Fuckin’ 8 Things MeMe

Well, since nobody tagged me, I’m tagging myself.  This way I can ‘pretend’ that people actually asked me questions on my TMI post, and these just happened to be the answers.

1.  I can’t relax (or sleep) when I know there is an open drawer, closet door or cupboard in the house.  Its my one true OCD thing.  I HAVE to close cupboards and drawers.  Can’t be any underwear holding the drawer open just a tad.  No shower doors left open.  Nope.  Completely closed or I stress about it.  The worst part is that my dad NEVER closes a drawer– they’re always open like 3 inches.  Drives me nuts.

2.  I’m super anal about my teeth.  It began with having braces and worrying that if I didn’t brush enough that I would have permanent stains on them.  I brush 3 times a day minimum, floss occasionally, and do fluoride rinses.  And I fret about doing activities where I might chip or damage them.  To this day I still don’t have any cavaties– and I want to keep it that way.

3.  I sleep with a teddybear every night.  His name is Preston.  He gets upset if I have ‘guests’ over and he has to sleep on the floor to avoid getting his fur matted.

4.  When I was little, my father and I would have playground strategy sessions about how I could become more accepted and play games with the other boys.  It was all so embarassing!  I would have to give reports on how recess went that day, and we would discuss options for how to make it go better the next day.  It didn’t work, and I just got made fun of even more.

5.  I used to be a fairly good swimmer when I was a kid but all the fun was sucked out of it to the point where I would actually cry while swimming because I hated it so much.  I got into a program where our coach was a former olympic gold medalist.  He believed in distance training– no technique training.  So when I was my late-blooming, tiny 14 year old self, I was training with boys who were high school seniors (state champions and future olympians) and sometimes I just couldn’t keep up.  When we would have to do the Dread Set (2 x 1650 on 18 minutes) I would cry.

6.  My left foot is relatively flat and 1 whole size bigger than my right foot.  I was born with flat feet, and my parents put me in corrective shoes when I was a kid in an attempt to try to form arches.  I called them my “waffle stompers” due to the tread pattern.  My right foot arch developed somewhat… my left didn’t.  Makes shoe buying TONS of fun.

7.  I have a wicked temper which I inherited from my father.  Most people never get to see it, thankfully as I inherited more of the keep-things-light-and-moderated personality from my mother.  But when I get pushed past a certain point (and its out there a ways), I blow a gasket.  And because I have a good memory and am intuitive (gifts from both my parents) I generally know exactly how to be most hurtful toward someone.

8.  When I was in New Zealand, I bungy jumped from the Kawaru River bridge– the home of bungy jumping.  It isn’t the highest jump, but it was the first, and it was over a beautiful river.  I did a swan dive off the tower in order to make a big production of it.  My form was great– all captured on film.  And all I remember thinking as the wind was rushing by my ears and the water was rushing toward my face was, “Wow.  Acceleration of a body due to gravity really IS fast!”