Stuff Portrait Friday~ Obsess Much?

Oy, I am so stressed. I could not get any photos up yesterday as this is the first time I have sat down at my own computer. This week's offerings:

* Your Horrible Habit







My bad habit has to do with breaking the law. I am just not able to drive the speed limit, unless of course, I am carting around children. Then I try to maintain the proper speed. Granted, I have gotten speeding tickets, but now I know where all the speed traps are in my vicinity! My husband thinks I need to go to a track and race cars.

* Something you obsess over




It's has to be my skin. I am a lotion freak. The moment after I wash my hands, I must slather lotion all over them. After a shower, I have to have lotion on my entire body else I cannot clothe myself. And my face! Well, I have 2 kinds of face wash (not pictured), then I tone, lift, apply eye cream, then moisturize. I spend more time lotioning up my face than I do in the shower and afterward body lotioning combined. I am a freak for different lines of skincare and currently am using products from Oil of Olay, Arbonne, Clinique, Biotherm, Lancome, and Chanel. All for my *face*!!!

* Something that causes anxiety
(Sorry, internet, no photos to share of this one.)

I had to think a long time about this, thus the Friday posting on a Saturday. I then asked my husband his opinion of what stresses me out the most. He ran the gammit from having a clean house, to being on time for everything, to the refi of the house, but when it came to the one thing that causes me the most anxiety- it's my friendships.

I think about my friends almost all the time. And when I don't hear from them, I get really stressed out. I mean, I make an effort with regard to spending time together, why can't they? Now, the friends who are reading this- please do not get upset! These are my own *perceptions*! Remember how powerful perceptions are and how I had to go on an anti-anxiety/depressant for over a year? Ya, powerful schtuff.

I need to accept the fact that some people don't have a lot of time for in person friendships; some people just prefer to e-mail or use the phone as their preffered method of bonding. For me, I like the in person time. I *love* hanging with my girlfriends. Even if it is just sitting at the kitchen table, listening to the kids'laughter in the other rooms, chatting about nothing in particular. That really adds value to my relationship. I have some really close friends where we can do that often, but I gotta stop stressing about the friends who can't!