Tuesday, October 20, 2009

Personality Quirks

For some odd reason over the last few days I have really been noticing our different personality quirks. It bears noting. I'll start with myself...
- If I buy new shoes I have to wear them the next 3 days in a row.
-I am so anal about the checkbook that I keep a running total of the balance in my head, and when I "officially" balance the checkbook my mind tally is generally only a few cents off of the actual figure. Also, I will search and SEARCH if the bank and I don't reconcile, even if only off a few cents. Once I found an error on the part of the bank in the amount of .08, and I use this as a rationalization to continue my super-obsessive ways.
-I insist that the silverware be sorted by type going in to the dishwasher dirty. Why? Because it is so much easier to unload when all the like things are together.

There's millions more about me, but it only gets more embarrassing, so I will move on to Kate:
-She hates wearing new clothes for some reason. She hasn't worn most of the clothes I bought her for school, and she makes weird excuses like, "I'm saving that outfit for the LAST day of school."
-She is so sensitive- she will pester and pester Kiki to a breaking point, and when Kiki finally gets fed up and tells her to stuff it, she will cry and cry.
-She is terrified of things happening without her consent, eg: "Your house can only get sold if you want it to, right?" and "You won't pierce my ears unless I say?" You'd think I just sprung things on her on a daily basis, but I really don't.

Kiki:
-She has the weirdest "lovies." Over the past few days she has loved the following: A cucumber, which she dressed in a diaper and blanket and talked baby talk to; a bag of polished rocks that she slept with (unfortunately it did open during the night so I imagine she didn't sleep so good); and a ceramic owl.
-She absolutely refuses to potty train. I'd think she'd be disgusted by this point, but nope.
-She hates any accessory of any kind in her hair.
-During the day, she prefers no clothes or tank tops and shorty shorts. At night, however, she wants to wear the hottest pajamas she can find.
-She steals. Whenever we come home from a play date, she has something that doesn't belong to us. No matter how carefully I frisk her, she manages to sneak something out.

Bruce is perfect. Other than this:
-It makes me crazy that on Monday he will say, "Hunh. My 6-pack is gone. I better get that back by the weekend." And then he'll work out a couple of times, and maybe cut 60 calories across the week, and sure enough, by Friday he's got a 6-pack again.
-He is the total opposite of me on the whole checkbook thing. He has so little interest in the day to day goings on about our money that it is actually probably a compliment to me that he is so trusting. If he wants to know how much money we have, he just takes a hundred bucks out of an ATM somewhere, glances at the balance, and figures as long as it's not in the negative, everything is ALL-right. And don't think that my super-obsessiveness has merely robbed him of a pre-existing desire to manage his daily finances, because he was this exact way when we were dating.
-He wears socks two pair at a time.

But he is perfect.

6 comments:

Melanie said...

This dishwasher thing is a SUPER idea. Thanks

As for the double sock thing, that's totally weird. Doesn't his feet get hot?

A said...

Instead of using power duster sprays, which only make things worse since they spray every piece of crap into my breathing air, I bang my keyboard to get all of the little particles and dust bunnies out. I then pass through every nook and cranny surrounding each key with a bent paper clip. I never knew this was a quirk until a colleague pointed it out to me--10 years ago. Needless to say, I still have the cleanest keyboard in the office. :)

By the way, that's only the beginning. So glad we are related. My favorite quirk has to be Kiki's love for her cucumber baby. She cracks me up!

Jeff and Rose said...

Jack took apart a balloon animal until it resembled a gigantic penis. He then proceeded to carry it with him for an entire day because he said that it was his 'special gun for killing dragons.' Perhaps, Kiki could show him all about cucumbers and then I will for sure be arrested.

Leslie said...

Thank you so much for being such a wonderful source of free entertainment. I don't know what I would do without your blog. I love to read it and laugh and laugh.

McCall said...

Brynlee and Kiki are apparently on the same potty training plan! NONE

Jamie said...

Isn't it great that we're all so different! I do the same thing with my dishwasher utensils and I have to reload it after Jon "helps out". I'm glad I have someone to relate to now ;)