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We all know they are annoying so let's fess up and hear 'em. I'll go first:
-I pull at my curly hair. My mom is always saying "stop ripping out your curls!". I do it until my head of hair is a big giant mess of frizz. Yeah, no self-control on this one. I blame adhd for some reason. Helps me focus.
-I bite my nails. I am a former smoker (2 years smoke-free) and now working on the nail biting. Ick.
-I can't stand it when people dish my food out for me.
-I have to use the same coffee cup. Every day. Or else.
-I pee like 10 times before bed. Anxiety or too much coffee?
-I have the attention of...well, a peanut. Or a little more. But not by much. lol.
-I hate big forks. Yup. I like those salad or dessert forks. And I can't stand big soup spoons or tablespoons for eating! I like small teaspoons for eating soup.
-If I accidently mark a dot on a page I am about to write on, I have to turn it and start "fresh"
There are many many more but I don't want to totally bore you. Please share yours!
I can't believe there aren't more bees with annoying habits or a bit of OCD! I share your hatred of big eating utensils - I only eat with a teaspoon or a small salad fork; it drives me crazy that FI uses 'normal' utensils!
I also can't stand clothes that aren't folded the right way. I will unfold them and re-fold them to get the creases correct.
* drawers or cupboards being left open
* piles of anything that are not in nice, straight lines
* leaving dishes in the sink
* clothes left on the floor
I'm sure I could go on and on but will stop for now.
I am soooo weird.
here goes:
- peel and paint my nails at least once a day. If the polish is chipped, i sit there and peel all of the polish off my nails, and re-paint them. Drives FI nuts.
- Bed HAS to be made before I get into it. If the covers aren't straight, forget it...I won't sleep at all.
- I hate seeing cords. They have to be tucked away or I just start unplugging things and trying to make it so I can't see them.
- I clean at all hours of the night. If I'm having a bad day, I start cleaning at 11pm. It wasn't until I lived with FI that I realized that wasn't normal. C'mon, what's wrong with vacuuming at midnight??
I'm sure there are more...but I just can't think of them at the moment :)
I share a lot of qualities with you ladies :)
@elliegraye: People dishing out my food. People using "my cup" I have a coffee bowl/mug that I am stupidly overprotective of. Big forks and small spoons, I like salad forks and soup spoons.
@Ree723: Drawers being left open. Clothes being left on the floor. Dishes being left on the counter (no prob w/ them in the sink, as long as they make it to the dishwasher!)
@napabridekelsey: Bed being made before bedtime, I'm SOO glad I'm not the only one :) Oh, and I love cleaning at night, too!
Some of my own: Starting to watch a tv show and not being able to finish it. My FI not closing the cereal box the right way. Just bc he can't notice it's stale doesn't mean I can't! Being woken up. Having to wake up when I've had less than six/seven hours sleep. (I'm mean!)
Oh, and I could write a BOOK about my pet peeves while driving.
K.... I'm gonna leave it at that for the night :)
I know this is probably SO weird but if I even have to pee a little bit before bed, I have to get up. Even.If.It's.One.Drop. It's SO weird. I cannot go to bed without a completely empty bladder. I should just wear a diaper lol so I wouldn't have to get up so much.
- I have hundereds of nails polishes and when I paint my nail if I see one airbubble, I chip them all off.
-I refuse to use a towel that hasn't been in the dryer 5 minutes before I shower
Those are pretty much the weird ones lol. Gosh I realize how weird I am now that I type it out haha.
I have to do the pee thing before bed, too! .... and the nail polish thing. Haha I'm thinking I might actually have OCD. dun dun dun.... ;)
I'm a nail biter. Have been since I was a kid.
I also have this weird habit of smelling things. Especially food. I smell damn near everything. Things you would never think to smell. New universal TV remote? Yep, sniffed it. That chocolate that I've been eating for years? Yep, sniff each piece before I eat it. It can be reall annoying, but only because people think I'm a looney.
I also talk to strangers, almost compulsively. I was raised in the South where that is common, but it's certainly not accepted up here in the Pacific Northwest. It really seems to bother FI sometimes, which is surprising, because his mother was also raised in the south. She and I are soooo much alike. You'd think he'd be used to this part.
I hate raw meat. I will bag it the second I pick it at the store. It has to be kept under the cart away from the other foods while we finishing shopping. At check out, it's the last thing on the conveyor belt. It HAS to be bagged all by it's self. I have made stores switch out items they placed in bags with raw meat, it's that bad. I once got home from the store to find my steak packed in with bread and fruit (!), I drove my happy ass 4 miles back to the store and asked for replacement bread and fruits. Cooking it is a pain too. I keep latex gloves in my kitchen just for handling meat. I always end up washing my hands 6 or 7 times during dinner prep because I'm worried about bacteria cross-contamination.
@napabridekelsey: Oh my! I can't stand when the sheets are all crazy and disheveled. It makes me insane! FI likes to roll and take the blankets with him when he sleeps and they are a mess when I come home. He can slide into them while they're still a mess and I can't deal. I have to tuck the corners of the sheet, straighten it out along with the comforter. And don't even get me started about the tag of said comforter being at the foot of the bed. (That is it's HOME.)
If I have a zit, or spot on my face or anywhere on my body I cannot. leave. it. alone. Then it blows up into something monsterous and fugly.
I can't stand for my feet to be dry and touch ANYTHING. Especially blankets that they can get snagged on....blahhhhhh. Makes my skin CRAWL!
I brush my teeth A LOT. I have a toothbrush and mouthwash in my locker at work.
I don't like fried chicken.
The shower curtain must be closed at all times.
There are more, but I don't want you guys to think I'm TOO much of a freak ;)
@elliegraye: DH hates big forks/spoons too! Weird!
- I crack my knuckles all the time.
-I hate the shower curtain being left open
-drawers/cabinets being left open
-if I am writing something and my handwriting doesnt look as perfect as it could be or if I make an accidental mark I will start on a new page of paper
I hate big forks too!!
I am so strange
Well, I actually have OCD. As in, I take medication for it and have a doctor for it. My biggest thing is, I have to check the mail before I can relax and get on with my day. It makes my husband crazy to take me anywhere if we haven't checked the mail, and when we got out of town my parents know they have to call me and let me know what was in the mail. I don't know why this is, it just is. Kinda sucks.
My most annoying habit for my husband is not closing doors all the way.
I have an issue with not closing closet doors, cabinets, etc. I have gotten SO much better though! ;)
My OCD is chicken. Yuck. When we cut chicken I have to spray the whole counter twice with bleach. Some days it's so bad I have to make my husband cut it.
@Gerbera: I don't cook chicken for this reason. I can't stand to touch it when it's raw. It's all slimy. Blech. The most I can do it toss it in a crock pot. lol
hehe. On bad days I have to change my clothes and take a shower after cutting chicken! I haven't done that in a while though.
I'm rather emotional. I tend to try to avoid issues and blow them off until they errupt. This is my biggest flaw.
Haha, I share some of the same OCD and habits with you guys.
- I let things get to me too much. The slightest thing that doesn't go well can upset me. Something to not look forward to when I finally plan my wedding.
- I can't have clothes or anything really on the floor. The floor has to be clean!
- I'm an organized freak and everything needs to be organized. And at BF's house that's not a good thing seeing as how he's a pack rat and I would just love to clean his house out.
- I also have a certain way I do dishes. It's weird.
- I also crack my knuckles all the time.
But I also have GAD and minor OCD that was diagnosed so they just could be because of that. LOL.
@kayely88: I have GAD too - never thought of this being a reason why Im so weird lol
@Gerbera: Whoa! That's a pretty serious OCD. ;)
I am now off to bed, my straightened sheets, perfectly made up bed. Tee hee hee.
Every night, I get a great deal of pleasure in pulling my mascara off my eyelashes. It's so weird but I just love doing it!
I won't use big forks or spoons either, and I don't like drinking out of glasses- I prefer a sturdy plastic cup because glass has a funny 'taste' to me.
I'm also completely retentive about junk being put on my dining room table (I like it cleared), time being left on the microwave, drawers or cabinets being left open, the toilet paper on the roll hanging upside down, chairs not pushed in to the dining room table or desk, towels hanging on the shower rod, the bed not being made... basically I'm a pain in the ass neat freak. LOL.
OCD things? Oh crap, I have thousands!
Ok, wow, I could totally keep going, but I think I have proved that I am completely and totally insane. It's not as bad as it sounds when it's all written out, I promise!
@PitBulLover: I am the same with the writing thing. I was like this in high school too, it was so frustrating for me but I just COULD NOT leave it.
I LOVE THIS THREAD! Now I don't feel so weird! I have so many idiosyncrasies!
-I HAVE to sleep with my bedroom door closed
-I have light switches in my house set up in such a way that I can have my entire trip up the stairs to my room lit at all times and I don't have to back track to turn the lights off
-My aunt lives in a development that is shaped like a circle. She is on the other end of the circle so when I go to her house one way, I HAVE to leave going the other direction so I finish the circle
-I spend way too much time in front of the mirror making sure that my when I put on my mascara, that my eyelashes have equal coverage and are as symmetrical as possible
-I correct crooked pictures-EVERYWHERE
-When I eat, I eat one food at a time and work my way around the plate rather than mix it up
-I'm a chronic worrier. I can't help it. I worry about everything and anything.
-I over-analyze everything that people say
-I stew on issues and have a really hard time lettting things go until I'm able to voice my opinion
Umph...That felt good. 
@MrsPinkBONBON: I totally understand this! This is why I pee ten times before bed. I go. I go to the bed and I immediately go back and empty my one drop. LOL. And repeat. And repeat again.lol.
@Mrs.tobe: Ick, dry feet! My worse is when you are at the beach and your feet have that dry sand feeling on it. Chalboard feeling! *shutters*
@ohheavenlyday: OMG! I love this. When I was a teenager, my best friend thought I might ave that Alopecia (?) because I loved picking off my waterproof mascara.Nope, not plucking out my lashes thank you. But, mascara...totally remember this.Must not get in head now just in case.
@kayely88: I have GAD and have been treated for it for for the last 8years! I never thought this could be slightly the reason why for my "particulars" as we call them.
I love hearing everyone elses "things"! I am happy we all equally feel like we are weird!
-I count all the cutlery in my drawer. And if I am missing one I freak out.
-Have to sleep with the bedroom door closed.
-I buy everything in even pairs. If I don't I get upset.
-Money had to be put all the same way.
And that is all I can really think of off the top of my head.
Im OCD about everything! So there is no need for me to write a list! :)
-The coffee in the Keurig carousel needs to all be organized by kind in even rows and patterns. It drives me nuts.
-I cannot sleep unless it is completely dark and completely silent. I mean to the extent of stuffing towels under the door to I can't see any light from the hallway if I stay at a hotel. And I sleep with eye mask on.
-I refuse to turn my car around. I'd much rather drive a longer circle than have to turn it around.
-I get severe anxiety when I'm not wearing my glasses. My eyesight isn't horrible without them and I can still function decently but I give myself full blown panic attacks if they are not on my face within 20 seconds of waking up or getting out of the shower.
I'm with you ladies on a lot of things:
-Must have a totally empty bladder before bed.
-If I have to wash one hand, I wash them both, they both have to be wet.
-My alarms are set for :03 or :07, never a :00 or a :05.
-Bedroom door must be closed and locked if I'm sleeping alone.
-Raw meat. Of any kind (but raw chicken especially). I have seriously used it to cook 3 times in my entire life, and each time I had to call my mother and she congratulated me. It just skeeeeves me out. You could trap me by encircling me in raw chicken breasts, I wouldn't move them without gloves. Ew.
-I eat one food at a time. Always have since I was little. When people do that 'mixed up corn/turkey/potatoes/gravy' thing at Thanksgiving, I can't sit by them.
-I need to check the electric outlets and the stove before I leave. Thankfully my apartment is small, but goodness knows Mr.ND will go bonkers when we have a house and he needs to wait for me to check the whole place before we leave.
I pick at my skin. it's such a gross habit, and I sometimes do it in front of people w/o even knowing it. when I was younger, my acne was bad and I knew picking at it made it way worse-- but I couldn't make myself stop no matter how hard I tried! I'd stop for a day, but would start up again by the next day.
Also, I have a thing with certain noises: when somebody chews too loud, or if a neighbor is making noise, I will get a very extreme reaction. my blood pressure will rise and I can't concenterate on anything except how much I hate that noise and it'll make me hate that person! Usually I have to get out of there, get away from it. a doctor once told me that my reactions to this is a sign of mild OCD.
-- The temperature in my house or my tv volume both need to always be on even numbers. *
*[To expand on this, I have huge OCD over numbers.. To me, there are feelings that i associate with numbers... I like 'even numbers', (2,4,6,8,0 all seem "nice, happy" numbers). But 3,5,7,9 I dont like, (they are hard, cold feeling). One (1) however, i associate the same feelings as an even number (maybe because i was born on the first of December). Eleven (11) is my favorite number. Symmetry with numbers is also a good feeling. That is why I am getting married on 11.11.11 :)]
-- I have an obsession with nail cuticles. When i do my nails, i spend AT LEAST an hour to an hour and a half just triming my cuticles off. Then i can file my nails, and paint them. But i will never paint my nails without doing the cuticles first. And whenever i can start to see cuticles coming back, I have to get them right away.
-- When I was little, I would dump out all the crayons out of a fresh pack (even the one with 96!!), and then re organize them in rainbow order.
Those are my major ones. The rest are just strong preferences I may have on things..
Ooh, I have some good ones that DH will happily back up if you don't believe me!!
-Whenever I stay at a hotel, I make them change my room at least twice before I'm satisfied. I often go around and view rooms with the manager because they get so frustrated with me and I frequently get to look at floor plans. I have to be as far away from the elevator as possible and on the highest floor available.
-Similar to above, I always try to change my seat on the plane. It has to be an aisle and close to the front as possible.
-I have panic attacks at restaurants when they bring food out at different times. I feel like I'm paying so much money for the experience, why can't they avoid awkwardness and just wait until everyones plate is ready to serve our food? I've demanded free meals before at restaurants who brought my food out so late everyone else had finished already.
-I pee several times during the night, every night
I'm very obsessive about numbers. It probably stems from the eating disorder I struggled with for 8 years (your life pretty much gets rules by numbers: calorie counts, weight, BMI, etc). Now that I don't care about/follow those things ^^ I am obsessive with other numbers. Time, for example. If someone tells me 5 minutes, it has to be 5 minutes or I'll freak out. If it gets way longer than it should be I will actually start hyperventilating.
I make a lot of my decisions based on time: even number is yes/1st choice, odd number is no/second choice, I'll ask myself a question then look a the time to get the answer. Like, "should I watch Supernatural or Fringe" then look at the clock, 11:02, "supernatural it is". I used to have to use this method for everything or I wouldn't be able to make a decision at all, but I've managed to cut it back to just the small meaningless things.
I count everything. Steps, brush strokes, bites, pages, sometimes even blinks. If I'm distracted by something I don't need to count, but if it's just me with no distractions I'm counting in my head.
I love to crack my joints. All of them. I can do jaw, shoulders, knuckles, wrists, hips, knees, ankles, and toes. I do it even at inappropriate times, like when I'm teaching, or in quiet rooms where it just... echoes.
Also, I associate certain colors with certain days of the week, and I like to buy/choose/wear things of that color on that day. It's very, very strange.
I am with everyone on the peeing 100 times before bed!
My clothes have to be in color order in my closet and drawers.
I say Hail Marys when I drive because once I randomly decided to, escaped a bad accident, and decided that that wasn't a coincedence.
I also play with my hair like nonstop. There's this one really annoying guy at work that will walk by my desk and come yell at my if I'm twirling it. it's so annoying- he complains about it to me every day!
@Gingersnap:I do all of those things- if my FI is even 10 minutes late i FREAK OUT. Like I literally get so angry I'll be like shaking or my heart will be beating really fast and it doesnt matter AT ALL its not like he's hours late, he's 10 minutes! And I'm 10 minutes late all the time, so idk why it's ok for me but not him lol. I do the even/odd thing too, for the stupidest decisions in the world- what color eyeshadow do I want to wear this morning? Even number wear navy, odd wear brown lol. Or what to watch on TV, etc. And I count steps too.
I crack my knuckles. All of them (including toes, and top knuckles on hands) except for the big ones in the middle of my fingers.
If I go to the bathroom with a shower that has a curtain, I have to check to make sure no one is hiding in there. I think this is left over from college house parties, and some girl got spied on.
When I am the passenger in a car, and it is raining, I have to have my side of the windshield clean too. I need to see for some reason. My husband's pickup's wipers don't work as well on the passenger side, and he also lets droplets accumulate. Drives me nuts.
Like the alarm people above, I also always put in a 2 at the end of my microwave time. It is more fun, and I feel like the extra two seconds ensure that my food is properly cooked. :)
I also count how many steps I take per sidewalk slab. I like them to be evenly spaced steps.
@farmgirl2106: If I go to the bathroom with a shower that has a curtain, I have to check to make sure no one is hiding in there. I think this is left over from college house parties, and some girl got spied on.
OMG: in college my roomates and I caught a peeping tom a couple of times-- one time it was when I was having sex! now whenever I move into a new apartment, I make SURE you can't see into the windows and that all of the blinds or curtains are very tight.
@joeyness11: I am the same with the number thing! The TV HAS to be set on a multiple of 4. Even numbers really ARE happy numbers! The best thing - FI does it too! He seems to have always done it, I don't know if he just picked up really early on that I was crazy or if it's his thing too. Either way, I love it!
I could NOT get married on an "odd" day. Not because of superstition or anything, I just really hate odd numbers that much. It's bad enough that it has to be in an odd year, and as much as I'd love to wait until '12 (multiple of 4!) we've waited long enough!
@janie-janie: Creepy. I would too if I were you. I live out in the boonies on a ranch, but one of the employees always stares at our house. Like blatantly stares with no shame. We've since invested in a privacy fence, nice new blinds + curtains , and we will be planting cedar trees this springs. I also really want to put a "Road Closed" sign on our road (no one would question it because I'm in South Dakota and it is flooding BAD and it is EVERYWHERE) because we are the only people who live on it, and it is like a loop that goes back to the same spot, and I HATE when I see vehicles that I don't recognize on it. I mean, why are you here?? Get off of "my" road. But alas, I think that'd be illegal. I guess you could say I'm neurotic about privacy... :)
@pohget: Yeah, i cant really explain why 1 is the exception. But i would not get married on an odd day either.. and i had told my FI he needed to propose on an even day too..(he did)..haha yeah its that bad.
Also with checkout lanes at stores, or even tollbooth lanes... I have to only go to the even numbered ones. And if only odd are available, i try to rationalize why its ok that one time. or if its like "15", then i just add 1+5 and tell my self its ok, bc it gives me a 6/even number...
Good to know that theres at least one other person that understands the feelings associated with numbers. :)
pohget & NDBee - I do the same thing with my hands being wet. I don't think I actually "wash" only one hand, but when I'm doing laundry or loading the dishwasher, normally only one hand gets wet. Like with laundry, I'm pushing the clothes into the water with one and tossing clothes towards the open washer with the other. When I'm done, I give one last push into the water with both hands lol. SO glad I'm not alone on this.
sceeder - I have to sleep with the door closed at night too, but when FI is out of town for work, I have to sleep on the couch in the living room with ALL doors open (bathroom, bedroom, closet in bedroom even though I can't see it, etc) I have to make sure there isn't a boogyman haha
SoontobeMrsA - I do this with my Keurig cups too, and I hate it b/c I wish it could just look natural, but they have to be even/in order
Joeyness11 - I'm the same with numbers, except I "allow" 5's and 0's ... or I'll allow 47 or 55 only bc my mom raced when I was in high school and those were her two different car numbers. And with crayons, I would organize them dark to light. Black brown purple blue red green orange yellow.
Farmgirl1206 - when playing hide and sick as a kid, my little sister was hiding in the shower, and I didn't think to look b/c it was so obvious. I was the seeker and took a pee break, and she jumped out of the tub from behind the closed curtain mid-pee. I check too, now.
Let's see ...
* I wash my hands 10 - 20 times a day, depending on how 'dirty' I feel
* I have to check my bed several times to make sure there are no spiders or other unwelcomed pests
* I don't like eating after people, and even rejected a water bottle my boyfriend drank out of (I know...weird since I have no problem kissing him)
* I'll get a new glass if anyone touches it near the rim ... regardless of how much is left in the cup
* I keep trying to pull my shirt down to cover my rear sometimes when I get extremely nerves, thus stretching the crap out of my top =(
I'm a little extreme sometime's it seems. :\ Hope my boyfriend can handle me when we move in together, hahaha!
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