A while back, my friend Ms. Kim had revealed 5 weirdnesses of herself (well, with her grand total of weirdnesses being 11). Now she’s tagged me to reveal 5 weirdnesses about myself — which I assure you (you meaning the casual reader) that I have several weirdnesses to choose from. So, to the point:
- When I am really really happy OR when I feel very very sick, I rub my feet together. I really don’t know why, all I know is that I have done this since I was a kid. I started to pay closer attention to exactly when I do this. And today, I caught myself rubbing my besocked feet together when I was eating waffles with real maple syrup. I do likes the waffles!
- Not unlike Kim’s “life as a movie” weirdness, when I listen to my MP3 player, I sometimes imagine myself (and whatever I am doing at the time) to be part of the music video for whatever song I am listening to. I get this feeling to start dancing on a pretend treadmill whenever I hear “Here It Goes Again” by OK Go. Whenever I hear anything from the “Kill Bill” Soundtrack, I am so wielding a Hattori Hanzo.
- I really really enjoy Black Currant juice. It’s so hard to find, and it seems to be seasonal as I can only really find it around the Thanksgiving through Christmas holidays. I just found some Black Currant juice at Marc’s today, so I am totally stoked. Thanks Melinda, for that little quirk.
- I think I am mildly obsessed with Craig’s List “Missed Connection” section. The ones that are my favorite posting are probably those where someone describes their “missed connection” in great detail…I wonder if those postings are ever answered. Since I’m not exactly sure if I believe in love at first sight, it fascinates me to read these postings where others pour out their hearts to a relatively faceless community. The other side of that coin is that there is a lot of “stalker” type of postings there too… total buzzkill. I dunno if this is even really a “weirdness”, but I’ve not really met anyone else that could confess they read the “Missed Connections” with such regularity.
- I sleepwalk. I am a sleepwalker. I’ve fallen out of the top bunk of my college dorm bed, taken showers, microwaved food, and walked around to different parts of the house at night….all while dead asleep. I sometimes wake up at night, and I see things moving around and I am so convinced that they are real. I woken up numerous times standing in front windows. I have woken up crying on occasion.
- I know it was supposed to be five, but I’ve decided to give you the sixth weirdness as a gift. I am terrified of lightning. I know everyone and my husband will tell me of how the statistics are in my favor to NOT get zapped by lightning, yet I still can’t shake the fear after hear a particularly LOUD CRACK of thunder. Even my mom thinks this particular fear is a bit odd, and maybe this is something I should grow out of. Maybe one day I will, but for now, I will just wait the storm out sitting in my car thanksverymuch.
So I pass the challenge on: What are your weirdnesses?
Should I really bite on this?
More to the point, can I rightly just stop at five?
Oh, yeah, I think this whole post is just begging for mockery of my weirdnesses…. or maybe additional weirdnesses of myself that I have not yet observed…
Go for broke.
I was talking about me, silly.
OK. I’ll bite. I’ll stop at just five.
1) I talk to myself. Constantly. I’m apparently love the sound of my own voice, I guess. But I’ve always sounded out ideas in the air than in my head, even when I was little. As I’ve gotten older though, I’ve noticed I’ve gotten worse at reigning it in, and find myself often being looked at as the mad hatter muttering to himself – when I suddenly notice I’m not the only one walking down the hall.
At work here from between 4:30 and 7:00pm, this building is a ghost town, which makes it even worse.
2) I steamroller many conversations I get involved in. I interrupt people, finish sentences, over-talk, and over-reach. I have so little of an ego usually, it appears that only in conversation does it really assert itself. (Or in long-winded blog posts, too) I sense when I’m doing it, I catch it, it drives me nuts. I think part of it comes out of Apple, where I have to give out a lot of info in a very short time, since I typically talk to people with very, very short attention spans. (over heard over many a cell phone: “Hey, I’m the iPod stoore, hey-yuck.”)
3) I seem only at my most eloquent, subdued, and normal when there’s girls involved. (It’s a bit of false advertising, really.) I seem to be pretty good at chatting up people who I’m interested in, and occasionally I wonder, why in the frick can’t I just be that normal all the time? Of course, I then either a) mess it up when I try to close the deal or b) make poor decisions and wind up being interested in a person that’s more of a nutter than I am.
(Actually, I know the reason I can’t be normal. It’s boring. So very, very boring.)
4. I have a odd sense of reverse vertigo. I have no probably being up at heights (not a great flyer, but drugs and a well-loaded iPod help with that) but occasionally being around tall buildings, or more often, looking up or at tall buildings makes me light-headed. Want to put me on the ground? Have me near the base of a high building and have me look up at it. I get wobbly in no time.
5. I still occasionally eat like Ally Sheedy in The Breakfast Club. I chew ice constantly. Dorito and ham sandwiches? Sure. I’ll occasionally suck on chicken bouillon cubes – I know it’s just a cube of chicken-flavored salt – don’t care. Soup crackers as a late night snack? You bet. The cat likes them, too. I once tried to mix Seagram’s and Gatorade, but that doesn’t count. That one I chalk up to was youthful misadventure. Besides, any alcohol that comes in a shatter-proof bottle doesn’t mix with anything… an-y-thing.
There. I’ve stopped at five.
As for your extra bonus phobia – I’ve have always loved storms. The more evil sounding, the more I want to be in the middle of it. I don’t how or why. I feel really secure during a bad storm. When the power goes out – yeah, that sorta sucks – but the natural power of it is calming and somewhat awe-inspiring. Of course, if I was was ever caught in a hurricane or something like that, I might change my tune.