Tagged!

Well, my sweet friend, Celena, "tagged" me. Having no idea what that meant, I was glad she explained the rules:

1. Link to the person who tagged you
2. Post the rules on your blog
3. Write six random thoughts about yourself
4. Tag six or so people at the end of your post
5. Let each person know he or she has been tagged
6. Let the tagger know when your entry is posted

So here are Celena's very interesting thoughts about herself.

And here are my not-so-interesting-but-hopefully-endearingly-quirky thoughts/things about myself:

1. I have to read when I'm in the bathroom. If I don't have a book or magazine, I'll read whatever is in arm's reach...the lotion bottle, the ingredients in my saline solution, the toilet paper wrapper, whatever. I'll read the same thing over, and over, and over again. Wait, does OCD qualify as something "quirky"?

2. One of my favorite past-times is making fun (out loud) of people on TV who misuse "literally" and "believe." For example, "I literally have a million things to do today." Really? A million? "She's literally the smartest person in the entire world." Wow! How did you determine that? Or "I don't believe in the death penalty." Hhm. I never thought of the death penalty being like the Easter Bunny or Santa Claus, but apparently its existence is questionable to some. I should really get out more.

3. I like to give dogs voices...and a different voice for each dog. I talk for them, which means that I often carry on both sides of a conversation:
Me: Gracie do you want to go for a walk?
Me (in a dog voice): Yes, yes, yes. Please, oh, please. Let's go, let's go, let's go. Come on, come on, come on. Hurry up, hurry up, hurry up!
Me: Oh, I don't know. Do you deserve to go on a walk, Gracie?
Me (in a dog voice): I do, I do, I do. I've been really good. I haven't done permanent damage to the house in weeks. Please, please, please, please!
[It should be noted that I actually didn't realize that this was a "quirky" thing until recently because I come for a long line of dog talkers!]

4. I get seriously grossed out by the thought of loose teeth! Damian and I have already discussed the fact that he will have to handle all of Ellie's loose teeth. I don't want to know about it and I certainly don't want to see them. In fact, Ellie might have to move out while she's loosing teeth. We'll see. One of Ellie's CDs has a song about a "wiggly" tooth that is hanging by a thread. Ugh! It gives me the heebee-geebee's just thinking about it. I have to skip that song, but unfortunately, I usually don't recognize it until I've heard the first line...then I just drive around trying desperately not to think about wiggly teeth.

5. I sort of have a phobia of salmonella. If we cook chicken or fish or if Damian makes eggs (he is totally incapable of breaking an egg without it running down the side of the bowl onto the counter), I pretty much sanitize the entire kitchen...usually before we're done cooking. Damian just loves how I chase him around the kitchen with a spray bottle of bleach.

6. I have a terrible time remembering whether I've actually said something out loud or if I've just thought about saying it, so I often start a sentence with "Did I say this out loud..." Sweet Damian just acts like it's totally normal instead of saying "you're crazy, woman -- if you stopped having conversations with the voices in your head, this wouldn't be a problem!"

And now the six people that I'm tagging (drum roll, please):
1. Jamie
2. Hillary
3. Jenna
These people don't have blogs of their own, but I thought they could post their quirky thoughts in the comments section of this post:
4. Mom/Gaga
5. Sue/Grandma Sue
6. Marjorie/MeMe

No pressure if you don't want to do this -- I just thought it would be fun to learn some quirky things about you and to have them for Ellie to read later (so only G-rated quirkiness, ladies!).