The Rules: Each player of this game starts with "6 weird things about you". Each person who gets tagged needs to write a blog post of their own 6 weird things as well as clearly state this rule. After you state your 6 weird things, you need to choose 6 people to be tagged and list their names. Don't forget to leave a comment that says "you're tagged" in their comments and tell them to read your blog for information as to what it means. So here are my six weird things.
1. I have an eye freckle. Yes, that's right, I said "eye freckle." In my left eye, below my pupil, there is a very distinct black drop. When a room is well lit, it's very noticeable and I get lots of comments on it, like, "Cool!" So yes, hmm, eye freckle.
2. I
DETEST the backs of my pants being wet from snow/rain. Wet cuffs touching my ankles gives me the heebie jeebies. In fact wet feet drive me crazy in general. I am very careful to stand over the mat to dry off after taking a shower, whereas my lovely husband drips like a shaggy dog over the linoleum. If I wet my feet it's fine, stepping in someone else's shower/snow puddle drives me to insanity. Anywho, back to the pant leg thing, I will usually roll up my pants if the weather is wet outside, even when it's snowing, leaving me with very cold calves indeed and looking like I'm making an odd fashion statement, (which isn't that far from normal according to most people anyways).
3. I did not get my driver's license until I was 23 years old. At first, I was too busy with ballet in high school to learn how to drive, then in college I didn't really need it, then it just became this weird terrified paranoia of getting into a car accident. My ever patient wonderful hubby taught me how to drive. Poor thing dealt with me sobbing nearly every time we pulled out of the driveway - and then when I had to learn standard it was like doing it all over again. Now I am generally fearless when it comes to being on the road except in stop and start traffic and travelling at high speeds - for me that would be 70+ mph.
4. When I was little I used to spread my hair out on the pillow before I went to bed and pretend that I was Sleeping Beauty. I still do this sometimes. OOOH one even better, (I'm a very weird person), when I was little I used to walk by the ocean and sing the "Ahhhh ahhh ahhh" song from the Little Mermaid, because I wanted the opposite to happen to me. I wanted to turn from human to mermaid. I was completely obsessed. (I don't do this anymore).
5. I have an extraordinarily bendy back. I suppose some of this comes from dance, but many people I know exclaim that I must be missing a vertebrae or something. I can bend backwards and nearly touch my bum with the back of my head. It's a little disturbing and great for party tricks!
6. I used to memorize my dad's high school yearbook, from 1958. I went to the theatre one time, in the city he went to highschool at, and I recognized one of the ushers as one of my dad's classmates. I marched right up to her and said, "Are you so and so? Class of 1958? St. Antoine's? I'm Gerry Duclos' daughter." Practically scared the bejeesus out of the woman. Like who is this random little girl who knows all about my life?!
There are many many more things, but I can't give you all of my material at once :)
EDIT: I actually just thought of something that I HAD to mention, because it's too weird. I'm a little obsessive compulsive when I'm doing laundry in that I NEED to see what year the quarter was minted. If it's a "state" quarter (International readers: in 2000 I think it was the government started issuing quarters to represent all fifty states - they release four a year or something...) that I haven't seen before, I need to examine it before it goes into the washing machine/dryer. Tad crazy.
I'm going to be a cheat and only tag two people, because SO many blogs that I read have already done this. I tag
Joleen and
Renee.
A little shop update happened today! I'm dubbing these "Talk to me darling with a mushroom of love" ornaments, a play on one of my fave Pretenders songs. These are so precious! The little felted love note in size is less than one inch square! In the update there are mushrooms with white tops/red bottoms, heart ornaments and a pink simple scarf (that I did a tute for awhile ago) that I've renamed the Dot dot dot scarf. It's going to be hard to let this stuff go - it's so cute! Check it out :)
