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Peace
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Topic: Idiosyncrasies Posted: 18 December 2006 at 9:23am |
A big word with definition:
Main Entry: id·i·o·syn·cra·sy
Pronunciation: "i-dE-&-'si[ng]-kr&-sE
Function: noun
Inflected Form(s): plural -sies
Etymology: Greek idiosynkrasia, from idio- + synkerannynai to blend, from syn- + kerannynai to mingle, mix -- more at CRATER
1 a : a peculiarity of constitution or temperament : an individualizing characteristic or quality b : individual hypersensitiveness (as to a drug or food)
2 : characteristic peculiarity (as of temperament); broadly : ECCENTRICITY
- id·i·o·syn·crat·ic /"i-dE-O-(")sin-'kra-tik/ adjective
- id·i·o·syn·crat·i·cal·ly /-'kra-ti-k(&-)lE/ adverb
Ok, so what makes you eccentric (weird)?
I was thinking the other day that I have a couple of certain characteristics that make me weird and anal and I would love to hear of others.
Mine:
I can't handle anyone else opening my fastfood straws, packages or mail. I have to do it myself or it totally pisses me off!
I am ritualistic with what I do when I have Olivia in bed, any slight differance in her activity totally screws my day.
I stop what I am doing every night at 6.30pm to watch the T.V show "Friends" even though I have seen them a billion times.
I've read the Harry Potter series so much I need a new set of books as mine are worn
I hate, hate, hate, getting touched by the wet shower curtain while I am in the shower.
I always wash myself in the same routine while I am in the shower.
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nicola86
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Posted: 18 December 2006 at 9:35am |
ok ill join in.
I hate people opening my mail.
I have to check on jake before i go to bed even if i checked him like 10minutes before.
I also hate being touched by the wet shower curtain.
i sleep with lots of blankets on even if it is real hot.
Well thats all that i can think of right now
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Posted: 18 December 2006 at 10:11am |
Oooh... I have to get the munchkin up, but I'll put up a proper list later on today... for now...
I HATE WET TEA BAGS in the bloody sink !!!!!!!!
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Posted: 18 December 2006 at 11:05am |
I have MILLIONS of them, but I will agree with the wet tea bags, and I HATE wet dishcloths in the sink! Yuck! Wring it out and leave it on the bench!!!
One of my big *shivers* too long pants... I hate it when you see people wandering around, they look nice, then yu get to their pants and they are walking on the bottoms of them, and they are all freayed and YUCK. Surely it isn't that hard to take up a cuff on pants? or pay the drycleaner $10 to do it????
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Posted: 18 December 2006 at 11:09am |
oh and (although my last post isn't a shining example) poor spelling and grammar, I can't help myself from correcting people... I am very very embarrassingly (for others) bad for it, It makes me feel physically sick to see things spelt wrong, especially in menus etc.. Also, poor use (over use) of punctuation! I got an invitation to a 30th birthday party the other day that my friend had typed up on her 'puter. Very nicely done, but WAY too many apostrophies, I had to throw it out, as I couldn't stand to look at it!
Fair play, though, most of the mistakes in message boards are typos, fingers moving too fast for brain...
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Posted: 18 December 2006 at 11:38am |
My pet hate is when we (any group including me) gets takeaways and someone starts eating them before everyone's ready. Fair enough if people are slacking around and called, but if we pick up chips to take back home etc to eat, I'm driving, and you're sitting in the passenger seat eating chips I will get very cross!! Things like these always sound so silly though don't they?
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Posted: 18 December 2006 at 12:42pm |
hehe i love how we can tell people our things like that (i reckon they make us all special and unique!) hubby thinks im a bit over the top with things so im sure i have heaps, will have to ask him for help though as it seems normal to me (how i feel and what i do!)
oh annie- you'd go nuts at me, at the moment i am wearing jeans that are too long and *shrug* freaying (sorry!) but then they are also falling off at the waist thanks to some weight getting dropped (woohoo!)
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Posted: 18 December 2006 at 1:29pm |
Peace, I laughed so hard when I read your post about the fastfood straws!!! Only because I can't imagine myself getting annoyed at anyone for opening it! Hehe too funny.
Mine (and I hope DH reads this  ):
- I HATE things left on the kitchen window sill. If you put something up there, please take it down!
- I'm another one of those 'have to check the baby before going to sleep even if I just did it 10 mins ago' mums.
- Bad formatting/too many text fonts drives me nuts - especially when it's on something that is meant to be professional or important etc.
- We've got Winnie the Pooh bottles that have different coloured lids and pictures etc and the lid colour MUST match the colour of the writing on the side of the bottle. The first time DH didn't match the colours, he knew about it haha! (I've tried to loosen up on this because the green lid leaks  I just find I don't use that bottle unless I really really have to)
There's probably a whole bunch of other things!
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Posted: 18 December 2006 at 1:43pm |
One think for me is when I was doing Andrew's bottles (and will probably be the same for this one), is the ring and lid have to be the same when going into the fridge. DH would often when he did the bottles just put any lid on any bottle and it annoyed me they had to match.
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Posted: 18 December 2006 at 1:46pm |
Oooo I'm sooo with you on the 'too many fonts' thing. I had to do a group assignment at uni with 3 boys - they used about 3 different fonts in the assignment. It drove me almost to tears! And they couldn't understand what I was getting annoyed with.
And yeah, sponge in the sink. ARGH. That makes me sick.
I bite my nails REALLY badly. Must stop. I just don't realise I am doing it  even when they are bleeding from being bitten so much.
So many more... mind blank.
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Posted: 18 December 2006 at 2:33pm |
ewwww manky fingers, so NOT hot, Nikki!
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Posted: 18 December 2006 at 2:52pm |
I know. I'll do everything I can to hide them from you when I visit Annie. NO ONE sees these, unless they catch me out of course.
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Posted: 18 December 2006 at 2:54pm |
Hahaha Annie, I don't think you would like me very much.. I love long pants, as I hate my sneakers and try to cover them up (don't ask me why I don't just get shoes I like, long story  ).. I like frayed jeans too!
Also love to bite my nails and usually do it when I'm bored or nervous..
I hate cloths hanging over the tap in the sink  esp when they are all slimy!
I have to check the door is locked a few times at night (partly due to DP going out to do something and not locking it again).
Can't think of any more right now but I'm sure there are lots!
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Posted: 18 December 2006 at 3:09pm |
Oh yeah, I'm a super-long pants wearer too. I hate my shoes sticking out. I'll wear a skirt for you Annie.
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Posted: 18 December 2006 at 3:16pm |
I HAVE to check on Joshie before I go to bed, even though I've usually just given him a bottle. I HATE balled up dishcloths on the bench or in the sink - please rinse it under the hot tap and leave on the side of the sink so they don't get STINKY. I'm a bit of a nut about punctuation too, and bad spelling, especially on menus or in ad's drive me crazy
I also hate the feel of cottonwool, toilet paper, tissues..... and I hate putting dirty feet into socks!!
Hehehehe, I'm a freak
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Posted: 18 December 2006 at 4:25pm |
ok mine
i hate people in my room even the thought frecks me out
people not picking up after them sevels piss me right off
i have too have everything for james or hemi before we leave if not i start frecking
thereis more i just cant think of then right now
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Posted: 18 December 2006 at 4:43pm |
hmmm, i had to think a bit but once i thought of one, more just kept coming to mind lol.
i hate hate hate the feeling of dried dirt on my skin, if i have it on my hands i can't touch anything until i've washed it all off, i can't even let my fingers touch each other until they're clean.
i also have to check inside the toilet before i sit down on it, especially at night, for some reason i have an image in my head of a hand coming up and grabbing my bottom (blame it on scary movies).
lol, i think that's weird enough, i won't tell anymore or no-one will want to talk to me anymore
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Posted: 18 December 2006 at 5:05pm |
I'm a super-long pants wearer too, but only cos i'm a short arse and despite knowing how to sew, do not know how to hem pants.. used to get my mummy to do it for me. lol. otherwise wore tall shoes, but with sore legs now.. i just fold them up inside and hoep they don't fall down.. but yeah, hate people walking on their pants.
Mike has a few that i get annoyed at. he's pedantic about the "blanking doofas" (ie, the little round bits that go inside the bottles) they have to match too, and he won't leave daycare till they are found if they aren't on the bottle when he gets there. lol (am sure the daycare teachers must get frustrated with him.. if only he was as on to it with making sure the kids clothes come home) He hates water on his hands.. ie, he wets a cloth for me to use when changing nappy.. he will have to stop, and dry his hands first.. anything where water gets on his hands.. even a dot, he has to stop and dry his hands... meanwhile i'm struggling with a child that doesn't see why she has to sit still for so damn long cos daddy needs to dry his hands! (have taken to ensuring that ihave 2 cloths ready most changes in case i need another.. otherwise have to wait for him to do his ritual. argh!.. same with getting bottles when kid is screaming in the night. for god sake the microwave takes 25 seconds.. yet he takes 3 or 4 minutes to get the bottle!!lol
ok, anyway, i agree with the shower curtain thing, and the wet tea bags thing and the dish cloth.. has to wrung out and stuck on the bench!
I hate my girls piggy tails being crooked.. Paris thinks i'm a cow cos i make her look STAIGHT ahead when doing her hair.. and if it is crooked.. I take it out and start again.. at least I don't do what my mum did and just yank on the hair to turn our head.. i ask her nicely. lol
That and face cloths.. yeah, we have a few different sorts.. but geez, by now after coming round and folding our washing a fair few million times, mum still doesn't get it.. they are all VERY different, and folded differently.. he he.. I feel a bit like Monica off friends with her types of towels. There's bum cloths, soft wiping faces cloths, face cloths with pictures on for the bath, and our face cloths.
Oh, and i hate unmade beds!!!.. even if the dishes haven't been done and there's washing piled on the couch.. the beds are made EVERY morning! I used to think mum was crazy cos we weren't allowed to sit on our beds when i was little. I let my kids sit on them.. but get grumpy if they play inside them and mess them up big time.
oh my god i am like my mother how the hell did that happen?!
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Posted: 18 December 2006 at 5:25pm |
I have heaps too but the main ones would be
1) have to spider check the bedroom before i can sleep
2) have to check the kids before bed and if i wake in the night
3) hate the smell of playdough, makes me gag
4) cant make scones cos i hate the dough under my nails
5) if Im in a lift by myself i have to block my ears and pace the lift. If others are in there with me i have to be closet to the door.
6) and I hate people watching me eat or talk.
and pretty much everything everyone else has already said!
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Posted: 18 December 2006 at 5:26pm |
I have an extremely overactive imagination and once convinced myself that there was an invisible shark living in our pool.....I was 17years old. Oh the shame.
I only learnt to drive earlier this year. (yah me)
I like my books to be in order - from tallest to shortest to tallest again (the bookcase has open sides) - and they must be facing the right way and right side up.
And other than that, am completely normal
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