Weird things I do

Oh....forgot one important thing....It is something that I can't help doing....if I hear some good rythmn and blues....Old stuff...like Diana Ross and the Supremes or Aretha Franklin ....then my head and neck does this funny thing to the beat! I absolutely can't help myself! It embarrasses the poo out of the kids if it happens in public! LOL! OH WELL! I'm the mom...it is my job to keep em on their toes right?!

To avoid the poo?

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I talk baby talk to mine...I started seeds for the first time this spring (actually it was my first real gardening project) I was so worried that I would mess things up...I would talk to them everyday (they were under lights in my kitchen)

"Oh just wook at you...you're just the cutest wittle basil sprout I've ever saw...you're gonna gwow big and tall for mama aren't you...yes you are....."

My kids thought this was a bit odd....especially since I never talked baby talk to them...also I'm pretty sure I have more "baby" pictures of my plants than I do of youngest child.

Donna

Ditto

I straighten people's pictures. Can't they TELL they're crooked???? Hmmmm, or do they knock 'em off kilter just to watch me squrim until I can't stand it anymore and straighten them for entertainment?

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I separate every type of food on my plate. I can't stand them touching. I caught myself doing it the other night at dinner and thought, well thats odd. But I can't help it.
Yeah, pictures on the wall. I have to straighten them. I was even in museum once and a picture was crooked. I just had to fix it.

I do that! I also tend to buy small items in two's.....I never noticed this til the dh pointed it out.

I did this tonight; my 6 year old begged me to put on "Bring Me To Life" by Evanescence (an alternative heavy/pop type band). I sing, he plays air guitar, and we both dance around the kitchen. Tonight during his "show", he hollered, "Don't mess with the Big Daddy!" Too funny!

I'm also a list-maker. I write down all my chores for the day. This is not so much compulsive as much as I would just plain forget to do stuff if I didn't!

Cans in the cupboard have to be turned with the labels facing forward.

I set my bedroom clock 15 minutes ahead. That way, when I get up, I'm actually up earlier and figure I'm ahead of the game. If I were to set my alarm at 4:45am, I would go back to sleep, thinking I would get up at 5am, and would probably sleep in. My way I think it's 5am when I get up, but I'm actually early. All other clocks are set properly, but I do occasionally wander through the house and make sure they are syncronized.

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OK, I do the grocery store conveyer belt arrangement thing too, but did you ever notice how they never all go into the bags according to how they're alike?

And I also take a song I know words to and make up new words for my dog and make the song become dog-oriented.

I carry little antibacterial wipes with me and wipe down the grocery cart push bar before shopping.

I have this thing about the corners of the pages of books, especially thick paperbacks.... it's hard to explain what I like to do, but I sort of 'riffle' the edges with my index finger, applying a little pressure so it really makes that riffling noise. I don't do this to my good books because it eventually bends and frays the edges of the books, just paperbacks or catalogs.

Forgot to mention by booger fixation.... every time I leave the house I have to check up my nose to make sure nothing is visible. Ditto before I get out of the car once I get somewhere. I'm afraid I'll be out in public with a booger sticking out of my nose.

OMG! Someone else does that too!? I guess I'm not as weird as I thought! LOL I do that for my kids too. I also tend to improvise on words to songs I hate, kinda like a poor man's Weird Al rendition.

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I don't think organizing on the conveyer belt is strange! I do it all the time.. I even separate each group by about 4". IS this weird??? Queen Bee

Haha I organize groceries on the conveyor belt too! I start with the heaviest items as they should end up on the bottom of the shopping cart, go from heaviest to lightest, grouping together the boxes, the bottles, the cans, yogurt, miscellanious things, and placing delicate things like eggs and bread last. I'd rather empty the grocery cart rather than let anyone else do it, other than to just put things on the belt so I can group them together.

I remember in college two friends of mine communing over the fact that they both loved to squeeze their boyfriends' blackheads - it turns out there are legions of you! Would be funny if there was some forum out there for you zit-squeezers of the world!

I was given a "you're weird" look today. I had to go to the hospital for tests and when I came out of the x-ray room I was trying to decide if the door was going to swing shut. I was mumbling "Are you gonna stay or do you plan to close?" and the tech asked me what I'd said.

I told her I was just talking to the door.

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HE goes shopping with you???
We are barely in the same house and not sleeping.
P.S. I do the arranging by type thing too. Baggers cannot be trusted.

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My next older sister has a fascination with peeling the dead skin after you sunburn.

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I talk to things - and animals - and loved ones who are gone.

Also,when my daughter was little, I would waltz with her when we heard a waltz. I even did it in stores - yes, stores used to play waltzes. I guess I didn't realized she was grown when I grabbed her in a store and was waltzing her around. She whispered in perfect time, 'You're embarrassing me." She was 17!!!!!!!!!!!

I like weird - as I always told my kids, 'Who wants to be 'normal'?

I will randomly sing one verse to a song and usually dance a crazy little jig, then continue on like nothing odd happened. I also try to find the goof ups in the patterns of people's wallpaper.

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Melissa and Fiddlekat, I could use your decorating services.
Zit-people and Blemish-fetishists: put down your tweezers and back away from the pustules.
Ewwww!

OMG -- I have an obsession with zits too, can't stand them! I have to spend a little while after showers checking for them. Fortunately I never had much as a teen, still get one every now and then. I always felt it was better to have an ugly red welt where it'd been popped than a zit just begging for a squeeze, as if I never bothered to look in the mirror.

I don't go after other people's zits...yuck. Well, not generally. My daughter is 11 and entering prime zit time, I'm afraid. It is SO hard for me to stay away from them. I asked her if she won't let me at them would she please get them herself...she hates pain...but she's pretty vain so she does, sometimes. I KNOW it's not good...could leave scars, but still!

My mother has all her hangers open side facing the back wall of the closet the same direction because in case of a fire that way she can grab her clothing easily off the closet rod.

We have cats, dogs and chickens so at what point her clothes come in to the evacuation plan I am not certain but I have never laughed so hard as the day she explained it to me. I have this picture of her grabbing her clothing an leaving us kids in the burning house however...


Take care - Terri

Other weird habits...

I do the song improvisation thing too. So does DH. Thanks to us, so do the kids. It's hilarious.

As far as grocery arranging...I really hate grocery shopping so I just dump it all in the cart as fast as I can without squishing things. But I shop at Cub Foods which is self-bag, so I get to do it Myyyyyy Wayyy!

I too peel dead sunburned skin. Fortunately only my own -- my kids have never sunburned due to my sunscreen obsession! With them, at least...I'm not so good about my own.

I pop my joints somewhat obsessively too. Toes, knees, elbows, neck, fingers. Drives DH nuts. DD does it too.

I play "air piano." You know, like air guitar?

I'm sure there are more eccentricities I can't think of...

I am also a "bump" popper. My roommate in college was and my aunt is too.

When grocery shopping for apples, I have to pick the perfect ones. No bruises, scratches, perfect color etc.. I will take as much time as I need and go through them all. I don't know why, I just like eating the perfect ones.

I am also with you who turn the can labels to the front. You will see me sitting in front of cabinets turning them all.

I fix pictures and mirrors that are uneven too. (got that from my dad)

I can eat fruit but I don't like fruit flavored things like yogurt, candy, even things like fruit filling for pies and cakes (I do like orange and grape popsicles though) Everyone thinks I'm weird.

Clothes and hangers all have to face the same way. All shirts face left and hangers are all put in the same way, no backward hangers.

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