Five Obsessive Things

I've been tagged by The Eccentric Blonde to list out my five most obsessive thoughts. Here's what I came up with:

My Scale - I weigh myself every single morning with a scale that weighs me to the tenth of a pound. Somehow, I get validation from this stupid machine. If it is up a little or down a little it kind of sets the tone for my day. It is probably a wonder that I am not anorexic or bulimic, but somehow, I manage to keep it confined to just obsessing about that number.

Circumstance - I think a lot about why things happen the way they do in life. For instance, my parents let me choose which high school I went to. If I had chosen differently, I probably never would have met my husband or moved to Tennessee and had a completely different life. I think about that sort of stuff all of the time. If I had left my house a minute earlier, would I have been involved in that accident on the side of the road? What if I had never interviewed for this job? What if I had never had the job that I had before this which allowed me to find out about the job I have now? If my husband hadn't answered a newspaper ad, we would have never met one of our best friends. I just think it's so strange how little things can impact our lives in such major ways and I wonder about it a lot.

Planning - I have to plan. I can't stop planning. I do in my job. I do it in my personal life. I have done it for years. What I can't plan, I try to just leave up to God. I figure that God has got to be the ultimate planner, so if I can't plan it, I try to just let it go and not worry about it and figure that He has it covered. I think this way of thinking helps to keep me pretty content in life.

Laundry and Dishes - I hate dishes in the sink and laundry that overflows out of the hamper. Other stuff I can let go and ignore much more easily. I don't know why those two things bother me, but they do. I can kick my shoes off and not put them away. I can have other piles of "stuff" lying around the house. However, I just can't let the dishes and the laundry get too out of hand. It bothers me and hangs over me until it has been fixed.

Underwear - The top and bottom have to match. Always.

I would love to hear what Glamorous Jo has to say about her obsessions...