Saturday, January 7, 2006

Admissions of the Quirky Kind

All right, I submit on this extremely rare occasion for a tag meme~~
I believe I've been tagged about 5 times between this journal and my other one.

Love you guys for thinking of me, even if I pretend a coma.

I really tried to play dead, act like I never read the tags, you know, fly under the radar, but this time, I need writing material, so I'll finally cave and attempt foregoing personal information that if I read this correctly, might not shed the finest lights on a person. Provided honesty is adhered too...............

******** Five things that are odd/quirky about yourself *******

1)
No matter the weather, or state of dress attire, I always go outside within 3 minutes of waking up. Now, summer months are much nicer for this habit, I can be found early morning wandering around my backyard typically lacking decent coverage. During the winter months, I typically grab a rob and slippers.
I need fresh air and no walls immediately in the morning or I feel claustrophobic.

2) I cannot, never, ever, absolutely NOT, write with a blue pen. Anything I write, whether it's in one of my handwritten journals, a grocery list, a scratch note of mindless nothings, doesn't matter the reason must be a BLACK pen. If I find myself tricked and holding a blue pen I will pitch a fit and search far and wide before I'll finish one word in blue pen.

3) See #2, because this ties in. I abhor writing on anything that contains lines. Not a single one of my journals has lines. My notepads for work, line-less My grocery list hanging on the side of the fridge, devoid of lines.
Lines are like the bars of a jail to me. I cannot stand them.
If I was on a deserted island with a blue pen and a notebook full of paper with lines, I'd pitch it into the sea and scribble in the sand with a stick before I wrote with them.
I know, no words needed, strange and unusual people have to cling to their quirks.

4) I am a bag lady. I cannot leave the house without at least 3 bags with me. First is always one of my handbags, for the money and necessities.
Second is full of writing material. Notebooks, pens, stationary, paper.
And the last one is a bag with reading material, books, magazines and Ipod.
It does not matter if I am going to the grocery store, or across town to visit a person, these bags must be in my possession at all times. Now, I do leave the latter two in the car while I'm shopping and such, but as long as I know they are within walking distance of me, I am content. Without them, I am lost. You never know when you could be caught in a blizzard, a wreck, broke down car, out of gas, etc and need the goods with you!!! I buy a lot of handbags, always in search of the perfect ones, small, large, beautiful and personal.
<add shopping obsession with bags to the quirks>

5) The most embarrassing.
I am irrationally, unexplainably repulsed by all things worm like ::shudder::
Yes, I know, they are the most harmless creatures in the world.
I don't care, I hate them.
One is not complete without one irrational phobia and worms ::shudder:: are my claim.
This includes, but is not limited to worms, slugs, centipedes, some snakes, microscopic parasites that take the form of wormy appearance, and anything else that remotely resembles a worm. :::cringe:::
Throw a worm on me, I will kill you.
Toss a spider at me and I will pick it up and take it outside. A bee can sit on my shoulder and I will smile sweetly at it. No problem.
A worm, can reduce me to a psychotic lunatic.
Imagine my house after a rain and the worms have formed a barricade down the sidewalk to the car, I have to take a valuim and use a blindfold just to make it to the car.
It's not pretty.
Gardening can only be done with sturdy gloves and lots of screaming for my daughters to come save me. They are very brave and harbor no fear to these repulsive beasts.
It's not pretty.
Now you know why I flyfish only, fake bugs are a good thing.

::::double shudder and many nightmares tonight about this:::::


Now, I am thoroughly embarrassed.

If you have been able to avoid this up until now, consider yourself TAGGED.


 

32 comments:

Anonymous said...

Black ink....yuck. Though I recently did write in black ink in print to see if I could do it.

I'm going back to blue.

Anonymous said...

LOL! Rebecca....#5 is not embarrassing...I won't scream on the sight of it but if it's on me...yeah! LOL! one time..my son (3 year old) was standing near a car and all of the sudden I saw this thing moves.. it was a green snake! I yanked him..and later felt bad because I yanked my son from his arms instead of running to him and grab him up..I mean yanked him..geez! I could have pulled him arm you know. Oh I dislike anything that moves like snakes!! eewww..arrgh!
Gem :-D

Anonymous said...

Odd? Quirky?  Me?  Hmm.  1) I'm a fully grown adult with children and grandchildren, yet I still go "potty".  2) I kiss my dogs on the lips (sometimes they kiss back).  3) I love the water, love to skinny dip (or fat dip as the case may be).  4) I love people and entertaining, but I'm quite shy.  5) I didn't handle 50 very well, went into a deep funk for months.  Paulette

Anonymous said...

PS.  I much prefer blue pen and my eyes are crooked, I need lines or I'm sunk.

Anonymous said...

Oh girlfriend, I am SO with you on the black ink!  I CANNOT and WILL NOT write with blue ink...even worse, pink, green, or purple ink freak me out, like those gel pens.  If I cannot find a black ink pen in my purse or house and I need to write a check, I won't write it.  Thank God I'm not alone here!

Chris
http://itsallaboutmeithink.blogspot.com
http://myphotographiclife.blogspot.com

Anonymous said...

okay here I go
Marti

Anonymous said...

hmm - you are a wormphobic free spirit!

don't like blue ink, myself.  it's gotta be black or (blush) lavender.  glad you're writing again.  you do have a great journal!

Anonymous said...

So, it's YOU who's responsible for the "no blue ink" rule for my company's timesheets.

Anonymous said...

Ahh, now.....don't you feel better for getting it out in the open?  lol   Here's an odd note, I much, much prefer paper with lines.  Love columnar pads.  And my favorite pen it an oldfashioned well, type...perferrably in blue.  Now, can we possibly still be friends with this difference between us???!!  And all these spelling mistakes?   lol
Barbara

Anonymous said...

I am with you on the blue ink! Can't do it... Now I need lines. My handwriting gets all funky if I dont have them! Okay now 5?? Whats with that??? You fish....of course, it is flyfishing and yes it explains ALOT! LOL

Peace
Jo

Anonymous said...

I wondered if you were going to mention the Fly Fishing..............
Im with ya on the live bugs thing.....
Not my favorites.
Thats why I was not chosen to appear on "Fear Factor"
he he he

Anonymous said...

What's the matter with blue ink???  Blue is the best, oh yes ... yes, yes, yes...LOL
Blue is my favorite color, you can tell when you look at my journals.

I think Chris told me of your fear of worms LOL.  I did an entry on my five weird things and one of them is when I was in pain one day and I was barely walking, I had to look for a distraction.  It was a rainy day and the worms were out, so I started counting them.

Anonymous said...

I hate being tagged; avoid participating in these games if at all possible. lol
But I DO love reading what others write about themselves. Found a little of myself in your entry. I too must use a pen, but unlike you, I don't mind if the ink if blue.
I can tolerate worms, but not spiders, even those I know are harmless. lol
You're such a sweetheart, taking time to do this tag thing.
Barb- http://journals.aol.com/barbpinion/HEYLETSTALK
        http://journals.aol.com.barbpinion/THERESTOFTHESTORY

Anonymous said...

ya you are weird lol jk.. here are mine http://journals.aol.com/hunybea4him/HunybeasOpenJournal/entries/1745

Much Love,
Mary

Anonymous said...

I used to write with a blue ink pen.  Until some one told me..... "you know, if you fax something that you used blue ink on, the receivers will not be able to read it".  I don't know if it's true, but I haven't used a blue ink pen since! - Julie -

Anonymous said...

This is a very interesting and enlightening list!  I don't like blue ink either!
Lori

Anonymous said...

Darn those phobias, man. I feel your pain.

Ari

Anonymous said...

Oh you are not that bad!  I get that way with my pocketbook (which has my whole life in it)....worms aren't that bad - but don't put a medicinal needle anywhere near me...Sandi http://journals.aol.com/sdoscher458/IJustHadToLaugh

Anonymous said...

Awww-You're not quirky-your human!!! We all have strange things we do-that really aren't strange at all!

Anonymous said...

LOL   I don't mind worms, but you have such a way with words I found myself shuddering right along with you!  We all have our own oddities...without them we would all be so utterly BORING!!!    Strangely yours,  MIchelle    ;p  

Anonymous said...

I would really play the tag game but at the time am going through some difficult times.  So, next time i promise.  Thankyou for your kind words.  Terry Ann.

Anonymous said...

Heeheehee.  I just love that we can all embraced that which makes us 'weirdly' unique.

Tammy
http://LifeLiveItOrMissOut.blogspot.com

Anonymous said...

I don't mind worms at all...it's flies that I cannot stand, they give me the willies!

Anonymous said...

I am never awake enough for at least half an hour to wander around outside!  Lelly

Anonymous said...

1. You and Jodi are tied for the weirdness award on this one.  Are you nuts, or what?  This is definitely weird.  What if it's raining?  Blizzard?  Tornado approaching?
2. Uh huh...  I'm with you on this one.  No blue ink.  Period.
3. Nice to see I'm not alone with this obsession.  You wrote, "Lines are like the bars of a jail" and I cannot agree with you more.  Such restrictions when there are lines.  It's just wrong, wrong, wrong.  The epitome of wrongness.  Alright, what I mean to say is that I dislike lines.
4. Yup, I'm with you on the numerous bag thing.
5. Per some of the previous comments, I, too, was wondering if you would make mention of the worm issue.  I can just picture you screaming your head off to be saved from these vicious beasts.  Good thing for daughters and sedatives, right?

Love the list.  Quite entertaining.
Judith

Anonymous said...

Rebecca~We know you just pretend to be in a coma! lol..What is it about this weird meme that has everyone doing it; I guess we all just can't get enough weirdness?! It's like DesLily said~so many of us have weirdnesses in common that we're not even weird anymore. So perhaps that's it? Weirdness comfort in numbers?! Anyhow I could relate to the bag lady one--until recently I always went out with a backpack instead of a purse (finally found a big enough one). Of course it included writing materials, but the odd thing is it's a school girl's size lavendar/purple and has one of those little click on Teddy Bears with "Deb" on it; it definately looks more like a kids than an adults...I find that embarassing ;-) Keeping you company, Sassy ;-)

http://journals.aol.com/debbted/SassysSecondWord

Anonymous said...

OTHER journal?  WHA...?  I wasn't aware you had another one...was I?  Capn' has the pen thing too...hehe.  I have a container "issue " too, but I didn't think about the bag idea...good one.  Now maybe my car will be a bit more tidy...TY.  No worries on the worms either hon'...my nemisis is the possum...evil damned little creatures...mleh!  No thank you on the tag...I've been gotten three times. ;)  C.  http://journals.aol.com/gdireneoe/thedailies

Anonymous said...

Don't be embarassed... all though the thought of writing in black pen almost frightens me I will still write with them, I would still prefer blue. Maybe I will send all my black pens your way, and you can toss me your blue ones. :)

Take Care!

Amanda
http://journals.aol.com/trickeytricky/CountryMyKindaLivin

Anonymous said...

I prefer a black pen to a blue one any day. Glad you decided to try the tag, they really can be fun. nice to learn more about you.

Anonymous said...

Hey who knew ? Your a weirdo too ! Yippeee the more the merrier i say !
On the pen thing" black dont crack" your so right much better than blue .
On the going outside on waking , i would if it wasnt like minus 1 here all the freeking time !I make do with having my skylight open wide in the morning .
On the line thing , yip lines suck , to many rules !
On being a bag lady i cramb it all into one bag but if there aint music , stationary and make up in it then shaz does NOT leave the building .
On the worm thing ? Your on your own there hehe
x

Anonymous said...

Ahh.... you've made me laugh, all the way through your entry here.  Thanks for sharing part of you.
http://www.boiseladie.blogspot.com/

Anonymous said...

hate worms, huh?     Cripes ... you'd be great on a fishing trip.