7 quirks

I was tagged by kiersten downey for a 7 quirks post, so here it is:

1) I am afraid of kangaroos, grasshoppers, and seeing fish from an underwater view, especially big ones. Thinking of big fish can sometimes make me weak in the knees as well. Kangaroos, because I saw a pair of them get in a fight before and it was ruthless... nothing cuddly about those ugly dudes. Grasshoppers, because I got attacked by a swarm of them when I was picking strawberries once. And the underwater thing... that's just one of those random freakout weaknesses for which I dont have a good explanation.

2) I believe that aggressive shadow people live in my house and have plans of attacking me at night. I make sam close every door and closet in our room every night to keep the shadow people out. Though I know that they were really just hallucinations I had back during my sordid love affair with ambien- it doesnt change the impact they had on my sense of security and reality. You don't need to be high on ambien to be keenly aware of the threat that shadow people pose.

3) I refuse to call BYU Idaho anything other than Ricks, and Utah Valley University (UVU) anything other than UVSC.

4) I spend an embarrassing amount of time on baby boards. Pregnancy.org has been a huge help to my new little family, and I have high hopes for justmommies.com which I just joined. My name is Loriloo if anyone wants to find me.

5) I get all giddy thinking about dolling addie up when she's older and being her personal stylist (since we all know she's going to be a hottie). I truly love cutting and styling hair and doing other people's make up. I wasnt ever really trained in the craft, but at the level I do it, it really mostly just takes confidence and logic to produce the desired result. When I was single, I cut hair all the time, boys mostly- but girls too- and I totally had "regulars" who enjoyed my services and came to me weekly or monthly. I dont have an error-free history (sorry mitch...), but in general people seemed quite happy and satisfied. Now that I'm married though, I only really get to cut sam's hair, which- in all honesty- isnt nearly as fun. He did let me do his makeup once, but since I promised to never divulge that secret, I'll just leave it at that. So now I cling to dreams of addie and her friends letting me play with their hair and makeup all the time.

6) I have a weakness for curse words. I totally HATE it when people use them worthlessly in everyday conversation and I also dont approve of vulgarity... but I also believe that in rare cases, the word "butt" doesnt describe a large woman's [insert explicative] all that accurately, and the word "witch" just doesnt really work when talking about certain females or pansy boys. I find the term "he's being an asshat" particularly entertaining. It's a problem that I desperately try to keep in check, but if I drop something in your presence and mumble "damn it" under my breath, please do not take it personally or judge too harshly; everyone has their sticky vices that haunt them. In turn, I also hate it when people say things like "shut-the-front-door" or other coverup phrases that attempt to channel the power of explicative phrases. If you choose not to swear, then that is admirable; but please dont make up retarded filler terms so make yourself feel like you're still part of the action- you're really just embarrassing yourself.

7) I like to pretend that if Joni Mitchel, the members of CSNY, billy joel, jack white, or ben folds were to meet me in real life- they'd like me and we'd be bffs.

Instead of tagging other people... I think it'd be fun for people to leave their own quirks as comments. Quirks are fun. If you'd like to post an actual 7 quirks on your own blog, I'll be more than happy to read them and leave an appreciative comment.