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October 2011 Moms
What are your bad habits?
I have many, here are a few...
I drink way too much Pepsi
I got to bed with make up on, a lot.
I am super messy. Even though I clean up after myself I just make tremendous messes. I can't cook anything without my kitchen looking like a bomb was detonated.
My husband says I open packages up like a raccoon. I tend to be impatient and rip things open.
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Re: What are your bad habits?
I tend to ignore things that are unpleasant that I don't want to deal with. I think in some irrational attempt to make them go away. Which rarely works, at least in the longterm.
I also bite/scratch at my cuticles when I get anxious.
I bite my lip when I get excited or really happy. I don't even realize I'm doing it 99 of the time, and I have small callouses on my lower lip from the impression of my upper teeth. At least dh thinks it's cute.
Oh! I have one last one. I'm a social smoker around one friend. I'll have one or two ultra light menthols if we're hanging out and drinking wine/talking sans baby, of course. Maybe once every other month. I loooove those two smokes, and have no plans to quit with it.
BFP 1/18/11, EDD 10/1/11. Born at 37w5d on 9/15/11.
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"There will come a time when you believe everything is finished. That will be the beginning.
I have a bit of a temper. It bumps me up on the hot/crazy scale so I'm okay with it.
I like to gossip, especially at work.
I eat way too much
I am messy and even though I hate being messy I can't make myself change
I pick at my cuticles
I can't sit still, I am always bouncing my knee, rocking, moving my foot, etc.
Both of these.
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I swear way too much.
I am still smoking (thinking about checking into those e-cigs again).
I am extremely impatient and easily distressed when things go wrong.
I pick at my cuticles and at my lip. It drives DH crazy when I pick my lip - and not in a good "50 shades" way. He gets really annoyed.
I leave my socks everywhere.
I talk during movies.
I interrupt people when they're talking. It drives my boss crazy - and not in a good way. He gets really annoyed.
I hold grudges.
I slouch too much. I am really trying to work on this.
Sometimes I say like too much.
I leave cabinet doors open without realizing it.
I find myself aimlessly singing ridiculous kiddie show songs in public far too often.
Most of my bad habits are really just my bad personality traits...
but here are a few of the actual bad habits 
-I go to bed w/make-up all the time too
-I feed our cats "snacks" of meat when DH isn't home and now the baby does too (but she does it in front of MH)
-I turn the dryer on at a minimum of 2 times per load because I never want to unload it.
-I make piles; piles of mail, piles of clothes....piles, piles everywhere.
ETA: I leave the water run while brushing my teeth...drives DH insane!!
I am so bad about both of these. We would be either be amazing or horrendous at watching movies together.
I have a ton.
Pick my cuticles/fingernails
Chomp ice incessantly
Leave lights/fans on in every room (DH loves this one)
Don't flush the toilet during the night
Spend too much time on the computer
I don't have that much time, the list would be easier if you asked what my good habits were.
I'm very inpatient. Which also means I get a temper very quickly. I also married the worlds most patient man alive.
I get really wound up about being "on schedule" if we're going somewhere. DH just goes with the flow so usually our trips begin with us fighting.
I don't floss, ever. And I feel like telling my dentist to back the F off. I know I should but I don't. Let's just all move on.
After reading everyone's I realize I do a lot of those things too, like 90% of them.
I am bad about washing my face every night
I chew the insides of my cheeks
I'm usually running late
I have a nervous laughter thing I hate
I crack my knuckles.
I have at least one glass of wine every night.
I predict the ending to movies out loud and am often right-DH says it ruins movies for him.
I'm a control freak. I often see people do things in a way that I feel could be done so much more efficiently and have to really fight the urge to tell them the way they "should" be doing it. I'm often not successful at fighting that urge.
I'm sure there are tons more, but these are the first that come to mind.
I think we were separated at birth. hahaha F*ck is my FAVORITE word, I am a social smoker, and I have ZERO patience.. Oh, and I am a terrible nail biter!
I bit my nails till I was 21. Stopped for 16 years, started again after the birth of B. Can't stop.
I heard this morning on the radio that nail biting is now classified as OCD.
Compulsions like nail biting, hair pulling, etc are hard to classify and hard to treat. I'm ashamed to say that I have this form of OCD. I started picking at my gums (by that I mean that I use my fingernails to pinch or scratch off pieces of the gum tissue around my teeth) when I was 9 years old. I've had gum grafts to repair the damaged tissues, and will probably need another surgery soon. Right now, I'm taking SSRIs to try to suppress the urge to do this and I get fake nails because they're less sharp than my real nails, so it limits the damage I can do to myself. I'm doing everything I can to try to stop, but I've been failing for 20 years now.
I usually don't rub to clean my contact lenses at night. I'm really trying to improve this bad habit though.
Most of the bad habits listed are mine too.
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OCT 2011 Moms BlogI bite my cuticles. I also scratch them. My hands look like s hit.
I curse like a pirate. And I have no intention to stop.
I am messy.
If I feel like I cannot get stuff done completely the way I want I won't even start.
I make piles.
I pull out hairs and roll them to little balls. Drives DH nuts.
I OCD about stuff like dog walking, exercise, pumping...
I hold grudges. Forever. And once you are on my s hitlist, I will get you back.
If someone has lost a hair and it's on them, I have to pick it off. Makes for awkward moments at the cash sometimes.
I...hell, nearly everything you guys said.
I bite my lip until it bleeds
I tend to scratch my legs until they bleed got a nice infection on my ankle this summer
And I'm pretty OCD about everything.
Mh says I need to add that I'm just plain annoying
I bite my bottom lip and peel the skin off with my teeth.
I also have a horrible habit of cursing. I'm always having to do damage control with DD when she hears me curse. The other day I said douch e bag. That was a fun one to avoid explaining.
I snack too much.
I have ADD when I'm cleaning. I start on a task and two minutes later I'm cleaning something else. Before I know it, I have many cleaning tasks going on at once. DH freaks out when he comes home and sees the mess I made during my cleaning process.
I crack my knuckles and lower back all the time.
I curse like a trucker
I am super sarcastic
I am a complete slob, I seem to dirty my house and clean at the same time.
I make the bed half ass
I bite my lip
I let things build far too long
- I have a jealousy issue
- I have a fear of karma
- I say sorry way to much
- I stick my tongue out and don't realize I am doing it.
- I never take my contacts out