Cleaning, Laundry, and some of my OCD tendencies

Its what makes me Kristyn.

I’m one of those people who have a room that is almost always clean. It’s rare to see something not cleaned up and put away. Everything in my room has a place. I need that. I have to have that consistency. I really like being able to walk into my room and know exactly where whatever it is that I need. I vacuum and clean more often than most, especially most college students. Someone made the comment that my room is almost always “room check ready.” I need to cleanliness in order for my mind to be in order. I have laundry done almost daily, and people make fun of me for that, but I need it.
Chaos is not something that I function well with. I don’t mind a surprise irregularly, but most of the time I am totally aware of what is going to go on. I plan most days to know when I get up what I am going to face when the day happens. Sure, life happens and stuff that I would like to get done doesn’t, but I usually have plan for the day. Without a plan, I am a mind in chaos. Without a plan, from experience, nothing really productive will get done that day. I have a constant running task list, sometimes one hundred things on it, sometimes three; sometime little things (like vacuuming) or sometimes big things (like a 10 page paper). I tend to take things in smaller tasks. I like to focus on things in such a way that the tasks are manageable for my mind to wrap around. I like when I can work on a paper, do a paragraph, and know that I did what I wanted to do that day and what I needed to do to get it done on time. Not to say that I don’t drop the ball, because I do it often, but rather that I figured out that this is how I work. This is how I work.
This isn’t everybody, no doubt. There are people who plan months in advance. I can tell you that if you ask me about something more than about 36 hours from now, I don’t likely know what I am going to do. I plan about 36 hours in advance. And there are people that have no idea what the next hour is going to bring; the kind of people who never really have a plan. I have friends that are all three types: long term planners, short term planners, and non planners. They all exist. They all work. They are all just different. I just have to remember to appreciate that all people are different. At times, people who don’t plan drive my crazy. But I remember that they love me for being a bit OCD at times, and I need to love them for their quirks.