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February 2012 Moms
jmccall79
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GTKY...what makes you "weird"?
jmccall79
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A fun get to know you...what makes you weird? I'll start...
I'm a little OCD and do things in 3s...3 pumps of soap when I was my hands, 3 paper towels to dry my hands, 3 squirts of body spray...
Things have to be hung by "color" in the closet...all the khaki pants/capris go together, all the black, all the jeans, etc. Like color shoes go on the shelves together.
I like to sit with my foot under me, but it can only be my left foot.
I hate drinking milk, but like chocolate milk, but it has to be Purity. I will only use Kraft Maynonaise...no other brand and no miracle whip/salad dressing.
Your turn...
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Re: GTKY...what makes you "weird"?
If volume is set by number it has to be on a multiple of five.
I hate the idea of teeth on cloth. I know it doesn't happen very often but just the thought of it makes my skin crawl.
I often stand like a flamingo, with one foot up and resting on my knee. I get it from my mom. Like this:
https://2.bp.blogspot.com/_3N2FVQpNvcg/TDDsY6gMfNI/AAAAAAAAByA/BD87Yuk848k/s320/Flamingo.jpg
I do the flamingo stance too!!
I yodle
I have a really dirty mind
I can bend my tongue into a trifold
I hate olives more than anything in the world
I put my shoes on most the time before my shirt
I'm obsessed with toilet paper being on the CORRECT way, flap on the outside.
I speak a fake language that sounds like spanish to my sister, we communicate that way... Weird... YES!!
I hate chalkboards or anything that even feels remotely close to one, or chalk. I hate the sound, texture, everything. Ack. There was one week at church that our pastor was using a chalkboard on stage and I had to get up and walk out. Nope. Can't do it.
If my mind wasn't in the gutter, it would be homeless. I can make a sexual innuendo out of anything.
LOL Flamingo stance! Love it!
I'll add one more...if a drink has ice in it, and it's in a glass, I have to use a straw...or I guess in a glass in general, it hurts my teeth if I don't.
I have poor facial recognition (sometimes I'll see someone and really have to think about whether it's my brother or not...) and often confuse names that start with the same letter (or similar names, like leo/theo, lauren/laurel, etc). I have a tough time transposing number from one place to another - for some reason 7s and 4s and 1s all look the same to me (even when typed). Other numbers get screwed up, too, but these are the most common. It makes my job a tad challenging.
Otherwise, I am very tactile and I've been told I'm borderline obsessive about colors. Apparently mentioning how nice the color of a door is 3 times in one work shift is a little much :-. I love to touch things, too, just to see how they feel. That sounds really weird when I read it typed out, lol.
Also, I *love* peanut butter and cheese sandwiches, and macaroni and cheese with canned tuna mixed in.
I don't have a particular number, but I like things in even numbers. I'm a musician, so I'm constantly tapping my hands and feet to some sort of beat or song. But what gets weirder is that I tap my teeth, too. There are five places on my teeth/jaw that touch and I tap them as if I'm playing the piano...
I'm not quite a germaphobe, but I do wash my hands a LOT during the day and I hate when someone touches anything of Nat's because she puts it in her mouth and I don't want her getting sick.
I also have some social anxiety issues. I don't like entering a new place by myself; I like to watch someone else first and then follow. Once I've done it once, I can do it myself after that. If I do, I get anxious and I have to mentally go through the process of going to store/shop/location a few times before I feel comfortable.
I also don't like calling people on the phone, but that's gotten better over the years. When I was younger, I would freeze up when I had to call someone because I wouldn't know what to say. Now I can call with more ease and it's less stressful. But still, I have to make that mental plan of what I'm going to say before I make the phone call.
Oh me too. It was VERY DIFFICULT for me to even watch gymnastics during the Olympics... So. Much. Chalk.
I have perfect ballet turnout and can actually hyperextend my feet so that they form a slight V pointing behind me.
I'm somewhat of a daredevil in things that I'll try (never met a rollercoaster or fair ride I didn't like; I've been skydiving, bungee jumping), but I do not like to participate in activities that involve wheels (biking, roller skating, any sort of motorcycles or scooters) - they make me feel as if I lack control.
Oh I have one more. I absolutely cannot stand tomatoes. I find everything about them repulsive, the color, the taste,the smell, the texture. I'm grossed out by tomato sauce and ketchup and tomato paste and tomato soup.
Okay, I'm done.
My family is a Foreign Service family. Families like mine are posted in every corner of the globe. We live our lives away from family, friends and the conviences and comforts of home. We often live and work in dangerous places among those that misunderstand our intentions and purposes. Sometimes members of our ranks sacrifice our lives to further diplomacy. Please remember that we serve too. And I'm always open to questions.
Oh boy...
I have a really bad oral fixation. I'm constantly chewing gum. I'm also often chewing on a pen and/or my necklace.
I can't sit still. I think If I was about 10 years younger, I would have been dx ADD.
I'm a total control freak, but DS is forcing me to get better.
I can't sleep if the door to the bathroom is open, or if the door to the bedroom is shut. I also have to have things picked up and put in their place (even if that place is on the floor) before I can fall asleep.
I love to read, and have been known to read the same book 14 times in a row. I also have a tendency to read two to three books at once.
I'm addicted to drinking water. I also have a horrible candy tooth.
There is probably more, but that's what I can think of now.
I can't eat apples because of their texture. The sound bothers me.
I have an unnatural obsession with competitive marching bands.
I love office supplies, particularly gel pens and post-it notes.
I can shake my eyeballs. Creepy, I know.
I love all things Harry Potter.
I'd rather dip pretzels in salsa than tortilla chips. It's even better if the salsa is topping a dollop of cream cheese.
I have yet to find a wine that I think tastes good. For that matter, I'm not big on any kind of alcohol. Not that I am against drinking it, I just don't like it. I keep trying, but it just isn't happening.
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Towels and sheets have to be folded a certain way.
I'm addicted to the internet. I love LOLcats, memes and GIFs.
I have a weird sense of humor, and my mind is usually in the gutter. I love British humor too, Monty Python is awesome.
I love Star Trek the Next Generation. Jean-Luc Picard was the best captain hands down.
I love educational shows and Mythbusters (I love it when they blow things up).
I love dinosaurs.
I don't like to smile showing my teeth because I have a snaggletooth.
You guys are going to think I'm really weird, but I love rubbing of silky material between my fingers.
Okay, so overall, I'm just weird.
I don't like any chocolate desserts--but my favorite candy are M&Ms (but that is the only kind of chocolate candy I will eat)
I can't sleep with a ceiling fan because I am deathly afraid of it falling on me in the night (and have been since I was little!) Because I have never slept with a fan, I can't sleep with noise going on--it has to be silent. When DD was born, my husband (good ole pediatrician) said we had to have a fan next her PnP in our room to reduce the SIDS risk. It was like nails on a chalkboard to me! But I made it through the first 4 months, when we finally moved her into her own room. Now, it is blissfully quiet in our room again!
I can't eat unmelted cheese or maynoaisse on ANYTHING! If I know mayo was used in something, it tastes gross to me. But I love nachos or pizza or anything with melted cheese.
I was a rower in college, and I couldn't end practice without taking 25 perfect strokes. If I would get to 23 and screw up in any way, I would start all the way over. That bit of OCD probably made me better--but it also seriously hurt my ability to get to my first class of the morning on time!
I can't walk barefoot on wood decks--even the thought of it right now makes me slightly nauseous.
I clean my car out every couple days, I even keep car cleaning wipes in my car.
I toon a few piano classes in high school and college, as I was a music major. I'm constantly movin my fingers in a few patterns I learned. They were difficult for me at first but once I got the hang of it I can't stop!
My mind is constantly in the gutter.
I'm a girly Tom boy. I love sports, drinking beer, 4 wheeling, and cars. But I love shopping, and I like to look pretty lol.
I can drink whiskey without a chaser.
My husband cooks more than me.
I'm very good with numbers. I can remember phone numbers like nobody's business.
I love studying maps. If I go somewhere new I will always remember how to get there if I use a map the first time. However, I can never remover street names and exact addresses. I can also almost always point out which way is north.
YES YES YES! My Mom says I'm introverted. I told her it's probably just as easy to say "weird". :P
Oh, and one more: I am a "better" friend with some people on fb than I am with them in real life. I'm just socially awkward, and get nervous making conversation. It's like what I want to say never comes out right. I'm only "me" with people I love and trust. It's easier on a computer, where what I want to say comes out correctly because I'm typing it.
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That doesn't make you weird, that makes you awesome.
Haha, what doesn't make me weird?!
DH and I LOVE board games. We have a whole closet full, and B&B (booze and board games) nights are our favorite way to entertain. We will often spend J's naps playing games, just the two of us.
My brain is full of obscure trivia which I love to share, even at inopportune times. I'm like a living version of Pop Up Video. Besides music ensembles, my only extra curricular in HS was Quiz Bowl.
I use words like "inopportune" in everyday conversation.
I can't stand dirty dishes in the sink that still have any remnants of food on them. It makes my skin crawl. If it's been there for more than an hour or two, I will make DH wash it, because I can't go near it. This was many times worse when I was pregnant.
I like to read children's literature more than most adult literature.
The list goes on and on......
P.S.- Lancy, I LOVE that you are obsessed with competitive marching band.
And I also hate chalkboards. I almost never wrote on the board in school until they switched to whiteboards. I made posters for everything.:p
And mayonnaise ruins everything, I agree.
My brain is also full of trivia and I'm a fellow board game lover. We have a good group of friends and we could play all day.
I like to pick at things, for example, when I get a sunburn, I love to peel off my skin. I know its gross. Sorry I'm not sorry. I also pick at my cuticles.
I'm a really fast reader. Now that I can read on the bus to and from work, plus pumping breaks, I'm going through almost a book a day.
I have weird social things too like PP have mentioned. I used to hate calling people on the phone, but its part of my job so I've gotten over that. Some days I'm very shy and some days I'm out going and full of jokes.
Also I hate chalk.
I can remember what people wear going back years. Like...Entire outfits...The only exception is if I see a person every day and I don't care to make a mental note of them (my coworker, my husband). For example, I can tell you what every guest that I spoke with at my wedding was wearing. If I see the person, the visual memory just pops into my head of what they were wearing. Sometimes people think I'm creepy for remembering.
My Colton...Growing up so fast!
And Coralee, his baby sister...On the way!
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The volume has to be on an even number.
The toiletpaper roll has to be on the correct way with the flap out but also it has to be completely finished. No paper left on it at all.
I can flip my tongue over both ways and fold it in half back into my mouth. My second toe is longer than my big toe and my arms are double jointed. (DS also has double jointed arms.)
All clothes have to be hung facing the same way. Always with the front facing to the right.
I hate onions but will eat onion rings.
I have really hot feet. I hate socks, and when I am sleeping, I could have to blankets pulled right up to my ears but my feet have to be uncovered. It is worse when I am pregnant, and have been known to stand in the tub with the cold water running or in the wintertime I stand outside in the snow in my bare feet.
I love winter! I get so excited when it snows. This is mostly because DH and I love to snowmibile. The last two winters have been really long because I was pregnant and couldn't go. Totally worth it for DS tho!
I love anything Winnie The Pooh. Even when I was a teenager, instead of boy band posters like most girls my age, my walls were covered with pooh bear pictures. (Can you guess DSs nursery theme?)
I have to read the book before I will see the movie.
Me too!! And so can my brother
A+S | Met 8/24/06 | Married 9/27/08
Started TTC 12/2008 | dx PCOS 5/2009
6 failed clomid/femara/TI cycles, 1 failed clomid/ovidrel/IUI cycle
Successful Cycle: 5/12/11 - 1000mg Metformin + 100mg Clomid(late response) + TI = BFP
2/13/12 - We proudly welcomed our daughter, Hadley Teresa!
Lots of Luck to all of 3T/IF
I have one more... I LOVE Battlestar Gallactica! Too bad the damn show got cancelled!
That's interesting to me! When I talk, I "see" the words in front of me like I'm reading a book. I don't normally think about it, but now that you mention "seeing sounds" ... I guess it is kind of weird.
A+S | Met 8/24/06 | Married 9/27/08
Started TTC 12/2008 | dx PCOS 5/2009
6 failed clomid/femara/TI cycles, 1 failed clomid/ovidrel/IUI cycle
Successful Cycle: 5/12/11 - 1000mg Metformin + 100mg Clomid(late response) + TI = BFP
2/13/12 - We proudly welcomed our daughter, Hadley Teresa!
Lots of Luck to all of 3T/IF
The alarm clock needs to be set for a time that equals "9". So does the temp in the house. It is so stupid, I don't know why.
When I walk into any new place I go, I look for the bathroom. I'm not comfortable unless I know where it is (I think this started during pregnancy).
I obsess about what I am going to make when people are coming over, look at a million recipes, then usually make something really simple like pasta and a salad.
I hate it when other people use my bathroom and I clean it as soon as they leave.
I don't like anyone other than DH drinking out of my glass or eating off of my plate. I think it is gross.
I also have some social anxiety issues. I don't like entering a new place by myself; I like to watch someone else first and then follow. Once I've done it once, I can do it myself after that. If I do, I get anxious and I have to mentally go through the process of going to store/shop/location a few times before I feel comfortable.
I also don't like calling people on the phone, but that's gotten better over the years. When I was younger, I would freeze up when I had to call someone because I wouldn't know what to say. Now I can call with more ease and it's less stressful. But still, I have to make that mental plan of what I'm going to say before I make the phone call.
YES YES YES! My Mom says I'm introverted. I told her it's probably just as easy to say "weird". :P
Oh, and one more: I am a "better" friend with some people on fb than I am with them in real life. I'm just socially awkward, and get nervous making conversation. It's like what I want to say never comes out right. I'm only "me" with people I love and trust. It's easier on a computer, where what I want to say comes out correctly because I'm typing it.
exactly the same thing here!My Ovulation Chart
I have this, too! It's veeeeeeeery weird, but use it to organize my schedule in my head.
I agree! I love HP!
I read the labels on everything. I don't like nails on jeans, like scratching my leg with my nails when wearing jeans. But I enjoy the way sticky things feel on my fingers. I hate talking on the phone. I'd rather text and the only time I talk on the phone is to my husband or business people. My brain takes a crap when i'm on the spot. The thing that makes me comfortable when I'm around a lot of people I don't know very well, Is imagining that we're all insane. For some reason it comforts me.. The harder I try to have nice hand writing, the sloppier it looks, and sometimes I will rewrite things over and over again until I'm satisfied with the way my handwriting looks- such as lists & notes.
I have lots of things that make me weird.
I hate hate hate the sound of styrofoam, it freaks me out.
I can have a complete conversation with someone all while tuning them out. (I started doing this while in retail, when I would count the drawers down at night my associates would ask me things and I would answer correctly and two minute later have no knowledge of the conversation.)
Money all has to face the same direction.
Clothes have to be color coordinated, buttoned, and face the same way in the closet.
If I tap my hand on something I have to tap the other hand in the same spot.
I HATE sponges, I think they are absolutely gross and refuse to have them in my house.
Everything has to be symetrical and centered in my house.
I have to take my right contact out before my left contact.
I'm really visual and sometimes if you try to explain something to me and I can't visualize it I am completely lost in the conversation.
I remember all of my home phone numbers and address and I have lived in since I was 5, which is 10 different places.
Okay, that's all for now.
You're all freak shows! Only kidding! I could say "ditto" to probably at least one thing you all have said...that would get really long trying to comment on everything so I won't!
This has been fun...seeing what little "ticks" we all have.
Interesting! I was able to get through all of school and law school by reading a book, and then, during the exam, just "re-reading" the relevant sections we were being tested on in my head. I could "see" exactly where the information was, according to how it was laid out on the page. It isn't like a photographic memory, because all that information didn't really get assimilated into my head when I read it--it is just like I could "flip back" through books to find details to put on my exams. Very handy.
And I learned it was weird from an early age, because I remember asking my mom questions about why people had trouble with spelling tests because you can just see the word in your head! I must have been a very annoying friend until I learned to keep that one under wraps
On the flip side, I can't keep anything in my head if I hear it--in one ear, out the other. I have to write everything down to be able to get it into my brain by seeing it written down.
I'm a control freak, but I get mad at DH if he doesn't help.
I agree with pp, if I tap something with one hand, I have to tap it with the other...also, if DH kisses my neck on one side, he has to kiss the other side too.
Raw chicken grosses me out...DH has to do the prep and cooking of all chicken.
Im sure there are more, but I can't think of them right now.
I will do this too! I call it "saving the best for last".
As well ...
I'm double-jointed in my arms and shoulders. I freaked everyone out in yoga class once when I showed them I could reach my arms all the way behind my back and make the tops of my hands touch together.
I hate walking into a room of people I don't know ... makes me so anxious! I don't know how to make small talk without feeling stupid and fake.
I love filling out forms, especially if there are little boxes for each letter.
My printing/handwriting is unbelievably neat ... I've gotten compliments from complete strangers about it. It's also easy to guess that I'm a teacher!
I'm afraid of heights, but not in the conventional way. I can go to the top of the highest building and look down with no problems, but I am terrified (heart racing, sweaty palms, frozen in fear) if I walk into a space with unusually high ceilings, like a museum. I hate the feeling!
I'm obsessed with finding and plucking white hairs from my head. I have really dark hair, so it's easy for me to see the grey/white hairs and it bugs me to no end.
BFP #3 - 05.20.11, EDD - 01.31.12, Logan is here! 02.05.12
BFP #2 - 03.16.11, M/C 03.24.11
BFP #1 - 10.17.10, Blighted Ovum dx, M/C 01.09.11
I grew up not being able to use public restrooms. I'd go the entire school day without going to the bathroom. That stopped when my period started.
I hate calling people I don't know, and never called a pizza guy until I was about 19 or 20. DH made me. But I still don't like to do it and usually make him do it. If I have to make an important phone call for work, I will rehearse what I'm going to say. Either with a co-worker that I'm talking to about the situation, or to myself - out loud.
Every time DD puts her hands/toy in her mouth, I start racking my brain as to what she touched or who touched her, and if there is potential for germs.
I read multiple books at the same time, re read books dozens of times over, and while watch a movie a thousand times over. I had to purchase Moulin Rouge on dvd since my old copy was VHS and we don't have a vcr anymore. That dvd is well used.
I have trouble geting rid of things. I'm NOTHING like the show hoarders - but I will save pay stubs, cards from people, programs to events that I will receive others for (not once in a lifetime events), name place cards from weddings (I might want to scrapbook it!), anything I've accumulated for my career (I may never have my own classroom again but can't part with it, just in case), and stuffed animals.
TTC #2 since 10/2013
BFP #1 (4.14.14) ~ CP (4.18.14)
BFP #2 (6.27.14) ~ EDD 3.7.15
My dominate senses are smell and touch. Everywhere I go has a smell to it and that's how I remember places. I have to touch things. When I go shopping for clothes I'll touch clothes as I walk by them, even if I have no intention of purchasing them just to "see" how they feel.
I have an obsession with fabric. I love shopping and buying it. I love the way all the different textiles feel. Because of this I have a huge room full of fabric and no sewing is getting done.
My right shoe always goes on first, then the left.
I like things to be organized but I operate better when things are cluttered. Send me into a messy room and I can tell you where everything is, but once I clean and organize, I have a harder time finding things.
I'm terrified of the dark. Not in a childish way, but I the claustrophobic feel I have when in totally dark sends me over the edge.
I hate my wrists being touched. I can't even wear watches or bracelets.
Jessie, I love that you called it a muffin stump! That is the best and this last fact made me laugh out loud! I think I like you even more now!
Here are my weird things.
I self diagnose everything. If my car makes a funny sound, I tell the mechanic what I think is wrong when I drop it off. If I take my dog to the vet, I tell them what he has first. I explain weather patterns to my husband as if I know something about meteorology. And oh boy heaven forbid my DH or I get sick. I am on the internet looking up my symptoms and pictures if necessary so that I know what is going on. I am not usually right but it doesn't stop me from trying.
I hate watermelon. The texture and the taste. Awful.
I love to know a little bit about all tv shows so that I can contribute to conversations.
I can remember whole conversations that I have had with people. It's my pet peeve when my husband says "I didn't say that" because then I have to repeat the entire conversation for him word for word.
I hold in my sneezes. And I usually sneeze at least 4 times in a row.
I have a few words that I consistently mispronounce. I always say "Exspecially instead of Especially" and I will say that something is acrossed the street instead of across. I spell them correctly I just say them wrong. Ever since DH started kidding me about it I am hyper aware and I don't do it as much now.
I think ranch dressing should be considered a food group and I could find a use for it at every meal.
I have a few recipes that I keep tucked away in case Paula Deen ever asked me to come on her show. I'd want to have something yummy to make!
My husband is like this and it drove me CRAZY in law school. I can still ask him a case and he can tell me what page it was on in his outline from the relevant class. He can tell you who wrote the majority and dissenting opinions from just about any major ConLaw case dating back to the 19th century. ANNOYING.