Mom has been in town for a couple of days now and we have been having a very good visit. I was delighted to introduce her to many of my friends on Saturday. Overall the rowdiness was kept to a minimum, and the enjoyment was still kept at a maximum. The day was filled with fun, food, libations, kids, dogs, jokes and plenty of sunshine.

Then on Sunday Mom and I did some marathon shopping. Mostly she and I like to shop for kitchen-y kinds of gadgets and occasionally shoes, both of which we did yesterday. Now both of us have on occasion been accused of being sorta OCD (Obsessive Compulsive Disorder) but we like to think of ourselves as ‘organized’. (And trust me when I say that neither of us has it as bad as I KNOW it can be. Heck, I’m down-right messy in many regards.) However, it occurred to me as we rummaged around in the Container Store that I was intending on buying containers with the hopes that I could purchase something to PUT INTO the containers in the future. So I would actually be BUYING THINGS TO GO INTO the containers that were totally unnecessary to begin with. I think this is the first sign of some kind of addiction. People shouldn’t need to organize SO MUCH that they want to organize things they don’t even have yet.

The first step is to admit that you have a problem. Come to think of it, if we’re talking about “12 steps”….I might need new shoes.