non-issue?

I keep thinking that I'll come up with something clever to write about. Even though much has happened (we've received our belongings, school is well under way, Joe has a job, we have a kitten…), the most important lesson I've learned, has come from Joe and involves the refrigerator. Specifically, Joe has informed me that the placement in the fridge is not "cataclysmic" as I seemed to believe. (Yes, he actually informed me that "This is not cataclysmic.")

I will disclose some obsessive tendencies that I have, trusting that you will not be scared to open your fridge in front of me in the future…

In my own fridge, it brings a slight amount of stress to place an item from one category in the same area as a food item from another category. For example, you would not put juice on a shelf that generally holds left-overs and such when there is a shelf with jugs of milk and bottled water. It happens at times and this is okay, but I do typically move the item to its "correct" place at some point.

This specific issue arose when Joe suggested I put the milk on the middle shelf. I explained that the fridge is not organized for drinks to go on the middle shelf. He failed to see my logic, so I expounded with the following examples: you don't put jam in the same area as categorically different condiments; such as ketchup, mustard, salsa, and salad dressings. These are clearly not in the same class of food items. Similarly, tortilla shells do not belong next to the soda. In Joe's mind, this only furthered his point, that I make issues out of non-issues, or that I am slightly obsessive. I still believe that it supported my point, that the juice or soda belongs only on the drink self.