The towels shall be arranged thusly.
Sleeeeeepy. One, got up at 6 a.m. Two, for the first time it was cold enough in here to turn the heat on because I was freezing, so I went upstairs and took a really hot shower, so I have that post-hot-shower-snuggly-clothes sleepy feeling.
The foot and ankle doctor was very nice. She took x-rays. I love looking at my own bones. They look so...bony, and like they're supposed to. On some level it is always a shock to see inside my body and see that yes, it looks like it's supposed to look, and all the bones are in their correct places and hey they look just like the illustrations in anatomy books, which then leads into thoughts of wow, it's amazing, the human body, isn't it?
She probed around my ankle and found the tender spot and had me press against it and all that stuff, and eventually told me what I more or less already knew, that I have a touch of tendinitis in the tendons that curve around the outside of my ankle bone, which are the ones that control your foot's side-to-side movement. She told me to compress, rest, and ice, which I've already been doing. She told me I could have a brace if I thought it would help. The PA brought in these, like, MONSTER braces. I don't think I need that much brace, thanks. I'll use the wraparound brace I got at CVS.
So I found out what I already knew and was told to do what I've been doing. Money well spent. :-) But it was good to get it from a professional.
Now. Topic.
I am not at all OCD about my house. I like to keep it relatively neat but I'm not going to wig out on you. I don't have a lock-step schedule, I do things as they need doing.
But I have one thing I MUST DO. I must must must maintain proper bath towel rotation.
I have six bath towels. I have three shelves in the bathroom upon which I keep them, two per shelf. After my shower I grab the uppermost towel. I usually use it twice before it goes into the laundry. I also have six hand towels, so whenever the bath towel gets washed, so does the hand towel.
But the washed towels? They MUST go into the bottom of the shelf. All the other towels get moved up a notch, like they're waiting in line at the DMV. Newly clean towels? Back of the queue with you! This ensures equal towel usage between all six towels, or else just the top two towels get used.
I must do this. I require it. There is no other household task about which I am so militant.
What's yours?
The foot and ankle doctor was very nice. She took x-rays. I love looking at my own bones. They look so...bony, and like they're supposed to. On some level it is always a shock to see inside my body and see that yes, it looks like it's supposed to look, and all the bones are in their correct places and hey they look just like the illustrations in anatomy books, which then leads into thoughts of wow, it's amazing, the human body, isn't it?
She probed around my ankle and found the tender spot and had me press against it and all that stuff, and eventually told me what I more or less already knew, that I have a touch of tendinitis in the tendons that curve around the outside of my ankle bone, which are the ones that control your foot's side-to-side movement. She told me to compress, rest, and ice, which I've already been doing. She told me I could have a brace if I thought it would help. The PA brought in these, like, MONSTER braces. I don't think I need that much brace, thanks. I'll use the wraparound brace I got at CVS.
So I found out what I already knew and was told to do what I've been doing. Money well spent. :-) But it was good to get it from a professional.
Now. Topic.
I am not at all OCD about my house. I like to keep it relatively neat but I'm not going to wig out on you. I don't have a lock-step schedule, I do things as they need doing.
But I have one thing I MUST DO. I must must must maintain proper bath towel rotation.
I have six bath towels. I have three shelves in the bathroom upon which I keep them, two per shelf. After my shower I grab the uppermost towel. I usually use it twice before it goes into the laundry. I also have six hand towels, so whenever the bath towel gets washed, so does the hand towel.
But the washed towels? They MUST go into the bottom of the shelf. All the other towels get moved up a notch, like they're waiting in line at the DMV. Newly clean towels? Back of the queue with you! This ensures equal towel usage between all six towels, or else just the top two towels get used.
I must do this. I require it. There is no other household task about which I am so militant.
What's yours?