Personal policies

Here's a pretty interesting meme for which kiwiria tagged me:

"My Personal Policies

I think it would be safe to say that we all have personal rules that we live by. Surely it's not just ME. I'm not talking about moral rules, like "Do not kill." I'm talking about the silly policies we impose on ourselves, like "Never eat anything you can't identify," or "Don't step on sidewalk cracks." For some reason, I started mentally listing the quirky rules I follow and got curious about other people's personal rules."

Here are some of mine:

1. I have to have my neck covered by something when I go to sleep. I don't care how hot it is: I have to have at least a sheet tucked up over my body. Rob teases me that I do it to keep the vampires away.

2. I have to sleep on my left side. (Ever since my pregnancies, if I sleep on my back, my hands and feet fall asleep, and if I try to sleep on my right side I get heartburn.)

3. I don't allow myself to feel guilty for anything that happened over seven years ago. I call this my "Statute of Limitations" rule. I have a highly developed sense of guilt in general, but I read once that you replace every cell in your body (well, aside from some in the nervous system) within seven years. So I reason that I'm entirely different person than I was when x happened. If I ever start thinking about something and flailing myself about it, once I realize it happened over seven years ago, I tell myself, "Statute of Limitations, Peg. Drop it." And I move on.

4. I don't allow myself to have sexual fantasies about people I know in real life. *blushes*

5. I check e-mail first thing when I get up in the morning and first thing whenever I get home.

6. The dishes should be done every night before going to bed. (Unfortunately, the way that chores break down in our household, Rob is generally in charge of dishes since I cook, and he doesn't see eye-to-eye with me about this policy at all. The source of pretty frequent frustration.)

7. I try not to bad mouth people behind their back. And if I have a problem or conflict with someone else, I think it is important to go to them and work it out rather than kvetch about the problem to other people. I thank elisem for helping me to understand this as part of my personal morality.

8. My teeth must be brushed. And if any food gets lodged in those little crevices in the back by my impacted wisdom teeth (pretty much a daily occurrence), as soon as possible I use the little mouth irrigator that my dentist gave me to flush them out. I have one in my desk, one in my purse and one in the drawer of my bathroom so I can do this wherever I am.

9. If one of my fingernails cracks or chips, I immediately cut all ten fingernails off so that they will all be the same length.

10. I don't wear heels over two inches in height.

I'll add more as I think of them.

I tag kijjohnson, pazlazuli, jbru, naomikritzer and huladavid and anyone else who wants to play. If you do, leave a comment.

Hungry

Damn. Now I'm hungry. And no eating or drinking until after the surgery. Rawhr.

Home safely

We're back from the hospital. Surgery went smoothly in the predicted amount of time. Peg seemed surprised at the amount of nausea and pain post-op. We stayed at the hospital about three hours before she figured out they would keep her overnight if she didn't start making preparations to leave, and she didn't want that to happen. We got her home and poured her into bed. She woke up for broth and the next round of pain meds and made me tell everyone how she's doing. She thanks you all for your support and will probably post for herself tomorrow morning.