Yarnification

I’m it! I was tagged by Lori:
Write down 5 of your own idiosyncrasies, then if you wish, tag 5 people.
This could be a little hard because I’m more than a little quirky!

1. I have to put on my shoes and socks a certain way. First the socks (left sock, then right), then put on the shoes (left, then right), then lace them up one at a time (left, then right), then tie them one at a time (you guessed it—left, then right). I know this is peculiar and possibly a sign that I am stark raving mad, but at a young age I somehow got it into my head that it was bad luck not to do it that way. About a year ago I decided this was more than a little loony, so I told myself that this notion that Something Bad would happen if I didn’t do it that way was ridiculous and made a point of putting on one sock and shoe (lacing and tying and all) before moving on to the other one.
    
   What happened that day? While I was at work, some punk-ass adolescent boys shot out two of the four plate-glass windows at the store with an air rifle, to the tune of over $700 because our insurance policy doesn’t cover the plate glass (and even if it did I think our deductible is a thousand dollars). Theoretically this is a coincidence, but really, after a thing like that, I’m not up for any more experiments. I’ll just be crazy instead if it keeps us from having to replace any more glass.
2. I don’t put milk on cereal, ever. I mean, I can’t drink milk anymore anyway, but even when I could I never put it on cereal. In my opinion wet cereal is just plain nasty.
3. I have a fascination with office supplies. I can happily wander around Staples for an hour or more looking at paper and pens and things. I especially love paper.
4. (Lori’s list reminded me of this; I’m just the opposite on this subject.) I feel there can never be too much sauce on a pizza. I order pizza with no cheese and extra sauce. The best pizza I ever had, maybe 15 years ago, was the “plain” pizza at a place called Sally’s in New Haven. It has no cheese but garlic all over it, and it was so good that some days I think it’d be worth the 12-hour drive to New Haven to get some.
5. Why am I having trouble coming up with a fifth idiosyncrasy? It’s not like I don’t have plenty of them…Okay, here’s another one: I recently started taking photos of roadside historical markers (like this one). Partly because I have a fascination with them and must stop and read them whenever I see one, and partly because I intend, once I have enough photos, to put up a web site of historical marker photos. This web site will most likely be of no interest to anyone but me, but that will not stop me.

(I haven’t figured out who else to tag yet since I’m behind on reading blogs so don’t know who hasn’t done it yet…)