The life of an OCP librarian

I eat food in a very Monk-like OCP way.  As a general rule, it cannot touch.  (Notable exceptions: chicken and rice, & frosty and fries).  I’m not sure why it’s such a big deal for foods to touch, but it’s always been something I’ve hated.

Apparently Nathaniel has inherited at least some of Mommy and Daddy’s OCP tendencies.  For example, if we ask him to put something back where he got it, he always tries very hard to make sure it’s back perfectly in place.  This is very cute, as well as sometimes annoying!  (Think trying to put tissues back [...]

For as long as I can remember, I have been fascinated by personality tests.  I think it’s some sort of OCP trait that likes to know what makes people tick.  For a while, I made all of my friends take the Tempermant test (Melancholy, Sanguine, Choleric, Phelgmatic) and the results were very interesting and helped [...]

As a general rule, I don’t get sick. And, my husband hasn’t gotten too sick in recent years either. But, apparently having a baby changes all that! With maybe a day or two exception, at least one member of my extended family has been sick for about 6 weeks or so now, [...]

It’s been a crazy month.  (More to come on that in the next post or two.)  But, yesterday I had an experience that made me thankful for one of my OCP tendencies.  For my entire life, I have refused to put knives in the dishwater when washing dishes because I was afraid of accidentally cutting [...]