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11/09/2007 04:43:18 PM · #301 |
Originally posted by Brat:
I recently ordered contact lenses to alleviate the problem of using two pair of glasses, but they remain at the optometrists as I can't put them in or take them out. So.... I continue to practice sticking my fingers in my eyes! I know I can do this thing ....eventually!! |
I spent $300 dollars on contacts about 3 years ago, I spent about 45 minutes every morning trying to put them in for about 2 weeks straight, I never succeeded and still have a 12 month supply of contacts underneath my bathroom sink.
ETA: Even the lady at the eye doctor couldnt get them in, but she assured me with practice I would be able to do it.
Message edited by author 2007-11-09 16:45:43. |
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11/09/2007 04:50:01 PM · #302 |
Originally posted by vxpra:
Okay, well not the oddest thing about me but....
When I'm stumped at work I'll walk down to the bathroom and "take care of some business" and 90% of the time I have a solution before I get back to my desk. |
I always get my great ideas in the shower. |
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11/09/2007 05:08:28 PM · #303 |
Originally posted by karmat:
I can "smell" snow. About a day or so before it snows, I will sniff the air and say, "Smells like snow." I rarely miss. |
I can smell rain.
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11/09/2007 05:15:21 PM · #304 |
Originally posted by rox_rox:
I'm also able to detect impending storms a day or two ahead of time due to having broken my leg as a child. The intensity of the pain usually corresponds with the severity of the storm. Anyone else have this? |
Not a day or two, but hours before......right knee, lacrosse; left knee Squaw Valley; unsure when my shoulder became a barometer.
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11/09/2007 05:20:05 PM · #305 |
Originally posted by posthumous:
looks like dpc has more than its share of OCDs and anal retentives!
but to those of you hearing voices, I recommend getting yourselves checked out. That could be serious. |
I've been checked. It seems that all of us are emotionally stable;)
Seriously though, I'm not really concerned. It's just a mild case of clairaudience. |
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11/09/2007 05:30:22 PM · #306 |
| I like to walk around the house naked when no one is home. |
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11/09/2007 05:33:00 PM · #307 |
Originally posted by rox_rox:
Originally posted by posthumous:
looks like dpc has more than its share of OCDs and anal retentives!
but to those of you hearing voices, I recommend getting yourselves checked out. That could be serious. |
I've been checked. It seems that all of us are emotionally stable;)
Seriously though, I'm not really concerned. It's just a mild case of clairaudience. |
I don't hang around with people that are prescient.....I'm clairvoidant!
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11/09/2007 05:34:30 PM · #308 |
Originally posted by scarbrd:
I think we passed the TMI border a loooooooong time ago!
;-) |
You too?
I live about an hour away, but I can still see the steam from the top of the hill.
[thumb]588812[/thumb]
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11/09/2007 05:35:45 PM · #309 |
Originally posted by digitalpins:
My kitchen has to be clean, I love to cook and cannot cook or eat in a dirty kitchen
I will not or wont never ever will eat anything but the Red and Pink starburst candy...eewww on the yellow and orange ones |
Red ones only for me. Same with the Skittles......my girls'll eat the other ones.
Me too in the kitchen. I *love* to wash dishes, too, even though I have a dishwasher.
I will not have icons obstructing my wallpaper on my screen......it's my exhibit.
I am *constantly* adding to my screensaver file.....I have hundreds of images that roll through.
I keep reading this thread and finding out that I'm weirder and weirder.
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11/09/2007 05:36:09 PM · #310 |
Originally posted by rex:
I like to walk around the house naked when no one is home. |
I watch people roaming naked in their house.
Seriously though, there is a woman in apartment front of us. I have spotted her roaming naked many times. |
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11/09/2007 05:36:41 PM · #311 |
Originally posted by NikonJeb:
Originally posted by scarbrd:
I think we passed the TMI border a loooooooong time ago!
;-) |
You too?
I live about an hour away, but I can still see the steam from the top of the hill.
[thumb]588812[/thumb] |
Different TLA! ;-) |
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11/09/2007 05:53:30 PM · #312 |
Originally posted by NikonJeb:
I don't hang around with people that are prescient..... |
I had a feeling you were going to say that.
Originally posted by NikonJeb:
I'm clairvoidant! |
I've heard that about you;)
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11/09/2007 06:02:06 PM · #313 |
I am INVINCIBLE!
ok.. maybe not, but when I was 5 I did have a half ton pick up truck park on my abdomen.
I've fallen off roofs, down stairs and had heavy things fall on me, and I've never had a broken bone.
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11/09/2007 06:08:31 PM · #314 |
| Oh, and if thats not odd enough I also spend many hours detailing plans on what I would do in case of zombie/dinosaur invasion and choreographing hypothetical fight scenes in case the people around me decide to attack. o.O |
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11/09/2007 06:56:37 PM · #315 |
Uh, lets see. I fluff my pillows, and then like to find the cool, soft spot. (Nothing fluffs a pillow as well as a good pillowfight, however.) I believe there is a sniglet for this action. I think it is "Whiffle".
I also unconsciously straighten the crumpled ketchup packets on the table at a fast food restaurant. My daughter will crunch them whenever I step away. |
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11/09/2007 06:57:20 PM · #316 |
| Sometimes I'm too cool for my own good... |
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11/09/2007 07:09:08 PM · #317 |
Originally posted by NikonJeb:
unsure when my shoulder became a barometer. |
MY shoulder became a barometer at Snowmass at Aspen in 1972...
R.
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11/09/2007 08:00:25 PM · #318 |
Originally posted by NikonJeb:
I will not have icons obstructing my wallpaper on my screen......it's my exhibit.
I keep reading this thread and finding out that I'm weirder and weirder. |
OOoh! Me too! I keep 1 icon on my screen regularly - everything else on my desktop is something I need to get to ASAP - and I put it there so it annoys me and I take care of it! Same thing at work.
In addition, people who have their screens covered with icons annoy me SO much!
Conversely, I keep reading this thread and feeling delightfully normal.
Both my arms serve as barometers - I've had a severe RSI for awhile and I can typically tell the weather outside and the humidty and pressure in the air by the kind and severity of numbness.
Message edited by author 2007-11-09 20:01:15. |
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11/09/2007 09:15:07 PM · #319 |
Originally posted by rex:
Originally posted by formerlee:
but I do pee more often:)) |
Didn't you know...........that is only because it doesn't have to change color. |
Good thing he is not drinking Guiness!
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11/09/2007 09:23:39 PM · #320 |
Originally posted by AperturePriority:
Originally posted by rex:
Originally posted by formerlee:
but I do pee more often:)) |
Didn't you know...........that is only because it doesn't have to change color. |
Good thing he is not drinking Guiness! |
Or Midori! |
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11/09/2007 10:38:07 PM · #321 |
Great thread, I can relate to a lot of what has been said.
Some of my own:
1) I would never open a can upside down
2) I can't stand having my belly button touched
3) Most things I hear or think, I "see" written at the same time
4) I can spell just fine (as I write or spell out loud), but can't cope with turning letters someone spells out loud to me back into words without taking forever to think about it.
5) I can make a really weird noise that is several different "notes" at the same time
6) I have had a few deja vu experiences - one in particular that still spooks me today, over 20 years later
7) I do very little without thinking about it (e.g. how to do it best, why do it this way vs another, etc), no matter how trivial the action is
8) I can not only roll my tongue, but flip it upside down in either direction
9) When buttering a slice of bread that came off a "real" loaf (i.e. dome shaped, not rectangular), I automatically turn the slice over to the bigger side. All my relatives on my Dad's side do this, too, as we found out at a large family gathering one year.
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11/09/2007 10:47:41 PM · #322 |
i like taking pictures, alot.
I know it's not too strange around here but I feel like a loner everywhere else. |
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11/09/2007 10:52:16 PM · #323 |
Well I know I already posted but during my 11 hour drive home yesterday I got to thinking about this thread and realized I really didn't post anything "odd" about me, so here it goes.
I, and most of my brothers and sisters, can pinch with our toes on our right foot. We actually used to sit around and pinch each other seeing who could cause the most pain. I have practiced it and developed it into much more. I can open doors with my foot...I'm talking turn actual door knob and everything. I have learned to throw rocks and such, granted with very little accuracy but always gets a funny look. I can pick up just about everything from a coin to a tennis ball. I have tried to write with my foot but just can't get the hang of that one lol.
I think out "what-if" situations. While driving I actually think about what my course of action would be if something happened, not just the next second or two but lengthly thoughts. I've laid in bed and came up with plans of everything from just getting held up at a gas station to being hijacked on a plane. What I would do and how I would react if the person did this or that. I think I do it because I know in real life all I'd be able to do is load my pants lol. I especially with re-think situations I was just in and decide what to do if that ever happens again.
I mentioned earlier about my hearing and how a ticking clock will drive me nuts, but it is much worse than that. For about a year I couldn't wear a watch because I couldn't find one that didn't tick and annoy me. I really don't like digital watches (feel lazy wearing one, kind of like using velcro strap shoes lol) so I used to take a watch out of a display and see how far away from my head I could hold it before I couldn't hear it anymore...I've finally gone digital.
I love to whistle, to the point that I can't hear a bird sing without trying to duplicate it. I will do it over and over and over until I think I have it. I'll be sitting in a movie and if I hear a bird I will mimic it...usually not an issue until the scene has changed and I'm STILL doing it lol. Most of the time people don't even realize it is a human doing it until they actually see me do it. I only know the name of one bird song I can do (the robin song is so pretty yet simple) but have picked up songs from when I was in Cuba and Okinawa. Actually, I do that with a lot of animals and other things, it's really fun to sit and do my cricket imitation late at night while people are trying to sleep or watch tv lol. I also do a mean police siren that has made more than one driver slow down or freak out.
eta: beetle reminded me of another...when having a peanut butter and jelly sandwich I have to pull two pieces of bread out that are next to each other in the loaf...no skipping a slice. It has to be opened, not just one put down next to the other, the peanut butter ALWAYS goes on first and on the right slice of bread, then the jelly on the left slice. They only time this changes is when I have peanut butter and honey, the honey goes on first so it can soak into the bread while I'm putting on the PB.
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11/09/2007 10:53:49 PM · #324 |
Originally posted by briantammy:
i like taking pictures, alot.
I know it's not too strange around here but I feel like a loner everywhere else. |
I really do take my camera EVERYWHERE, and I get some looks.....
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11/09/2007 11:20:32 PM · #325 |
Alright I'll throw in a few oddball things about myself:
1) If I am thinking of two words at once it comes out combined to form new words. I.E. ponder and pounding came out as 'poundering out the idea'> I have since created several new words:-) Another example is that I once was talking about writers and thought about E.E. Cummings and E.E. 'Doc' Smith ...which came out as "the poet, E.E. 'Doc' Cummings"
2) In order to fall asleep or take a nap I MUST have a blanket or a jacket to cover me. If I have no covering, no matter how tired, I can't fall off into sleep.
3) I have a V-bird shaped birth mark on my left leg above the knee. My friends and I used to joke that when I was born I was branded with the letter of my (back in the days of High School) last name.
4) If I get a gut feeling that something about a situation/person/place is wrong or something feels wrong/dangerous. I will listen to my gut instinct. On two specific occasions it has served me well.
5) At times I have surprised men at how strong I am...and that I am not above throwing myself into a job that involves heavy lifting & getting dirty. I freaked my husband out once by lifting a heavy leather couch with one hand and vacuuming under it with my free hand. And no, I am not visibly muscular - no rippling, bulging muscles shows in my arms (No Arnold Schwarzenegger arms but more akin to Pippi Longstocking type arms).
6) I tested highly allergic to tobacco....which mayhap be a good thing for when the young ones hit their teen years and mayhap experiment with smoking...I'LL KNOW.
7) Over the years I have had a re-occuring dream about this 'open air & underground cavern museum/marketplace that goes on for miles. I know I have only explored a small portion of this museum/marketplace and every time I do go back I discover something different or new.
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8) I have sensitive hearing. If I am just about to go to sleep I HAVE to find the source of the noise before I can fall asleep. I once stayed up for 30 minutes trying to track down the source of a new noise I had not heard before. Our neighbor got a new air conditioning unit and the when it went on the noise would bounce off her exterior house wall to our porch wall and then back and forth between our houses till the unit went off. Gak! Drove me crazy for 2 nights before I got 'USED' to it.
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