On My Mind

So Saturday at the baby shower, it might have been casually mentioned that I have a touch of OCD. All because when I was making the punch right before the guests arrived, I pulled out fruit juice ice cubes I had made the day before to keep the punch cold without watering it down as the cubes melted.

Now personally, I don’t view this as OCD behavior, nor do I think of it as particularly Martha-Stewart-esque behavior. It’s just a handy entertaining tip for those of us who don’t care for the punch made with sherbet, which tends to keep itself cool, obviously. It’s not like I hand embroidered linen napkins for each guest as a party favor or milled the paper I used for the invitations.

Personally I think that I am about the farthest thing from OCD there is - unless you can say that I obsessively don’t put away my laundry or I have a compulsion for forget to feed the dog. I’m far too lazy to be plagued by any OCD behaviors.

Or do I? Am I really in denial? Are fruit juice ice cubes a sign of mental illness or simply good planning? I’ll also admit to the fact that I made the cubes proportionate with the recipe for the punch. The biggest part was cranberry juice, so I made more cranberry juice cubes than I did orange and pineapple juice cubes. But again, I defensively say that it just makes sense to do it that way so you don’t change the way the punch tastes. It’s not like I did extensive calculations to figure it out or anything.

So tell me, am I treading on dangerous ground or am I simply a good party planner? It’s ok. You can be honest. I can take it. It’s not like your input will stop me from making my fruit juice ice cubes in the future. I’m just curious.

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