Blog Tags: 6 weird things about myself
I was tagged by: Joni with the task of listing six weird things about myself. Which doesn't seem so hard when you first think about the small numbered list. Now that I'm sitting here I'm finding it a little more complicated. Kinda strange considering I'm the biggest cheeseball I've ever met! Anywho, let's see what I can pull from behind my ears.... 1) I hate talking on the telephone - I can talk and not be bothered on the phone but it has to be someone I know and am comfortable with. It's when I'm asked a pointed question over the phone by a stranger that I start to hate it. For some reason, unbeknown to me, my mind goes into overload when I'm asked a pointed question over the phone by an acquaintance or stranger. Where a normal person will just answer the question I end up stuttering something that makes zero sense because my mind has come up with about five separate answers to said question and my mouth is trying to spew two of those answers out at one time resulting in a mixture of the two. Let's say a person calls and asks for my mother, I quickly reply that she isn't home to which they ask for her whereabouts. Sounds simple enough right? WRONG. There's four (if not more) possible answers here: 1 - she's gone to the store 2 - she's gone into town 3 - she went to so-and-so's house or 4 - I don't know, may I take a message? My answer to said person comes out along the lines of 'she's gone to so-and-so's house in the town' Granted that doesn't sound too bad but there are a few issues with it. Number one is the fact that I stutter it, rather than speak it due to my jumbled thought process. Number two is that said person has no idea who so-and-so is or where they live and number three is that so-and-so has no idea which 'town' I'm referring to. They basically get the same amount of information out of me as they would if I had just said 'I don't know'. There are worse live examples to my credit thus far but I'll be damned if I can remember them all or even a single one for reference purposes, it really is one of those things you have to hear to understand how bad it is. 2) Color coded or just obsessed? - I seem to have a strange obsession with the color black when it comes to my desk area. My pc including mouse, keyboard, speakers and printer are all black. My glass ashtray is clear black as well as my ipod, ipod headphones, ipod case, ipod dock, t.v., desk chair and camera case are black. Hell my desktop, firefox, msn, aim, yahoo and winamp skins are glossy black too. I'm either highly color coordinated or obsessed with black technological things... take your pick. 3) I hate shoes... and socks - I hate shoes and socks. I haven't worn a real pair of shoes in over eight years. Rain, snow, sleet or shine you'll find my tootsies decked out in a pair of flip flops with painted nails and a sterling silver toe ring. I do wear socks sometimes but it's mostly only when I'm sick as that's the only time my feet actually get cold. Though I'll readily admit I only wear toe socks. If I can't wear em with my flip flops.. I ain't wearin em! 4) *gasp* My eyes don't match! - I was born with mismatched eyes. My left eye is a normal average blue while my right eye is half green and half greyish blue. So that's one part mom, 1/2 part dad and 1/2 part random. Two more oddities of my eyes are the fact that the outter edges of the iris of each eye has a dark, almost black ring around it but only the outter edge resulting in a crescent-moon type deal which leads many people to assume I'm wearing colored contact lenses. And for anyone who looks close enough, there is a blank space in each eye between the pupil and iris. Literally blank, it isn't white, black or any other color. More clear/transparent than anything. 5) I can pet bees and not get stung - For some reason I have the ability to get fat, fuzzy bumble bees to land in the palm of my hand and let me pet them. All I do is stick my hand out palm up when I see one buzzing around and hold it in place. I don't know why they come to me or why they're so willing to let me pet them but they do and they are. I've been doing this since I was a kid and have been reprimanded and chided over it on numerous occasions to no avail. I enjoy it *shrugs* 6) I want a pet lobster - I don't know why, I just do. I even brought one home from wal*mart once and put him in the bathtub but my mom forced me to give him to the pet store. I will, in THIS lifetime, achieve my goal of obtaining a pet lobster and naming him Pierre. He'll live in an antique claw-foot bathtub and if he plays his claws right he just might get a lobster wife named Antoinette. No, the tub will not be used for bathing. It's strictly a lobster household! Now.. let's find out six weird things about other people shall we? I pick Malin, Ashley, Caitlin and Bubs to carry the weirdness torch from this point forward. Good luck guys!Comments
Joni (Check me out!) 
Thanks for responding! 
I’m fine with talking on the phone, but I don’t like talking on the phone TOO LONG. I easily get bored. 
A pet lobster, huh? Hmm. Let me think about that. lol
Mike (Check me out!) 
I am the exact same way on the phone. Even the simplest question turns me into a stuttering moron. I like to think I’m not a moron but you wouldn’t know it by listening to me on the phone, which is why I try to avoid them at all costs :P
Ashley (Check me out!) 
I also loathe talking on the phone. I’ve never been a phone girl, so I’m with you on that one.
Since I have been tagged, I just put up six weird things about me on my site. 
It was fun to do!
MC (Check me out!) 
I completely understand number 1. I don’t really enjoy talking on the cellphone either. I think I only regularly call my boyfriend but even then the conversation lasts a short 5-10 minutes. I prefer to text the hell out of my friends.
I gotta admit, 5 and 6 are definitely bizarre. I’ll give you that.
Bubs (Check me out!) 
I hate talking on the telephone too :P
I’d love to have a lobster, too! I love all animals 
I had a crab once, but he killed himself :’(
Amber (Check me out!) 
I also hate talking on the telephone. When I found out that I had to use it to ring up my work experience employers for an interview I could have cried. I hate the pressure of being on the phone. I quite like MSN because you can erase something just before you send. No such comforts with the fellytone.
Chien Yee (Check me out!) 
I’m trying my best to talk on the phone since the room’s awfully quiet but then some people here are misers and won’t answer the call :P
I daren’t go near a single insect without screaming, except ants and mosquitoes. I’m even afraid of butterflies o_O
Melissa (Check me out!) 
Eeee, a pet lobster! XD XD Hahaha, that sounds exciting though, hehe!
OOOH, I hate socks and shoes too! I’m a flip-flop lover to the core! XD
Caitlin (Check me out!) 
Haha that was really interesting. Especially the pet lobster part! :P Man, I am tagged again! I only just finished the last thing you tagged me for! I’ll do it soon.
Jolene (Check me out!) 
I’m with you on number 1, I hate talking on the phone too although for different reasons. I’m am extremely jealous over number 5, thats actually amazing.
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Hi, Melissa
What an interesting post. I’m sort of with you on the telephone, except I hate initiating phone calls; I don’t mind talking if someone calls me. And it’s not about the money! I agree on the shoes and socks - as soon as I’m in from work, they come off. I can’t see me walking around at work with flipflips and a toe ring, though
The bee and eye things are spooky. Are you from another planet?