posted on October 8, 2001 10:47:08 PM new
I sit weird. I fold my left leg under me and sit on my foot sideways, where my ankle gets the weight of my upper body. Makes my big toe tingle for hours, so I probably have damage there. Why do I sit this way? Habit. Or, I sit cross legged, but with both ankles up on my thighs, yogga style. I think Im too old to be sitting like this now, but Im so used to it, I dont think about it and just do it. Not on the floor either....on my pc chair, on the couch, on the lawn, at the kitchen table on the chair there...everywhere I sit.
Second bad habit: I chew the inside of my mouth.
Third: I twirl my hair while watching tv. Round and round and flip it around, twisting in long loops, then braiding, then unbraiding, then twirling some more.
posted on October 8, 2001 11:16:38 PM newI fold my left leg under me and sit on my foot sideways
There's another way to sit comfortable???
I have a few bad habits, and then some that are a bit crazy, they involve sleeping.
I need clean sheets to sleep on, I'm not talking clean this week, I mean clean today. I have to wash sheets a lot. If I can't wash them I have to take them off the bed and pop them to get any dirt or hairs off of them that I can.
I can't go to bed unless I take a shower.
I will not fall asleep on the couch or easy chair watching TV or reading, never. I have to go into the bedroom and lay on the bed to sleep. The only other places I can sleep is in a moving car or an airplane.
Once I wake I'm awake, there is no rolling over and going back to sleep. If I've been awake for 36 hours and go to bed and the phone rings 1 hour later the odds of me getting back to sleep soon are not good.
I can't share a bed, never have been able to sleep with someone else in the bed with me. That has upset many girlfriends and bothers my wife, but I just can't share the bed.
I require a fan, either a floor fan or ceiling fan.
I need a radio or tape or CD player to lull me off to sleep. Preferably the CD player, I never travel without it.
I'll be very honest, I wouldn't tolerate such behavior from my wife, but I guess it's okay if I go a bit nuts.
posted on October 9, 2001 06:51:48 AM new
I sing really bad one-hit-wonder songs like "Seasons in the Sun", "The Night Chicago Died" etc. in a fake operatic voice so as to make them even worse than they were before I got to them.
I try to cultivate preposterous rumors about political figures and Hollywood personalities-usually something like Martha Stewart, Whoopi Goldberg and Strom Thurmond being caught together in a hotel room...
I equipped my truck with a P.A. system and drive through neighborhoods espousing my theories about the predictions of Nostradamus strangely coinciding with the sentiments expressed in many of the songs of Abba.
I wear a toupee even thought I have a full head of hair. I can't sleep unless I'm wearing a tuxedo. I monitor my shoe size on an almost-hourly basis.
Oh, I smoke too...
posted on October 9, 2001 08:03:08 AM new
OMG...uaru, we are twins. I can't share a bed, never have been able to sleep with someone else in the bed with me. That has upset many girlfriends and bothers my wife, but I just can't share the bed.
I require a fan, either a floor fan or ceiling fan.
That is so scarey. You just described me perfectly. In fact, everything you just said up there ^ describes me.
posted on October 9, 2001 09:31:22 AM new
(1)I, too, sit with one leg folded under me on my chair
(2)I change my clothes several times a day. Usually around 5 different outfits a day. I don't know why, I just do. One outfit when I wake up, then another when I have to go to the PO, then another when I get home, then another just to go across the street to get the mail, another later at night, etc. (Needless to say, I do a LOT of laundry).
(3)I eat the exact same foods for days at a time until I get sick of it. Then I move on to a different food, eat that over and over until I get sick of it. (This makes going grocery shopping very hard)
(4)I eat my meals sitting/laying on the couch watching TV.
(5)When I'm shopping for myself, I'm not as "thrifty" as I used to be. I figure - if I don't like it when I get home, I'll sell it on Ebay!
(6)I like loud music. When I'm working I always have the stereo in the other room on. In fact, many times I can't even hear the phone ring.
(7)I am addicted to Reality-TV shows (Hepburn - I think you are guilty of this too! ) Big Brother, Survivor, etc....
[ edited by ExecutiveGirl on Oct 9, 2001 09:34 AM ]
posted on October 9, 2001 09:43:03 AM new
Like another poster, I mess with my hair. Unfortunately, if I find an area that seems longer or thicker. I fix it. With scissors. Then I find more problems and fix it again.
Actually it seems to happen when I'm nervous or upset. Right now, my hair is the shortest it's ever been, and I can find about 6 places that need trimming as soon as I get home.
My son left yesterday after being called back into the military. Left his vehicle on the curb in front of the house, and a box of papers and said, "mom, pay my bills, call this Company and have them remove this charge from the credit card, renew the insurance on my truck, when the check comes in, take my truck and get it aligned and tires rotated, fax these papers to my job, fax these papers to all my creditors to lower my interest rate, etc. etc.".
posted on October 9, 2001 11:06:18 AM new
I run with scissers, remove tags from mattress's, and you are NOT gonna believe this, but I only wait 29 minutes after eating to jump in pool, instead of the mandatory 30.
Those habits I can live with, but I am afraid that my WORST habit of standing under a tree when it rains will be downfall
posted on October 9, 2001 11:13:47 AM new
Executive Girl---I've got the reality TV bad habit too!! I got so pissed off last night when they didn't kick anyone off the boat on Love Cruise last night.
Though I have taken the oath to never get involved in Big Brother again---I never got the live feeds, but I had to go on line and read up on all going ons that the live-feed posters wrote.
My favourite right now is the Amazing Race. My Wednesday evenings is a nightmare of setting video machines, cause I'm also a Star Trek fan and also need my West Wing fix.
posted on October 9, 2001 11:51:46 AM new
I didn't realize there was an option to NOT sit on your left foot...my poor knee!
I get in Food Habits as well EG. I will eat the same breakfast food for weeks until I grow tired of it, then I find something else. Same with lunch.
I can't stand the seams on the insides of underware or socks, or the tags in the necklines of shirts.
I have to keep the wire hangers away from the plastic ones. I hang them on a pipe in the basement above the washer and dryer, and I keep them all sorted. Clippy hangers, plastic hangers, then wire. I hate wire hangers actually, but not to the "Mommy Dearest" level.
I must have a teaspoon in my coffee cup while I drink it. Don't ask me why, and yes, I still have both of my eyes.
I sleep with a "huggy" pillow, much to the shagrin of my husband.
posted on October 9, 2001 11:56:01 AM new
I cut out all the necklines of t-shirts because I cant stand anything around my neck.
I also eat the same breakfast everyday for a week, then switch to a small change for another week, then switch back.
3 slices bacon, crisp, hashbrowns, egg over medium on top with tobasco and one glass of ovaltine milk. Second week, 3 slices bacon, french toast. 3rd week, switch back to the egg and hashbrowns. same o same o.
posted on October 9, 2001 12:02:41 PM new
I NEVER eat breakfast. Don't like breakfast foods at all, and I just can't seem to eat anything before noon usually.
Maybe someone should start a "weird food habits" thread..... that's a whole new topic I could comment on
posted on October 9, 2001 12:07:51 PM new
EG, that is the only meal I DO eat. Breakfast. That is how I lost all that weight I put on last year. Now Im back to normal, thank goodness. I never eat lunch, but I eat my breakfast at lunch time. For dinner, I dont eat much of anything...normally only a piece of toast, or if Im really hungry, one homemade taco.
A weird food thread was posted not too long ago, if I remember correctly.
posted on October 9, 2001 12:12:44 PM new
Yeah, I remember that food thread - but I mean a weird food HABITS thread.... for instance.. I scrape sauce off of pizza (yuck!!) and I can't eat the crust on bread.... etc.
posted on October 9, 2001 12:13:40 PM new
I really don't have any bad habits to speak of. Well, unless you want to count really minor ones like the fact that whenever I have to sneeze I jump up and down and flap my arms like a chicken....
Barry
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The opinions expressed above are for comparison purposes only. Your mileage may vary....
posted on October 9, 2001 12:22:03 PM new
I refuse to wear panties that "ride up". One time, and into the trash they go. Right now, best brand is Bali Freeform or Bali Scamp.
@ you guys/gals this early in the AM. 
