My 10 worst quirks

We all have 'em. Quirks. And personally I find them quite entertaining. Actually I can even find my OWN quirks amusing (you know - "Haha, now I did that weird thing again, without even thinking about it"), so I guess that serves as a quirk on its own?

Anyway, I find qui- okay let me just look up a synonym for that word, hang on... Pecularity? That sounds fancy. But as I was saying - pecularities are important. THAT'S what makes you into who you really are, if you ask me. There's nothing that shows your fears and needs better than your oddnesses (I think I just made up a word there).

Freud probably loved them. I'm sure he could figure out whether you wanted to screw your mom or marry your dad through them. So as a result I ask of you to find out why I have the quirks I do (or just laugh at me when reading them, it's quite okay I put them out there). I'm not sure how I obtained them myself really, but I've accepted them as a part of me by now. How wise that is I don't know, but I figured I can't escape EVERY little momentary insanity of mine, so why not keep some and spare me some later that way - if they're constant? I don't know, but enough ramble! More weirdness! My top ten quirks (in a random order):

1) I cannot, and I mean CANNOT, touch a towel if my hands have turned into that raisiny stage they do after showering a bit too long. To me it feels like satan crept up on earth (yes it's that bad, I turn halfy religious just because of it and I'm a well-known atheist to most) just to poke my fingers with his fork or whatever the fuck it is he's running around with these days.
Actually not poke as much as forcing my nails to run down a blackboard. THAT'S how it feels. Yes, I can actually FEEL that feeling IN my fingers. UGH!

2) I love the song "Banana Phone" by Raffi. And I mean love it.

3) I'm not orderly in any way. However, things lying on tables have to be symmetrically placed. See, I don't clean my desk for example, I don't remove things from it, I just move my piles around so that they have corresponding angles in some sense. By some sense I mean that I can change my order of symmetry. Some days the lighter has to lie to the left, on other days it may have to lie in the middle. A need for control? I guess so.

4) To continue in my symmetry-theme I also have a compulsive need to change numbers if I know they can be symmetrical. This is probably quite difficult to understand, but as an expamle: If I, in a game, have an amount of money, let's say: 126 dollars, then I might suddenly get the idea that that number isn't symmetrical enough. Ergo I either have to spend some cash or gain some in order to get a better number. In this particular case I could, for instance, spend 3 dollars, so that the amount would be 123 instead. 123 is neat and nice because it follows a system, like when you count: 1, 2, 3... SEE!? MUCH BETTER! *Cough*.

To add to this I also get happy each time my watch in the bottom right side of my monitor says: 22:22 (or other such hours).

5) I prefer it (DO IT FFS!) if people write dots after their smilies if they use them to end a sentence with. Like: "Hi, hope everything's okay at your end :)." Don't ask me why but a sentence isn't complete without it. However, I don't care if it's a typical MSN-smiley. You know, the big yellow ones - an "emoticon". I only care if it's the regularly written ones like: :/, :D, :( etc. Oh and - I dislike it when people write their smilies right AFTER a word, like "Okay:)". No, it's "Okay :)." Sorry Karl. Hope you can forgive me for that one.

6)If people give me an order, I get stubborn. Most likely I will do the opposite of what they asked me to do unless it seems extremely reasonable what they said. Like "My grandmother's on fire, DO SOMETHING!" - I mean fair enough, burying a roasted body smells bad, I can see the sense in trying to put the fire out so that it'll do as little damage as possible.

However, if anyone says: "Put on a sweater, it's cold outside." - I will NOT do it. No matter if it really IS cold outside. Do not tell me what to do! ASK instead: "Maybe a sweater would be a good idea? Considering it's cold outside." Yes, okay you're probably right! See? It's not THAT hard!

7) I don't eat in front of the TV that often. But it happens. And when it does, I need to find a show that I like, or else I can't really eat. Sometimes it's been a struggle. Seriously. I've even created levels of greatness for TV-shows for this particular occassion (to ensure that I will eventually be allowed to eat).
This is how it goes down: I go through all of the channels to see what's on EVERY single one of them. Then, according to my "level of greatness"-rating, I figure out what show to watch while eating (or SHOWS sometimes - I've switched back and forth between shows before, depending on when each channel had their commercial breaks, because the shows were on the same level of greatness). However, in case the channel might fuck up or if the show ends soon, I always have a back-up.
On certain TV-dinner occassions I've even gone all the way down to "Days of Our Lives" on my list. That's FAR DOWN. Just so you know. It's even below a show like "Everybody Loves Raymond". My food was all cold by the time I got to eat, so pity me!

8) If a song gets stuck in my head, which they often do (apparently a sign that my brain is at a standstill and tries to keep itself occupied - either I'm stupid or just not very smart), I have to listen to it to get it out of there again. Preferably I have to sing along, too. This often puts me in a position where I scream the lyrics from Britney Spears' "Hit Me Baby" into my monitor (I'm looking at it to read the lyrics that I found online) as I try to forget it, usually followed by my door opening and someone popping their head in going: "BUT WHYYY!?"

9) I watch Project Runway while bashing everyone else who would ever watch a reality show. Not as much a quirk as just being a jerk, but oh well. You try to think of 10 entertaining quirks of yours!

10) Blogging. I spent over an hour writing a list of all my worst quirks.

Th-th-th-th-that's all folks (that I wanted to share with you)! Hope you enjoyed the freak show.