only six?

I've enjoyed reading the "Six Weird Things About Me" posts on other blogs, and after reading Marnie's list and cracking up at her emails as we had a nice debate about Frozen vs. Melty chocolate (I'm in the Melty camp, but live with a Frozen) I decided to jump right in.  Here goes:

1. I have to take eggs out of the carton in a particular order:  first the bottom right egg, then the bottom left.  Then the top right and top left.  As I use eggs, I work my way through the carton from the outside in, bottom to top.  The last two eggs in the carton are always the top middle eggs.  I have been known to use a recipe that calls for only one egg if I have an odd number of eggs in the carton... it drives me NUTS.  I have rearranged other people's eggs.
2. My hair sheds a LOT. This isn't a weird thing that I could control, but I often wonder how I have any hair left on my head.  I comb out a clump of hair every morning, another clump after my shower, I shed all day, and I comb another clump out at night.  And let's not talk about drain maintenance.  Don't worry, no health issues here... I'm just shed-y.
3. I can't stand the sound of water dripping.  Usually before I go to sleep I have to get up and check one of our faucets at least once.  I really think it's a torturous sound.
4. If I get a little twitch, say in my eye, I try and replicate the twitch on the other side so that I'm symmetrical.  If I "over twitch," then I have to try and do a little twitch on the first side to even things out.
5. When I paint my toenails, I hate to remove the polish because I like to see how fast it grows out.  Man, if I can think of 7 things, this one is SO getting deleted!
6. I mix up words when I'm speaking.  Not the order of the words... I'll just say a completely inappropriate word.  For example, I once tried to say, "my birthday is in October," but what came out was, "my birthday is in Octopus."  Blank stares all around.  I have NO idea where this comes from; if I'm stressed or tired, it gets worse.  It can be pretty interesting to see what my brain comes up with, though.

Most of the people I know in real life think that my obsession with knitting and fiber is pretty weird, but of course, in knitblog land, I had to bring up the universally odd stuff.  If you haven't done this yet, it's pretty fun!  I thought I was weird enought to come up with a whole long list, but alas, I guess I'm pretty normal, so now I have toenail information on my blog.  Wow.

Comments

[andrea]

ha! love your list. especially the twitch. i don't do that exact thing, but oh man, i'm close to it. semi-OCD-ers unite!

and yes yes yes on the nail polish ;)

[tiennie]

Umm, I thought I was the only one that did that thing with the eggs?!

[kat]

thanks for making me laugh out loud. it was the octopus birthday that did it.

[Nonnahs]

Ha! This has got to be one my favorite memes to read, ever!

[Marnie]

Oooh ooooh, I have an egg thing too, but it has to be diagonally symmetrical so that the weight of the carton is perfectly balanced. I do upper right LOWER left and work my way in, so that the next time it's lower rigth, upper left and on in.
I shed like crazy too. I can't believe how much hair I can pull out. It's even worse if I've had my hair in a bun all day. It just collects and collects. By the time I shower, I have enough to spin fiber for a hat, only, eww.
Oh and the twitch, yup, I do that too, same for scratching and chewing, Everything has to be even on both sides,and I always have to end on the right side.
I guess I'm pretty much as weird as you are, for whatever that's worth ;)

[Julia]

Okay, I do the thing with the eggs, too. I justify it to myself by believing that the carton is more stable if the weight is centered. The funniest thing is that if I were to do one of these memes I wouldn't think to include it, because it's not even on my radar as "weird". I can handle an odd number of eggs, though. No issues there. :)

[Julia]

I just read Marnie's comment. I think the fact that all three of us do this is weirder still. Wonder what that means....

[Leah]

I do the egg thing too, though like Marnie, I just considered it a stability issue! Odd numbers therefore make the carton a bit unstable, but still manageable.

I just posted my six weird things yesterday! It was fun, and harder than you would think!!

[Mia]

My hair sheds like crazy too. And I have so much if of it, it is not funny. My hair is really fine and curly. And yes, drain maintenance is a pain..

[Ellen Bloom]

I, too perform a similar dance with the egg carton, so I guess it's not soooo weird!

Thanks for the tip about Casa de Fruta! Can't wait!

[Edna Hart]

I'm in with you on #3 the dripping water-if I even think it might be dripping I hear it. I use to be that way with a ticking clock, but I got over that. #5 I do this too--I like to think it's a sign of a very creative mind thinking before itself, rather than a very discombobulated person.

[Jessica]

Am cracking up over the eggs--no pun intended! And I'm with you on #6, except with me it's the word order. Esp. if stressed or tired. Very, very weird. And potentially embarrassing as well!

[Joni]

I’m in the process of doing some massive ring maintenance for the FiberArts Bloggers ring and I am contacting you because there’s a problem with your code. The code you have up is actually alright, except that the ring’s home page on the urbanspinner site is long gone. The new home page is:
http://unioncenterknits.typepad.com/fiber_arts_bloggers/
You’re welcome to either switch out just that one part of the code, or ask me for the basic default ring code instead.
Please feel free to contact me with any related questions/concerns. Once you have your code fixed up, if you want to send me a note I’d appreciate it, so I can check it out. Thanks!
Joni

[Moira]

Hey,

Pretty funny post. I totally do a lot of the same stuff except I am more afraid of having to put wool anywhere near my mouth rather than the sound of water dripping. I really can't stand the idea of wool scraping against my teeth... I know it's weird and luckily I seem to avoid it from happening for the most part but just thinking about it makes me squirm. I actually had a series of nightmares where I was forced to chew and eat a woollen mitten. It was the worst!!!

Oh and I definitely have the same word problem as #6... but only when speaking... and usually I have to do a whole word dance to justify the accidental word and make it appear as though I meant to say it all along. I like to think that I am more creative and intelligent as a result but I think most people think I'm full of crap. Ha!

I'm new to blogging by the way and I enjoy this blog of yours. Check mine out sometime if you like:

http://moiface-dangerart.blogspot.com/

Cheers,

Moiface

[Edna Hart]

I JUST WANTED YOU TO KNOW I TOTALLY ENJOYED YOUR VISIT ON SUNDAY-YOU GIRLS ARE JUST GREAT! YOU KNOW SO MUCH ABOUT KNITTING--IT'S INSPIRING.

[tara]

OMG I have the October/Octopus thing too! I have never met anyone else who does that. I'm sending a link to my husband.

[MJ]

The eggs thing is pretty funny. My mom does the checkerboard thing, so she'll use one egg from the bottom row, then one egg across and up one. I always thought it was cute. And now you!

[Miss Snow Pea]

Thank for reading my blog. I take eggs out in a certain order too. I am the same way with just about everything. I made my sandwiches a certain way, etc.