Jeff Lewis. What can I say? I don’t know whether to love the man, worship him or be scared shitless of him. It’s so bizaare that we share so many common traits. I watch Flipping Out with my mother and I can’t say how many times Jeff does or says something that makes her glance in my direction with that look that says, “you know that is exactly what you do!”

Oh shit. Am I really that neurotic? Compulsive? Obsessive? Well, I suppose I can be (and can be a bitchy queen about things too) and is probably why I love the show and find him so utterly fascinating.

I suppose it didn’t dawn on me until this season and the incident with the white curtains. They weren’t the precise shade of white he wanted or envisioned and he just obsessed over them even while doing other things and talking to other people. It just totally consumed him. How like me. When just the slightest thing is out of place or case in point, the neighbor’s pool filter hums and churns at the slightest volume level higher than it normally does, it totally consumes me to the point that I can’t concentrate on anything else. It grates on me and ends up sounding like a Mac truck to me. I can hear it through any other background or foreground noise and even think I hear it when I don’t. In actuality it bothers no one else around me but me and some can’t even hear it for the background noise emulating from the city.

Another interesting thing that struck me was last season when he was talking about his interest in houses starting when he was in his teens and he would buy home magazines. Uhm hello? I thought I was the only kid in high school who had subscriptions to all of the home decorating and plan magazines and designing dream homes on graph paper! Who knew there was another one out there. I did eventually want to become an architect or designer but it never panned out and I ended up a writer and programmer. But interestingly enough I ended up the home and living department of an online content provider for a number of years.

So the question begs… would I work FOR him? Hell no! Not unless bitch cat fights were part of the job description and he could take it as much as he dishes it out. Would I work WITH him though? For sure because he is tops in what he does, knows how to get things done and most importantly, done right… a man after my own heart.