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Friday, February 02, 2007

Tag--You're It

My dear friend, Allison Smythe, tagged me yesterday. Now, I have to tell six weird things about myself and then tag six other people. So, here we go.

I really resent wearing bras. Probably just as much as women resented wearing corsets. I find them uncomfortable, restrictive and curse them every single day.
I cry about everything--happy thoughts, sad thoughts, commericals, poignant stories, etc. If I see someone else crying, I cry too--even if I don't know what they are crying about.
Long toenails really gross me out. I keep mine cut to the quick.
I prefer chocolate cake for breakfast over all else. (Cocoa Krispies comes in at a close second.)
When I'm out of town and by myself I like to rent convertibles so that I can raise both hands really high in the air while singing along to praise music and praising the Lord. (I'd be way too shy to do this in front of anyone else. It's just a personal thing between me and God. So, I have to be out of town where no one knows me. If the car isn't aligned properly, this can become a problem. The other problem is the truck drivers think I'm waving to them. God and I get a real chuckle out of that.)
I can't watch torture scenes on TV or in the movies. Nor can I read them in books. I'm too sympathetic and it makes me nauseated. Really. Most recently, the new James Bond movie (which I *loved*). The torture scene really upset me.

Okay, the six specific people I am tagging are: Barb, Sandy, Phil, Michael, Meg and Mark. What I'd really like, though, is for everyone to participate. Either post your six weird things here in the comments section or direct us to your blog (if you have one).

On your mark, get set, go!

posted by Deeanne at 9:22 AM

19 Comments:

allison said...: Ah...I forgot the long toenails one! I'm with you on that...my girls try to avoid my mercilessl clippers as long as possible, usually until they've poked holes in their socks.
angela said...: I posted six weird things about me on my blog--one being the fact that I'm wearing Care Bear socks right now:)
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Katybug said...: This is so funny! Allison's blog had me laughing out loud (I'm sorry, Allison, but that milk thing is hilarious), but Dee, yours seem very very normal to me...perhaps because I can relate to each and every one of them! Does that mean you're normal, that I'm extra weird, or vice versa?! ;-) That being said, I'll jump into the fray. Please don't think me completely psycho.

1. Trying new foods frightens me. No matter how many times I tell myself that it's merely food, "you don't have to like it, you just have to try it", my initial reaction is abject fear. I can get over it pretty easily, however, and I've found lots of new foods out there I really do like.:-)
2. After taking piano lessons for 8+ years as a child—my last lesson was in 1981—I still try to figure out the fingering for a song or play a song I used to know…just not on the piano. I usually don't realize I'm doing it, then I look down as I'm sitting on the couch, reading a recipe, whatever, to see my fingers flying across the counter, my knee, etc. Right hand only…left was always so complicated.
3. I have been known to let my house go just so I can finish a REEEEEEEEALLY good book.
4. I love cartoons. I love SpongeBob. I love The Fairly OddParents. Looney Toons & Merrie Melodies are the crème de la crème. I could watch them every day for the rest of my life and never tire of them.
5. In that same vein, I love Will Ferrell movies. I love “Frat Pack” movies (movies with Ben Stiller, Luke or Owen Wilson, Will Ferrell, & Vince Vaughn). I can hear the collective groan rising now…:-) I do have some self-respect: I'm still not much of a Jack Black fan (although “Shallow Hal” was great and has a great message about inner beauty vs. physical beauty).
6. Last and certainly least, I love getting into ruts (I prefer "routine", but some would consider them ruts). I will eat the same thing for breakfast every day for months on end, read the same book up to four times, see the same movie over and over. I've averaged probably twice a year since 5th grade watching "Gone With The Wind".

Wow…a time of confession. I feel so much better. WHEW!!!!
Barb said...: Being creeped out by torture scenes isn't weird, Miz Dee! Pick something else! Tho I thought the rut thing (food/books/movies) was normal too....
OK, I couldn't think of much for myself, but my family helped me:
1. I lick the salt off of chips before I eat them. (Did you know one side of a chip is saltier than the other?)
2. I spend more time with my friends on-line than in person.
3. I put Fritos on peanut butter and jelly sandwiches. (Adds crunch.)
4. I put rubber bugs in my kids' sandwiches when they were young when they went somewhere without me, so they'd know I was thinking of them.
5. I actually wanted sheep.
6. I talk about the weather all the time.
Deeanne said...: Okay, Katybug. After reading Barb's, I think you're probably right. I'm too normal.

I've seen drummers "play" countertops and books and desks, etc. But can't say I've ever seen a pianist "play" anything subconsciously.

Licking the chips before you eat them?? BARB!!! And Fritos with peanut butter? Eeeeew.

The rubber bugs thing cracks me up. I'd do something like that. I used to write corny, corny jokes on the kids napkins. (And highly suggestive jokes on Greg's.) Although I have to confess, making sack lunches is not my gift. I mostly gave the kids a dollar bill and said, "Eat in the cafeteria." ha!

Did y'all go to Angela's blog? (http://angela-lightenup.blogspot.com/) Her list was fun. I especially enjoyed numbers 1 and 5.
Sandy said...: Ah, here we go, Dee!
1.I love to make chocolate chip cookie dough, put some in a mug and microwave for 30 seconds. YUM.
2. I have very short toes.
3. I love shoes and table cloths. I won't tell you how many I have of each.
4. I can remember numbers very well. It use to drive my Mom crazy when I dialed a phone number and then a month later I'd remember it.
5. When I was young and stupid, my girlfriends and I would put motor oil on our skin and we would lie in the sun! Can you imagine what the swimming pool looked like?
6. I'm very organized when it comes to managing my personal time, but my personal space is usually very disorganized (until I can't stand it any more, then I organize it).
How's that? I had fun reading yours.
Hey, it's the weekend! Have a good one.
Meg said...: Katybug, I can relate to the fingering thing, except for me it's a typing thing. Sometimes I "type" words in my head as I think. That's way too weird, isn't it?! I don't do it ALL the time, okay? Just sometimes.

Barb, I also spend more online time with friends than I spend in person. Maybe because most of my friends are online-type people. If my internet connection goes down, I'm miserable.
Sandy said...: BTW, Dee, I am in the middle of my "Ten Commandments" so I didn't want to deviate from that, on my blog. But I'm glad I could play the game! Thanks for thinking of me.
Barb said...: I can't eat chips in front of my youngest--he gets traumatized. And I become violent without the internet Miz Meg, tho lately I've been trying to do self-therapy on those occasions. Suggestive napkins? That's why Mr Greg is always smiling! MOTOR oil, Miz Sandy? I bet the guys loved you, tho! I like Angela's Star Wars nickname and Katybug's cartoon obsession. Have you seen the one with the chubby forest ranger and the bear?
Katybug said...: This is such a riot!!! I am laughing so hard my 7yo wants to know what's wrong. Barb, your first one was so funny to me b/c my daughter pours the salt ON to individual chips b/c they're just not salty enough! I love the PBJ+Fritos idea, but my daughter gagged. Surprising, since she lives on PBJ. I love the bugs in the sandwich--I will have to try that one...as well as the cookie dough in the microwave. Sounds like a tasty idea for the weekend! Barb, the forest ranger & the bear sounds like my friend Yogi Bear...or is it someone more recent? Boomerang is the best channel on cable: cartoons from the 60s & 70s! I LOVE UNDERDOG!!! HERE'S TO ROCKY & BULLWINKLE!!!! WOO-HOO!!!
Lurker #1 said...: Wow! Talk about being put on the spot! I'm not sure Sweetie (Dee) that I'm ready for this type of introspection or public debasement but I'll give it the ole' college try. I might also clarify in advance here that these 6 traits may appear fairly mundane or blase' to your normal cache of readers--perhaps I'm in just a different category of 'weird'. Also, why just 6 things-- I suspect I could list over 100 if I really gave it some thought.
1)I am evidently too polite to women and often get scorned for addressing them as "Ma'am"-- regardless of their age.
2)I am an aberration to the male species in that I am overly sensitive/caring. I tear up over 'chick flicks' (most recently 'Must Love Dogs' with John Cusack), I get soppy-eyed watching news shows in which innocents are shown suffering, and frequently I 'lose it' when I hear a melancholy song on the radio.
3)I drive my truck around with my 'roommate' whistling the theme song to the Andy Griffith show to him. He sits quietly on his perch with his head cocked to one side and looking at me like I'm completely bonkers. My 'roommate' is a baby, Senegal parrot tho' so he's helpless to open the door and flee.
4)Personal vanity is pretty much restricted to my fingernails--I can't stand unkept cuticles or dirty nails. The growing bald spot at the top of me head doesn't bother me (looks like it was caused by a kipha or yamaca). This may be because brother Greg already has less hair on his head than I do. (-;
5)I don't like the different foods on my plate to touch one another for fear of the flavor of one item contaminating the taste of another. Yeah, I know...'it all goes to the same place anyway!!'
6)I sleep in my birthday suit but I'll crank the AC down to just above freezing temp and then cover up with extra blankets. This often makes it real difficult to get out of bed in the morning but negates the need for any other 'eye-opening' remedy when I finally do!
Well, that wasn't too bad I s'pose Dee, hope I didn't offend anyone Ma'am!
Barb said...: Wow, male input! I'm so impressed! Miz Dee, you could make Lurker #1 your blog's male mascot!
Actually Miz Katybug, the cartoon I'm thinkin' of is called "Hooked Bear," an old Disney piece with the chubby forest ranger in the whole forest ranger uniform (incl Smokey Bear hat) and the sneaky bear he keeps trying to impose rules on. "Fractured Fairy Tales" on Rocky and Bullwinkle are a blast too. "Kooky? I wish I had a kooky!" :oD
Jenster said...: This is great! I'm cracking up over some of these "confessions".

Dee - I used to write notes to my kids on their napkins and suggestive ones to my husband, too. **grin**

Katybug - Sometimes when I hear a song I know how to play on the piano I start fingering it on my leg before I even realize it. And Meg - I type stuff in my head, too.

Barb - I LOVE fritos on peanut butter and jelly sandwiches. Have you ever had a fluffernutter sandwich? I just had my first today and had to blog about it. It was AMAZING!

Okay. I'm going to try to think of six weird things about me. Or should I say "only" six weird things about me.

1. Our pillow cases have a big fan and lace at the opening. I can't get comfortable unless the fan is facing the right way and the lace is toward the outside of the bed.

2. I've never liked talking on the phone particularly.

3. I LOVE peanut butter and maple syrup on pancakes and waffles.

4. I pretty much wash my dishes before I put them in the dishwasher - even though we have one of those that are supposed to clean anything.

5. I catch myself singing outloud with the muzak at the grocery store.

6. I talk to myself, answer myself, and enter into some rather heated debates with myself. I always win, though.
Deeanne said...: Oh, Phil! Those weren't nearly weird enough. I probably could have come up with a better "6 Weird Things You Do" then that! Although, the no-touchee food thing would have been on my list for you.

And don't you ever apologize for saying ma'am or sweetie or darlin' or whatever it is that has those gals' knickers in a twist. All I can say is, they must not be from Texas!

I knew you were a sweet, sensitive fella, but I didn't know you got teary-eyed so easily. Maybe it's because I'm so busy wiping my eyes, I never noticed you wiping yours!

Thanks for de-lurking and playing along. (For those who are wondering, "Lurker #1" is Greg's (my husband's) brother.)

Jen, I love the pillow case thing. That's hilarious! And I do #6 all the time. When I get caught making all those funny expressions while that dialog goes on in my mind, I loftily inform whoever it is that is teasing me, that I am "plotting" for my book. Ha!
Barb said...: The only "weird" thing on Jenster's list is #3--everything else sounds normal to me!
And any guy who sez Ma'am near my personal space is automatically elevated to rare Real Man status in my book! Pitter patter goes my beating heart... :o)
Katybug said...: FLUFFERNUTTERS ROCK!!!! For those who have never had/heard of a fluffernutter, it's peanut butter and marshmellow fluff on white bread (I still use wheat, but it's supposed to be white). We don't get real Fluff here in Texas--we get the Kraft version--but we have some friends in Boston that send us Fluff every now & then. It is truly heaven on earth. Don't knock it till you try it. I actually had no trouble trying this one...it didn't scare me at all.

Meg & Jenster, I do the typing thing too. And Barb, I haven't heard of Hooked Bear. I will have to check into that one. Fractured Fairy Tales are so fun!!! I bought the entire first season of Rocky & Bullwinkle on DVD a couple of years ago (6 discs, about 3 hrs. each!) and started showing it to my daughter. She loves them now! She may not love me after I put bugs on her sandwich next week, however. Thanks for the idea. My husband loved it!

Dee & Allison, thank you for getting this going. This has really been fun! I'm going to do this with my Bunco group.
allison said...: With all the weird food talk I bet you'd all appreciate this: http://www.candyboots.com/wwcards.html
Click on any of the little recipe cards at right. I think I shared this gem with Dee in Houston. I guarantee you'll laugh til milk spurts out your nose. (Just don't do it around me.)
Jenster said...: Allison - that site is hysterical! Thankfully I wasn't drinking milk - or anything else for that matter. Nothing spewed forth. :o)

And I just have to say that fluffernutter has no place on that site!