OCD vs. Stubbornness

I have a confession to make:

People that know me know that I can be quite stubborn.  Pretty much don't tell me what to do and we'll be fine even if it's something I was going to do in the first place.  If you tell me to do something, I'll probably do the opposite.  Don't even appear to think I should do something.  For example, (I finally admitted this the other night) I don't want/like to go out with short guys because that's what everyone else thinks I should be doing, I like to go out with the tall ones.

People who know me also know that I can be slightly OCD at times.  If we're playing cards and the draw or discard pile becomes askew, I must stop and straighten it.  Rules are pretty important to me as well.

I have been thinking about these two things lately and started wondering which is stronger.  I realized that my stubbornness is definitely the winner with the following example:

I was talking to a friend quite awhile ago and he mentioned how some people must do certain things like when you change the volume on the TV or radio, the number it's set to has to be an even number.  He then called me out and asked if I was that type of person.  I am except I also use any multiple of five (they're very "clean" numbers).  From that moment on, I purposely set my volumes to an odd number.  It drives me crazy, but no one will tell me what I do!

Student Quote from Last Month

Ok, so I'm a little late with this one, I've told a few people and not all laugh, but I think it's hilarious:

Working on maps of the world identifying languages spoken.

Student: This is all interesting, but where do Asians come from?
Me (being facetious): Asia.

Waiting for student to clarify the question...

Student: Oh yeah.

Student Quote of the Day

We were working on a bit of an art project today so I was pouring paint out into little plastic cups as students needed it.  I was squeezing some white out when two students behind me noticed it was quite thick:

Student 1: It looks like mayonnaise.
Student 2: It does.  What do some people have against mayonnaise?
Student 1: I don't know.  People in the 80's didn't like mayonnaise.

Say what?  I don't recall the 80's being a decade full of mayonnaise haters.

Sorry

Sorry, friends.  I've been pretty busy so I haven't had much time to update anything lately.  Here's a Reader's Digest version:

Ever since Steven and Randi moved away, I've been in charge of managing a few apartments.  Last week I suddenly had two open up (I only had a slight heads up on one of them).  I've been cleaning, advertising, showing, etc. these apartments all week.  I finally have two new tenants set up so that is good, but now I have to replace a toilet (don't flush things that shouldn't be flushed).

School has been really good lately.  My class gets my sense of humor (at least a majority of the time).  I've been laughing at them too so it's all good.  Best story of the week: I decided to go over district policies with my class as I hadn't really done that yet, but I had a student who was kinda pushing the boundaries with dress and grooming standards, so I highlighted all of them.  Right as I'm finishing up the policy on no student cell phones, my phone starts vibrating in my pocket.  I usually have my phone off and in my purse during the school day but I had just turned it on at lunch as I was checking voice mails about the apartments and instead of turning it off again, I silenced it and kept it in my pocket...no big deal, except when I pushed the silence button to make it stop vibrating, I accidentally pushed the speaker phone button instead and it started talking to me.  We all laughed as they told me no cell phones in school.

We had super hero dress up day at school on Thursday.  I wanted to go as the Hulk but then I realized that night was temple night and the next day was school picture day so I probably shouldn't paint myself green.  Maybe for Halloween.

Church is great.  We had a majority of the ward move out and new people move in so I have a lot of names to learn.  I also had to completely redo the visiting teaching routes which involved all of the sisters' names on slips of paper I kept moving around my table.  It's pretty much perfect but then more sisters moved in this week so I'll have to play with it some more soon.

The CES fireside tonight with Elder Holland was great!  I highly recommend you watch or read it if you didn't have the opportunity to watch it tonight.