I don't really have anything profound to say...just some "facts about me/my life" that have been floating in my mind for awhile. It is a GORGEOUS day outside and I'm itching to get out in the yard and get my bedding plants in!
1) As much as I love yogurt, I cannot stand the smell of it. I know...weird, right? As soon as my bowl is empty, it MUST go into the sink and be rinsed out. The yogurt container cannot be left open in my near vicinity. When Miss K eats yogurt, she has to be immediately hosed down and all traces of said yogurt must disappear. And this isn't just a pregnancy thing...it's a forever thing.
2) My cat loves to eat ear wax. I can't remember how I figured this out...I'm going to guess that I was picking my ear and, on a gross whim, stuck my finger in my cat's face. Now? As soon as she sees me picking, I have her full attention and she watches my hand with the same raptness as she watches birds in the yard. We are just all kinds of class in this house.
3) A few weeks ago, I came across a video that showed a young girl's ability to instantly pronounce any word backwards. I was quite intrigued by her feat, but I quickly realized, I share a similar quirk...I'm able to spell almost any word backwards. I don't just mean dinky words like "cat" or "house". When I have trouble falling asleep (read: every night of my life), I play little games in my mind and this has become my current game of choice...picking long words (like "unfathomably" or "precipitation") and testing to see how fast I can spell them backwards. Honestly...it's a mystery why I don't get invited to more parties with all of my awesome tricks.
4) If I do say so myself, I'm pretty good at mimicking people. I can match the tone, infliction and intonation of their voice. That being said, it's not as though I can carry off an exact impression of Morgan Freeman or anything like that...just regular people. This ability comes in handy when I'm goofing around with Joel. When we're watching TV, I'll copy whatever the actor is saying, but change the words up to apply to his life (and his current crushes). This typically gets him giggling until there's no sound coming out of him. Man, I love teasing that boy :)
5) For someone who gets a kick out of "cutting the cheese", I couldn't actually cut the cheese properly if my life depended on it. I don't know if it's the angle with which I hold the knife, but somehow our block of cheese always ends up looking like a ski jump. And then I have to turn the block upside down to try and even it out. By the time I'm done making my sandwich, there is a large letter "C" carved into the end of the cheese. At that point, I just cut off the extra chunks and give them to Shandi.
6) Pregnancy aside, I am the world's most frequent pee-er. I would give most small dogs a run for their money (if they had any). When I get excited or when I'm getting ready to leave the house, I will pee at least three times before I leave. It's almost like pee constipation...I just can't seem to get it all out in one shot. Add pregnancy to the picture and you have a woman who should just wear an adult diaper all day long. Also, I warned Mike right from the start of our relationship to NEVER touch my lower back (right above my bum). Even if I don't have to pee, the second that he touches that part of my back, I am off and running to the bathroom. Life with me is never dull :)
I'll leave you with a pic I snapped of Mike and K the other night. Mike was away fishing for the day and K really missed him. Mike was dog tired when he got home, but K only wanted to cuddle with him. I absolutely adore the way Mike is looking at his daughter :)
The ear wax story made me think of our dog. Not ear wax, but ever since she was a puppy, the first time I picked the crusties out of the corner of her eye she was in there checking out what I had. Now, four years later, she sits very patiently for me to pick her eye crusties, but she is instantly licking my fingers as her 'reward' for sitting still. And really, it's pretty normal around here, and sometimes I do it absentmindedly when she is sitting on my lap, and then there is company over, and they are like 'you feed your dog her eye boogers?!' Uh, yeah, because then I don't have to get up and either throw them in the garbage, or find a kleenex. :)
ReplyDeleteHahahaha....that makes me feel better about feeding my pets weird things :) And now I'm totally going to go see if Shandi will eat her eye boogers LOL.
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