Alisa tagged me for “six weird things.†Do you know how hard it is to find weird things I haven’t already talked about extensively that aren’t too personal to share on the internets?
1. The toenails on my big toes grow in such a way that they poke holes in my shoes. It has been this way for as long as I can remember – I always had holes in my Keds in middle school, for example. I apparently got this from my dad – I learned that when my mom pointed out that my toenails might look nice if I’d let them grow a little longer, and I informed her that wasn’t really possible. I have to keep them trimmed or constantly buy new shoes. Thanks, Dad.
2. I alternate between “typing†the letters of things that I’m thinking about and signing the letters of the things I’m thinking about. I do the typing more when I’m stressed out – I find signing more calming.
3. I am more likely to check the end of a novel than to let the story unfold. This is partly just because I think I can enjoy the story better if I know what’s happening, what the author is doing, and partly maybe because I have some control issues and some issues about being informed/not being left out.
4. This sounds similar to the last one, but is actually pretty different. When I read a magazine, unless there’s a story I am particularly looking for, I am more likely to start at the end and work my way to the front than to start at the beginning and work backwards. When I was in school, that was also how I preferred to take tests. (I hated the GRE for that reason – I was forced to work within the confines of how THE MAN/the computer said I had to take the test.)
5. I love to drink milk when I eat Italian food or when I eat chips and salsa. I know this is not uncommon, but Mike thinks it’s weird, so I’m including it.
6. I haven’t seen a lot of movies that I really should have seen at some point and will now probably not bother to see, including but not limited to: Braveheart, Ferris Bueller’s Day Off, The Matrix, Die Hard, Pulp Fiction, Groundhog Day, Caddyshack . . . I can’t think of any more. But I’m sure that Mike and Brian can remind me of some others. Because there are a lot. Also, I hate E.T. I am pretty sure this makes me un-American. And I only saw Goonies once.
(I make my bed every morning, unless I’m planning to change the sheets that afternoon. And at some point that day, I will still make up the bed completely. But I choose to believe that is not weird.)
I am not going to tag anyone, but if you haven’t done it and you’d like to, you’re it!
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I’ll do it! But I’ll do it here because my blog sucks.
1) I scratch my nose with my knuckles, always in an upward motion.
2) I twirl a pen between my fingers when I’m bored or preoccupied, and I can now do this with both hands.
3) I live on Kiwi Strawberry Propel, and have since my kidney stones last April.
4) I wear a thumb ring.
5) I read in bed a lot, and I almost always fall asleep within the first few pages.
6) I use quotes and references from things I’ve read and seen MUCH more than people realize I do; it probably makes up 25% of all my conversation.
I am the exact opposite about magazines, I read them front to back with no exceptions. I don’t even skip ahead to finish reading an article that is concluded in the back of the magazine, I just pick it up when I get to that page.
do you hate goonies also? i mean, if you hate both ET and goonies, then i think you should be forced to wear an american flag bandana to work for a whole week.
I always pick up a magazine and read it from back to front. Same with books, I will skim the last chapter once I have started a book. I have always thought this was weird.
Let me know when you have to wear that bandana, Kari. [I don't hate E.T., but I don't exactly want to pop it in the ol' DVD player, either. Not that I'd willingly own it.]
I don’t hate Goonies. I just only saw it once. We did have a Nintendo game that was Goonies, and I liked that.