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CynthiaWVirginia -> RE: What are some odd little quirks about yourself? (1/14/2011 2:00:44 PM)
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What are some odd little quirks about yourself?
One of mine is that I hate to see my writing in that scroll thingy...because it somehow startles me.
I have thousands of books. I keep skinnying some down but I love so many that I need a room with floor to ceiling book cases with one of those rolling ladders attached. (If I ever win the lottery... Mmm, also with a card catalogue, a dehumidifier, and a rocking chair that somehow repelled cats.) I have several tubs of books I bought for my son when he was little and that I must have read to him umpteen thousands of times and just cannot part with, a huge mass of recipe books, an entire book case of Star Trek books...
Ditto for DVDs and VHS movies. I refused to pay cable or dish or whatever and chose to take that money each month to buy what I want...and I've been at this for over 21 years. I could probably fill 40 crates with all my movies, lol, and the most recent thing I have been buying is seasons of old tv shows I liked. My son goes nuts over them and we have a great time together watching MASH, Welcome Back Kotter, I Dream of Jeannie, Buck Rodgers... I also like buying the entire set of series, and have all of Buffy the Vampire Slayer, Angel, Star Trek TNG, Buck Roders, and several others. Sets I don't think I have all of are...The Waltons, Little House on the Prairie, Quincy, MaGuyver (sp?), Remington Steele...and there my memory runs out. I buy from Sams, Walmart, flea markets and pawn shops. I wish I could find the old Battlestar Galactica and Doogie Howzer MD and some of the sci fi stuff I used to watch, I'm keeping a sharp eye out. Anyway, I am spoiled rotten now, watching what I want to watch, when I want to watch it...and not having to listen to commercials. [;)]
I knit hats and donate them to the local oncologist's office. Each one is fluffy in some way (eyelash yarn, etc.) and takes a good 4 hours to knit while I am listening to a show on tv. Some people go to church and leave offerings, I don't...but I find other ways to tithe. This is one of them.
I donate to nursing homes, through the activities director. You guessed it, hundreds of movies...but also craft items and boxes of gummis or boxes of candy bars from Sams. I've been snowed in since the last time I went shopping and got some craft items for something like 75% off...glitter, pipe cleaners, glitter glue, and I cannot remember what else. I also have foam pads in a rainbow of colors from the Dollar Tree, pony beads, 64 count boxes of crayons, large print playing cards, books, some clothes, perfumes, lotions, nail polish, makeup... It's part of the tithe I do.
Pokemon!!! I am a gamer who is seriously into Pokemon. I have Pikachu electric toothbrushes, Pikachu house slippers, Pokemon sox, some Pokemon dresses (made those), a Pokemon hat (I made that too), Pokemon towels, a Pokemon sheet/comforter/curtains set packed away, I sewed over my game bag with Pokemon fabric, my 3 DS machines have Pokemon stickers, a Pokemon sountrack, old Pokemon crayons and felt tip pens and notebooks, 60-80 well played decks of CCG cards, Pokemon marbles, Pokemon coins, Pikachu keychain, Pokemon styluses, a Pokemon Game Cube, and numerous redundant Pokemon games for Game Cube, the WII, GBA and DS. I also have Pokemon Monopoly, and other Pokemon games, lol. I use WIFI to trade Pokemon with people all over the world. My son and I have been into Pokemon for over 15 years. (Yes, I am planning a Pikachu parasol, a quilt, another dress, and maybe a coat. We do preorder our games and then wait in line until midnight, to be one of the first people in the USA to get ours, lol.)
I love to have chocolate cake with hot fudge and chocolate icecream. My family calls it death by chocolate or a chocolate overdose...but when it is MY birthday...pfft.
I cannot eat Chinese food with a fork...I have to have my chopsticks. If my favorite Chinese food buffet is out of chopsticks, I walk back out the door.
Another quirk...is that I get panic attacks. Years of shrinks and meds won't get rid of them, so I deal with them as best I can. Usually by avoiding triggers. If I walk into an elevator and a man's cologne is going to set me off, I turn back around and leave. I have also checked with guys I am meeting up with about what cologne they wear, and do a sniff test at Walmart. If it's one with bad memories attached, we discuss them wearing an alternate scent.
I cannot stand to see a hungry animal and not feed it. I used to keep a bag of puppy kibble and kitten chow in the trunk of my car, in case I saw some poor starveling. I had to stop donating cat food to the local animal shelter because the temptation to adopt was too severe. On the other hand, that's how I got Griz, my huge black cat who had bitten everyone even through thick leather gloves. He was scared and hated the whole world, and could fight like a Klingon...so I adopted him...and "ruined him". My friend is disgusted, saying I turned a grizzley bear into a sugar bear. [:D] Griz is my lap cat, leaving big puddles of drool all over me when I pet him or whenever he's in an especially adoring mood. At over 16 lbs of muscle and bones, my cat-and-a-half sometimes gives my legs pins and needles, or muscle cramps, if he has been sitting on them for too many movies or tv shows.
I collect seed packets. Especially when they go on sale for something like five or ten for a dollar, lol. Yes, I have hundreds, probably over a thousand packets in a plastic tub with a snap on lid.
Along my bathtub, I have half a dozen shampoos. My favorite is a VO5 blueberries and cream, but they discontinued that fragrance and I cannot find it anywhere. Each shampoo has a different scent...I am fond of fruit smells and flowers like magnolia and jasmine. I really miss the smell of one brand from years ago...it was called Body on Tap.
Sometimes I make a bubble bath and put drops of food coloring onto the bubbles, then mix it around until my bubbles are blue...or purple...or pink.
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