8 Oct 2007
Quirks tag from Choxbox.
(1)You can call me a digital circuit. I am either ‘1’ or ‘0’. There is absolutely no in between. Every day, every minute I swing from extreme to extreme.
By the frequency of my posts(which is sometimes up to 3/day or once in three weeks J) most of you must have guessed this already.
I either spend every waking moment cleaning the house or let it rot for days together. I either cook 30+ dishes a day or can’t stand the thought of cooking for weeks.
I have either taken care of my body very carefully(regular exercise, regular yoga, no fat, no sugar, just fruits and veggies, low carb, high protein diet to the extent of having power goos and Odwalla protein shakes for a meal) or have dined on a couple of boxes of chocolates.
I either fold clothes with a precise method to the extent of being called obsessive compulsive or leave piles of clean laundry all over the guest bedroom.
You can find me sitting on our couch, sprouting roots, refusing to step out of the house to even look at our own backyard or hiking the Grand Canyon or the Kilimanjaro.
I am either perfectly(purely perspective ๐ ) groomed or like the whole of last week, walk around with different earrings – a dolphin in my right earand a fish inmy left ear. What started out as an honest mistake, turned in to laziness which made me convince myself that I was making a statement.
I used to remember the most itty bitty details and now, I can’t even remember which is my tooth brush and which is hubby’s brush. Every morning I stare at the brushes for a few minutes and work out a little color coding memory strategy(Red starts with ‘R’, so does R’s name. So Red is R’s brush, therefore yellow is mine. ) If hubby gets a new brush, I am in soup. Soon will come a day when I will have tatoos on my body to remember trivial details like this and you can call me Ghajini.
(2)I have zero money managing skills. My only concept of saving = not spending + having a big wad of money in a purse + looking/counting it from time to time. Every month I put the spare nickels and quarters in a ziplock and think that I am saving a H.U.G.E amount of money. I can’t keep track of the checking, savings, IRA, roth, 401K, retirement, NRI, NRE, custodial accounts. The more the money is split in to multiple accounts, I think they are being lost in the system. I prefer them to be at one place, if possible under my roof, right in front of my eyes. So one fine day if you read about “the crazy lady who kept all her life savings under her bed and counted it every dayโฆ” in the newspapers, look no further friends, you have found me!
(3)I love to organize. Even to arrange books on my bookshelf, I make a flow chart of my organizational pattern, then add sub categories, put sub-sub categories, add a child to every sub-sub categoryโฆโฆfinally end up confused, frustrated and unorganized. But I don’t give up, I start from scratch and can do this for years!.
(4)I can’t say ‘I Love You’ to any one except my children. I feel absolutely funny doing that. I can put it in writing, but I can’t speak those words J:) friend of my father, a dear dear man, 70 years old, lives in the east coast, calls me every month with immense fatherly affection and he always finishes his call with the words, ‘I love you sweetie pie’. I just dread that moment because I go blank, then deliver an embarrassed chuckle and say, ‘Bye uncle, take care’.
(5)I don’t like to tag people. I have done it a couple of times, but eventually stopped doing it because sometimes I feel like I am obligating people! Another reason is, I do my tags after an eternity and by that time every one else in the blogging world is tagged and the tag would have gone stale!
(6)Okay, you all know me pretty well, always shooting for an extra point ๐ When I give the girls their bath(yes, yes, yes. I switched them from AM baths to PM baths so that I can do it.) I tell them to close their eyes while I apply ‘payatham maavu*’ and inadvertently I close my eyes tightly.
* payatham maavu – Powdered whole moong daal. Usually mixed with turmeric powder and is used bathe little kids.
20 Responses for "My Quirks"
Oh my God. About the toothbrush, I do almost the same. Red, red has a shade of pink, so it is for girls and I am a girl. This is how I start every morning. This time, husband got an Orange brush from the dentist and I yelled at him for not getting the blue brush.
you are definitely going to roll your eyes if i say ‘this is so much like me’- because I’ve said that before in another of your posts- but it is true, true. except in my case, the behaviors are so ingrained that I didnt realize they were quirks till I read this post!
totally LOL at stashing and counting money ๐
Enjoyed reading your quirks and you’re a quirky girl ๐ 30 dishes a day – never in my lifetime.
LOL! I felt as if I was looking into a mirror when reading this post…but (3) is not my cup of tea since everytime I plan to do something a particular way, in comes hubby dear with a better plan of his and then is there a need for me to arrange (even if I did, it would go back to being hubby’s plan sometime later..so why bother?) and then again
with thambi around nothing ever gets done…he thinks arranging is for destructing ๐
BTW, thanx for ur concern.he is getting a little better now..atleast he’s stopped crying and eating a little…thanx again.
Shobana
http://mybabynaren.blogspot.com/
I tell them to close their eyes while I apply โpayatham maavu*โ and inadvertently I close my eyes tightly. hahahaha..you are sooooooooo funny!
Thank God Im not as old as you and Yaada in forgetting tooth brush colors! ๐
But Im with you on the Money issue. I ll keep them safe in the bank locker if I had my way!!
Boo
You meant, I am not as bad as you and Yaada right.. You better have meant that and not as old as…
Y – Oh I meant old as in O.L.D. dear! No mistakes there! ๐
Yaadayaada, I think we make a trip to Switzerland and beat up this girl. What you say?
NM, silly huh? Asking them to close their eyes and me closing my eyes real tight?!
Shobana, glad to hear that thambi is getting better.
RJ, welcome. Welll….30 is kindof poetic license/figure of speech kind of thing. I have gone as high as about 15 dishes/day.
K’s mom, tell me about it! When I was thinking about my quirks, I was all blank because I truely believed I didn’t have any ๐
Yaadayaada, I am not surprised at all.
LOL. what interesting folks we are!
btw the maavu bit reminds me of what i used to do in madras oops chennai. utterly confused and tamil-challenged me would go to buy besan (to use in place of soap) from the shop on campus and ask for ‘kaadal maavu’ instead of ‘kadla maavu’!
Choxbox, you went to IIT-M too? Hmmm, there is a remote posibility you might know hubby.
Quirky gal you are! You know that quirk with payathamaavu I do a slight variation of it – When I feed M and N something (for eg., a piece of cake)I tend to open my mouth wide and there are several photographs in our house with the ‘wide open mouth’ pose – turned out to be very embarassing. And you are a digital circuit aren’t you – no posts for a long time and all of a sudden so many posts at the same time ๐
Are u a GEMINI??? cause i’m one too and i can see so many traits of us match…
Choxbox, Kaadal mavu huh? Did the besan inspire any romance? ๐
mnamma, I have quite a few pictures with wide open mouth, ‘Aaaaa sollu’ -> click. So now there is a standing order, ‘Click just the kids’.
Timepass, no hon. I am just a quirky scorp-sagi cusp ๐
Oh boy! With point #1, you illustrated it so exceedingly well, what with sooo many examples…I really got the point. ๐ Quirky lady, you.
hey pliss to mail with details.
nah no romance there at all ๐ ๐ just that i confused the two words all the time.
ROTFL. well done! great post.
Tharini: Oops got carried away!
Choxbox: Done.
Dotmom, welcome.
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