i seem to be developing some slightly obsessive compulsive disorders in my old age.

1/ Flossing.

I've always been pretty anal about oral hygiene. People always think i clean my teeth for a long time. i just like cleaning them. i love to read while i'm cleaning them, i really could clean them for 10 minutes at a time....EASILY!

But I was never a religious flosser. I would usually start flossing daily about a week before a dentist appointment and for about a week afterwards. But for the past few months I've been flossing every night! I seem to have the right sort of gaps in my teeth for getting stuff stuck in them. When I realized how easily teeny food bits get stuck between my back teeth, I started freaking out after every meal, counting the minutes til I could get home to get the food bits out of my teeth, imagining the little evil plaque men wearing construction helmets digging away at my teeth.

So now I'm flossing every night, and sometimes again in the morning, even though my cereal breakfast doesn't really seem to be the right kind of food to get stuck in teeth. I am yet to buy some floss to take to work, but I'm really really really close.

I have some little mouthwash bottles in my drawer here at work, and I mouthwash if the thought of evil plaque men becomes too much and I start hyperventilating.


2/ Moisturizing my hands.

I sit right under an aircondition vent at work and I am really sensitive to the cold and I can feel it blowing ever so gently on me and my hands all day while I type. I always thought I had really child-like hands.... well they never looked grown up to me. Grown up women's hands look.... well, grown up, with rings and manicured nails etc. My nails are crappy, flimsy, most times bitten right off or with some chipped nail polish on them.

My friends in high school said I had princess hands, that looked like I had never done a hard day's work ever. Some of them thought they had man hands, big knuckles from cracking them all the time, and calluses from rowing and other sports. I never did sports like that, I can't stand cracking my knuckles, and my hands and fingers are fairly petite. My nails suck but apart from that, I like my hands.

Sometimes you see women who really defy their age. With the right makeup, hair style, fit body and clothing they look mid 20's, when they are really mid 20's. But the hands of a woman always give her away. So I guess as I've gotten older, I've feared losing my soft, pretty hands. I've got a couple of slightly harden bits on my palms from the gym, from holding the weights bar, or pull ups etc. They aren't calluses, but its definately the first stage. I hate it already. And with the cold air blowing on my hands all day at work, I sometimes notice my hands feel really dry.

I've got a couple of bottles/tubes of moisturizer and hand moisturizer in my draw here at work, and I seem to moisturize every 20 mins or so, whether my hands are dry or not.


3/ Lip gloss

This is really only at work. I've got a lip gloss sitting right beside my keyboard and the combination of air con, drinking water/tea all the time and licking my lips, I always feel the need to be putting on lip gloss. I tend to forget about it when I'm out and about, without lip gloss in my line of sight as reminder.


I guess its because I spend so much time at work, at this desk. All my personal things are scattered around the desk or in my drawer. Because life follows a bit of a routine, I'm developing all these habits.

If I still had long hair, I would totally be an obsessive brusher.


How good is Phil Collins? David went Phil Collins crazy last night, and now I've been having a Phil Collins morning. So many of these songs make me feel like a kid again.

I went crazy downloading a bunch of Mash up songs and remixes from various forums I found. I absolutely love mash ups!!!!!

A couple of favourites:
Bizarre Love Triangle vs Just Lose It (New Order vs Eminem)
Who? Yeah! (Spice Girls vs Usher)
Insane, Medicated Hand (Nine Inch Nails vs Queens of the Stone Age)
Let's Dance With me (Hot Hot Heat vs David Bowie)
Feel Good Casbah (Gorillaz vs Clash)
Uptight Imagination (Stevie Wonder vs John Lennon)
And the best one-
Boulevard of Broken Songs (Green Day vs Oasis vs Travis).

Most of these are from Party Ben- Check out his downloads! - or from the Get Your Bootleg On forums!!!

Those forums also have some awesome remixes - Check out Cowgirl in a bottle - A remix of Christina's Genie in a Bottle with a country rhythm, and Livin On A Prayer - Dropbass Cheeze Remix of Bon Jovi- this one makes me want to jump up on my desk right now and scream my heart out!!!

UPDATE: check out this directory for more mash ups. I absolute love Sweet Home Country Grammar - a mash up of (obviously) Sweet Home Alabama and Country Grammar- Nelly. Who would have ever thought those 2 songs would mesh so well?