Geof tagged me, but I am not going to tag anyone else. If you’d like to share six quirks about yourself, though, please post them on your blog and let me know in the comments.
You might call them weird, but I call them quirks:
1. We have Fiestaware in light blue and yellow. I love our plates, but it’s an unwritten rule that I have to eat off the blue plate rather than the yellow one. I like the way the food looks on the blue plates so much more.
2. I read Entertainment Weekly every week from back to front. I do this with most magazines, but I always do it with EW. We also get Time, and I often read it from back to front, but I have less of a problem going straight to the cover story when it comes to actual news, I suppose. I don’t know why I do this with EW, either . . . Uncle Stevie’s articles usually get me worked up, so you think I’d avoid reading them first.
3. I read a lot of blogs but refuse to use any kind of feed or anything like that. Bookmarks were good enough for my grandma, and they’re good enough for me. (My grandma has never used the internet.)
4. Speaking of bookmarks, it bothers me when I am using an actual bookmark that doesn’t coordinate with the cover of the book I am reading. But not enough for me to ever do anything about it. (I read fast, so it will soon be over.)
5. Though I like quotes as much as the next person, I am not able to remember quotes from movies or books very well unless I have heard them several times. (This is very different from, say, Brian.) Unless they are set to music. I am a maniac when it comes to remembering song lyrics.
6. Yard sales completely stress me out. I mean, we all know that I don’t like shopping in general, right? I say it often enough. It’s why all my t-shirts come from the internet. But the worst kind of shopping is where I have to dig through other people’s crap in order to find some reputed “treasure.” I remain skeptical about these treasures. Melissa can find approximately 30 items for $2.87 at a yard sale. I, however, never find one single thing worth purchasing. The only thing I leave with is anxiety about not “doing” yard sales correctly. And so I have decided that I have enough of my own crap. I do not need other people’s. I will buy my “treasures” the way that people should. On sale at a store. With coupons. (And when I want to get rid of my own crap, don’t even imagine that I bother to organize my own yard sale. Because I don’t. I take it to Goodwill. I get space in my closets AND a warm fuzzy feeling! Win-win-win!)
(I maybe need to work through my yard sale issues. I should probably not have that much to say about them.)
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I like #3. Though I use a feed reader, I find that most of the time I head over to the actual site. Here are a few reasons:
1) You get to see the site setup – the fancy pictures, headers, sidebars, etc. Some people work hard on those.
2) Part of a post is its comments. I don’t know how to access the comments without going to the site. So, I need to go to the site to read the comments for the post and to leave my own comments.
3) I’ve left comments on previous posts. I need to come to the site to see if there are any responses.
Those are enough reasons.
Good points, Roger…And now I’ve just given you a reason to check Kari’s site again. I don’t like the idea of a reader either. Maybe it would save time? But maybe not, cuz then you know when everyone has updated and you have to choose to read or not to read rather than just moseying onto a site and being surprised “Oh! A new post!”
The yard sale thing though…girl, I’m with you. Not that I don’t like yard sales (come on…you’ve read about my addiction) but that you totally have deep issues that need dealing with concerning this.
Okay, we got all new fiesta ware in 5 new colors (bolder than your light color but not purple or black)
Pete refuses to eat off the blue, red, green, orange. Because he doesn’t like the way the food looks on those. So that leaves yellow and our old set of dishes. I berate him all the time, who knew he was in such good company. I will have to berate a little less.
I read all magazines from back to front.
Wow- I also have problems remembering lines from movies and quotes from books that I haven’t heard a bunch- so I write them down, or just search the internet looking for them. I am glad that you are so comfortable in your leetness that you can admit to reading EW. Now I know what to look for as a gift for you when I am “yardsaling” (yes it is a verb)for you in the spring.