Hannah tagged me last week with a meme about the nearest book to me. Problem is I haven’t read a book since, well, before Nathan was born. Oh, the days when I only had one child and he had two long naps a day. Those days are long gone, my friends.

She just tagged me with this meme to list five quirky things about myself. Only five? Easy peasy!

1. Like Hannah, I am a listing MACHINE. I make lists and then rewrite them to re-organize them. And then rewrite them again. I will take my grocery list and then rewrite it in the order that I’ll go through the store. I use headings for each section. If the sections are too close without EQUAL blank lines between them…I’ll start over.

2. I LOVE spreadsheets. I use them for my accounting work (obviously), but I also use them for every day things. I have all of my stamp sets that I own in one file, and my stamp “wish list” in another. I have also put all of our regular meals into a spreadsheet so that we can look at the list and plan meals for the week. Spreadsheets rock because there are headings! And bolding! And highlighting! And everything is evenly spaced!

I need to get out more.

3. I chew on my lip/inside of my cheek. I don’t even realize that I’m doing it. Kind of like when I bit my nails as a child. When my Mom came to visit, she said, “You’re still biting your cheek, hey?” I was? I used to? I still am? Apparently so. I was driving yesterday and contemplating what five quirks to write about and realized I was chewing on my lip. There you go.

4. I eat oatmeal for breakfast every. single. morning. I make it with skim milk in the microwave and then sprinkle Splenda and cinnamon on it. I then make my hazelnut “latte” in the microwave as well. This is not news to many of you. But do you know that I drift off to sleep every night looking forward to it? And that when we go to visit family out of town I bring all of the ingredients along so that I can have it at their house? Heaven forbid I should have toast or cereal.

5. This one is news to me. I asked Matthew if he thought I had any quirks. He said that one IMMEDIATELY popped into his mind. I figured it was one of the above. Nope. He said:

“When you start telling a story you get quite animated”.

I know this. He brought in eggs from the chicken coop and handed them to me. I started to tell him something and before we knew what was happening an egg flew out of my hand and soared through the air…and crashed onto the floor.

“Then you start talking faster”

Is that even POSSIBLE?

“Then you smack your leg in excitement”

Really?

“If you’re sitting at the table, you smack the table”

REALLY??? I had no idea.

“Yep. When you start getting excited I sit back and think, “There she goes!”"

I was laughing pretty hard. I asked him how long I had been doing this. As long as he’s known me, apparently. He said he hadn’t said anything before because he didn’t want to make me feel self-conscious. He’s so sweet.

Christy was over yesterday with her kids and I told her this revelation. She concurred, and expanded on it. She said that when I’m telling a story I get progressively more excited. Then everyone starts leaning in and their smiles get bigger and bigger in anticipation of what I’m about to reveal. And that I do this shrieky laugh thing that cracks them up.

I now know where Graham gets HIS quirkiness. ME. Poor kid.

This is where you either tell me that it’s cool to be quirky, or that you’re just like me. I can’t be the only weirdo out there. Right? RIGHT?!?!?

I never know who to tag, so I’m going to do what Kami did. I tag you, you, and you. Done.

If you looked at the above and your eyes glazed over, have I got a treat for you! Pictures of the kidlets, because it’s been awhile. Besides, this cuteness should be shared.

G-Force:

Nate-Dawg:

Miss Emily:

I think she looks quirky in that photo. Like Momma, like daughter.

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