Me? Quirky? Surely not.
Janel over at Pearls has tagged me for the 6 Quirky Things meme. It’s been a while since I did a meme, so here goes. The rules:
* Link the person who tagged you.
* Mention the rules in your blog.
* Tell about six unspectacular quirks of yours.
* Tag a new set of six following bloggers by linking them:
I’d like to use this meme to get to know a little more about my real life friends, so I’ll tag:
- Mother Hen at Ship Full of Pirates (check out her new digs! my Kittykait did the header.)
- Amy at Hof Peeps
- Stephanie at the Greenhouse
- Michelle at Our Full House
- MamaArcher
- my littlest sister, Alaura
Now 6 quirky things about me. Well…
- I’m very flexible. I used to give my gymnastics teacher the heebie jeebies by doing a back bend and then resting my upper body comfortably on the floor with my legs still bent all the way over and feet planted on either side of my head. Just for the record I can’t do this anymore, but this is why it’s so meaningful to me to be able to paint my own toenails late in pregnancy.
- I’m not a choosy eater. I’ll eat absolutely anything except black olives. They look and smell like those big black beetles do when you step on them. They probably taste the same too.
- I am phobic about bloodsuckers. Rats are ok. Tarantulas are ok. Snakes are ok. But mosquitos, ticks and fleas? Leaches in the swimming hole? My knees turn to jelly and my composure is nothing more than a thin facade for the sake of my children.
- I love studying foreign languages but I only speak English. I never stick with it long enough to really learn a new language, though I have dabbled in plenty, including Spanish (I can read it but can’t catch enough to comprehend when it’s spoken), German, French, Greek, and 2 years of Latin.
- I have very long toes. They look like fingers on my feet. Incidentally, that’s the literal Spanish translation of the term for toes. They call them dedos de los pies: “fingers of the feet.”
- When I write a list, the ink and handwriting have to be the same on the entire list. If my pen quits working and I have to use a different one that writes in a different color or thicker/thinner line, I recopy the list. If somebody else adds an item, I recopy the list.
There. Now you know the real me. Care to ‘fess up on some of your own quirks? Speak up in the comments or post about it and give us a link!
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Wow! We have a few things in common! #1,2, and 5 specifically. (I don’t hate black olives, though.) I don’t get grossed out about weird foods like most people do. I guess I’d eat pretty much anything if I were hungry enough.
lol Thanks Kim!
Too funny about black olives. I like a small amount sliced up on pizza, but forget it elsewhere.
I used to have short stubby toes, but they grew about a quarter to half inch with each pregancy. Now they are long. W-i-e-r-d.
WOW..#6 - ME TOO!!! At one job I had pre-marriage, during my annual review it was my only negative feedback: “You need to stop re-typing or re-writing things if they change. Just add them on and let it be imperfect.” It was so hard to do, and I still do it - if one of my kids adds something to my typed grocery list in their own handwriting I have to vehemently fight the urge to re-type it. I might be a bit OCD about it…it truly bothers and distracts me!
I would say that maybe the long toe thing is a many babies thing, but my toes were lo-o-o-o-ong before I ever had a baby.
Too funny about the list thing. My sister and her husband keep a write-off board on the fridge for groceries as they get low or run out and at the beginning of the marriage whoever started the list was the only one who could add to it, because it “needed” to be in the same handwritting. Fast forward a whole lot of years, she is expecting her third child…..now they make want to be sure the groceries get on the list somehow who cares about the handwritting.
btw: your daughter said that you were going to email me an address to mail the wilton’s things to, and if you have I apologize because I must have hit delete. Please resend and I will make sure to do a better job reading through the inbox….I get tons of junk mail…still trying to stop the flow…..or email me at:
sharon.byrum(at)augustachronicle(dot)com to better ensure I get the email. Thanks!
ok mine is up!