{"id":4025,"date":"2005-12-12T11:58:38","date_gmt":"2005-12-12T16:58:38","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.sheilaomalley.com\/?p=4025"},"modified":"2022-10-09T21:32:28","modified_gmt":"2022-10-10T01:32:28","slug":"weird-sheila-yankovich","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.sheilaomalley.com\/?p=4025","title":{"rendered":"Weird Habits"},"content":{"rendered":"

Joan has listed 5 of her weird habits.<\/a> I don’t know – they all sound pretty normal to me. I have the same shower habits, actually. Different music for different times of the day. Eminem in the morning, Indigo Girls or Shawn Colvin at night. It just seems RIGHT to me that way.<\/p>\n

But still – they’re fun to read. I love people admitting how “weird” they are – and then, of course, you get people saying, “Oh my God, I do that too!!”<\/p>\n

Here’s another one.<\/a> His first one:<\/p>\n

I have to eat pop-tarts by first eating the crust off the edges, then eating the center.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

See, when people admit something like that – (not that it’s totally weird – but it is specific) – I don’t feel as alone in the world. We all have these “quirks”. Different ones, sure, but we’ve all got them. It’s like one of my favorite posts: Here are the things that make me a geek<\/a>. The THINGS people admitted in the comments section!!! (One example is: “I know the number on the trash compactor in Star Wars by heart.”) But there are SO MANY MORE that just were awesome! All these quirky eccentric beautiful geeky admissions – it’s one of my favorite conversations we’ve ever had here. I just LOVE it.<\/p>\n

So here are 5 of my weird habits:<\/b><\/p>\n

1. I can eat fruit by itself – or on top of cereal – but I pretty much refuse to eat any fruit that is baked into anything<\/i>. Blueberries on top of cereal? YUM. Blueberry muffin? Ew.<\/p>\n

2. One of my ongoing weird projects is what I call my Country Index Cards. I have two enormous boxes of meticulously filed 5 x 7 index cards that I have created – with information on … well … different countries. Facts, cultural information, timelines, current events – I add to this growing archive as much as I can. If I read some random fact about, say, Mongolia … that I never knew … then it’s time to break out the Mongolia cards and add it to the list. Obviously this project could very quickly overwhelm all my time so I do have to keep it under control. I add to the index cards whenever it seems really pressing to do so – or whenever I learn something I didn’t know. Certain countries (Iran, for example) have probably 100 index cards alone. Other countries don’t interest me as much, so they only get one or two cards. Sorry, Honduras! Nothing personal – I just don’t really care about you and life is too short for me to give a shit about EVERY country! But Iran? Fascinating. Uzbekistan? Give me more. Serbia? Bring it on. Russia? Fuggedaboutit. Anyway. This is one of my weirdest habits and believe it or not – I actually am kind of embarrassed about the project because it doesn’t really lead anywhere … But – to be fair – I DO whip out those cards on occasion – Like, I’ll read some news report about the Ukraine – and think: “Wait, wait, wait … I seem to remember something on the index card about this … hmmmm …” So then I file through, pull out the “Ukraine section’ and read up. Yup. I’m weird.<\/p>\n

3. I pretty much have to wake up before 7 a.m. or I feel completely out of control. I try to revel in sleeping late – but I just can’t stand it. I like to be up before the sun comes up – and actually – it’s more than “I like to be up” – it’s more of a compulsion. I HAVE to wake up really really early in order to launch my day off in the right mood. I prefer to wake up at 6 a.m. – but I can do 7 a.m. without too much psychological fallout.<\/p>\n

4. I can remember conversations I had 20 years ago, 25 years ago, in as much detail as if I were watching a movie go past my eyes. I remember who said what, and how they were standing, and how he reached back for a drink when he said such and such … It’s not a photographic memory – not really – but a … human behavior memory.<\/p>\n

5. I have this counting thing that I do with my right-hand. It’s mainly unconscious – but I’ve done it since I was a kid – and it is far too insane to describe. It’s not like a Howard Hughes thing – it’s not THAT bad – I don’t need to lock myself in my room if I DON’T do the counting thing – but … once the counting-thing starts (and it has to do with even numbers – don’t ask) – I have to just quickly finish it up, or it will haunt me. I can, by the way, do the counting-thing while I am doing other things – and you won’t even notice. I can be having a conversation in a crowded bar and do the counting-thing at the same time. A tiny compulsion.<\/p>\n

Anne’s weird, too<\/a>!! I love the title of her post. hahahahaha<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Joan has listed 5 of her weird habits. I don’t know – they all sound pretty normal to me. I have the same shower habits, actually. Different music for different times of the day. Eminem in the morning, Indigo Girls … Continue reading →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[3],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sheilaomalley.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4025"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sheilaomalley.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sheilaomalley.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sheilaomalley.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sheilaomalley.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=4025"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.sheilaomalley.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4025\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":178866,"href":"https:\/\/www.sheilaomalley.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4025\/revisions\/178866"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sheilaomalley.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=4025"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sheilaomalley.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=4025"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sheilaomalley.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=4025"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}