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Oct
06
Yeah, I'm quirky…
2008 at 10am Posted by Rebecca Joines Schinsky
I’ve been seeing this meme flying around for a while, and when BookZombie posted an open invitation to participate, I couldn’t resist.
Here’s how it works:
1. Link to the person who tagged you. (check)
2. Post the rules on your blog. (check)
3. Write 6 random things/unspectacular quirks about yourself. (see below)
4. Tag 6 people at the end of your post and link to them.
5. Let each person you have tagged know by leaving a comment on their blog.
6. Let the tagger know when your entry is posted.
Being a person who firmly believes that good relationships (and good friendships, for that matter) are founded on mutual weirdness, I’m all about celebrating quirks. I have a freak flag, and I’m not afraid to fly it, so here are six quirky/weird/wacky things about me.
1. I believe the toilet paper should always fall OVER the roll, never under. Over is the way God intended it. My husband knows this and will occasionally change it just to drive me crazy.
2. I love to make up words, especially with my husband. In our 7+ years together, we’ve invented a language of our own that is virtually indecipherable (and very strange) to anyone except the two of us. Do other couples do this?
3. When I find a style of shirt or pants I like and that fit me well, I buy multiples, usually in every color offered.
4. I don’t eat lettuce because the texture weirds me out. Same goes for oranges—love the flavor and smell, can’t handle the texture.
5. I LOVE chicken fingers with a passion you normally only see in five-year-olds. Chicken fingers and honey mustard. Awwwww yeah.
6. I generally try not to leave the house on Sundays—Sundays are for sleeping in, staying in my pajamas all day, and reading a good book while I’m curled up on the couch with my hubby, who is also staying in his pajamas all day. I’ll go out of my way to do all my errands on Saturday so I won’t have to go anywhere or doing anything on Sunday, and I’ve trained my friends and family to know that. If you want me to leave the house on Sunday, it better be for something really exciting.
It’s funny—I know I have a lot of quirks, but it’s hard to think of them on the spot. I’ve been doing tag-a-blogger memes pretty frequently lately, so I’m going to borrow BookZombie’s idea and invite anyone who wants to participate to share your quirks with us. Leave a comment or link here and tell me how weird you are!
Happy Monday!
I am so with you on the toilet paper!
I’m ALSO so with you on the toilet paper. My husband used to just put it on however he happened to put it on. We discussed that and it rarely happens now.
I share quirks 1-3, pretty hardcore in fact. And I can definitely say that other couples develop a little language. My best friend has reported this since she’s been living with her boyfriend.
My boyfriend and I actually met because we were in both German and Italian class together one semester—and this in a largely French-speaking city. So our private language has a lot of non-Anglo influence. Knowing that any potential replacements probably wouldn’t understand me if I broke out in random Italo-Germano-Franco phrases is a serious barrier to breaking up. (Kidding, of course. I mean not really. But kidding.)
Oh, and all good five-year-olds know that chicken fingers go with ketchup.
Toilet paper and oranges … I’m with you 100% !!
I agree on the TP and I have been known to switch it around in other people’s houses too.
I buy multiples of stuff when it comes to myself or my husband. It’s just too hard and too time consuming to try stuff on. If one fits then it will fit in all the other colors too.
I’ve been known to change the roll of TP at work when it’s put on wrong.
And while my husband and I do not make up words all that often, we do have our own code that only we understand. I enjoyed reading your list and getting to know you better.
Waking up in the morning and seeing the the hubs has put the TP on backwards makes me furious (and I am a very easy going sort)
The secret language is awesome! We don’t have an entire language but we do have weird words/names so others don’t know what we are talking about.
Old Navy employees know by now that when the new tee’s come in I want black, grey, white and navy blue. I am very loyal to the Old Navy Tees.
Thanks for sharing, I loved reading about your quirkiness
We definitely do the couple speak thing. I think anyone reading our email conversations would wonder what was wrong with us. I’m not sure why it happens, but it’s funny. I’ve always wondered whether other couples do it. I’m also with you on the toilet paper and buying multiple colors of clothes that fit well.
I’m so with you on buying multiples! I do that for myself, and for my boys. If it fits well and looks good, I don’t see the problem!
Toilet paper? Yes.
Buying multiples? Oooh, yes, regularly!
Oranges? Yes. Definitely. Ick. *shudder*
Saturdays are my book-and-pyjama day. My mother was quite surprised when she caught me still in my pj’s at 2.30 in the afternoon the other week. I don’t know why – she should know me better than that by now.
I w/ you on the tp!! And on staying in on Sundays: I tried out going to church for awhile, but I just resented having to get all prettified on my stay in pjs day.
I like these quirk posts. I enjoy lettuce, but I can’t eat fresh tomatoes for the same reason.
Hi from Paris!
Just to let you know that I love your blog so much that I have tagged you on that theme.:)
http://lecture-sans-frontieres.over-blog.com/article-23562156.html
It’s all in French so you might not get what it’s all about but I thought you might be interested in knowing that you are read and loved over here.:)
(just posted this message in reply to another article but I’m not sure it got through – sorry if it duplicated – I’m sure you can delete one of them)
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