Chili Fest

About this time of year each year at work we hold a chili cook off and we call it the Chili Fest. Several of my colleagues at work bring in chili, then others bring corn bread, cookies or drinks. I usually make a chili and bring it in to enjoy, but this year I just couldn't get my chili made the night before.
Anyway, chili fest was great as usual, but on the way home I noticed something in my car that made me reminisce a little. There I was driving home in the Xterra and I looked at the floor in the passengers seat. There in the rubber mat (and this is completely embarrassing for me to admit) was the remnants of a small spill from my chili from LAST YEAR!
A lot of thoughts went through my head when I saw that chili.....First, I can count about 3 times my entire pregnancy when a smell made me nauseous and last year's chili fest was one of them. There I was sitting at work with 9 or so crock pots full of chili boiling around me all day, the smell almost made me sick to my stomach and I usually love chili! Second, I now completely understand what people say when they talk about it only taking a short time to break a habit. You see, I am a neat freak...or at least I once was. I used to dust everything in my house 3 times a week, vacuum twice a week, 409 switch plates, plug covers and walls once a week, wipe down all of the base boards once a week and polish my wood floors once a week (vacuuming them at least 3 times) just to name a few things. Flash forward, nine months of pregnancy, one new baby, two months in a wheel chair, a month in a walker, multiple falls and a month on crutches and what do you get...someone who is out of their habit! I'm lucky to get the whole house cleaned in one day at all, it's only happened 3 times in the last 7 months, let alone find the time to clean up a small chili spill on a rubber mat in my car! Third, after thinking about the past days of my neat freakishness, I remembered a time probably about 3 or so years ago. I came home from work to find Robbie in the living room in his usual t-shirt and cargos, but this time also wearing an apron. He had dinner in the oven and was ironing some clothes while he was watching Oprah! Everytime I think of that memory I laugh!
Anyway, chili fest was awesome. The chili was delicious and I just keep thinking one day soon maybe my house will be really clean again! Oh, and I have not seen Robbie ironing, cooking and watching Oprah since!