Tuesday, August 19, 2008
Quirk-Quirk
I just got tagged by Deb, which is good news because this is one of those weeks when all I want to do is sprawl on the couch watching TV and wondering why I weigh more than all of the male gymnasts in the world combined.
So here goes--six quirky things about me:
1. I like to sprawl on the couch watching TV and wondering why I weigh more than all of the male gymnasts in the world combined. (Like you didn't see that coming.)
2. Next month, I will be taking swimming lessons. This is partly because of my near-death escape from a shark in Hawaii this summer, but also because my husband recently told me that whenever I swim it looks like I'm "battling a sea monster". And losing.
3. For some reason, I really like to listen to the extended remix of "Disco Inferno" when I'm in the car. However, due to the many disco sirens and whistles in the song, I always think I'm being pulled over by a sheriff and therefore spend the entire drive looking in the rearview mirror for the po-po's flashing lights.
4. I can't find anyone I like to cut my hair. Last week, I was stuck with a 21 year-old stoned kid named "Joey Disco" who spent an hour taking 1/8" off of my hair and talking about how "awwww-suuummm" skateboards are. The time before, I had Terry, a Sideshow Bob lookalike, who styled my hair like a 1970's Playmate and told me I could easily do it myself at home with "12 round brushes". I had to tell Terry that if I even attempted to do it with two round brushes, I'd then have to call 911 and ask them to send over the jaws of life to rescue me from my own hairstyle, so maybe we should just stick with a curling iron from now on. Terry did not like that.
5. I get very upset when people leave their cars running while they go into a store. If it weren't probably illegal, I'd love to get into their car and move it to a different part of the parking lot so they couldn't find it when they came back. Oh, man, how I'd love to do that.
6. My socks never match. Ever.
Whew. Now that that's done, I'm headed back to my busy day of sprawling on the couch and watching TV. Only this time, what I'm going to be wondering is just how come those beach volleyball players never seem to get a swimsuit wedgie. I mean, is it double-stick tape or what?
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I can identify with your number 2, except mine is running. The joggers look sooo graceful and quiet as the lope along. I sound like two beavers trying to warn the community of danger by slapping their tails on the ground. Not to mention the wheezing and gasping for breath.
And for number six, I only buy black or white socks. I have yet to put one of each on, but they are easier to match up when I take them out of the dryer.
lmao
5. I get very upset when people leave their cars running while they go into a store. If it weren't probably illegal, I'd love to get into their car and move it to a different part of the parking lot so they couldn't find it when they came back. Oh, man, how I'd love to do that.
oooh, I love the idea of moving people's cars while they're in the store. I don't ever leave my car running, and I swear sometimes it STILL seems like somebody moved it while I was shopping. I've given up and just park in the exact same obscure parking area every time I go to the mall. The extra calories I burn walking to the store I actually need to visit (at the other end of the mall, naturally) almost counteract the Auntie Anne's visit that's a required part of Shopping With a Carb-Obsessed 3-Year-Old.
Hey, I was thinking the same thing (about those volleyball girls). Should be against the law.
Hey Wendy,
Thanks for playing along!! I love the idea of moving someone else's car like that, especially if I were wearing one of those beach volleyball swimsuits. The only difference would be is I would have the worlds hugest wedgie while doing it, and I would probably get arrested for indecent exposure as well as traumatizing the general public.
Re: #5.. I've done that to a friend's car. So evil!
That's weird about people leaving their cars running. I don't notice it but yeah, I think it's dumb. Good luck with the swim swim.
My fiance also likes to leave his car running when he goes into stores, and it drives me nuts. I recently read that for every minute you leave the car idling, it wastes a half-mile-worth of gas. I started reminding (ok, nagging) him about this every time he got out of the car and didn't turn it off, and it didn't take long for him to stop. Maybe you should write it on a post-it and stick it on people's cars (bonus for moving the car too!). A small step toward getting people to turn their cars off, but maybe one that would make them stop...
I've always been floored that anyone lives anywhere that you can leave your car running and no one steals it. Really, that is a beautiful thing. I mean, without the pollution and wasting energy part.
You know the beach volleyball players are spraying glue on their backsides before suiting up! There is no possible way that they aren't! I have considered the possiblity of them using double stick tape too, but I am pretty sure it would roll when the perspiration hit it, and you know it does, so I am convinced that it is spray glue!
I don't think tape or glue would be very practical for such active athletes.
Perhaps they sew their ass-cheeks shut?
You know, you might just have something there with the ass cheeks idea! I had never thought of that in my wildest dreams!
Love the post...I used to have the sock issue, but I've figured out the trick. Buy a new pack of socks each week. It's amazing, the store pairs them up for you so all you have to do is pull a pair out and put them on. Of course that means that my sock bill is now higher than my food bill. Who needs food anyway, at least my feet match!
I love number 5, and the next time my husband leaves his car idling in the driveway so he can charge his cell phone, the car is getting moved.
Totally LOLed at the "battling a sea monster" bit. As in, I think I snorted. I woke up the dog, anyway.
If you want to drive up to my neck of the woods, I love my hairdresser. You could come and we could go for coffee whenever you get a haircut! I had to go through 2 others before I found one I liked after moving here.
And I love that you are taking swimming lessons as an adult. Good for you!
I think you are absolutely hilarious. I wrote you an email and told you so after I read one of your essays on Fresh Yarn. So, maybe you need to add to your list "does return emails from really awesome people who would surely make your world a better place to live in with their wit and hilarity and snarkiness." Of course, I'd have to add the same thing to mine. So, never mind.
Still trying to figure out why Blogger is hating on me and not letting me sign in with my proper blog.
2: So has your husband attempted to save you from the sea monster, or does he let you go down for the count?
The special two-sided tape is what the movies use when they need to have a sheet stay in place in a bedroom scene. They also had the waterproof makeup twenty years before the general public was allowed to buy it.
Once, I walked by a car someone left running IN A FIRE LANE by a dorm. I removed the keys from the ignition and threw them under the driver's seat.
Elizabutt
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