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fenchurchList Five Weird Habits You Have
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1) I'm weird about milk... I can only drink it out of a glass (the idea of drinking milk out of plastic makes me shudder), and I'm VERY picky about the taste. There's only a few brands I can stand, and I'll toss it if it gets too old, even before the expiration date. It's probably a good thing I'm mostly off milk nowadays.
2) I prefer to be barefoot. Everywhere I possibly can and whenever I possibly can. I even like to hike barefoot.
3) I keep dental floss next to my computer, because I've found I'm more likely to remember to use it if it's there.
4) I make myself sneeze six to eight times every morning (it seems to be working to keep sinus infections away).
5) I always turn on the light in a bathroom before entering it. There's actually a reason for it, having to do with a six-year-old me, a dark bathroom, and a whole bunch of (really huge) cockroaches. This was right after we moved to Guam, when I hadn't yet learned about the delightful insect population on the island. Frankly, I'm a little surprised it didn't spark a full-blown phobia.
Today was the Halloween Party forrackham's division at work. They had goodies in the lobby areas (popcorn, goldfish, and pretzels this year) as well as activities for the young kids... and then there's trick-or-treating from office to office. This is just about the best part of the holiday for me, because there are usually some great costumes, and it gives us a chance to hand out a ton of candy (I believe in giving out HANDFULS, not just a scant one piece per child), since we rarely get trick-or-treaters by our house (we're stuck back in a difficult to find cul-de-sac). It felt a little weird though, since I wound up not having a costume this year... I should have just tossed on one of my old ones, but couldn't work up the energy to do the make-up that would have been involved.
I did do something rather momentous today. I bought boots. To fully understand why this is so unusual, take another look at #2 in the list above. I own a few pairs of sandals, several pairs of slippers that look like shoes, and some old combat boots for tromping through blackberry brambles or snow, but that's it. These new ones are really nifty looking boots, that also happen to fit my criteria of having very flat soles with no internal molding for the foot. Now, of course, I've got to find something equally cool to wear them with or they'll end up sitting in my closet for the next five years collecting dust.
Tomorrow morning we're heading out for Eugene to visittomte and gidgiddoni, with a quick stopover in Portland at the brand new Penzeys Spices store!! I've been ordering their spices for years out of the catalogue... it'll just be really neat to be able to walk around and look at all the lovely spices before we buy them.
We're definitely going to be taking our new copy of the boardgame Minion Hunter down with us... since we haven't had a chance to play it since it arrived. Unfortunately, I realized, a few hours after separating all the cards and putting on all the stickers and getting the game all set up for play, that I should have scanned all the various things into image files first, just in case we ever lose cards or playing pieces. D'oh! I still can't believe the game had never been played, I hadn't been expecting that when I bought it on eBay.
Finished Anansi Boys by Neil Gaiman the other day... and I have to say, while I liked American Gods, I found this book to be much more enjoyable. I'm taking it along on the trip to read aloud to Rackham... the book just begs to be read out loud and it'll be a nice change from the fanfic I usually read him.
And now, time to pumpkin.
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shipperx1) I'm weird about milk... I can only drink it out of a glass (the idea of drinking milk out of plastic makes me shudder), and I'm VERY picky about the taste. There's only a few brands I can stand, and I'll toss it if it gets too old, even before the expiration date. It's probably a good thing I'm mostly off milk nowadays.
2) I prefer to be barefoot. Everywhere I possibly can and whenever I possibly can. I even like to hike barefoot.
3) I keep dental floss next to my computer, because I've found I'm more likely to remember to use it if it's there.
4) I make myself sneeze six to eight times every morning (it seems to be working to keep sinus infections away).
5) I always turn on the light in a bathroom before entering it. There's actually a reason for it, having to do with a six-year-old me, a dark bathroom, and a whole bunch of (really huge) cockroaches. This was right after we moved to Guam, when I hadn't yet learned about the delightful insect population on the island. Frankly, I'm a little surprised it didn't spark a full-blown phobia.
Today was the Halloween Party for
rackham's division at work. They had goodies in the lobby areas (popcorn, goldfish, and pretzels this year) as well as activities for the young kids... and then there's trick-or-treating from office to office. This is just about the best part of the holiday for me, because there are usually some great costumes, and it gives us a chance to hand out a ton of candy (I believe in giving out HANDFULS, not just a scant one piece per child), since we rarely get trick-or-treaters by our house (we're stuck back in a difficult to find cul-de-sac). It felt a little weird though, since I wound up not having a costume this year... I should have just tossed on one of my old ones, but couldn't work up the energy to do the make-up that would have been involved.I did do something rather momentous today. I bought boots. To fully understand why this is so unusual, take another look at #2 in the list above. I own a few pairs of sandals, several pairs of slippers that look like shoes, and some old combat boots for tromping through blackberry brambles or snow, but that's it. These new ones are really nifty looking boots, that also happen to fit my criteria of having very flat soles with no internal molding for the foot. Now, of course, I've got to find something equally cool to wear them with or they'll end up sitting in my closet for the next five years collecting dust.
Tomorrow morning we're heading out for Eugene to visit
tomte and gidgiddoni, with a quick stopover in Portland at the brand new Penzeys Spices store!! I've been ordering their spices for years out of the catalogue... it'll just be really neat to be able to walk around and look at all the lovely spices before we buy them.We're definitely going to be taking our new copy of the boardgame Minion Hunter down with us... since we haven't had a chance to play it since it arrived. Unfortunately, I realized, a few hours after separating all the cards and putting on all the stickers and getting the game all set up for play, that I should have scanned all the various things into image files first, just in case we ever lose cards or playing pieces. D'oh! I still can't believe the game had never been played, I hadn't been expecting that when I bought it on eBay.
Finished Anansi Boys by Neil Gaiman the other day... and I have to say, while I liked American Gods, I found this book to be much more enjoyable. I'm taking it along on the trip to read aloud to Rackham... the book just begs to be read out loud and it'll be a nice change from the fanfic I usually read him.
And now, time to pumpkin.
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Date: 2005-10-29 07:24 am (UTC)Ed didn't tell us it was the Halloween thing today? I thought it would be on Monday since that is officially Halloween... Drat. I had candy to send in with him.
Want to see your boots! I can't quite picture you with them on. :-)
And - if you're willing - I'd love to borrow your Anansi Boys when you guys are done with it.
Give hugs and hellos to the Pirates out there in Oregon!
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Date: 2005-10-29 04:03 pm (UTC)Okay, this is a bit gross, but I get a Q-tip (the sort with a rolled paper stick) and snap off one end, then I use that to, um, tickle the inside of my nose.
Ed didn't tell us it was the Halloween thing today? I thought it would be on Monday since that is officially Halloween...
It probably is. He's in a different division, isn't he? I believe there were only two that had their Halloween parties yesterday (they're trying to stagger them a bit for traffic reasons, and because with Rackham's group, at least, they've got some deadlines next week).
Want to see your boots! I can't quite picture you with them on
Did you see the boots that Carly wore to Enrichment Night this month? Those are they... I absolutely loved them, so I asked where she'd gotten them.
I'd love to borrow your Anansi Boys when you guys are done with it
Definitely! Remind me later though, because I'm likely to forget.
Give hugs and hellos to the Pirates out there in Oregon!
Will do!
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Date: 2005-10-30 06:08 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2005-10-31 08:57 pm (UTC)It's more effective than when I was squirting drugs up my nose. Even with the medication, I'd still manage to have some fairly serious problems a few times a year... it also makes for the added benefit of not having to constantly drug myself (for either the sinus stuff or the lung stuff).
Now I'm just glad I followed up on the logic of "Hmmm... if I loosen it all up and get rid of it every day, maybe it won't get infected." :-p
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Date: 2005-10-31 11:12 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2005-10-31 08:38 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2005-10-31 08:58 pm (UTC)However, I'm going to have a tough time getting him to not just read the second half of the book, before I get a chance to read it to him on our trip to Spokane for Thanksgiving.
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Date: 2005-10-29 04:50 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2005-10-31 01:36 am (UTC)I will have to check out Penzey's! It's kind of far from where I live (right near I-5) but I think it might be worth it!
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Date: 2005-11-03 03:40 am (UTC)I like Gaiman's writing, and fangirl his worldbuilding liek whoa, but he always maintains an emotional distance from his characters--you're always very aware that this is a story you're being told. Not a common technique these days, though you get it in Strange & Norrell (it's even more mannered and obvious there.)
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Date: 2005-11-03 03:55 am (UTC)Which I suspect is why it's so much fun to read aloud... much like Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy and even Princess Bride.
though you get it in Strange & Norrell (it's even more mannered and obvious there.)
That's a book I've got on my Wish List, but have never gotten around to picking up. Someday, though, it will find its way to my Teetering Pile.