Share seven weird things about you!

Hmmm lots of fears on here! The fact that so many people have irrational fears makes me wonder how "weird" it is to have an irrational fear! I think I may need to "go again" because I've thought of so many weird things about myself since reading this....

1. I share the same birthday as Seth Green and Gary Coleman. (Is that weird? I dunno, I guess we all share birthdays with celebrities, it just seems weird to me.)

2. I used to be able to push my thumbs back to touch the tops of my wrists, but I guess I've lost that "talent" because I stopped doing it. LOL :laugh:

3. I've taught both my kids (four and two) the ABC's backwards as well as forwards, and they know most of their 50 states.

4. I have a fear of MayFlies. When we go out at night and they are swarming near a lamp post, it freaks me out, and I MUST cover my mouth and nose with my shirt or a cloth or at least my hand, because I'm so afraid that they will go into my mouth or nose. We had a convertible once, and it was warm enough that the top was down when we got gas and I begged my husband not to get gas with the top down, but being the jerk that he was feeling like being that night, he acted like I was just being stupid and forced me to sit there while he got gas. I nearly got out and walked home, but I was so petrified that the mayflies would get me, that I couldn't move.

5. As a kid, I thought it was funny to catch flies and tear their wings off and call them a "walk". I also used to swat them with the fly swatter and then pour salt on them to "bring them back to life". I have NO CLUE who told me how to do this... it's pretty cruel. I never caught one and tied a hair around it and tore it's legs off though, so that I could fly it around. (Someone told me about this when I relayed the rest to him... that's just weird.)

6. I am in love with the smell of scotch tape. It smells like Christmas, and I could smell it all day.

7. I am also fanatical about the smell of Gain laundry detergent. I would make the entire world smell like Gain if I could. I ought to have stock.

8. Eye crossing... I can cross my eyes, cross only one eye and whirl the other around in a circle (either eye, I can do both!), and do what I call "figure eights" with my eyes, meaning that I cross one, circle the other once, cross that one and circle the other one.

9. I have amaxing tongue dexterity. (Yes, before you ask, my husband adores me. ) I can do all kinds of tongue tricks, too weird to be able to describe all of them, but for example I can fold it in half either way, make it into a talking smiley face, make it do "the wave", flip my tongue over both ways and FAST, and I can put my tongue into the back of my throat, past my uvula, down into my throat or up into the back of my nose (I know, that's gross.)

10. I am generally much less than six degrees of separation from any celebrity, because as a kid, I met Gordon from Sesame street, and played "One of these things doesn't belong", with him. Since he works with Elmo, who has met just about every celebrity in America :laugh: I'm generally only 3 degrees from most celebrities, four at the most.

11. I have been a "writer" since I can remember. My elementary school teachers always said that they knew I would be a published author one day, and always said that they couldn't wait to read my stories. I begged for a typewriter for Christmas every year from age 11-13, and spent much of those years alone in my room, writing. I've been published, but most of it is ghostwriting, however I have gotten a few paying and credited gigs here and there, though nothing fancy.

12. I've never broken a bone (yet!!), however I have had four surgeries and stitches in my mouth once.

13. I have a dream to become a roller derby girl.

14. I have created a "bucket list" online.

15. I saved my friend's life once.

16. I have helped stay at home moms become friends hundreds of times over, and the effects of my work are still going on today.

17. I have two phobias, one is the fear of disease and dying (and of going to get diagnosed, which goes along with that phobia) and the other is claustorphobia. I remember the exact moment that these phobias started. The clausterphobia I'm not really sure about if it still bothers me, but it freaked me out enough not to want to find out by being in a tight space again.

18. I once stepped on a piece of a jellyfish, and it made my pinky toe numb for a year or so.

19. I can wiggle both ears individually or together and both eyebrows individually or together.

20. This summer I will have been married for one third of my life, and I'm only thirty.

21. I have a lot of floaters in my vision, but, because of aforementioned disease phobia, can't bring myself to go to an eye doctor.

22. My husband and I met in high school by writing on a desk to one another, and I actually envisioned meeting my husband this way when I was in middle school.

23. When I was young, there was a house that had a garage with a smiley face painted on it, near where my cousin lived (only a couple of blocks away from where we lived.) I told my brother that one day I would buy that house and I'd paint a hole in the forehead of the smiley face, and make it look like it got shot in the head and write "Have a nice day" on it. Years later I bought a house that was all yellow siding, and years after we bought the house, my cousin told me, "You know, I remember when I was a kid, your house used to have a smiley face painted on the garage, before they put siding on it."

24. I experience Deja Vu to the nth degree. Once a day would be a slow day for me. I fear that it means that I have a disease or brain tumor, but I recently read that people who have depression/anxiety have deja vu more than the rest of the world.

25. I'm working on an invention that mostly markets to moms of kids who are potty training. I hope to have some prototypes out in the next few weeks.

26. I've been "attempted" to be abducted by child molestors twice in my life, both by people who I didnt' know. Once when I was four, once when I was 11. The first time the man asked me from his red truck if I wanted some candy, the second time it was a man on our street who asked me if I would come into his house and look at the fish tank that he had for sale (who turned out to be a convicted child molestor.)

27. I've had chicken pox twice and my husband had it three times. We've had our children both vaccinated for chicken pox... (I realize that this is highly controversial, and I have nothing against those who choose not to vax, but for us it was a no-brainer.)

28. I play pool left handed and skateboard "goofy-footed" or "left footed", although I am primarily right-sided for everything else.

29. I used to be really great at playing chess, and in fourth grade I was second place chessmaster in my class, but I only remember the basics of how to play now.

30. I hate the sound of corderoy or of fabrics rubbing together; it hurts my teeth.

31. I also have a "fear" (I wouldn't call it a phobia, I just really REALLY hate it) of wood touching my teeth, like from a popsicle.

32. I am notoriously good at remembering commercials... not just the jingles but the whole commercials. I used to drive my parents crazy by saying all the commercials along with them. One of my favorites was Sally Struthers for ICS where she said, "Do you want to make more money? Sure, we all do!" (I have since forgotten the middle bit, but then it says, "Choose from any one of these courses! high school, TV VCR repair, computer programming, child day care, book keeping, legal assistant, veteranary asssitant..." I think there were a few more, but then it said, "You can major in business management or in accounting!" I've forgotten a lot of it now, but remember that this was from when I was six or so. :laugh:

33. I'm afraid of the dark.

34. As a kid, I had an "extra" phobia of being abducted. Occasionally I'd wake up flipped around so that my head was at the foot of my bed, and I was sure that I was in an alien spaceship, and I was too terrified to move.

And getting slightly morbid....

35. I have two brothers, but am recently an only child.

36. My parents and I have eerie similarities sometimes... for example my due date months were October, February and November, and so were hers. We both had three children and one died.as a baby. My dad's brother, Donnie, was walking on a highway and got struck by a vehicle and killed, and it was immediately declared a suicide, and later they found out that it was the recklessness of the driver, and the EXACT same thing happened to my brother, Donnie, just a few months ago. (walking on the highway, struck by a vehicle, immediately ruled a suicide and then they found that it was the recklessness of the driver at fault.) Although neither of my children are named Donnie, I'm now afraid that one of them will be killed by a car as an adult.

Is anyone still reading? Seriously, this went WAYY too long... which is #37: I have a tendency to go overboard whenever I write anything.