Saturday, November 15, 2008

For Mags!

So I have been tagged a few times and I am a little behind responding, but I think they are really fun. I started one from Mags a few weeks ago so I will finish that one first. For this one you name 6 quirks about herself.
#!: I eat my food in a certain order. I don't know when it started and I don't always do it, but usually if I have multiple things on my plate I eat all of one thing and then I move around my plate clockwise. OCD I know, but for some reason it just happens. Even weirder is that generally if I want more of something I will get more of that food, eat it, and then continue on around the plate.
#2:I haven't ever thought I was particular about food until now. I don't eat fat on meat. Ryan teases me because, in his words, I dissect chicken and bacon before I eat them. I will end up with a nice little pile of "scraps" a lot of which he says is perfectly good to eat.
#3: Before I go to bed I have to put lotion on my hands and elbows and chapstick/vaseline on my lips or it just feels wrong to lay there before I go to sleep. I also usually have to sleep on my side with one arm under the pillow and the other arm holding the covers up by my chin- even in the summer.
#4: Most nights I fall asleep thinking of the words to "A Child's Prayer" and have done this since elementary school. I would get scared or have really bad nightmares so my parents told me to do this. I think of this song whenever I am scared now as well.
#5: I really enjoyed college, minus the tests. I would actually like to go back and get a bunch of other degrees because I think the information is so interesting. I don't think I ever will, but if I did I would get a degree in nursing, piano performance, Exercise Science, business, Interior Design, Culinary school, and Dietetics or Genetics. Somehow these didn't all fit into one degree-hmm wonder why.
#6:I'm becoming a little OCD about having our house clean and getting food storage. Besides putting laundry away (which I do not like) most everything else is actually really enjoyable. I think it is therapeutic to put things away and regain order in my life (symbolically) since it is usually when Alli is asleep. Walking in to a room and seeing it in perfect order is so satisfying for me.

So now that I sound like a nut job who needs counseling for OCD, you know all of my quirks-or at least most of them. I also have a fetish for paper-notebooks, scrapbook paper etc and cookbooks- I enjoy reading the recipes, and I hate it when people pick at things, especially on themselves. I tag anyone who hasn't already done this tag (specifically Natalie, Casey, Amber, Robyn, Cori, Kate, Erin and Staci) because it was kind of fun to think about how weird I actually am when I think I am fairly normal! What quirks do you have?

2 comments:

Annie said...

Um, I think I know a quirk that you forgot. You break food in half. For example you break a cookie in half and then come back later and break another cookie in half. I remember once when your mom sent a bag of rolls home with us once there were at least two torn in half. We are pretty sure it's genetic. Bryan and I chuckle about it.

Ryan & Amanda said...

Yeah, I forgot that one. I end up eating 4-6 cookies, but I usually break them in pieces. Kinda weird!