I'm it?!

Hey Becky!

Funny, after coming home tonight from seeing you for the first time in a year I read your blog, and you've tagged me! I'd have poked you if I'd read it before heading out for our adventures today.

Well the thing going around is to list 5 idiosyncrasies about yourself, and then pass it on.
Here I go with mine...

1. If I even think I may have just seen a bug of any kind anywhere near me I get itchy. Really itchy. All over. Ick. I don't do bugs.

2. My toothbrush does not live in the bathroom. Not even in a drawer. If we had a linen closet in there I'd consider it. The thought of poop-particles on something that enters my mouth icks me right out. (It lives on the dresser in my bedroom closet, and has a cover to prevent dust or anything else touching it.)

3. Speaking of entering my mouth I have food texture issues. I love the taste of beef, poultry & pork chops, but if there are any chewies present I won't touch it. If it's shredded/cut up and in something I am much more brave about it. (Like chicken enchiladas, deli-sliced turkey sandwiches or ground beef in pasta sauce.) I like my bacon crisp, don't eat ham & would prefer to stay far far away from anything still attached to a bone. (Meat is generally attached to the bones by chewies...) Gag.

4. I'm a detail person & a visual person. With a horrible short-term memory. I won't remember your name tomorrow if I meet you today, but could probably tell you the color of your eyes, what you were wearing, whether you had any jewellery or makeup on & how you carried yourself. (Who? Oh, the girl in the pink shirt with the blonde hair & green eyes who smelled like vanilla? Yeah, I remember her. Loved her watch. What was her name again...?)

5. That leads into this. I don't care if you're prettier than me, smarter, skinnier or whatever, but I will do my damnedest to try to feel on par with you in my confidence level. I have struggled with self-esteem & confidence throughout my life, and have done so much better in recent years to learn self-value & to like myself as-is. While others are trying to be the smartest, funniest, coolest or whatever, I am just trying to like myself when I'm around the rest of you. It takes effort to relax enough to be myself. There's no time to be the anything-est, but I sure am proud of me when I can communicate well & carry myself well in the presence of others. I will stress out and pray my heart out beforehand if I have to be around new people. This doesn't translate to when I'm working (If I'm shooting your wedding I'm totally different than if I'm at your birthday party as a guest. In work-mode I know what I'm doing, so I am totally outgoing. It's when I'm expected to be me in a socal setting involving new people that is nervewracking.)
(To really relax and be myself takes a level of trust on my part that not many people have reached. There are few people who know me really well, but I sure do love the ones who do.)
:)

Yeah, I'm a dork. That's okay. :) Now I can tag someone else! Ha!
Holly and Robin you two are it!

edit: Okay, so this morning, reading over this entry I am sure that the 5th one isn't an idiosyncrasy so much, but I'm leaving it since I can't think of one at the moment to replace it.