One of my biggest, greatest dreams of "having my own place" was a clean, organized refrigerator.  Similar to what you'd see when Luda or someone opens their home up to MTV for cribs (circa 1999?) and flashes a perfectly organized, well stocked fridge complete with 30 bottles of water lined up just so.

Well my fridge growing up was just the opposite.  It was full of 11 kinds of salad dressings, ketchup, mustard, barbecue sauces...you know, stuff I hate.  (This is where I tell you that I didn't try salad dressing until I was 22 years old (it was ceasar). and of course you remember when I tried ranch for the first time. and I had mayonnaise by accident at subway once in college because my order got mixed up with the person behind me somehow.) The point being, it was a fully stocked fridge.  Not something to complain about necessarily, but it was so full that I could barely find a place to sit in there to cool off (heh heh heh). Plus, unnecessary organization is my spiritual gift.  Hence where the dream began.

The dream was put on hold for a few years to spare those unfortunate people who lived with me from 2004 - 2009 from thinking I was completely nuts.

Now.  Here I am.  A place of my own.....plus Derek.  And it just so happens that Derek is in love with every condiment, sauce, spice, and "accessory" sort of foods (you know...olives or pickles), known to man.  I am officially living with my worst nightmare of a fridge.

Oh and did I mention that something falls out of the side door every.single.morning???  Because it does.  Usually it's the "secret stadium sauce" and sometimes it's soy sauce or worchestershire (something like that?) sauce that comes falling on my poor big toe at 5:20am when all I'm trying to do is get Lucas' bottles ready for the day.

Every.Day.

Don't you feel bad for me?  Don't you want to buy me a nice big fridge with sturdy shelves in the door?  Don't you want to tell Derek that he doesn't need that Sweet Baby Ray's or Secret Stadium Sauce? Don't you want to come take one of the SIX jars of jelly that we have in our fridge right now?

THX. :)