I've been tagged!

[gwendolyngrace]

elfundeb tagged me.

1 - List seven weird/quirky habits about myself
2 - Tag seven people to do the same
3 - not just say "whoever wants to do it" or refuse to tag people

The funny thing is that just before this started going around, I was thinking about quirky habits... not like publicly discoverable habits but the ones you'd *really* be embarrassed about if anyone knew. Things that gross *you* out, but you do anyway.

I won't include any of those.

1. I can't stand anything that separates my toes. Toe socks? Flip-flops? Right out. Can't have anything between the toes. This makes wearing tabi quite problematic. Quite separate from my own personal dislike of straps between (the first and second) metatarsals, I also *hate* flip-flops and the current shall-we-call-it-fashion in flip-flops. I don't care how studded or jewel-encrusted they are, they *never* look formal.

2. I like raisins by themselves, in trail mix, and (on a limited basis) in meat pies and other things where their texture/taste doesn't stand out. However, I don't like raisins in cereal, or cooked into most food (like kugel).

3. I really don't like seafood, except for fish sticks and Upstate NY-style fish fry (which is close enough to London-style fish and chips that that counts as a Good Thing). Yes, I moved to Boston. Shut up. (I used to like shrimp and clams, but got sick (on separate occasions) off both, improperly prepared, and now have acquired aversion to both.)

4. I'm a complete clothes horse. I have way too many articles of clothing, not even including garb. But I hardly ever get rid of anything because it's all for different kinds of situations - like work clothes vs. play clothes, vs. sweaty/painting/getting messed up clothes. Also shoes. WAY too many pairs of shoes. And for someone who loves clothing and shoes as much as I do, I don't care for them well. (But I also don't buy clothes often.)

5. Almost every food I really like involves some form of dairy. Thus if I'm ever put on a lactose-free or lactose-reduced diet, I'll be one sad puppy.

6. I frequently "cast" myself (and by extension, others, namely Amy) in the role(s) of characters in the books and shows and movies I like. (Even when I don't, muses of *other* characters tend to come visit and will natter on in my brain.) No, I'm not MPD, and no, I'm not schizophrenic. It just feels like it sometimes. ;^D

7. If someone's singing a song I know, it's extremely difficult for me to not pick up and either sing along or continue it in my head.

Hm. Well, those probably weren't as weird as I really am, but hey, I have to keep some secrets. ;^D

Tag? You say? I have no idea who has and hasn't been tagged. Did I mention my 8th quirky habit? I'm really good at putting things down. (Not so good at remembering where, or picking them back up.) Oh, okay: dicea, rani23, liamstliam, musesfool, elanurel, ballyharnon, and patrikia. But only if you want to. And you haven't already been tagged.


Incidentally, I watched the end of "Top Chef" last night (and btw, *$*%*% what happened to Tre?), and right afterward there was an episode of "Tim Gunn's Guide to Style!" But all through it, they were advertising in the breaks that it "premiered" tonight at 10. I ask you: HOW can a show be aired before it premieres?

It was good, though, if a little too similar to "What not to wear" - I like that they are pulling in people from the industry and I really liked the sequence where Tim walked the fashion victim selectee through a digital program that showed her a representation of her own body proportions, and then he sat down with her and drew various styles of clothes on a blank template of her body silhouette. I also *REALLY* appreciated that they talked with her about her undergarments. So many women really don't pay attention to the underpinnings, and it makes a *huge* difference to how clothes fit and hang and look.

Plus, it's Tim Gunn. So how can you not love it?

Time for lunch!

Comments

[hedwig-snowy.livejournal.com]

"I won't include any of those."

Chicken!

"I'm a complete clothes horse"

That's not a quirk, you're a woman! That's genetic!!! ;)

"Time for lunch!"

I see a crab louie with a cup of clam chowder heading in your direction.....RUN!!! :-) *I mean really, what you have for dairy I have for shellfish....I intend on spending the latter part of the month hunting down the best lobster sandwiches in NE!*

[beatricedwinter.livejournal.com]

FWIW - I thought you might like to see mine..

1. I used to have that toe issue. Learning to deal though after I found a pair of cute sandals I really liked...I couldn't agree with you more about the "fashion" of flip flops. Ugh. Evil.

2. Sorry..raisins rock. :P

3. Seafood is mostly just gross. But I will eat fish sticks...and chowdah--but only in Boston.

4. Yay shoes! (The thing about shoes is that often even when you gain weight, you don't have to stop wearing that one pair of really cute shoes!)

5. Same here. I go through milk withdrawl if I haven't had at least one glass or dairy thing per day..

6. Heh--I've been doing that since I was in middle school. My friend Jessie and I used to have a comic called "As the Stomach Turns" which was essentially a day in the life at our school...

7. Right there with ya. I *am* after all, your sister. I also happen to be able to hear whatever musak is on in stores, no matter how soft/loud the store/music is. Drives people crazy when I say "I love this song!" and they have no idea what I mean.