hangin' on the telephone

[the_siobhan]

Tagged by ladyclayton

1. List seven habits/quirks/facts about yourself.
2. Tag seven people to do the same.
3. Do not tag the person who tagged you or say that you tag "whoever wants to do it."

1. I have an extra bone in the arch of each foot. It gives me arches so high I can't wear any sandals that don't have a strap because my soles don't have enough surface area in contact with the shoe to grip properly, and the shoes just fall right off my feet. Because of this the way my weight is distributed across the middle of my feet is also fucked up, and I've broken small bones in them more times than I can count.

2. I once met Timothy Leary for about five seconds. I was staff at a pagan festival where he was speaking and I just happened to walk into the main house while he was there. He told me he liked my t-shirt.[1]

3. My father claims we are related to one of the guys who kidnapped St Patrick.

4. I can't watch those horrendous sit-coms where there is some kind of misunderstanding or where people aren't telling each other the truth or whatever. My face gets hot with sympathetic embarrassment and I start to squirm so badly I have to get up and away from the televsion. I get really physically uncomfortable.

5. When I was a kid I always wanted to be a vet. When I went to university all my relatives where shocked that I never ended up going to the vet college.

6. I can't eat anything with cooking onions in it. I like the taste just fine, but chewing on them feels exactly like biting down on tinfoil. So whenever I make anything with cooking onions in the recipe, I stick 'em in the blender first. Spring onions have a completely different texture so they don't bother me at all.

7. I can't stand rough edges on my skin and I will tear them off with my teeth or nails. It's so compulsive I often don't even realizing I'm doing it. I tear off insect bites, spots, warts, skin tags - if I catch a fingernail on something I have to wrap it in a bandaid if I want it to last long enough to get home where I can take a file to it.

[1] "I grew up in a dysfunctional family and all I got was this lousy t-shirt".

Hrm, who do I want to tag? How about okoshun, ravensee, meetzemonsta, spikella, d269330400, excess_and_oohs, and just for the hell of it, the_axel.

(Now I just have to get caught up enough to read them.)

Comments

[bellafiga.livejournal.com]

I can't watch those horrendous sit-coms where there is some kind of misunderstanding or where people aren't telling each other the truth or whatever. My face gets hot with sympathetic embarrassment and I start to squirm so badly I have to get up and away from the televsion. I get really physically uncomfortable.


I am like this when people read poetry or sing songs.. Which usually happens on "reality" type shows. But I can not deal, I feel this level of shame FOR THEM that makes my heart beat and I get nauseous.. It's very bizarre I have this weird thing about shame, mine or others..

[the-siobhan.livejournal.com]

Exactly. I think because I was publically humiliated so often when I was a kid, I can't handle even the hint of it now.

[panic-girl.livejournal.com]

I do #7 also.

[redbird]

The sitcoms I couldn't deal with were the ones where we were supposed to find embarrassment funny.

My immediate reaction to reading point 7 was "there's a nail file on my swiss army knife."

[the-siobhan.livejournal.com]

I keep taking my knife off my key ring because I cross the border so much, and I keep forgetting to put it back on.

[dark-phoenix54.livejournal.com]

Amen to #4. And it's not just sitcoms- the husband likes Desperate Housewives and Grey's Anatomy and I just can't deal with them because of that lying shit.

And I do #7, too. I'll pick til I bleed if I don't watch it. I figured it was part of my OCD.

Re: hangin' on the telephone

[pir-anha.livejournal.com]

oh, i do #7 as well, and yeah, with teeth and fingers, and indeed, must use bandaid to protect areas that i shouldn't futz with. i am not usually conscious enough of it to use a nailclipper or a file. winter is worse than summer because my skin dries out and flakes more easily, and i usually end up with small wounds where i've torn it beyond where it wanted to go. which in time creates scabs which i can then pick at, yay! *rolls eyes*.

what are "cooking" onions?

and, for meme creators -- how to make me drop a meme instantly on the floor: 3. Do not [...] say that you tag "whoever wants to do it." -- stupid control freaks.

Re: hangin' on the telephone

[the-siobhan.livejournal.com]

what are "cooking" onions?

Spanish onions? The big round root ones.

As opposed to green or spring onions, which have tiny bulbs and edible green stalks. They could even be the same plant for all I know.

[lilactime.livejournal.com]

I can't watch those horrendous sit-coms where there is some kind of misunderstanding or where people aren't telling each other the truth or whatever.

But... this is the premise of just about *every* sit-com in existence. At least all of the typical ones. Which may be why I'm with you on this one. Not because I'm embarrassed for anyone, but because I just sit there thinking, "FFS, just tell the woman you killed the goldfish!!!"

[spikella.livejournal.com]

These are great. I'm interested in the St Patrick story...

And #5 could apply to me as well.

good lord... you've called down the thunder on this one with me. I'll start my homework. And I'm immensely amused that you've tagged the_axel for this.

[the-siobhan.livejournal.com]

Watch him not do it.

[spikella.livejournal.com]

I've been watching... and he's not doing

[the_axel]