Someone had a meme on their blog that named 6 weird things about them.
That same day someone else emailed me to say how very weird(maybe it was strange) I was.
So decided that I would just go ahead and share a few "weird" or "strange" facts about myself.
I have so many that I am going to do 10 for you just to add to the strangness.
1. I absolutely loathe going to the grocery store. I really dislike everything about it. I don't like to touch the cart(love that they have the wipes for you now) I don't like trying to think about what I might like to cook or worse yet what I might not want to cook. My grocery was just remodeled, and now I have no idea where anything is, so I wonder around like a lost child, and then they ask you when you check out if you found everything okay....NO!!! I like to put all of my groceries in order in the cart, so that hopefully when they check them and then bag them they will be like items in the bag....that never works out. I really don't like carrying them into the house, and putting them away.....it clutters my pantry and refrigerator. But the main reason I don't like to do it, regardless of what I buy or how much I spend, it still never seems like we have anything to eat!! Maybe not strange, but stupid and I unfortunately I can't take the grocery off my check list.
2. Regardless of the time of year I have to sleep with the down comforter on the bed, and pulled up around me. Plus I must have socks on my feet when I get into bed. By morning the socks are gone and the comforter is at the bottom, but must have them in order for me to fall asleep.
3. I also must have complete silence and darkness to go to sleep. If I get up in the night to go to the bathroom, I can't turn on a light or have anyone talk to me, as that is FAR TO MUCH stimulation and I will never go back to sleep.
4. I can't mix my food. I don't really like it to touch. I have to eat one thing at a time. The only thing I would ever mix is mashed potatoes and corn. Well unless it is suppose to touch.
5. I am obsessed by my gas tank in my car. I don't like it to not be full. So if I have just filled up my car, and then the next day need to go out and do something.....I really think about whether I really need to go out, as it will use up my gas......I think I have mentioned a time or two that I suffer from severe OCD!!! The guy at our Costco gas station knows me by name!! This is a problem since gas is $3 a gallon.
6. I am very strange about smells. I think my house always smells good, as I have those mounted air fresheners that spray every 38 min. But I only like citrus or fresh linen as the scents. I have a particular candle that I have a love affair with....Seda France Japanese Quince. It makes me happy just writing its name down. I am very quick to smell, and very quick to judge a smell, and can't be exposed very long if I don't(read, makes me gag) like the smell. That is one reason why broccoli rarely if ever gets steamed in my house. This was always a problem when I was flying to really smelly places, and boy are there some smelly places in the world.
7. This is weird and seems to be a huge problem for me. I really have trouble deleting emails. I need to put them in files for keeping(don't know how to do that yet) but this problem has been exacerbated by the adoption, as any tidbit of info, or advice I get, I am certain I will need it, and so it just stays in my inbox. I too embarrassed to tell you how many emails I have in my box at the moment. This is a strange obsession and very weird behavior for me as I am not a pack rat and am extremely organized. But I just can't bring myself to delete much!!
8. I change the linens on my bed at least twice a week. The notion of dirty linens just makes my skin crawl. Heeby jeebies!! So then I must admit that I also have a linen fetish. My linen closet is filled with sheet sets and fresh towels. I love to buy both!! I prefer white linens!! 9. I forget I like certain foods. For example I never remember I like bananas until I make myself eat one. I go through phases where I will eat the same thing over and over again, and then one day I just decide that I don't like it anymore. Plus, I can't eat anything that is just wrong. Like buttered popcorn jelly bellies, and I won't even taste the V8 splash fruit juice, as it is suppose to be tomato juice not "fruity tasting juice" If there is any question that the milk might be too close to its expiration date I throw it away...this one drives Mr D crazy!!
10. I am dyslexic, I have worked on this since 2nd grade, and overall I don't find it a HUGE problem, but it definitely creeps back in at the least opportune times.
Hopefully this list has helped you feel better about any of your strange or weird qualities. If you are thinking this poor girl needs to see a therapist....you would be correct(but then I would disqualify as a parent in the eyes of the CCAA) I have actually cut the list down as I have gotten older. I already admitted that I have OCD issues, but at least they are not quite as serious as they were when I was in my 20's.
***by the way I also am not a morning person....AT ALL, but had a job for 16 years that required me to get up at 0'dark hundred! and I HATE to talk on the phone, but really struggle to end a phone call, even though I can't wait for it to end***
Let me know your weird or strange habits, qualities or eccentric behaviors. It might help me feel better about how strange I really seem on paper....I don't feel that strange:)
9 comments:
Next town you're in town, can we go out to dinner? I want to watch you seperate your food (tee hee). Seriously, though, I don't really like going grocery shopping but I detest putting away the groceries. This probably stems from it being my chore in a family of eight.
Thanks for the list - very interesting.
I think that it is funny that you have the picture that you do at the top. Doesn't that just gross you out to look at? Smelly, slimy, dirty ol' frog.
Grosses me out.
Oh, you are funny. I also must start off with socks at night, and no light or sound when I get up to go to the bathroom. Don't know if you like Ellen DeGeneres, but she has a TV special where one of the jokes is about the bathroom during the night -- how you don't open your eyes and hope you're keeping yourself half asleep.
I'm with you on the socks & Milk. I can't take almost sour milk.
My weirdest is I don't like warm pineapple and I try to save worms on rainy days.
Wait - what store has WIPES for the carts????
I'm a sniffer too - I can sniff out something in seconds flat. Yet, hubby is perpetually stuffy from his allergies and can't ever smell a thing! I'll come in the house and say "what's that smell?" and then have to go sniff it out... and I always find it!
And I envy you that you change your sheets twice a week. I'm lucky to get it done twice a month!
TOO FUNNY ! I'm feelin a little better about all my weirdness now.
My worst one is I can't stand to hear an animal licking !!! I go CRAZY when our cat tries to give herself a bath. When she starts, all I have to do is say her name and she runs into the other room because she knows she's in trouble.
We are kindred spirits on a lot of those things. Not the full gas tank nor the silence sleeping...but many others.
I'm a gas tank fume gal and I can sleep anywhere....if I get the urge to sleep ;0)
I'm the yin to your yang on a few of these. I absolutely cannot sleep with socks on my feet. I hate it.
I cannot sleep in dead silence. We always have a fan running, all year long, because we both need the sound.
I don't change my sheets nearly enough, and I always think my house smells weird, even though it doesn't. I halluci-smell.
And I delete emails too quickly then later on I look for them and get mad when I realize I've deleted them!
I totally understand about the V8 Fusion. I love traditional V8, but the fruit kind? Hell no. It's unnatural.
I also refuse to drink milk, so expiration dates only get to me if I have to use it to cook. To me, milk tastes like blood, and that's just gross!
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