So, I've been tagged by my cute friend, Wendy. She said to list 6 weird things I do.
1. I put peanut butter on my hot dogs. I actually spent a good portion of my life not knowing that this is weird, because most of my family does it too. Apparently my Mom's Grandpa started the tradition. I highly recommend it.
2. At night when I sleep the bedding must be in perfect order. Give me a sheet going one direction and a comforter going another and I am fit to be tied. Sometimes just to tease me Jonny will turn his pillow all funny and laugh his head off while I try to pretend it doesn't bug me.
3. My closet: All the hangars must go the same direction and all the shirts must be on the hangars in the same direction, and it is color coded.
4. My jaw pops on each side. I pop it about 732 times a day. I never thought about the fact that it might look weird until one day I saw Emma watch me intently and then move her jaw the same way.
5. I'm kind of a soda addict. An in control addict, if such a thing exists. But I have very specific ways I like it done. If I'm in a gas station - fountain, no bottles. I like it 3/4 Diet Coke and 1/4 Dr. Pepper, lime if they have it, lemon if they don't. At home I like the can to be room temperature (not cold!) with 5 ice cubes and a straw. As I am writing this I think there is a possibility that I need some sort of medication.
6. This one is not so much things that I do as much as the fact that the weirdest things always happen to me. I attract weird events like nobodies business.
For example:
-the time I went running alone in Provo Canyon, came around a corner and there was a naked guy sitting there by the trail. Sicko flasher.
-the time I went running in college, stopped to talk to a friend on a street corner, passed out, fell into the road and got hit by a passing car. Fire engines, police cars, ambulances...the whole nine yards. The guy who hit me tried to get the police officer to give me a ticket for jaywalking. What?!
-Freshman year in college, I agreed to go on a blind date and the guy took me hiking up some mountain and brought along about, oh I'd say, 40 lbs. of venison (many of the steaks had fur still intact) and started cooking those babies up and tossing them at me. We had to eat them all because they wouldn't "keep". And he forgot any utensils so I was tearing into the hairy, sizzling, deer steaks like some savage beast whilst burning my fingers. Eventually I started hiding the steaks under the log I was leaning against because I just couldn't eat any more and that worked out pretty well until he found them all...maybe that's not that weird, just a bad date really. But a weird bad date.
-Senior year in college, sitting at a computer kiosk and randomly pass out, fall forward out of my chair and onto the hard floor, and land mostly on my forehead. I spent the next week with a huge yellow/green bump right in the middle of my forehead.
-And how about the time just a few months ago when an enormous Great Dane named Duchess came busting into our yard bleeding from her mouth and feet and all entangled in an iron chair. Apparently she had gotten sprayed by a skunk and then got spooked when her owner tied her to a chair to bathe her and took off running down the road only to get caught in the chair and think the chair was attacking her. She was so frantic she broke off 8 of her teeth, but only after biting through her own Achilles tendon, so terrified she was. I spent the morning at the doggie ER and the afternoon scrubbing dog blood and skunk spray out of my clothes and off of our carport.
-A couple of weeks ago, Jonny gets a random Staph infection in his face and takes antibiotics for it. The very last pill of the pack gets caught in his esophagus and burns the living tar out of it and he ends up spending two days in the hospital drugged out of his poor little head and living on a diet of water and...water.
These are just a few of the experiences that lead me to say with a fair amount of certainty, "The weirdest things always happen to me."
I now tag Aubrey, Tiffany, Jenny, Rachel, and Heather.
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12 comments:
oh, the good old days. Thanks for the walk down memory lane, I think I remember when almost all of those incidents happened to you. You are crazy! I love it! Now I will direct people to your blog for a good laugh.
Who would have guessed. It is always nice to hear other peoples lives are even more crazy than your own. I think we may have had this coversation before? I assume your husband is okay?
Sooooo, according to the first 5, you sound a little...well... alot OCD-I mean that in the nicest way of course. And as for number six, I was laughing so hard I think i peed a little bit. But in my defense, I just had a baby and my bladder is shot!
you are hilarious! i was laughing so hard, i love it.
you forgot the part of the bad date where, in walking you back down the mountain, your date shared the fact that he'd been walking with his eyes closed the whole time since it was so dark anyway and he knew the trail so well. This is the same date, is it not? hehe. good times! Love you! :)
Little Lara-I forgot all about that part of the date...sheesh. You'd think that right then and there I would have sworn off of blind dates, eh?
I don't know what to think about your use of peanut butter. I ought to suggest it to Addison, though. He loves both hot dogs and peanut butter, and after eating at your house, he thinks you're the best cook ever!
So funny! Wendy told me I had to read your blog. She could hardly speak she was laughing so hard telling me about your strange habits! Love the hairy venison story!
Liesha
i can see your facial expressions as you tell these stories...hilarious. :) i just caught up with your emma-isms - i love the cliffs of insanity...is she mimicking fezzik yet? :)
What the?!?! So just this morning you let me babble on about the finicky (sp?) eater on my hands, while you had way better stories to tell?!? You're busted. I need a serious update now.
I had forgotten about some of those weird experiences you have had. I enjoyed reading and laughing about them again. The crazy thing is you have lots more that you didn't write about!
hope you had a great Mother's day! :)
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