The Dirty Details

You know when you go in for a job interview and they ask if you're detail oriented and organized? I've always thought of myself as both (more or less), but recently I've come to decide I was tricking myself. I am more organized than I am detail oriented, but my when organization doesn't include details, I guess I'm left wanting.

I started thinking about my inattention to details a couple weeks ago, and I can't stop thinking about how much it permeates my life.

1. I don't like washing silverware by hand. I don't mind pots and pans, but I always throw the silverware in the dishwasher.
2. When I read books I definitely don't read every single word. I want to get to the good stuff so badly I skim some. I guess that's why I can enjoy books the second (and sometimes third and fourth) time I read them as much as the first. I asked Matt last night if he reads every word in his books or if he skims to get to the meat of the matter. He was shocked (and mildly disgusted I think) that I would do such a thing! He likes to savor books. I like to devour them.
   
3. I'm decent at keeping my house presentable overall, but don't look to closely at the details: window ledges, molding, cupboard doors, floor corners, the oven drawer, the collecting dust on tvs and computers...
   
4. Punctuation is my Achilles heal in composition. I'm also not great at proof reading.
   
5. I know I don't listen to every word that people say to me.
6. I'm better a cooking than I am at baking because baking requires more precision.
7. In piano I struggle releasing immediately on the rests.
   
8. I often drop and add "s"s to the ends of words when I sing.
   

There are more examples, but these are what come to mind. Don't get me wrong, I can force myself to do these things; they just don't come naturally.

I don't really know where I'm going with this. Just self realization I guess.

What about you? Are you a detail person or do you live for the big picture?