Six Things
While I never thought I was too cool for a meme, I have mused aloud that when people see a meme on my blog, they seem to leave faster than I can say “I’m a comment whore” but that doesn’t mean I don’t like the much-maligned meme. Memes are fun. Memes are illuminating. The meme rocks, dammit! And apparently I am no longer on the meme blacklist. I was tagged by Amy and Jana for the Six Things: Weirdo Edition meme.
You wanted weird? I got your weird right here, folks. *grabbing crotch*
1. I like my food really well-done & crunchy. This includes homemade cookies, grilled cheese, french fries, pop tarts and pizza. Nothing is more disappointing than opening the pizza box and seeing that the cheese ISN’T a little brown. And soft cookies are just wrong!
2. Like Domesticator, I love, love, love chewing ice, particularly the finely crushed kind that you typically get at the movies. Does anyone remember that old rumor that chewing ice meant you were sexually frustrated?
3. I’m a picker. I get a perverse enjoyment from popping zits and I cannot refrain from picking a hangnail no matter how much it hurts. If I get sunburned and peel, there is no greater thrill than pulling off big pieces of dry skin. I do not, however, pick things that bleed. I’m not a fan of the red.
4. Awhile back I had a little mishap with some oven cleaner crap (I realllly needed to clean the damn oven or otherwise I would NOT have messed with that stuff) and it got kind of smoky – okay, it was a lot smoky – and I breathed in a lot of those toxic fumes. Now I have this chemical-ish smokey smell stuck in my nose that comes and goes. I’m afraid it will never go away. Proof that I’m not imagining it? Hubz has it, too.
5. I like getting shots. I don’t know why but I do. I just get a weird endorphin rush from it. And no I’m not a cutter or practicer of masochism or anything like that. I’m just weird.
6.I can’t go to bed without using some kind of Chapstick or lip balm. It’s a cute little quirk that will send me into a tailspin if I can’t find one of my 5 or 6 tubes of the stuff.
I tried to mix it up a little for my tag list and if my taggees are really cool, they’ll do the dang meme. Why? Because the dooce did a meme about a month ago and now, like wedgie shoes and gauchos, memes are cool again!
Here are the rules:
1. Reveal six weird facts/things/habits about yourself and then tag six people.
2. Leave a “You’re Tagged!” comment to let the people you have tagged know they have to reveal six things (or the entire blogosphere will explode and it will be their fault).
3. Leave me a comment letting me know that you have completed your mission (if you have chosen to accept it!).
I’m tagging Bridgermama, Cameo, Chag, Marcie, Sue and Blog Antagonist
I am so with you on the “well-done”/crunchy food thing.
And I’d have to say you win on the weird-scale with loving shots!! Whoa.
Fun read.
Izzy, I’m with you on your first three…totally! Obviously, the ice thing is the best, crushed ice rules! I do remember the whole sexually frustrated connotation and I can say with confidence it is NOT true!
I have the same chapstick issue. I hide them all over. Next to the bed. In the medicine cabinet, I have 4 in my purse. There are two in my desk at work. I can actually FEEEL them cracking and chapping when free of balm.
1 and 3 are me to a T!
Alright…grumble, grumble. It’s done. You’ve sucked me in.
BTW…I cannot go bare lipped either. I have to have lipstick, gloss or lipbalm on at all times. My husband laughs because I have like 20 lipsticks in my purse and about 10 lipbalms stashed in every drawer in the house.
BUT…I’m almost 40 and I have none of those funky little lines around my mouth. Coincidence? Maybe. But I believe in the power of lip product.
Mission accepted and meme accomplished.
I forgot to tell you that I kind of your shot thing. I like getting my eyebrows waxed. Sort of the same thing.
Uuggh! I meant to say is I kind of get your shot thing. Why don’t I proof read!
Ooohh, I love peeling off sheets of skin from a sunburn too! Actually, all of #3 I do - it’s obsessive and gives me a little thrill.
Ok, ok, I did it!
I was actually picking a zit as I red this:) Your new site looks great! Congrats!
hehehe I am not the only one that like to pick!!
trying to do the meme all night, but flippin’ blogger won’t let me. I will accomplish the mission tomorrow.
hey there! i’m re-joining the world after two hella bad sick days! thanks for giving me something to think about while i laid there. i have completed my task! and i think it necessary to mention that my thing is cherry chapstick - got a twelve pack from dad for christmas - and popping things is fun! are we a twisted bunch?
Big fat DITTO on 1 and 3.
See? Memes get comments. Especially good ones.
Not only do I have six tubes of various lip products (mostly Bert’s Bees), like pacifiers or umbrellas, I can never find them when I need them. Especially at night. Gah.
I love totally crunchy pizza and burned toast. Like totally charred burned toast. With lots o’ butter. Yum, yum, yum!
Oh, burned cookies reminds me of my grandfather! That’s the only way he’d eat them. Thanks for that!
Oh, good, another one who likes the burned stuff. Burned pizza, burned toast, burned cookies. YUM. And french fries — can’t eat them if they’re on the soft side. Better to be waaay crispy.
I’m with you on the chapstick thing too, but I’m always misplacing my tubes of it. I’ll probably go to clean out an old handbag one day and find like 7,000 tubes.
Oh, man, I don’t think I can be your friend anymore. How can you say that about chewy cookies???? Waaaaah!!! They are the BEST!! And how exactly do you make a well done pop tart … ?
done donedy! I also must pray to the chapstick gods before I go to bed!
haha, I love how you call her “the” dooce.
I’m a picker too, though I didn’t know how to include that on my list without sounding like I was a habitual nose digger. And I have tubes of Burt’s Bees stashed all over my house and car.
I’m so with you on peeling skin after a sunburn. There is nothing more glorious than achieving to pull off a huge piece.
I’m starting to feel pretty much like a freak. I write six weird things and then read so many other people’s lists. I find that I can always relate to other peoples weird facts a little too easily.
Well…it would seem I am not that weird after all, am I?
#1 Weird thing that isn’t so weird: Lip balm addiction. Apparently this is a popular one and my personal fave, Burt’s Bees, seems to be in everyone’s desk, purse, car and nightstand. What? No yummy Lipsmackers???
#2 Weird thing that isn’t so weird: Picking. It’s much more popular than I had anticipated, especially sunburned skin and zits. Who knew???
#3 Weird thing that isn’t so weird: The enjoyment of overcooked food. Well, except for Mrs. Fortune, who was not at all pleased that I hate soft cookies. Clearly, SHE is the weird one ;-P
And at least ONE of you (Marcie) gets the shot thing!
And Jana? I was thinking the very same thing. I’m relating just a little too much to other people’s weirdness.
I lika the Carmex– though I wish it didn’t say “For cold sores” right on the lid (makes me feel herpetic– I swear I’m not!) This is part of the reason I only use it right before bed– I keep the little tin at home, out of sight.
In general, I like products that come in tins. Is that weird?
Roo::
Where have you been all my bloggin’ life?
If I had the choice between something in a tin or in something else, the tin always wins. I have tons of them. I can’t bear to throw them out.
I’m the same with the chapstick. Can NEVER find it when I need it and I have a ton.
Updating you on my bloglines now. *sigh*