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August 03, 2005

Weirdo.

Let's reassess the things that were sucking on Tuesday, shall we?

1. Cell phone camera? Still dead.

2. Television? Also dead. Replaced with smaller TV that used to live in B.'s office. Colors much brighter.

3. I put my knitting future in the hands of fate. I decided to visit a little yarn shop and if they happened to have Mango Moon yarn, it would be A Sign that I was meant to make this bag while sitting at a coffeehouse with other people who knit. Lo and behold, they not only had the yarn, but I practically tripped over it when I walked into the shop. Purchased yarn, but didn't make it to knitting. Stayed home and fought with spouse instead. Contemplated knitting a lovely sari-silk noose.

4. Child-free days? Still not happening next week. Parents, who were going to take child, will visit this weekend instead.

5. Haven't moved. Still here. On the upside, haven't launched grenades at neighbors despite the fact that one of them used a jigsaw to cut a sunroof in his car yesterday afternoon.

6. Groceries! There are groceries! I put on my clothes and bought some damn food. Family no longer required to subsist on nacho crumbs from last weekend.

7. Throat feels better. Screaming no longer working. Have resorted to expressing frustration via interpretive dance.

To stop my incessant whining, people keep asking me questions.

Marybeth asked me to name ten songs that I'm currently digging. Here they are, in no paricular order:

Burn For You by INXS, thanks to Rock Star: INXS. I don't recall any of the losers contestants doing this song yet, but it was always one of my favorite INXS songs, at a time when they were my favorite group. So, I've been listening to this/muttering it under my breath of late.

Four Kicks by Kings of Leon, for no reason other than 1) it rocks, and 2) I've been in a rather angry state of mind lately, and nothing goes with an angry state of mind quite like a song about brawling.

Annie Waits by Ben Folds. I'm on a huge Ben kick, as Kara and I will be roadtripping to KC in a week and a half to see Mr. Folds and Mr. Wainwright. Poppy waits, Poppy waits, Poppy waits, for the concert...

I Wanna Be Your Joey Ramone by Sleater-Kinney. Again with the anger and the concert plans.

Grits Ain't Groceries by Little Milton, upon hearing about his unfortunate stroke.

Honestly, I can't come up with ten right now. I've been too preoccupied and distracted. So, it's on to Dixie, who wants to know about my idiosyncrasies. Actually, she just wants to know about five of them, because Lord knows if I listed them all, we'd be here for days.

1. I have a thing about the hairless part of the nose on any animal and always have. I love it! When I encounter a cat or dog, as soon as I'm confident the animal isn't going to rip my face off, my fingers make a beeline for that smooth little cold, wet nose. I like 'em dry, too.

2. When I was little, I got the usual story that, if I made an ugly face it would freeze. Unlike most people, I believed this until I was far too old and educated to believe such crap. But to this day, when I go to sleep, I make sure my face isn't smooshed so it won't freeze that way while I sleep. Go ahead and laugh. I'm 32 and I don't have a single wrinkle.

3. I actually thought about writing about this last week, but decided to keep the crazy contained, but here it is: I'm not afraid of bridges or heights, but looking at photos of really big structures freaks my shit out ... and I love it! One night last week, right before bed I found myself totally sucked into looking at bridge photos and was completely freaked out by the Millau Viaduct in France. And yet I couldn't stop looking!!!! Even though I knew I would have nightmares about that behemouth, I just kept looking for more and more photos of big, creepy bridges. I literally get dizzy looking at those photos but my God, I love it. For the most part, though, being in the presence of bridges and big structures doesn't bother me much. For example, I've been across the massive Mackinac Bridge numerous times and it doesn't bother me at all. But to look at photos of it ... whoa. It just about makes me lose a little bit of my bladder control.

4. When I eat candies with different colors, like Skittles, M&Ms or SweeTarts, I have to divide them up by color. I'll whittle away at each color pile until there is the same number of candies per color. Once they all have the same number, I eat my least favorite first, saving the best for last. Orange is always, always last.

5. This one's from B.: There's a drive-thru coffee joint I frequent. They always put a sticker over the sippy part of the drink lid, and I always put the sticker on my dashboard. It's my trophy shelf.

Posted by Robin at August 3, 2005 11:55 PM

Comments

Wait a second. Is that the drive-thru place at Lindbergh and Big Bend? I LOVE that place!

M&M segregation? I'm also guilty.

Posted by: FP at August 4, 2005 05:40 AM

i totally do the same thing with my skittles or m&m's.

Posted by: kara at August 4, 2005 07:34 AM

OH MY GOD. I thought I was the only one that separated colored candies in that way. My family thinks I am crazy and even had a little intervention/meltdown over it!

Posted by: Ragged Around the Edges at August 4, 2005 08:24 AM

My car didn't start this morning. If you want you can pretend that your bad day. ;)
BTW I feel the same way about animal noses. Actually if you ever see lips of a guinea pig its like that too.

Posted by: mindy at August 4, 2005 08:32 AM

Guinea pig lips are the sweetest thing in the world. I miss my pigs and their lips.
Awww...memories.

Posted by: annika at August 4, 2005 09:24 AM

They didn't really cut a sun roof with a jigsaw did they? Really they should use a skill saw. True or not laughing my ass off.

Also I would kill to see the interpretive dance.

Posted by: Lisa V at August 4, 2005 09:39 AM

I might be wrong on the kind of saw, but they were cutting a DIY sunroom. Trust me, I can't make this shit up.

The interpretive dance basically involved me dropping trou and flipping the bird.

Posted by: Poppy at August 4, 2005 11:30 AM

I'm not alone! I too am one of the people that sort their candies. You should see the looks I get at work when I dump the entire bag of Skittles out and sort them! I always sort them by pulling all of the green and yellow ones over to one side (my least favorite) and the rest are sorted by number of candies of each color. That last handful of candy should have only one of each color in it. Obsessive, what can I say.

Posted by: Jenny at August 4, 2005 11:35 AM

That is so funny (#4) - I totally divide up my candies too! I like to always have an even number of colours - so I'll eat the extras to get down to one same number per colour.

I usually eat Brown first and yellow, orange or blue last - but never red. Especially when I'm eating smarties because of that stupid jingle "when you eat your smarties, do you eat the red ones last"**. I refuse to give into the masses!

**Smarties are like m&m's, but better - and I think only in Canada...

Posted by: Theresa at August 4, 2005 01:21 PM

Ok, that's it. I now convene the meeting of those of us so OCD that we sort our candies by number and color and eat them in order.

My only difference is that I eat from least favorite to most favorite - those being the green M&Ms.

Posted by: Barefoot at August 4, 2005 01:59 PM

Finally I've found others who segregate their candies, cool, all these years my sisters made me feel like a wierdo.

Posted by: Mina at August 4, 2005 02:32 PM

Oh yeah. You gotta do M&Ms by color. I end mine with yellow.

And as I only eat peanut M&Ms I also throw in the added weirdness by cracking each one in half, digging out the peanut with my bottom teeth, eat peanut and then rest of M&M.

Posted by: DixiePeach at August 4, 2005 03:38 PM

Woah, you have some sort of OCD candy readership going on, you could start a therapy session and of course, I'd be right in there, too.

Posted by: Chair at August 4, 2005 03:40 PM

browns and reds are usually mixed, but eaten last, for me.
and, like dixie, i eat peanut m&m's...peanuts first. wierdness factor: i don't like peanuts. but i eat those kind because they balance out the super sugary flavor of the chocolate.

Posted by: annika at August 4, 2005 04:50 PM

I think our parents were right -- that your face will freeze that way if you keep making faces. I defied my parents on this by scrunching my forehead whenever I would think hard or worry about something and now I have a big crease in the middle of my forehead.

Posted by: Katya at August 4, 2005 04:59 PM

Question: (posed by Joe)
Why is the cosmic background radiation set to three degrees above absolute zero?

That should take up some time.

Posted by: Jack's Raging Mommy at August 4, 2005 07:10 PM

Poppy, if you need Mango Moon, I know a woman here who carries it. Lemmekneaux.

Posted by: Julie at August 4, 2005 07:11 PM

I do #4 too :-)

Posted by: Jessie at August 5, 2005 02:05 PM