit weight loss goal by December
17. Buy and wear a pair of non-maternity jeans (this might be the hardest on the list for me)
18. Palisades
19. Harriman State Park
20. One family/person taught in our home by the missionaries
21. One date per month
22. Temple every month while in Idaho
23. Run 5k Teton Dam
24. Study every Sunday School lesson
25. Study every Relief Society lesson
26. Go to Fairy Tale Town in CA
27. Take 10 family names to the temple
28. Index 1000 English names
29. Index 1000 Italian names
30. Start a profile on mormon.org
That's my list so far. I need to start planning now when I am going to accomplish everything. I am very confident that I can get everything done and I'm glad I set a plan for when I want to do everything. I'm sure once we move to Texas, I am going to add a lot of other "to go" things to the list. Tell me what you think. Should I add anything? Too much? Jealous?
So I've always had this life list, but I actually just realized something today. I wasn't actually really pursuing the things on my list. They were just a list of things. Then today when I was casually cruising on facebook, I noticed my friend Michelle started a new blog called 30 before 30: 30 things she wants to do before she turns 30. Then I realized something. I need a goal when I do all the things that I want to do.
Today I was inspired to start my "to do" list for the year. They aren't goals because I think of goals as ways to improve and not necessarily things that I know that I can easily achieve. All the things on my list I know I can do. My goal is to just do them all.
The list isn't done yet, but here's what I have so far. And it's a little long, but I want to hear what you think about them. It's both my to do and to go list.
1. Make a crafty thing that I can display in the house that I didn't make at a Relief Society meeting.
2. Read 50 books.
3. Finish my inandaroundrexburg.blogspot.com blog with all the things that we've done since living here.
4. Go to the zoo.
5. Do a California Road Trip
6. Yellowstone
7. Tetons
8. Craters of the Moon
9. Craters of the Moon star gazing
10. Family campout
11. Watch sunrise on top of Cress Creek with the entire family
12. Make a quilt
13. Go on an overnight trip with John (thanks Amanda. You're watching me kids)
14. 100% visiting teaching March-December
15. Update a blog once a week (I have 4. It should be pretty easy)
16. Hit weight loss goal by December
17. Buy and wear a pair of non-maternity jeans (this might be the hardest on the list for me)
18. Palisades
19. Harriman State Park
20. One family/person taught in our home by the missionaries
21. One date per month
22. Temple every month while in Idaho
23. Run 5k Teton Dam
24. Study every Sunday School lesson
25. Study every Relief Society lesson
26. Go to Fairy Tale Town in CA
27. Take 10 family names to the temple
28. Index 1000 English names
29. Index 1000 Italian names
30. Start a profile on mormon.org
That's my list so far. I need to start planning now when I am going to accomplish everything. I am very confident that I can get everything done and I'm glad I set a plan for when I want to do everything. I'm sure once we move to Texas, I am going to add a lot of other "to go" things to the list. Tell me what you think. Should I add anything? Too much? Jealous?
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