The roof is off!

Come spend money (if you are in town)!

Mom and I are off the the craft show.
I did not finish anything to put in it.
She has a table full of quilted things and beaded things.

Scandinavian Christmas Bazar hosted by Sons of Norway
Old Bridge Twp. Municipal Center
1 Old Bridge Plaza, Old Bridge, NJ

Sat. Nov. 22, 10-5 & Sun., Nov. 23, 11:30-5.

Assorted imported gifts, foods, baked goods & dinner.
Free admission & parking.

And that's about that.

I'll only be there on Saturday.

Weather

It is 74 freakin' degrees.
I want my fall back!!!!!!

nanowrimo count

1667

Being (Perfectionist vs. Judgmental)

As I was cleaning the litterboxes (there are five) I got to thinking. Sifting sand always gets me to thinking, but that is another thought.
I have a method to litter box waste removal, a side to side sweep followed by a front to back sift. It is a bit involved, but when I'm done, the cats are very happy. I watched my mom do it the other day and she is erratic. She isn't careful about getting underneath the clumps to reduce the chance of breakage, she doesn't scoop wall of box toward middle. She just seems to spot a clump and jabs the shovel at it.

Many hundreds if not thousands of times over my life she has accused me of being judgmental. She is not the only person to accuse me of that, and I have always accepted it at surface value, wondering if I am in fact judging people out of hand but never really looking at what I was being accused of. The label has never rested easy on me and I have denied it on occasion when I felt the person was using it as an excuse not to listen to reason or logic.

As I was sifting and dwelling in my zen sand place, it came to me.
I am not attaching moral or ethical meaning to people or their actions. I am not judgmental!

I am, however a perfectionist.

And most of you are going about things in the wrong manner.
And by wrong, I mean incorrect.

You are not being logical, not looking at the entire cause and effect relationship to your actions, you are not being efficient or effective in your actions.

That is the crux of it for me.

Efficiency and effectiveness.

10 minutes to clean 5 litter boxes so that they look as though you poured in all fresh litter.
That is effective and efficient.

Randomly stabbing at clumps and then stirring it around and giving up.
That is incorrect and sloppy.

And it pisses off the cats.

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