You have an advertisement for campbells soup there how much they paying you?

$499.99 for every per person that comments on it.  Thank you for seeing it.

Really?

Yep, and I'm going to use the money to buy some ocean front property in Arizona.

I thought you were joking.

I'd hate to show you what my place looks like. Yours is a dream compared to mine. Except for that last photo that is.

That's my desk..  I've got so many things going on right now, it is a true mess.  I'm working on it right now.

Oh, I am SOOOO unimpressed. The only one that even came CLOSE to my sick-couch was the last one...and even that left something to be desired. You have a way to go to catch up with me...but then you're young...there's still hope you will perfect the skills of making a perfect mess...

It is already far messier than I can stand.

Anyone thinking oso's OCD?

I'm not sure what OCD is, but I have alnost OD'ed, if that is anything close.

Obsessive-Compulsive Disorder. Things have to be a certain way for you, or you spaz.

I've got a friend with it, but she's also a minimalist to the nth degree, so every month or so, she'll decide that she has way too much stuff and can't stand it, so she goes through everything and gets rid of about 2/3 of it. I just have bouts where I can't stand extra junk in my room.

I don't like for my stuff to be left on the floor, because I was too lazy to put it away or for that soles of my feet to be black after walking across my bedroom.  I'm not sure if that makes me OCD or not.

Well, by the average standards, your home looks fine, and you seemed fairly concerned about it. Sorry if I offended you, I didn't mean anything by it.

No offense taken at all.  I do have a fairly routine cleaning schedule and I haven't been sticking to it.  That is what is most bothersome to me.  When I tell myself that I will do something tomorrow, I should do it then.  I don't like it when I am not able to keep my promises, even when the only person I promised was me.

Ok - what I noticed was the camo pants you were wearing in the bathroom picture - that and the beer bottle on the card table and the wine rack, beer bottle and Campbells Tomato soup in the kitchen, the flashlight on the nightstand in the bedroom, how many gatorade bottles litter your place and the bike - mess - what mess?????

Its really messy for me.  The gatorade bottles I save, to reuse as water bottles.  I have about a dozen of them the rest are in the freezer half filled with water, to chill my drinking  water.  the soup was going to be my lunch, but I didn't have time for that today.  The bike has a flat tire that I need to fix.  Everyone should have a maglight on the night stand. And as for my pants, I all most always wear BDU's because I like all the pockets.

You know - it cracks me up when people pay $1.50 for a bottle of water.  I wonder who came up with that idea????? 

I had homemade squash soup for lunch today with leftover roasted asparagus - I mes' some love soup.

We have an ice machine in the garage that we use for filling the coolers when we go on a trip (and no it doesn't stay on all the time).

We have flashlights all over the house and Mr. H has a ham radio that he tracks the storm chasers on when bad weather comes.  I've encouraged him to get into chasing storms if he wants to.  I even have a maglight in my purse, along with a pocket knive and one in the car.

I know that we aren't living as close to mother nature as you do but we do try.

Still - the camo pants were the first thing I noticed in the bathroom picture and BTW - your place isn't messy.

thanks I feel better that I've spent the evening cleaning it up.  I usually spend my Saturaday mornings doing house work after I get back from the Communnity Garden.  But I have been out of town too much and have nt been looking after the household chores the way that I should.

Then you should get you a woman (just kidding).

Yep, I need a woman to clean up after, as well. That would make my life easier.

You butt-head - I was playing the gender card and insuating that you needed a woman to clean up AFTER  YOU!!!!!

But I was just kidding - Mr. H and I kid that way and assign chores (verbally) to specific genders.

It actually would be nice to have someone to share the household duties with.  But, I don't see that happening anytime soon.  So, for now ALL the chores get assigned to me.