August 14, 2008
I was tagged to do this meme so - damn well, I’m gonna do it! Even though I’m fairly certain I’ve done it a few times already. I don’t care! I’m too lazy to look!
Here are the rules:
1. Link the person who tagged you. (Done!)
2. Mention the rules on your blog. (Doing it right now!)
3. Tell about six unspectacular quirks you possess.
4. Tag six following bloggers by linking them.
5. Leave a comment on each of the tagged blogger’s blogs letting them know they have been tagged.
(I skip the “link to others” rule like I always do because I’m not good at choosing. But - if you leave a comment saying you did it too - I’ll stop by and see what makes you unspectacular!)
- I have a very profound respect for Buggy Etiquette. (A “Buggy” is a “Shopping Cart” for you non-southerners.) Since I have two kids in tow now, I always park next to a buggy bin so that putting the buggy back when I’m done will be easier. I also have a hard time passing up buggies in the parking lot that have NOT been put back. It’s such a compulsion that on the few times I walk passed one that someone left in a space, NikkiZ will freak out, telling me to put that one back too.
- I keep my sugar in the refrigerator. I know this is not that uncommon — but it is strange to people who don’t do it. This is a habit I inherited from my Dad who actually had a good reason as we would get ants sometimes if we kept sweet things in cabinets. I do NOT have a good reason as our kitchen is interior enough for this not to be a problem. Yet the sugar stays in the fridge.
- I don’t like shows staying on our TiVo or DVR that we’ve all already watched. I must delete them. MrZ and LilZ just let the recorder delete them when it needs room, but not me. If we’ve all seen it? It’s out of there. Sometimes I even get carried away and delete things only I have seen, causing my husband to threaten divorce. I just like a clean TiVo! What can I say?
- Since AndyZ came along, I switched to a bigger Kavu bag for a purse and just throw his stuff in with my stuff. Except that I separate everything into clear sandwich bags. My “main” stuff is in one ziploc, his wipes are in another, his change of clothes in a third, and my “off” items that I don’t need often (chapstick, safety pins, etc) are in a final fourth ziploc. I feel like it keeps me from digging around for things so much since I’m used to a much smaller bag. I’m not sure if it actually works, but I do know it embarrasses my family to see me pull a ziploc out of my purse to retrieve my wallet.
- I have an intense hatred of mustard. Nothing will ruin a sandwich quicker than someone ignoring my “no mustard” request. And I usually get very angry. Disproportionally so. I mean, probably more angry than I would about certain social injustices. I just hate mustard THAT MUCH.
- I have a love of cool bumper stickers and this weird instinct to want to befriend people I see driving cars with stickers I like. There are a couple of parents at LilZ’s school I’m convinced could be my BFFs because of the stickers on their car. I have my own set, I have a brite blue dot, a Momocrats sticker, and a TN Vols sticker. What about your car? Could we be sticker buddies?
I feel that way about honey mustard. It will ruin my meal and my mood, especially if the menu lies or omits the information so that it is a rotten surprise.
I can’t stand the smell of mustard, though I’m okay eating it.
I LOVE mustard. Seriously so, I add it to potato salad. My love of mustard is apparently genetic because it runs in my family.
I just switched to a new bag (blogged it!) and may be able to keep it as my “one” bag when the new baby comes. I like your ziploc idea though. Good one.
And I try to keep the same cart etiquette as well. I prefer to park next to the corral for that reason. If I can’t park next to it, I make Fuller come with me and walk back to the car.
Being a gamer, I have a bumper sticker that says “I Brake for Kobolds!” Right next to my “When in Doubt, Hack!” sticker.
And mustard? Ewwww . . .
Oooh, I have the original “Dude…you’re gettin’ a Dell” bumper sticker on our Escort! We still have that same Dell computer, but the bumper sticker’s startin’ to fall off…
See i knew you were awesome —
#4, i am a ziplock queen - i love them… i carry wipes in the car & my bag in ziplocks… i also carry crayons - anything i can throw in a ziplock, i love it! Not Unspectacular !!
#3 - i do the same! have to clear that box out!
#6 - i make bumper stickers for a living, i think there are some great ones - yet i can’t stand them on MY car ??
thanks for playing tag!!
We could totally be friends but only because I have a license plate that says “IMALVOL”.
I have never heard of the blue dot stickers, but they are awesome!
I don’t think we can be BFF’s; I hate bumper stickers on my car. Though, I do like reading other people’s if they are clever. I actually bought a magnetic Obama bumper sticker (sign?), because the internal debate over showing my support and being stuck with a bumper sticker for the rest of the life of my car was so bad.
I always park near the cart return, too. It’s so much easier: getting a cart from there, and returning it to there. I wish store employees would always leave a couple of carts behind when they collect carts.
I don’t have bumper stickers on my car anymore, because of two embarrassing choices I made early on in life and later regretted ever having. Now I’m self-conscious, worried that anything I choose will be equally embarrassing to me later.
Mustard is beyond gross. I did go through a short phase of craving it while pregnant, though. I’m with you on the sugar, buggies, and TiVo as well. I don’t put stickers on my car though. I’ve seen many I totally covet but it’s always in my mind that it’s going to devalue or damage the car. Crazy, I’m sure.
#3- My husband. It drives hime INSANE to have stuff on the DVR that has been viewed or even if it was recorded and not watched (yet).
Sometimes the kids and I do mass recordings just to see his head explode……….
I have several stickers, but my favorite reads “Be A New Orleanian, Wherever You Are” that I got from http://www.dirtycoast.com.
Also, being someone who studies all kinds of theology, I really like this one, although I don’t have it yet: “CALVINISM: This Bumper Sticker Chose Me”.
must get blue dot bumper sticker.
we have “Wag More, Bark Less” for our very barky german shorthair pointer, a Vote for Change magnet and a CHX for skiing in Chamonix france…
People actually get out of their cars at stop signs and drive thrus to ask me where I got my bumper sticker. It says “I love my rotten, ungrateful children.”
My bumper stickers are on my computer since I don’t have a car. My friend has one that I really really want….it is funny. But I don’t want to share it here in case it offends someone.
As for mustard? I LOVE IT! LOVE!
I have hurt myself putting buggies back…especially ones that people leave behind the car (sometimes I get to use friend’s cars when I need to shop)
Mustard?? HATE IT! i really agree with the ruining a sandwich.
We dont really do bumper stickers in NZ, so i havn’t seen any to compare.
You and my sis could probably exchange mustard stories (she just north of Birmingham). She won’t touch it. Mom tried feeding her baby peas when she was little…until she realized it was mustard. She couldn’t figure out why the baby screamed every time she gave her a spoonful of peas. That was back when jarred baby peas were mustard-yellow (just in case this makes no sense to some younger readers).
I am proud to be a blue dot in a blue state.
One of our supermarkets chains the carts together and you need a quarter to unlock it. When you return it you get the quarter back. If parking lots weren’t so dangerous I’d let Scout round up the loose carts for the quarters, while I’m shopping.
I put my any and all flour products in the freeze for a few days immediately after I first buy it. It kills all the bugs lurking. (an important tip learned from my grandma)(and yes, there are bugs/larvae lurking in your flour products.)(just don’t think too hard about it)
I have to delete things immediately from the DVR, also. I begin getting nervous anytime we hit 80% capacity.
And your mustard thing? I have a ketchup thing. Ketchup RUINS a sandwich for me and I cannot eat it. And yes, it makes me angry when my entire meal is ruined just because the drive-thru guy heard “only ketchup” and not “NO ketchup”. ARGH.
Hey, we keep our sugar in the fridge because of ants too!