I was just clicking around on facebook and ended up looking at my cousin Candice’s pictures (yes the same cousin candice that stops by every now and then to leave a hilariously worded and sometimes incoherent drunken comment… i have a feeling her and I should have hung out more) and there is a girl in one of her albums with a sticker on her laptop that says "I think therefore I’m awesome" and I think it’s really cool.
But that is not the purpose of my post, my dear readers. The purpose of this post is to do something fun - and that is a meme that Alon Levy has put up on his bloggy about "weird habits/things about me"… I must say… his weren’t 1/2 as weird as I expected them to be.
So it’s my turn! Hiphip. I think the people who know me well enough know all of these… but they’re things that other people always find really strange about me when they eventually find out. Sam, Ash and Alon wouldn’t learn anything new from reading this (just as I wouldn’t/didn’t learn anything new from reading theirs). But for the rest of you… get ready to see the OCD/weird tid-bits of me. Anywhoop - here goes.
- I can’t use soap that has hair on it. It grosses me out. If there is a hair on the soap, I likely won’t touch it. This started out as a small thing - then eventually it grew to not being able to comfortably shower in a moderately clearn shower - it has to be clean. I wash mine and Dan’s shower every other day. And its starting to translate into the kitchen too. Generally Ash and I do a big wash of dishes once a week… but this weekend I’ve done the dished 4 times because the thought of a dirty sink is starting to drive me nuts. Its weird because I don’t care about the rest of the kitchen… just the sink. Same with the washroom, just the tub… sometimes the sink, but not usually. And I never clean the toilet - thats up to Dan. The thought of cleaning the toilet makes me want to throw up.
- I don’t like using washing machines that aren’t my moms. You can imagine how difficult living across the country from her has become…. I don’t think she’s going to keep shipping me my laundry back to me every 2 weeks. …I’m kidding, but I definitely bleached the washing machine here 2 times before using it. You can even ask Samie - I lived at her house (basically lived there) for 4 years… and I never once did a load of laundry or asked her to wash my clothes unless I really had to. She probably didn’t notice that, but its true. I rarely if ever had my clothes washed at her house. (Unless she stole them from me to wear and then ended up washing them too.)
- I’m not as technologically ept as I claim to be and I’m not as stupid as I come off… and I do both of these things on purpose. I don’t know why but I’ve always just WANTED to be good with computers… In the past few years I’ve really gotten better with them. …I can use Linux fairly well (i just did a huge update all by myself!) and I fixed my desktop computer all by myself… When I was using blogger I refused to use templates for the layout, I would sit and fight with the code for hours just to teach myself how to do stuff. As for the smart thing, I try to come off as dumber than I actually am so that a) people don’t ask me for help (unless its samie or ash because i love them) b) I don’t have to feel even worse if I get a bad grade and someone finds out.
- I look at maps all the time. If I know where you live - chances are I’ve scanned over your entire city on google maps and google earth. This is going to sound really creepy - but its really just because I love maps… when Alon lived in singapore I found his exact apartment building on google earth… and you couldn’t search for it or anything, and the area he was in didn’t have street names… I used a ruler, and calculated things and it took me about 40 minutes … But I found his exact building just from knowing the name of the complex. I realize now it would have been easier to pick a big location in singapore, go onto a mapquest like thing and find the distance from that spot to the apartment and trace it from there, but my way was much more technical and cool.
- I don’t know how to say this without the guy freakin’ out or something. But. I have this gigantorific crush thing on this guy. I won’t get into why this is weird, at least not in detail, on here. Those of you who know… know why its "weird". I just don’t want to make it a big public deelio… So those of you who don’t know will just have to trust me that this is worthy of being on my list! Mmmkay?! I will just say this, it relates to an episode in the first half of season 2 of sex and the city… Mwa ha. Whats great about that is that the episode "freak show" is in there - so almost every possible "weird" thing is totally in the first half of that season.
- I drink a lot of milk. This is usually why I don’t buy it, I just drink it too fast… Ashley was suprised at how quickly I drank a 4L jug of milk last week. I don’t know why. …I just like it. I don’t drink anything else as quickly as I drink milk. When I worked at Kenesserie "mom" (the cook) would get a jug of milk just for me… Where every other table got one jug of milk, mine would get two… because one would be just for me. And at Samie’s drinks are always put out on the table before the meal starts and they all know to just get me milk. I love it. I wish I had some right now.
- I get really nervous almost all the time…. which makes moments that are actually reasonable moments to be nervous in even worse. Then I get like… over-nervous and can’t function. When I’m sitting in Ashley’s room with her, Dan and Karl… I’ll get like… randomly nervous, that’s when I pick something up… I’ll put something in my hands to distract me. When I’m walking across campus I get really REALLY nervous, which is why I like to have my music… then I can focus on my iPod and the sound. Actually… the only place I don’t get nervous is in the shower and on air… which is sort of strange, because I should get nervous on air. Sometimes I even get nervous in my own room when I’m by myself… I don’t know why I’m nervous… or what is making me nervous… and I know it isn’t rational, but I can’t help it.
- I like things to be even. Like… if I step on a crack with one foot, I do it with the other one - just so the one doesn’t feel left out. It makes my life awkward when I like… stub a toe, I always consider purposly stubbing the other one just to even things out. Eating runts used to drive me nuts, because I’d have to put one of the same kind on each side of my mouth to make sure I was being fair. Its also why I used to have a hard time falling asleep… because my feet would be really uneven… like the same side wouldn’t be touching the bed or something… so I started sleeping with my feet hanging off the end of the bed (seriously…I sleep like a good foot lower than other people on a bed) and not covered up.
- The main reason I like sleeping is because I have really vivid and entertaining dreams almost every single night… They’re like free movies. Some day I’ll start writing them down and making screen plays out of them because seriously - they’re *that* entertaining.
- I hate parties. I almost always have. I get along with people really really well when I want to… and generally speaking I like hanging out with people. …I just hate parties. …I hate the randoms that show up, the drama that ensues, the clean up, the puking… One time my parents when out of town so I had a pretty big party, relative to the size of our house… I think about 3 or 4 people ended up throwing up in our back yard… Cleaning up and trying to hide the evidence the next day was totally not worth the party. (Although, that WAS the party that my brother video taped samie puking her guts up in our back yard with a giant spot light on her. I wish he would have kept that video… That was also Caitlin Hundertmark’s first time smoking pot… and that was a bloody riot. Ew, that was also the party that I found out about a year later that like 4 different couples had fooled around on my bed.)
….man i could go on forever… but first some tagging needs to be done… Sooo i don’t know, i hate tagging. most of my regular commentors don’t have blogs anyway, so I want all of them to leave something in the comments - and Suzanne, I think yours would be good and entertaining as would adorable girlfriend’s… And Gordo never discloses fun information about himself or I’d tag him.
- i almost always take gravol before going to sleep
- i have a 3/4 written sci-fi book that no one knows about… except all of you now
- i still sleep with 6 different stuffed animals
- i can barely smell lily of the valley flowers without crying
- my new found dinosaur obsession is usually veiwed as ‘weird’ by some
- i think weird monster anime porn is one of the most entertaining things in the world
- my cds and dvds are alphabetized while everything else is a disaster in my room
- 2 drawers of my dresser hardly ever get opened - not because there is nothing in there but because I don’t wear 3/4 of my clothing
- there is a toy dinosaur hanging from my roof…heh. it makes for a fun story.
- there is a balloon on my floor that has been there for at least 4 months
i really need to go to bed.
