Little Quirks

I don't know why I got this idea, but I have decided to share a few things about myself that most people don't know. Some of them are just random facts while others may be stories that I just haven't told many people. Most of these are things that I think make me special, even if you think I'm odd because of them...

• Not only can I not do a somersault without going off course or crashing into something, I also get incredibly dizzy in the attempt.
• There are only 5 speeds that I will allow myself to travel while on the freeway: 62, 64, 68, 69, and 72. If I am not at one of those speeds, I feel nervous and uneasy.
• I get upset when boys try to touch my boobs.
• I am physically unable to bend either of my big toes.
• My biggest fear in life? Deep water.
• I am pathologically obsessed with hair removal.
• I still have numerous scars from having chicken pox. I remember that I had them on Valentine's Day in 1st grade. I didn't get any Valentines that year. Yes, the scars are both emotional and physical.
• Even though I have eyes that have been described as "buggish" or "Little Mermaid eyes", I do not blink more often than people with normal sized eyes. This has been studied.
• When I was in 5th grade, I had short hair and enjoyed wearing sweatpants. I also had smaller boobs than I do now (yes, it's possible). At one of my dad's softball games, I chased down a foul ball and threw it back in to the first baseman. He yelled, "Thanks, sonny!" Even now, I still cry about the day when a stranger thought I was a boy.
• I can make my eyes shake back and forth, almost as if they're vibrating.
• My first boyfriend's name was Travis. In 4th grade, I agreed to be his girlfriend even though he was a good 6 inches shorter than me. I held his hand once. Then, he moved away during Christmas break without telling me. Maybe that's why I don't like dating guys that are shorter than me. The first one ended on a sad note.
• When I make a peanut butter and jelly sandwich, it has to be on wheat bread with creamy peanut butter and raspberry jelly. The peanut butter to jelly ratio should be 25:75.
• The arcade game that I'm best at? The one with the claw that comes down and grabs the stuffed animals. As a hostess at my first job, we had one of those machines by the front door. I watched so many people play that game that I can easily pick out which animal is primed for winning.
• I started waterskiing when I was 7, which somewhat contradicts my fear of water. The solution: don't fall. In fact, one time I started to fall but I was scared to be in the deep water, so I held on to the rope. Bad idea. I ended up with a bruised eye from landing face first on the ski and with rope burn all up and down my legs (not sure how that happened, but it did).
• I had 2 pet baby squirrels for a whole weekend once. Their mom died and my friend and I kept them in her garage at her cabin. We woke up in the middle of the night to feed them milk out of a nipple from a baby bottle. My squirrel's name was Snickers and he thought that his brother's penis was analogous to his mom's nipple (either that or he was an incestual gay squirrel).
• I've nearly broken both my leg and nose...while sleeping...
• When I was 6, I wanted to run away. I packed a blanket and a half of a bag of M & M's in a duffle bag. I figured that would hold me for a while.
• I can pop my left thumb out of the socket, but not the right one.
• When I golf, I drive right-handed and putt left-handed.
• When I played softball, I sometimes bunted or slap hit left-handed. In one game, we were ahead by so many runs that I decided to swing away just for fun. I hit a double. It was amazing.
• I still sleep with a stuffed animal.
• My cat is named Maverick because when we brought him home for the first time and set him in the living room, he walked right up to the tv (which was playing Top Gun) and started batting at Goose right after he was ejected from the jet and was attached to the parachute, dead. I was worried that Maverick didn't know how to go to the bathroom for a while because there was nothing in the litter box after a few days of having him. Then I went to search for him one day, I found him prancing around a pile of poo on my bed. I think he was really excited that he finally went.
• When I was younger, She-Ra was my hero.
• In 5th grade, we had to run laps in gym class. If our whole class could run continuously for a certain number of minutes, we would increase the amount of time we ran until we got up to 10 minutes. While running one day, my friends dared me to ask my gym teacher if I could go to the bathroom because I thought I was getting my period. Not one to back down on a dare, I did it. The gym teacher made everyone stop running and told everyone that we didn't make our goal for the week because people were lying to try to get out of running.
• While doing a chemistry experiment once, I had to leave smelly football player sweat in my refrigerator for a week.
• I was stung by a portuguese man-o-war once.
• Without contacts or glasses, I am easily legally blind. In fact, I wanted to be an astronaut until someone told me that you had to have 20/20 vision without corrective surgery.
• One day my traveling volleyball team had a meeting and we had questions on a sheet of paper that we had to answer and hand in so we could discuss everyone's anonymous answers. One of the questions was, "Who is the hardest person to play with on the court and why?" Out of 10 responses, my name was brought up 4 times. People said that I was too loud and pushy. It hurt my feelings so much that I've been a shy, introvert ever since.
• If I had my choice of two perfect, identical guys, but one was right-handed and the other was left-handed, I'd choose the lefty.
• I used to be able to recite every Saved by the Bell episode word for word.
• I took piano lessons for about 6 years, although I rarely practiced.
• At summer camp once, I was out in the canoe with two other girls. We went to this marshy part of the lake with lots of turtles. All of the sudden, I had to pee incredibly badly. We were pretty far away from the camp so I knew we wouldn't make it back in time. I held it in as long as I could, but I peed my pants. In order to hide it, I jumped in the lake with my pants on. When they asked me what I was doing, I said that I saw a turtle that I thought I could catch. Of course, they laughed at me. However, I got the last laugh when they never found out I peed my pants, and I caught 2 turtles.