Interesting facts about yourself

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lizaanne said:
I have to have the spoons and forks all nested, same sizes together, in the silverware drawer. My DH is breaking me of this habit. :rolleyes:

~Liza
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Ummmm…doesn’t everyone do that? Isn’t that why they make the silverware trays divided into sizes and types?:confused: What does your hubby want, a drawer full of silverware just sitting there all backwards and upside down and in total chaos? Think of how many minutes over the course of a year you’d have wasted trying to find the right utensil everytime you ate! 😛
 
I find it just asa easy to leave silverware in the dish drainier until I need it. (Yep, I’m a bachelor.)
 
sanctareparata said:
We switched all the kids over to Corelle dishes, and I went to our local Walmart to buy them the 12 ounce soup bowls to use as cereal, etc. bowls (perfect size for kids). Well, they only had two in stock. I needed six. So we drove to another Walmart to buy the other four, and Truly, I stood in that aisle for over 45 minutes unable to make up my mind which four bowls to buy - why? Because I noticed that some had wider rims around the top than the others, and I didn’t know which size rim was on the two I had sitting at home! Why not just buy six and then return the two at home? Because this particular WMart only had FOUR wide rimmed bowls and FIVE thin rimmed bowls. I felt like I was going crazy - seriously. I couldn’t decide because I didn’t want to have a non-matching set, even though the difference was like 1.5 mm and no one but me would have *ever *noticed.

In the end, after all that time, I bought nothing. I just couldn’t do it. I went home, measured those rims, then found the same sized ones later. :rolleyes:
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:rotfl: :rotfl: :rotfl:

Honey, I feel your pain!!

Even if I only have to buy ONE of something (like a book), I check every single similar item, to make sure I’m getting the “best” one off the shelf. :rolleyes: Heaven forbid the store has an entire endcap full of the same product… My husband hates waiting while I go through every single one. But I can say, “Honey, it’s my OCD. You have your OCD moments, I have mine. Let mine be.”

I would’ve been right there with you, Sancta, at Walmart, encouraging you to ONLY GET THE PERFECT ONES, AND THEY MUST ALL MATCH!!! Even if we have to go to 10 different Walmarts!!! Ahhhhhhhhh!!!
 
lizaanne said:
I do like peanut butter and eat it now and then. But the smell of peanut butter on a knife in the sink under hot water is enough to make me totally throw up. Honestly, if I were ever to get pregnant, this would truly put me over the edge I’m sure.

~Liza
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**I can totally understand… for me it is milk that has been warmed…the smell gags me everytime. I hate making hot chocolate! Someone else needs to do it for me, lol.

And I get nauseated at the smell of butter in a frying pan. Love the taste of certain foods cooked in butter…but could do without the smell. Blech.

And if you become pregnant, i predict you will LOVE the smell of peanut butter under warm water and hate the smell of something you love now. God can be really funny that way;)
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Feanaro_s_Wife said:
Speaking of firearms, I am an excellent shot. Pretty much no one in my life (except family) would ever even suspect I have seen a gun, never mind fired a variety, lol.
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Years ago a friend of my husband’s was in the FBI stationed in Quantico VA and gave us a really fun tour of the facilities. He also let us try our hands at one of the training exercises, where you use a laser (I think) gun and have to react quickly and decide to shoot or not shoot at shady characters in a video. I can’t hit the broad side of a barn, but our sweet, gentle, shy, sensitive younger daughter who won’t step on a worm was an absolute deadeye.
Sometimes it’s those we least suspect who are most dangerous! 😉
 
  • I can play all four types of saxaphones
  • I have insanely strong legs and can kick a ball very far
  • I have a natural culinary ability
  • I am an avid professional wrestling fan
 
-I used to be afraid to eat fruit gushers. I honestly believed that my head would turn into a watermelon.
 
Well…
I backpacked through Europe by myself.

I lived and worked as a nanny in Los Angeles.

I like British humor.

I have a bachelor’s degree in International Studies, which was loads of fun to acquire, but not so useful once I graduated = graduate school.

It would be a life dream to one day own a ski-ball machine and/or a ball pit like the one’s at Chuck-E-Cheez’s. (though more practically I could just buy a house with a pool and fill the pool with plastic balls = awesome!

Okay that’s enough quirkiness for one day.😛
 
  1. I sunk on boat in the Gulf of Mexico.
  2. I was adrift in a boat on the Bay of Campche for a week.
    Anyone want to go on a boat ride?🙂
 
Ok, not much- but here goes:

I:juggle: I can do that in real life… . Learned it in High School Phy Ed (only thing I ever liked about that class.)

I also learned how to face paint in high school.

Guess I should have joined the circus :juggle: :slapfight:
 
Another read the encyclopedia freak here - as a child, the day the World Book Yearbook arrived was like Christmas (same for the Childcraft annual addition).

Can quote many scripture passages, poems and famous speeches from memory. Same for jingles, classic rock and country song lyrics and School House Rock.

Fist in the mouth - oh year, am also double jointed in my wrists and can bend my hand it ways that make people cringe.

Have a huge collection of Harlan Ellison books.

Once gave Ernest Tubb a package of sweet tarts for his birthday.

I’ve been on the Maury Povitch show.
 
Can you keep a secret?

My dh and I have signed up to make our first (and likely only) pilgrimage to the Holy Land in May of next year. We are going with Steve and Janet Ray, Scott and Kimberly Hahn, Mike Aquilina and the St. Paul Center.

I’m already bubbling over with excitement but I can’t tell my family about it just yet because my 84 year old mother will worry herself sick for the next six months.
 
Mrs_Mac said:
Can you keep a secret?

My dh and I have signed up to make our first (and likely only) pilgrimage to the Holy Land in May of next year. We are going with Steve and Janet Ray, Scott and Kimberly Hahn, Mike Aquilina and the St. Paul Center.

I’m already bubbling over with excitement but I can’t tell my family about it just yet because my 84 year old mother will worry herself sick for the next six months.
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how exciting!!! if you take me and my dh with you as stow aways, we won’t tell anyone. 😉

Have a wonderful trip–please have some pics to share with us when you return…ok?🙂
 
kage_ar said:
Fist in the mouth - oh year, am also double jointed in my wrists and can bend my hand it ways that make people cringe.
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Oh, yes, me too! I can scratch the inside of my wrist with the hand it’s attached to. And it’s not just my wrists that have loose joints - I can also put my hands on my hips and touch my elbows together (kills the shoulders!), bend my thumb over the knuckle where the index finger meets the back of the hand, and bend my elbows to a very painful-looking angle (maybe about 200 degrees).

In order to impress / scare my friends and family, I have also developed a few other strange ways to make people cringe. I can move each eye independently of the other - train one eye on something unmoving and look in a different direction with the other eye. Scares my students half-to-death.

I learned how to wiggle my ears from my grandfather. He described where the muscles were that I had to develop, and I practiced in front of the mirror for ages until I could make them wiggle.

I can flare my nostrils or wiggle them like a bunny. Fun for distracting people who should be paying attention in meetings.

Lastly, I can hum and whistle at the same time. I developed this when I wanted to demonstrate the sound of two-part harmony to someone who couldn’t remember a tune long enough to repeat it to me while I harmonized with it. Unfortunately, I can’t actually harmonize with myself - I haven’t figured out how to adjust the pitch of one without affecting the pitch of the other the same way. When I have time (maybe when I’m a mom and have my hands full with my baby but my brain is aching for a meaningless project) I’d like to spend a few weeks practicing until I can really harmonize with myself.
 
Just_wondering said:
I learned how to wiggle my ears from my grandfather. He described where the muscles were that I had to develop, and I practiced in front of the mirror for ages until I could make them wiggle.

I can flare my nostrils or wiggle them like a bunny. Fun for distracting people who should be paying attention in meetings.
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Hey, i can do those too!👍
 
Just_wondering said:
Oh, yes, me too! I can scratch the inside of my wrist with the hand it’s attached to. And it’s not just my wrists that have loose joints - I can also put my hands on my hips and touch my elbows together (kills the shoulders!), bend my thumb over the knuckle where the index finger meets the back of the hand, and bend my elbows to a very painful-looking angle (maybe about 200 degrees).

In order to impress / scare my friends and family, I have also developed a few other strange ways to make people cringe. I can move each eye independently of the other - train one eye on something unmoving and look in a different direction with the other eye. Scares my students half-to-death.

I learned how to wiggle my ears from my grandfather. He described where the muscles were that I had to develop, and I practiced in front of the mirror for ages until I could make them wiggle.

I can flare my nostrils or wiggle them like a bunny. Fun for distracting people who should be paying attention in meetings.

Lastly, I can hum and whistle at the same time. I developed this when I wanted to demonstrate the sound of two-part harmony to someone who couldn’t remember a tune long enough to repeat it to me while I harmonized with it. Unfortunately, I can’t actually harmonize with myself - I haven’t figured out how to adjust the pitch of one without affecting the pitch of the other the same way. When I have time (maybe when I’m a mom and have my hands full with my baby but my brain is aching for a meaningless project) I’d like to spend a few weeks practicing until I can really harmonize with myself.
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Can you wiggle your nose like the woman from Bewitched? 😃 If you can do that, you’re my hero. I always wished I could do that, and whatever I wished, just appeared. 😛
 
whatevergirl said:
Can you wiggle your nose like the woman from Bewitched? 😃 If you can do that, you’re my hero. I always wished I could do that, and whatever I wished, just appeared. 😛
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Not me, but my youngest sister can- and also like a bunny.
 
Well people think I am outgoing and wild, seriously!! Yet most of my friends are quiet and calm and mature women…lol…One of the nights I went out with a couple of friends and db I brought one of my gf with me to hang out and meet one of db friends, well our other friends were like I can’t believe that’s her friend they are so different…Look this one is so hyper and wild and the other is so shy and quiet I can’t believe they are actually friends!! Well I love to have fun and try to make the best of things, I was around friends and my db so why was I going to be all quiet and shy…

I usually get like this when I am around people I don’t know but I guess no one would notice or believe that was me after seeing how “wild and crazy” I am!!! lol…

I am really shy, have to make myself be “outgoing” but normally I am quiet unless I am around people I know or my children, I gotta make them laugh!! lol…
 
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