Shame on her! Karyl tagged me and now I'm supposed to post about six of my quirks. I'm a little bit stumped as I sit here, though I'm sure Rob could list many. So, here's my attempt.
1. Toilet paper. While I admit to strangely having a similar compulsion to make sure I have a lot of toilet paper on hand (I buy a bunch every time I go to Sam's Club), I am seriously annoyed when no one changes the toilet paper roll and/or if they put the roll on with the paper coming off the bottom rather than over the top. It has to be done a certain way or I have to fix it.
2. Diet Coke. I do not like Diet Coke from a can. If it is not from a restaurant or movie theatre, or whatever (i.e. a fountain drink), I don't like it. This probably applies to most soda drinks, except cream soda. I will literally drive to McDonald's for a Diet Coke before I will drink one of Rob's cans out of the fridge.
3. To do lists...I make a lot of lists. I keep one on the computer. I often sit down at night and map out a schedule for the next day including the times I expect to be doing certain things. Can anyone say anal retentive? But I feel a great sense of accomplishment when I can delete five or six things off a list for the day. I feel like I actually got something done. My lists always seem to get longest on Sunday as I think about what needs to be done the coming week.
4. A place for everything and everything in its place. I oftentimes will complain vehemently that the kids do not help clean up the house. However, I will also turn around and just do it myself because I want things to be where I put them, in a certain order, or in a certain place...sorted a certain way. If I let the kids do the clean-up, everything just gets thrown together. That drives me insane.
5. Folding laundry. I used to haul all the laundry upstairs and dump it on the futon to be folded. This habit stopped when I realized five loads of laundry would pile up there and I just wouldn't go up and do it. I now fold laundry in the game room while I watch TV, but the piles are always in the same place. I can map out the coffee table and half the couch by telling you exactly what goes in what pile and where it goes. I'm also very particular about what order and how things are loaded back into the baskets for their journey upstairs. LOL!
6. Washing your face. I do not wash my face with soap and water or any other facial product very often. There is a very valid reason for this. There is a strong correlation between washing my face and breaking out with zits. When I don't wash my face, I hardly ever break out. As soon as I wash it once, I break out with zits. Just happened to me recently. I felt particularly sweaty and grungy one day so I took some nice cleanser and washed my face. Two days later I broke out with one zit and now I have like four or five. I hadn't had one in months prior to this. I do take a hot, wet washcloth after a hot shower or bath while my pores are open and rinse my face off, but if I use anything more than water, watch out!
I hope this fulfills my quirk quota. I'm not sure who I can tag since I don't know many other people who blog besides Karyl. In fact, I might know one other person and that's it. So, I'm just blindly tagging anyone who reads this. LOL!
This was two Christmases ago when we had a photographer come take pictures at the house. Obviously no one was paying attention in this one as Ian is about the only one looking at the camera. And you can tell this is an older picture because Harrison is so much smaller and it is before Taryn cut her hair.
