Weirdness - The Cheer Up Post

[allyndra]

I've had a bad week. When I logged on, I thought maybe I'd write a post all about it (I got hurt, I got sick, my husband had emotional issues, and then a friend died), but I don't think I will. Sometimes venting and crying helps, but sometimes I just need to think about something else. So.

Tell me three strange things about yourself. They don't have to be feakish, and they don't have to be secrets, just things that make other people go, "Huh?" I'll start.

1. I fingerspell things to myself for no reason. While I'm driving, while I'm walking, while I'm waiting in lines. I fingerspell song lyrics, or thoughts I'm having, or just my name. I'm not a good signer, and I actually can't read it very well when other people fingerspell at me; it's just a habit.

2. I love old Burma-Shave jingles. I'm way too young to remember them (my parents are too young to remember them), but I think they're awesome. I get really angry when I see the Burma-Shave nostalgia merchandise in stores, because they seem to think the way to convey "old" is with a shaving brush and mug. Hello! The whole point of Burma-Shave was that it didn't require a brush. "Shaving brush/ so wet and hairy/ I've passed you up/ for sanitary/ Burma-Shave." (that might be an inaccurrate quote; it was off the top of my head)

3. I am addicted to Chap-Stick. Not lip balm, Chap-Stick, particularly the cherry kind. I feel uncomfortable if I don't have any on, so I usually have a Chap-Stick in my purse, on my desk, and beside my bed. In order to enable this addiction, my husband get me ten tubes of cherry Chap-Stick every year and puts them in my Christmas stocking.

Okay, so now that I sound extra weird, share something distracting and odd about yourself. If you can't think of three, I'll take fewer.

Comments

[entrenous88.livejournal.com]

Oh, finger-spelling, cool! In light of that, I'll give you my #1:

1. At least once a day, I find myself doing type-fingers for a thought or a word or phrase. Home row keys kind of action, but just wherever I'm sitting, on the steering wheel, against my leg, etc. I also on regular occasions do piano-fingering, thinking of a sonata, say, and doing the fingering/keyboard positions in the same kind of scenario (steering wheel, wherever I'm sitting, etc.).

2. I not only have zero problem with the grey hairs starting to show more, I tend to admire them in my short haircut. Maybe it's because my hair is quite dark brown; to me the greys look more like accent marks, and I like them. I'm only mentioning it as odd because everyone I know seems to be plotting ways to dye their hair, and I'm all, "Grey hair!" *tosses hair in shampoo-commercial-like-fashion*

3. There's rarely a day that goes by that I don't think, "You know, a scone would be so delicious right now." I don't have scones every day by any means, but wow, yum.

:)

[allyndra.livejournal.com]

1. At least once a day, I find myself doing type-fingers for a thought or a word or phrase. Home row keys kind of action, but just wherever I'm sitting, on the steering wheel, against my leg, etc. I also on regular occasions do piano-fingering, thinking of a sonata, say, and doing the fingering/keyboard positions in the same kind of scenario (steering wheel, wherever I'm sitting, etc.). I'm ashamed to admit, I never learned to type. I get by with a method that's a little more fluid than hunting and pecking, but nothing that lets me type things out on the steering wheel. I am, however, incapable of telling someone I'll email them or type something up without miming little typing motions in the air.

2. I not only have zero problem with the grey hairs starting to show more, I tend to admire them in my short haircut. Maybe it's because my hair is quite dark brown; to me the greys look more like accent marks, and I like them. I'm only mentioning it as odd because everyone I know seems to be plotting ways to dye their hair, and I'm all, "Grey hair!" *tosses hair in shampoo-commercial-like-fashion* Go, you! My husband has really dark hair, and it's going grey at the temples. He gets worried about looking old before his time, but I love it. It's distinguished.

3. There's rarely a day that goes by that I don't think, "You know, a scone would be so delicious right now." I don't have scones every day by any means, but wow, yum. Oooh, and now I want a scone.

[kaizoku.livejournal.com]

At least once a day, I find myself doing type-fingers for a thought or a word or phrase.

I do that too! I used to do flute fingerings too when I was playing regularly.

[entrenous88.livejournal.com]

Flute fingerings, how cool! I'll have to ask my sister if she ever does that, as she played for a time. :)