seven weird things

thordora didn’t really tag me for this, but i have felt so decidedly weird this week, i thought i needed to do this. so here’s seven weird things about me.

1. i am obsessed with cleaning my ears. i know you shouldn’t go poking cotton swabs into your ears, but i need to. my ears have grown so used to this they start to get itchy if i don’t clean them. i try to keep myself from doing that every day, though.

2. as a kid i refused to eat rice because i thought it looked like ants’ eggs, and eggs because i was afraid one day i would find a dead chick in one. that was after we saw an educational movie in elementary school about how a chick grows inside the egg. i was totally grossed.

3. if i have a cut or graze i can’t keep from picking at the scab until it bleeds again. and i can’t wait for new scab to appear so i can pick at that again. i also like the taste of my own blood. i know it’s gross.

4. i panic at the confrontation with fishbones. if i don’t manage to get them all out on my plate and happen to have one in my mouth, i freeze. i’m not able to just extract it, something in me just blocks. i have to spit out the whole mouthful eventually, then i relax. but the meal is usually finished after that.

5. i can’t burp. not that i think it’s too unladylike or something, i just can’t. if i drink too much bubbly stuff i get stomach cramps because the air won’t come up again.

6. as a teenage girl i hated horses when all my friends wanted one. i thought they were mean, stubborn and hysterical, couldn’t understand what all that fuss was about.

7. when i look at myself in a mirror the image is “filtered” by how i feel. i didn’t feel fat for years, and in the mirror i didn’t see myself as fat. it took a couple of very unflattering photographs for me to realise i was 50 pounds overweight.

all of you who feel about as weird as i do this week, consider yourself tagged.

~ by bine on November 9, 2007.