What can I say, I like alliteration!
Today I’m catching up on missed weekends and holidays (I was on a plane on Labor Day AND the following Saturday) by, oh, I don’t know, doing something cool (I have no idea). I haven’t left our house since Tuesday and I’m headed out to meet my husband for a sushi lunch, and I slept late this morning… so it’s been a pretty good day so far.
I’ve been wanting to do this post for, oh, forever, but something else always comes up first. You know, like finding the bright side or figuring out compromise or eating things. But today seems like a fantastic day for a goofy and embarrassing post, so here goes.
I hate doing laundry. If I can’t sneak underwear into my husband’s laundry, I wear swimsuit bottoms until he feels sorry for me and includes some of mine with his. Today I am wearing a shirt I picked up off the floor, a shirt I’ve worn probably ten times since I bought it for $3.50 on clearance at TJ Maxx and I love, love, love it. Love. And somehow, washing it makes it less comfy. So I don’t unless I get an obvious stain on it – same with jeans.
I think about efficiency every time I shower. I read “Cheaper by the Dozen” as a kid. The father was an efficiency expert who taught his children the best way to bathe (up one side then down the other, I think) and I’ve thought about that every time I’ve showered ever since then. You want details? I get in, wet my hair, and shampoo. I figure the shampoo running down my back takes care of any dirtiness I can’t reach. Then I put in conditioner, which sits in my hair while I wash my body, top to bottom, and rinse, top to bottom. I always wash my face last to make sure I don’t have any conditioner residue left on my face and I do a quick soaping of my upper back for the same reason. If my hair needs extra conditioning and I run out of things to wash, I brush my teeth. I dry off using the same motions every time, too!
I love food. Seriously. Eating is the part of my day I look forward to, even when I’m not hungry. My family makes fun of me for bouncing around when my food comes but I don’t even notice that I do it. I learned to cook solely because I love to eat, and when we eat at home a lot, I gain a bit of weight. I’m working on making less food each time. Also, I love potatoes. I could eat fried or mashed potatoes with every single meal.
Our sheets smell like dog and we kind of like it. Enough said.
I love Dave Ramsey. I’ve been broke for the past eight weeks but in that time we’ve paid off $6000 in debt and emergencies. Eight weeks! Together we make over six figures, but we still own two houses and just hadn’t gotten our financial lives together. Looking at our progress makes me very proud and slightly embarrassed. I don’t talk much about it because I don’t want people to think I’m proselytizing, but the reduced stressed we feel because we know we’re able to do this is priceless. {Well, okay, not priceless – I can tell you to the penny what it cost!}
Okay, your turn. Confess something, will ya? I love learning quirky things about people.
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Confession: my biggest stress in life right now is worrying about being a good dog-mom. I consider myself a dog-person, have been around dogs all my life, but have never been fully responsible for one. Am working hard on trying to create a well-mannered beast. :) It's hard though when all your family members want to speak baby-talk to her and just get the dog excited. *sigh* Also, "mastering the walk" is a lot harder than I anticipated. And I've actually been letting the husband go alone because I'm slightly embarrassed that I can't seem to handle my dog too well just yet. Like avoiding will help. :(
BUT, *on the bright side*, obedience inside the house has much improved in a few short weeks. She will now sit patiently while I prepare breakfast/dinner for her. And we're working on not getting overly excited when chew toys make an appearance.
I don't think this is quite the quirk you were expecting, but there it is.
I, too, adore all things potatoes. My favorite potato product is Art's & Mary's Jalapeno chips. I'd rather eat them than anything else!
And my somewhat gross and probably embarrassing 'fess would be that my husband and I have BEAUTIFUL hickory hardwood floors throughout our home that we recently installed and rather than sweeping it every couple of days like I should, I just wear flip flops or socks so I don't feel the dirt on my feet. Gross, I know.
1. I hate laundry too and am always wearing dirty clothes.
2. Cheaper by the Dozen is a kick-a book and many of the things in it stick with me to this day, including the bathing method. I still remember C and D in morse code: "CARE-less CHIL-dren" and "DAN-ger-ous."
3.Dave Ramsey is one of my personal heros. He rocks.
I was trying to think of what I should confess to, and it suddenly hit me:
I'm not wearing any underwear right now, because they're ALL dirty and need to go in the wash.
TMI?? Oh well. You asked. :)
Loved your confessions. The dog-smelling sheets made me laugh out loud!
Confession: I just got married this past Saturday and I'm so over anything wedding related. I can't even get excited over pictures. Now I know why people honeymoon for a week instead of just two days. You need a full week of R & R.
1. i eat like a dude. not a man or a boy, a dude. my husband's drummer is 6'4", a boxer and a former marine and the last time he saw me eat he said, "wow, you can really eat a lot for a fairly small person." i put it away. hubs is a self described "fat kid" and i can even impress him. i should not be proud of this nor should i expect this ability to eat this way and not blow up to last.
2. if i were to win the lottery today, i wouldn't quit my job or move (i probably wouldn't even pay off the house). i would pay off all our other debts, invest in our retirement, then spend money on the little things i love. like a weekly massage instead of a monthly massage.
3. i get monthly (sometimes bi-monthly) massages and i don't feel guilty or indulgent. in fact, i view them as a necessity.
p.s. you do your laundry separately? whu-whu-what?
1.) I take 3 minute showers. If I take more than 5 minutes, I consider it a failure. I too read Cheaper by the Dozen - but to be even more efficient, I use a 2-in-1. I shampoo and while that rinses out, I soap up my loofah and scrub scrub scrub. Then while that washes out, I wash my face. Every other day I take an extra 30 seconds to shave my underarms. Which brings me to:
2.) I shave like, once a week. I got to law school and realized hey, nobody cares! Plus they keep the damn building so cold that I wear pants all the time anyway.
3.) I only wear deoderant about half the time because I forget it. Fortunately, we do a lot of laundry so my clothes are always clean.
4.) I am really bad with money and can't seem to get a grip on my budget. I'm really cheap though, so I don't tend to worry too much because we don't spend money.
5.) I hate going to bars with people. I would much rather drink wine at home with them where I can actually listen to them talk.
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