The life of an OCP librarian

Once upon a time, I thought all closets were organized like mine. Now, after visiting enough people to know otherwise–I have realized that I really do have an OCP closet. In my closet, all the clothes are lined up by type (sweater, t-shirt, skirt), and then by type or color of material. [...]

I have decided that even if some of them would deny it, all good librarians have at least some OCP tendencies. My favorite example of this was in a class I took in graduate school (and yes, you have to have a master’s degree to be a librarian!) In the class, the professor [...]

Recently, our family has moved into a new house.   Now that all the painting and unpacking is done, we move on to a new time-consuming project–hanging pictures.  Since both my hubby and I are OCP, this has to be done perfectly!  So, out comes the tape measure, yard stick, levels (yes, that’s plural), pencil, hammer, [...]

Last week, hubby and I decided we would put up a pegboard in our garage to organize the dozens of cables sitting around our house, along with anything else we could find. When we went to buy the pegboard at Menards (great store!), we were informed it came in two sizes: 2′ x [...]

My office looks like pretty much anyone else’s office.  It’s got a desk, with a computer, some pictures, and some organizational stuff.  It’s got a file cabinet, a bookshelf, and a corkboard.  The office was inherited from someone else, along with the corkboard and some push-pins.  What was one of the first things I did [...]

Once upon a time, my husband described me as being OCP (an Obsessive-Compulsive Perfectionist).  I have known that this is true for some time, but suddenly, I realized that people might actually enjoy hearing about all the random things I do as a result of this personality trait.  Hence, a new blog is born, in [...]