this time by Meredith at Violet VoicesÂ
I never really completed it last time, so will have another go at it today. 8)
Six weird things about the Moose:
:arrow:Â 1. I have a certain order in which I wash dishes and it bugs me when other folks don’t follow that order – but I don’t say anything, because I appreciate it when others do my dishes. (Hubby Moose does them a few times each week!)Â Glasses are washed FIRST – placed in drainer to drain (duh, moosie!), then placed onto the drainer’s pegs. Silverware – okay, it’s stainless – Â is washed next and placed into the little cuppy thing on the drainer – knives pointed DOWN, all else pointed up – sharp knives are perched on the edge of the drainer. Plates are next – smaller to larger coming toward the sink. Bowls next, starting with smaller cereal bowls, ranging up to serving bowls. LASTLY comes the saucepans and frying pans.
It’s all very orderly – so that the greasy things are last and my glasses (plastic or otherwise) do NOT get grease on them. (noted: why, yes, I DO do my dishes by hand – don’t you?)
:arrow: 2. Quirk number 2 also has to do with washing the dishes. . . . dishes have TWO sides and that means BOTH sides are to be washed. Nothing grosses me out more than to be served dinner on a plate that feels grody on the back side.
:arrow:Â 3. Folding laundry: my mom worked in a hospital laundry from when I was 8 until she died (in the same hospital) following a stroke when I was 23. There was a certain way hospital bedding and such had to be folded. I sort of follow through on it. I like things folded neatly and TIGHTly – there is only so much room in the “linen closet” and if things are folded loosely they won’t all fit.
:arrow:Â 4. I like moose – stuffed and fluffy (especially if purple) or alive and lurking in the front yard. My computer station at home has LOTS of moose (I will take a picture sometime to show you) of the stuffed variety – all different colors. My office at work has several also – they seem to show up in my mail slot or at my door from time to time.
:arrow:Â 5. I love chocolate. Okay, that’s NOT weird – but, it is a quirk about me. see #6.
:arrow:Â 6. I like coffee. I quit drinking it for several years, but slowly began to fall back into the mocha every morning habit. Then Daughter #1 bought me an espresso maker for Christmas (thank you, Lessa!) and I now have one in the morning and take another to work with me. My latest vice – swirled mint/chocolate chips added to the chocolate mix and the espresso/milk combo. Oh, my! Wait, maybe that should go into the Guilty Pleasures column. heh
Now we ALL know that the moosie does NOT have vices or quirks or weird habits or anything. Heh. We have trouble seeing the logs in our own eyes . . . maybe someone close to us should write about our quirks?????
nahhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh
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