For the lack of anything better to write I’m rerunning a post from January 2006, called Weird and Proud, only this time, I’m adding 2010 commentary.
Am I still weird and proud? Have I changed? Have I stayed the same? Do I still march to the tune of the same drum?
1. I count how many times I hear the song Jack and Diane by John Cougar Mellencamp. I listened to him when he was John Cougar, so I can call him John Cougar Mellencamp. I’ve done this for about six years now. And you can read about why I do this here.
I don’t keep track of Jack and Diane anymore, but I do have my tally sheet in my safe at home.
2. I eat certain food upside down. No! I’m not upside down, the food is. Like, if it’s a brownie with frosting on it, I turn it upside down so the frosting touches my tongue first. If it’s a burger, I turn the entire thing upside down so that the top bun is actually the bottom bun. It makes no sense, which is why it’s on my weird list.
Yes, I still do this.
3. I lock my car when it’s in my garage. For some reason I feel safer knowing that if someone breaks into my garage, my car is locked. I can’t explain it.
This was a must when we lived in West Allis and our unattached garage faced the alley. I don’t do this now that we live in Menomonee Falls and have an attached garage. To be honest, once my car is in the garage I leave my keys in the car. That way I always know where my keys are. However, nothing sucks more to come out to my car in the morning to find my keys inside and all of the doors locked because my husband pressed the lock button on his key fob on his way to work. ARG!!
Oh wait. There is something that sucks more. Accidentally taking my keys in the house and then going out to the car only to find that the door back into the house is locked, and I have no keys.
4. I obsess about the balance in my checkbook so much that I check what has cleared my account every single day online. I put little checkmarks next to what has cleared and the date, and then I add up everything that hasn’t cleared to make sure that my account is balanced at all times.
Oh yes, still weird, still proud, and my checkbook is always balanced. There’s an app for that too. The iPhone app Mint is great at feeding this weirdness.
5. I only eat black olives on my pizza. Well, and cheese and pizza sauce too.
Yes, and no. I can easily skip the pizza sauce and I’ve added diced tomatoes, fresh basil and fresh garlic to my palate.
6. I have a cuddle pillow that I’ve had since I was a child. I can’t sleep without it. (added by my husband)
This will never change. I cannot function without my cuddle pillow. However, I don’t still have the same childhood pillow. It seems that one day while we were gone Phoebe (MY HUSBAND’S DOG) decided to tear it to pieces. I came home to a pillow case and a ton of feathers scattered around my bedroom.
7. I have an obsessive desire to vacuum. In my defense, if you had a cool Dyson bagless vacuum, you’d want to do it too! (added by my husband)
Me? Vacuum? Constantly? Guilty as charged.
8. I’m addicted to lip balm. I don’t find this very weird. There are plenty of people out there who are also addicted to lip balm. (added by my husband)
Oh hell yes. Bring on the lip balm! I have an entire bowl in my closet that is dedicated to various lip balms.
I had a similar idea…I went back and put a link to some of my early blogs….you know, before anybody was reading them. There were a few I really enjoyed writing.
.-= jon´s last blog ..My blog year in review =-.
4. I still — and always will — check my bank balance and individual checks every day. (Without a phone or iPod, thank you; that’s what my computer is for.) Some people hold checks so long that I can forget they’re still out. That has only happened to me in the last year, but, dammit, I’ve always been so careful.
5. You are graduating to fresh pizza, which is far superior to the generic cheese-tomato sauce-pepperoni type.
7. Go ahead and play with your Dyson. I love my Oreck.
.-= l’empress´s last blog ..OBITUARIES =-.