STYLETHREAD -- LET'S TALK SHOP!

lol! you're too much!

I duck when we drive under bridges/overpasses. And I sit up taller when driving past firehydrants/trees (kind of like my head is jumping over it)

-- Edited by ILoveChoo at 15:54, 2007-03-14

I am odd too.

1.  I HATE when my food touches on a plate too.  I love the divider plates (my mom keeps them at her house for me to use during family get togethers and holidays).  If my food touches I will eat up to a certain point of where it touches and then I won't go any further.
2. I dislike ketchup and won't even touch it to pass a bottle.

3. I drink out of a coffee cup everyday, but I only put water in it.

That's all I can think of for now, but I know there are ton more. 

Y'all are too much! Hilarious. Personally, I love it when my food touches. I try to make as many combo dishes as possible, just so more food can touch.

My weird thing is that I count. I count everything and anything. Especially if I'm under some sort of mental distress. During law school, I could have told you how many steps it took to get from each level of the parking garage to each of the main areas of the school (library, certain classrooms, common areas, etc.). This is the sole reason I can't stand spinning. The clock is right in front of me and I find myself doing odd fractional counts based on the number of minutes for a certain part of the class and the number of times I pedal. It disturbs me so much I avoid the class at all costs. (I turn most of my counting escapades into some sort of fraction debacle - I can almost always tell you what portion of the day, or project or walking distance or whatever, is left at any given time.)        

1. Somewhat like Blubirde here but I don't count things. I have been spelling words out in
    head since I was about 10 years old. I have to sound them out too (even if it's an easy
    word.

2. Before I go out somewhere, I pull on the door to make sure it locked. There is not set
    number of times it's just until I feel "comfortable."

3. When I'm sleeping, I wake up everytime I turn. I don't sleep well. If I'm laying on my left 
    side and want to lay on my stomach I have to turn to the right and then down to my
    stomach. I don't know why I have to make this almost 360 degree turn to do that.

4. I have to wipe down my utensils, plates and rinse my glasses before I use them. Yes, even
    if they are clean or just washed.

I am super odd and it is nice to know that I am not alone. Here are some of mine:

-I loathe white socks. I feel that the devil spins them from his personal loom.
-I HATE the Dave Matthews Band. While I do not consider this odd and just a musical preference all of my college friends have assured me that this is an extremely alien thought.
-I drink at least two gallons of water a day and cannot even function in the morning before I have had at least two glasses of water. (This is a medical thing, but my BF still finds it odd.)
-I HATE cheese. Particularly the smell of Kraft Mac & Cheese. When I was in college my roomies were forbidden from making it if I was in the house because I would vomit from the smell.
-I love 80's hair bands. I cannot get enough of them.

I hate when anyone leaves time leftover on the microwave. Even if its not at my house I have to delete it.

When I got to the bathroom in someone else's house and the shower curtain is closed, I have to look and make sure no one is hiding there. Every single time.

I make up little songs in my head about really random stuff. Like if I'm walking and I see a random person in a red shirt I'll make up a little song about them "red shirt lady, walking to the store, red shirt lady, reddddd shiiiiirrrrrttt!" or something to that effect. I have lots of songs about my pets too. And food. I like to make up songs about what I'm eating.

I rarely call anyone by there proper first name. I make up nicknames for everyone. Especially the pets. I don't even call my mom "Mom", she has about a thousand nicknames. I don't think I've called my best friend her first name in about 10 years.

I thought of a few more: I am OCD about list making, too. Having lists help me organize my thoughts and I love writing everything down. I like being scheduled.

I find patterns in things. Like tiled floors or those dotty ceiling panels. Sometimes it drives me crazy because I can't stop seeing the patterns.

Its quite possible I am certifiably insane.

-- Edited by Metric at 22:13, 2007-03-14

bex wrote:

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i count words on my fingers when i am stressed out.  and it must end evenly or with the three middle fingers.  i've NEVER admitted that i do that to anyone... and it looks so weird to write it to you guys.

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I do this too, bex!  Except I do it with my feet.... kind of hard to explain now that I think about it!

I also have to plug my ears with my fingers if a car I'm riding in approaches another too fast.  I was in a wreck when I was little and the sound is the only thing I remember, and it was the worst sound ever.  I think that's where that comes from.

Third, I CANNOT look at, smell, touch, and/or hear about eggs.  When I was 10 I was told that eggs were unfertilized, liquid chicken.  I've been scarred for life since. 

        My final thing is that when my house phone rings (thus signaling a telemarketer)I answer in Chinese and yell at the person in Mandarin.  It's really fun to hear them stutter and get all flustered.  And it's good for me because it keeps me from getting out of practice 

these are hilarious! i love the one about sitting taller when going past trees hehe.
the only thing i can think of for me at the moment is that i play stare-out games with my dog. obviously he doesn't understand and i always win, but its still satisfying

I also do the counting thing...with step and whatnot. But also anytime that I hear music (I think that one comes from years of dance training)