Happy New Year people!!!
i, along with 99% of you, have made new years resolutions year after year and have failed to keep them again and again. it is my humble opinion that setting yourself up for failure is not the best way to begin the new year, so this year i have resolved to focus on the really awesome things about myself- the things that make me heather! and it occurs to me that you guys might not know just how weird (er, i mean unique) i am, so i would like to share a partial list of things that make me very special:
1) when using vending machines, i always turn the dollar the opposite way from the picture, just to test the machine. if it takes my backwards dollar, i giggle to myself because i feel that i have won.
2) another vending machine heatherism- if there are multiple buttons for the same product (3 mountain dew buttons at work), i always press the one farthest from the money taker because i think it gets forgotten and the sodas in that slot might get lonely.
3) i can't go to sleep if my toes are touching each other (just the big toe and her neighbor), so i have to lace my feet together or wrap the sheet between my toes.
4) i absolutely cannot stand to have lotion on the palms of my hands. the backs of my hands have no sympathy for my condition, however, and dry out like mad so i have to put a small amount of lotion on the back of my hand and then rub the BACKS of my hands together- if any lotion accidentally gets on my palm, i have to wash my hands and try again.
5) i often use the wrong adjectives, not because i grew up in Wilkes county and had an inferior education (tho i should probably use that as an excuse more often), but because noises and situations are sometimes big to me and colors are quiet or scary. you know we are close friends if i have explained how upset i feel when work gets big :)
6) tho i suspect this might earn me an OCD diagnosis, i feel compelled to share that i am a creature of habit. i play the same game with pat every time we walk up the stairs (i lean toward him slowly until he snaps at my nose- its adorable), i tell my vitamins good morning and call them by name ("good morning, Pebbles!"), and when i come home i always say "hulloooooo monsters! hey hammies! hey gerbs!" this list could go on forever...
7) if you are on the verge of ending our friendship now, my last point might push you over the edge- but i feel sure that we have discussed this if we have been friends for any length of time. i always imagine the scariest outcome possible. when i take the dogs out at night, i see a man hiding in the bushes. when i turn on a light in a previously dark room, i see a stranger standing in the room. if i have to pull back a shower curtain, i see a dead person hanging in the shower. this list could go on forever too- people hiding in the back of my car, things under my bed reaching for my legs, eyes looking at me from the air vents... I KNOW THEY AREN'T REAL- STOP DIALING THE PSYCH WARD! i assume this particular brand of psychosis comes from a mixture of my incredibly overactive imagination and watching too many scary movies as a kid, but it really doesnt bother me anymore, just amuses me because i know how very strange it is ;-)
So this is my resolution people- these are just a few of the many MANY weird things about myself that i have grown to appreciate simply because they are mine and i think that makes them beautiful. and i hope that with the start of a new year you can all appreciate the quirks and imperfections that make you who you are and see that you are beautiful BECAUSE of them and not in spite of them. and i wish you all an amazing 2009!
