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October 10, 2005
Idiosyncrasies, Schmidiosyncrasies
So Gloria tagged me (yay!) to come up with five ways in which I'm a weirdo. Or you know, five idiosyncracies I have and am willing to own up to. So here goes.
1. I still have a sticker collection. Yes, I am in fourth grade.
2. First thing I do when I get home is to put on pajamas. I like to think it's just because, as Cher Horowitz once said, "My party clothes are so binding." And this might have been true when I wore a suit every day, but now it's just because: how wonderful are pajamas? I know this luxury has to end some day. I can't pass this habit onto the children I'll allegedly produce one day. Can I? No. Yes? No.
3. I take a lot of baths. The first one I take is in the morning, sometimes preceded by a shower, but most times not because:
a) I am not awake enough to stand, and
b) A bath affords at least 10 minutes of extra psuedo-sleep.
I also usually end the day with one. And in the winter, I have such a hard time maintaining a normal core body temperature (poor circulation), I often take an extra one when I get home from work/school to warm myself back up. My record is winter 1997 in D.C. when one day I had to take five. I know! you could bathe an entire country in the water I waste! And I'll take that guilt to my grave. But at least since I'll probably be in hell for my lack of water conservation, I'll be warm there!
4. I usually buy my shoes one size too big. I'm not quite sure why this is. Maybe having visually larger feet lengthens my ridiculously short frame in my mind's eye. Maybe it's the same reason I also like to carry packages that are too big for me, and am secretly proud I have an abnormally large noggin. I'll leave that to Freud.
5. OK, this one is really like a few idiosyncracies in one and if you've read this blog with any regularity you already knew these, but I take perverse pleasure in the following, totally useless skills I possess:
a) painting my own nails
b) maintaining a constant speed on the highway
c) cleaning my apartment thoroughly
d) spotting D-list celebrities
So who's next? How about Laurie, Gwen, Crystal, Carolyn and Neeta?
Posted by jen at October 10, 2005 10:18 PM
Comments
Putting on pj's is an idiosyncracy? Drat. Guess I'm guilty. I thought everyone did it...
Posted by: Dagny at October 11, 2005 08:04 AM
Was wondering when that constant highway speed was going to make it in there...
Posted by: Jeff at October 11, 2005 08:36 AM
Haaa. I do the pajama thing too. I don't think it ever has to stop. It would be a cruel cruel world if it had to stop.
Gosh, do you want to clean my apartment for me? It looks like a paper tornado whipped through it. I blame it on still not having a dining room table.
Posted by: Gloria at October 11, 2005 09:51 AM
I do the pajama thing too. AND I occasionaly have a "jammie day", on a day off when I don't ever get out of my jammies. I also take many baths and showers, and feel guilty about all the water. It's my worst eco-sin.
Posted by: jillian at October 11, 2005 10:49 AM
dude #s 2 and 3 we are sooooo in sync on (dude, that is why we are going to a PAJAMA JAM party together!! did you get that invite?). i will post responses soon. when i get my website working again as right now it will not let me even log in to movable type!
Posted by: carolyn at October 11, 2005 12:23 PM
Chico's! Yes! You are so right! I am so afraid...
Posted by: Jenny at October 12, 2005 10:43 PM
I could probably unearth my sticker collection albums from my parents. It's really only bad if you are still *adding* to the sticker collection. You aren't, are you?
Nerdy sticker speak:
Mrs. Grossman's rulez! heh heh heh Though I see you are partial to the Lisa Frank (at least, I think that Betty Boop sticker is her's) -- perhaps because of your obsession with Paul Frank's sunday undies??
Posted by: cant_talk_knitting at October 15, 2005 11:33 AM
Um, CTK, I am embarrassed to admit I still add to my collection. Stickers are so cute. I can't help it!
Posted by: jen at October 17, 2005 07:39 PM
OK girl, I gave you some idiosyncracies:
http://www.crankymonkeybutt.com/weblog/archives/2005/10/me_idiosyncrati.html
Posted by: carolyn at October 19, 2005 10:50 AM