1. I love love love, Q-tips. I HAVE to clean my ears out everyday despite knowing that doctor's and the Q-tip box tell you not to. Maybe someday it will imped my hearing but I really don't believe it will and I am not about to stop.
2. I have OCD (obsessive compulsive disorder) with numbers and especially the number 10. The number 10 makes me calm and things around me somehow have to add up to 10 or a multiple of 10. I mostly get obsessive about it when I am bored or I have time to think about it. For example, If I am counting things like tiles on a wall I will put them in groups of 10 and then if I have left over tiles that won't fit into another group of ten I have to find a way to make them into 10 of something or I will rearrange things until it works and I am satisfied. I have also figured out how to count the features on someones face so that there are 10 features. Just recently I learned (maybe I already knew subconsciously) that J (for Jenni) is the 10th letter in the alphabet. Maybe that is where this all stemmed from, I don't know. You may be reading this thinking I am crazy but I am sure you have some weird quirk too. When ever I share this with people they seem to open up to me with their weird things. Like when my brother in law (I'm sure he would not mind if I said which one but I won't in case he would) is going up steps he has to end the last step on a certain foot so he will switch feet going up so it ends on the right foot. On certain flights of stairs that he goes up regularly he knows which foot he need to start on so it ends right. Things like this are really common. Just think about it and share one of your quarks with me!
3. In high school I was a runner and gave up on it some time in college. Since then I would start running again and then decide that I really hated it and I would give up. But just recently I was really fed up with feeling out of shape so some friends got me into running with them and now I LOVE it again!!!!! Hooray!! It feels so good to like it again. I really never thought I would. In fact I think I like it better now then I even did in High School. I am running 30 plus miles a week and I am really enjoying it. I am training for the toughest half marathon in the NW on April 21. I already ran the course at the goal I set for myself on race day so I am doing better then I ever thought.
(this is not me)
4. Most people who know me probably already know everything I have already shared because of the fourth thing I am going to share which of course most of you probably already know. Funny how that works. I am very blunt, I am not secretive or private, I don't keep things inside of me, I say things like they are and you always know where you stand with me. I have always been this way. I would like to think that I have learned to edit a little bit and that I have learned to be more tactful but that might not even be true.
5. Sugar makes me sick. When I pay attention to my diet and cut out sugar (and other simple carbs such as white flour, and white rice) I feel like a new person. Less lethargic, more clear headed and in general happier. I have learned that dark chocolate does not effect me so that is my treat of choice (I do sill have to limit my intake of course). I LOVE Trader Joe's dark chocolate covered raisins. When we were in California we stalked up so I am feeling very happy lately.
5. Sugar makes me sick. When I pay attention to my diet and cut out sugar (and other simple carbs such as white flour, and white rice) I feel like a new person. Less lethargic, more clear headed and in general happier. I have learned that dark chocolate does not effect me so that is my treat of choice (I do sill have to limit my intake of course). I LOVE Trader Joe's dark chocolate covered raisins. When we were in California we stalked up so I am feeling very happy lately.
(in actuality there isn't anything at Trader Joe's that isn't great! OH, what I would do to get one in Boise!?!?!?)
Ok, now I get to tag some people to do five things about them. I am tagging Johanna (sorry her blog is private), Laura, Nikki, Angela, and Yuki (if you don't mind doing it in English). I hope you all participate because I can't wait to read them.
Also I just wanted to share some good news in the family!!!
1st- Ayden is potty trained!!!!! It was a really easy process since she is older and she knew what she was doing since I started and stopped so many times. I think between the two of us we both knew this was the last time we were doing it so she just took to it really easy. She has been trained for about three weeks and it only took two days before she was pretty much 100% during the day, during naps and through the night. It is so nice to have it done.
2nd- My little sister Hillary just got accepted to FIT (Fashion Institute of Technology) in New York, NY!! She is moving to the Big Apple this fall after working in Seattle all summer. Way to go Hillary, I am so excited for you.
Ok, now I get to tag some people to do five things about them. I am tagging Johanna (sorry her blog is private), Laura, Nikki, Angela, and Yuki (if you don't mind doing it in English). I hope you all participate because I can't wait to read them.
Also I just wanted to share some good news in the family!!!
1st- Ayden is potty trained!!!!! It was a really easy process since she is older and she knew what she was doing since I started and stopped so many times. I think between the two of us we both knew this was the last time we were doing it so she just took to it really easy. She has been trained for about three weeks and it only took two days before she was pretty much 100% during the day, during naps and through the night. It is so nice to have it done.
2nd- My little sister Hillary just got accepted to FIT (Fashion Institute of Technology) in New York, NY!! She is moving to the Big Apple this fall after working in Seattle all summer. Way to go Hillary, I am so excited for you.
10 comments:
YAH! I love it. Thanks for participating...that was fun to read. #4 is why I love you...you say it how it is!
Dede, you say you love #4 but it hurts sometimes. You should live with Jenni. No, it is actually nice when she compliments you because she isn't just saying it. By the way Jenni, I never get tired of your oddities. One more thing babe:
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Thats right 9 hyphens. Heres one you can have fun with.
:) :) :) :) :) :) :) :)
8 Smiley faces just for you and your OCD.
What a sweet husband I have!!! Here is how I do the nine dashes, I count each individual dash making nine and then count them all together as a group which makes 10!! The 8 smiley faces posed a problem and in cases like this I forgot to mention that as long as they are even numbers I can live with it. But I can also do this. Count each . and ) as 1 in the first three smiley faces so that equals 9 and then count the whole next smiley face in its whole as 1 so that makes 10. So that would make two groups of 10.
It does not have to make sense to you as long as it makes sense to me that is all that matters.
Bring it on!
Okay, I accept the challenge...I'll have to think about it though. I think your #10 thing is intriguing. It think it is very intellectual, I would get tired of counting to 10 I think! And I especially like that you're so open, you always know where you stand with Jenni!
Congrats to Ayden for potty training so quickly! Yea!
And also congrats again to Hillary!!! We're so proud of her!
I am so glad you accept the challenge Laura! I can't wait to read them.
I used to have a number things too, so there must be some genetic thing going on. I like it when things are divisible into thirds, thus I'm not always a big fan of the metric system. In fact when I was in 10th grade I played around with my own number system that had twelve single digits. 0, 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, A, & B. It would then continue 10, 11, 12, 13, 14, 15, 16, 17, 18, 19, 1A, 1B, 20. That way numbers like 10, 20, and 100 could be properly divided into thirds.
If you think about it, numbers are all arbitrary creations to represent counted units. I always figured that my life would be better if humans had 12 fingers, because that way back when the earliest mathematicians started creating numbers, they would have seen things my way.
That is interesting Kyle. It does kind of make you think that we all have to learn science and math as someone else saw it and organized it and that way might not the way most minds see things.
OK, so I was reminded by Brad that the person with the stair counting thing is not my brother in law and it is actually someone I am related to so I am starting to worry that maybe my family is just crazy. We are all very smart high functioning people but maybe we all just have a little glitch. So, if you are not related to me and you have a weird quirk PLEASE share it to save my sanity.
It's fun to hear how quirky we all are. Dang it, now I have to admit mine! Sorry about the private blog setting, but I sat by a real weirdo on the plane ride home from Alabama and he lives a little to close to us in the next town over. He knows my name and where I live! Scary! Better safe than sorry!
You crack me up Jenni! Especially that 10 thing. I have a big face, so you probably counted at least 20 things on mine huh! =0)
Happy belated birthday to you all and we hope you are healthy and happy! We miss you guys and visit your blog often! The girls are so cute and getting big fast! I will let Yuki know about the tag thing. She's a wierdo so she should have something interesting to say! hahaha
A BIG CONGRATS to AYDEN on being potty trained!!! AWESOME!!!! We’re trying to get Happy trained as well!
Oh, and one more thing….we’re expecting #4 sometime in Dec!!!!!! LAST ONE 4 SURE!=0)
Keep in touch!
Love and Aloha,
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Hey Jenni!
I love your post. Like you said, everybody has their own little quirks. I think it is great! I love reading your blog by the way! Your family is so cute, and congratulations on Ayden and potty training.
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