Eight Random Things About Me

It's a meme.  I'm in the mood.  Shut it.

This meme usually comes with a whole bunch of rules, and one of the rules is that you must post the stinkin' rules.  Well, Bossy McRulemaker, bite me arse. 

So here goes - eight random and eccentric things about me:

1.  Most days, I have crackers and cheese for lunch.  Not so odd.  But consider:  I have Ritz Whole Wheat Crackers, each with a piece of Extra-Old Cheddar Cheese on top.  I have 21 crackers, and 21 (small) pieces of cheese.  The crackers are whole - unbroken, uncracked, not chipped or flaked or scarred or marred in any way.  If I find a cracker with a defect, I set it aside.  It is not acceptable for lunch.  Snacking later, sure.  But not for lunch.

2.  I almost never go to bed before 2 o'clock in the morning.  Most often, I go to bed at around 3AM.  I'm most often up and operational at 7:25, although some days I will roll over and sleep till 8:30.  I don't like to sleep.  It's a total waste of time.

3.  I often forget to eat, sometimes for a full day.  I'll be sitting here in my office at 1AM, and suddenly realize that the last meal I had was supper - the day before.

4.  I have a lot of acquaintances but few very good friends.   It may be because my standard for "very good friend" is unreasonably high. I demand that my friends be as kind and considerate and thoughtful and generous as ... well ... me.  Both my kids and I have complained at one time or another that we don't have very many friends that are as good to us as we are to our friends.

And my friends are friends for life.  I am as loyal as any Golden Retriever you have ever met. And just as likely to hump your leg.

5.   When I go away from home for any longer than a day, I have a weird need to touch stuff on my return.  I don't even know I'm doing it. 

My mother first noticed this when I was a kid.  We'd go away on holidays, and when I got back to the house, I'd walk around, idly running my hand over the chairs, the countertops, the TV, any and all surfaces.  It was totally unconscious - subtly reconnecting with my environment.  I still do that, I am told.

6.  I would far rather be cold than hot.  No contest.  Not even close.  I despise hot, muggy days.  That said, every night of the year (barring blizzards or torrential downpours), I end my day in the hot tub on my deck.  My favourite part?  When I finally say "That's it - I am gonna die if I stay in here one moment longer!" and get out, and the air against my body is cold and envigorating and energizing and every nerve ending in my body is tingling.  It is particularly wonderful in mid-winter, when I can actually watch the steam come off my arms and legs as I stand there in -20 air and slowly towel off.

7.  If I am talking to you, and you glance over my shoulder to see who else might be more interesting to talk to, our conversation will end within 30 seconds.  You will be poorer for it, although you may not realize that immediately. 

If I am chatting online with someone, and I suspect he or she is chatting to someone else at the same time, I will become slightly to moderately rankled.  I will generally give them the benefit of the doubt, because I don't know what's happening at their end - kids needing attention, phones ringing, dogs barfing on their new carpet, whatever.   But if, after a while, their responses are taking too long, I will conclude they have looked over my shoulder, found someone far more interesting than I, and I will relieve them of the tiresome burden that I have become.

It's completely unfair of me to be this way, because many times I've been happily chatting away to a friend and all of a sudden gotten an unexpected message from a different friend. I  am too polite not to respond, so until I can extract myself from the situation with grace, I find myself juggling two conversations and doing to both people exactly what I hate when it's done to me. I cringe uncomfortably the whole time, both from fear that my rudeness will be discovered and guilt about my utterly unfair double standard.

8.   I hate horses.  Hate.  Do not like to be around them.  Don't like riding them.  I am not open to being persuaded on this topic.  I am sure there are things I love that you hate, and I'm cool with that.  So don't hate me because I loathe horses, that I find them cranky and unpredictable and scary and smelly and awful. 

That's just one more weird thing about me.

There.  I know at least one person I would like to tag (using TKW's definition), but that would be following the rules.  Screw that.

Comments

[Ern]

You can commiserate with Dagny about the horse hatred. :) I don't have strong opinions about them one way or the other. But they do seem awfully high maintenance = not too much fun.

Also, there is NOTHING better than being in the hot tub, outside, while it snows. I LOVE that.

[twisteduterus]

"I loathe horses"

I knew there was a reason I liked you.

Recently I went to see a horse emergency, it was cut or had a fart cross ways, I really cannot recall. Anyways this client has been a client of the practices for way longer than I have been an associate (or Ass as we at the office say). After I look at the dog food on hoof, I mean horse, and do what needs to be done, the client asked how long I have been with the practice...when I tell her 7 years, she remarks that she had never met me before to which I respond...that is because I do not work on horses unless I have to as I really do no like them, they look at me funny and can bite, cows look at me nicely and cannot bite due to lack up upper incisors. All is said with a smile and all ends up well.

[shari]

I never forget to eat. I've never understood how that's even possible! Perhaps if I could forget to eat I wouldn't have to exercise as much... do you offer lessons?

[yep]

Maybe you should eat more often. then you wouldn't get into such moods. ;)

[Lynnie]

What yep said ;)

[Bucky Four-Eyes]

The one time I rode a horse, I spent the next two weeks feeling like I'd been violated with a giant redwood.

[Nils]

Ern: Having snowflakes land on my nose while I'm in the hot tub? Heaven.

TU: They DO look at us funny. Like "Come closer, I want to bite you."

Shari: If only forgetting to eat = weight loss. Sadly, my body outsmarts me. Since it knows it might not eat again for 24 hours, it packs away all the food as fat. Much smarter would be to eat six small meals a day. But I'm not all that smart.

Yep: Moods? Moi? Nah, I'm the model of consistency. No surprises.

Lynnie: What I just said to Yep.

[Nils]

Bucky: I don't want to know why or how you know how it feels to be violated by a giant redwood. No, wait. I DO want to know. In graphic detail.

[Bucky Four-Eyes]

In truth, I've never been violated with anything larger than a sapling.

[CircusKelli]

You know, I had a comment, but after the exchange between you and Bucky, I find myself with nothing at all to add.