Tempo Thursday and 6 Random Facts About Me.

I can’t sleep with a messy kitchen either. Drives me crazy. And I’m pretty sure I drive my husband crazy because of it!

I can say my alphabet backwards. I learned it in less than 5 minutes from a set of jello jiggler molds when I was really young. I have always wanted to get pulled over and have the cop ask me to say it backwards. Hasn’t happened yet. I also microwave my ice cream. I don’t like it rock hard, it needs to be a little bit soft with some soupy in the bottom.

I do everything with my left hand, but I am right handed. My Mom did not want me to be left handed. Back then they believed you wouldn’t be smart if you were. Se used to hit my left hand to get me to use my right hand. I’ve felt weird my whole life. I can’t write with my left hand, but I do eat and do everything with it. Crazy, right?

I’m the same way with my nails. They MUST be short!
I am obsessed with jigsaw puzzles and have one going at all times.

I’m a lefty too. Except I use a mouse, can opener, etc., righty.

Lefty here! I’m the only one of 4 kids who is, but I loved it because my mom and HER mom were both lefties!

I can’t leave my kitchen a mess either. (Maybe it’s a lefty thing!) I’ve been known to take my husband’s plate before he was actually done eating ;)

Hawaiian tip for your pineapple: IF you can wait a few hours, pull the top off, turn the whole thing upside down for a few hours before cutting. This lets the juice spread through the entire pineapple and the whole thing will be sweeter.

I will throw the whole bag away if I eat a burnt piece or can smell it. It taints the whole bag. Now i will just save, and give you my garbage.

I can’t have my clothes touch the floor. Ever. They are in the laundry or hanging in my closet. Even if I am late or in a hurry, my clothes are never in the floor. Ross, on the other hand…..and it drives me batty.

This may not be surprising, but I could speak complete sentences before I could walk. I started talking really young and basically haven’t stopped since ;)

BURNT POPCORN? Hmmmm I’m just gonna have to send you my burnt pieces because I don’t like them at all. We’re opposites on this one because I actually like most of my food overcooked except popcorn! I like crunchy cookies, overcooked pasta, burnt toast but nice and fluffy popcorn :)

I had a friend from the West Indies in university. Every once in awhile she’d bring a pineapple (a whole one) to school for lunch. She’d have it chopped up and ready to eat in what seemed like seconds. She was so fast at it. Whereas it takes me forever.

I’m a lefty too! I used my right hand but made the switch when I was a teenager. I still do some things with my right though.

Short nails here too! I got “fake, long” nails put on once but had to go back the very next day to get them removed. I can’t stand how they feel.

I’m obsessed with children’s books. I have over 600 packed away since I moved and stopped teaching.

I love burnt cheese, not popcorn though.

I have to have strawberry cake on my birthday. Its been a must since I was a little girl.

You’re not weird, I am the exact same way about my kitchen. It must be clean before I go to sleep.

Random fact: I eat my food, one thing at a time, in alphabetical order. Now who’s weird? ;)

Haha your cool down pace is my sprint! I wish I could be that fast or atleast three feet taller. My short legs get me knowhere! Lol I am also a lefty. Have you gone to the left handed store in SF?

I can’t get in bed unless it’s made! I often make it right before getting in it but it HAS to be made!

I’m obsessed with Popsicles! It’s freezing cold here but I still insist on having a box in my fridge at all times!

Haha I definitely started shaving my arms at 16 as well! Now that I’ve broken my arm.. I cant shave either one! I shudder to think of what the arm under the cast will look like in six weeks!

Cooking is me time. So much so I have made dinner every night since we came home with the baby.

Random facts about me are: I have Arithmomania, which is a counting OCD. I like to count objects in sets of 5’s or 10’s. I’ve done for as long as I can remember and I do with without realizing. Another is that I had a tumor growing on my right thumb knuckle and had it removed a few years ago. It was benign. Now it’s growing again, but on the other side. Weird.
Two really weird facts, I’m actually (I think, lol) pretty normal.

How do you shave your arms?!?! I was JUST looking at mine yesterday and thought “man they are a little hairy…wonder if I could shave them” but didn’t know if it’d “work”….like if it would feel or look weird. Do you just do it like you do your legs?!

I wish I had your kitchen cleanliness problem! I can’t have dirty dishes lying around but I can deff. go without mopping! I also hate long fingernails!

I could have written this except for the arcade games and burnt popcorn, but I do like an almost burnt tortilla.

Random Fact: I married my high school sweetheart straight out of high school, and almost 15 years later we are still married and while I wouldn’t recommend it, it has worked out pretty darn well for us :)

random factoid: i cannot walk over sewer grates in the sidewalk. i have a super abnormal fear of falling in the sewer. literally, have been walking down a very crowded and busy street only to realize i had nowhere to go so i just stopped and had people running into me. just couldn’t do it. ugh….gives me the creeps just thinking about it!!

I am loving these comments!!
Random fact about me: Certain food textures are almost impossible for me to swallow. I couldn’t eat broccoli until I started roasting it. The little flowery things would make me choke and gag and generally be gross and embarassing. Roasting it changes the texture to something I can actually swallow. The membrane things on oranges can sometimes get me, sometimes not so I tend to eat oranges alone. Or I spend a half hour making a mess peeling all the segments.

I HATE DIRTY COUNTER TOPS!!!!

I am 27 and realized I got this from my Mom. Growing up we ALWAYS cleaned the kitchen after dinner… I despise clutter and dirty countertops.

Our Condo has black granite countertops and you can see EVERYTHING. Never again!

I married a man with kitchen OCD. At first I was a little freaked out, but then I realized how AMAZING it is to always have a super clean kitchen. It works out great, I love to cook and he loves (er well has) to clean.

Random fact – I’ve been watching Parenthood during my elliptical workouts and I think I’ve cried during every episode so far.

I have seven brothers and grew up believing that I would be the first female NFL player…..and alternatively, I would settle on being a professional soccer player.

I’m insanely clumsy. I’m almost 100 percent sure that this will be my demise.

AH so glad to hear the kitchen + fingernail thing. both drive me nuts. my roommate is not the same about the kitchen, so i fight an internal battle between cleaning up her dishes or letting it be messy. also, im crazy and always think you can tell what type of person someone is by how long their fingernails are (wtf). shorter, the better.

I hate raisins but only by themselves and only in certain foods. Raisin bagels and cinnamon raisin bread are okay but I hate them in rice pudding and they can NEVER be in cookies!

The man plays basketball?! Like college/professional? Or he’s just really good at pick up games with his friends. Haha! I’m glad you showed him your skills!

3 random facts for you! 1) I cannot go to bed if there are dirty dishes in the sink. I cannot stand dirty dishes in the sink period (although I have gotten much better about it) 2) I have an irrational fear of deep water. If I can’t see the bottom, it terrifies me. Like being in a river or lake with legs dangling = NO 3) I randomly get ridges on the nails of my thumbs

I also cannot imagine shaving my arms, but I DO like short nails!

(1) I, too, believe in burning popcorn just a smidge. I love it!

(2) I am right handed but can only snap with my left hand.

(2) I cannot — for the life of me — get my right eyelashes to curl, and it’s only been that way for the last few years.

My mom is a lefty and when my sister and I were little she would put crayons in our left hand to try to force us to be leftys. Didn’t work ;)

Haha I had no idea the saving arms was an actual thing! My little sister started doing it in high school Bc she said all her friends were doing it! I didn’t believe her but I guess it’s true! I do have hairy arms but I can barely keep up with shaving my legs so I don’t thing I could handle adding 2 more appendages to the mix! Hahaha way too much upkeep.
Hmm random fact about me. Well ever since I was little I would get nosebleeds, like a lot. It was embarrassing. A Dr told me to put Vaseline inside my nose to prevent them and I still do this every morning 20 yrs later. It’s weird but if I don’t do it I get a nosebleed! Kind of like how people are addicted to Chapstick I guess?!?

Your good friend looks like Mandi from Vintage Revivals!