Quirky Habits?

[dorisc1981]

I have this terrible habit which I can't quit. It's terrible but yet I waste time on it. I split my split ends. Help!!! What are your bad and yet so entertaining habits?

[SWS RN, ASN, RN]

Oh my Gosh,

I do the very same thing!

I never realized it until you mentioned it.(or thought it was weird)

If one hand gets wet, I immediately have to wet the other, same with feet, ears, or actually any body part or area.

I am so speeved out if I don't do that.

I also have a clean foot fetish...before getting into bed, I have to wash my feet

And I MUST shave my legs every night.

I absolutely can not stand the feel of sheets against unshaved legs..or my legs rubbing together....

Shudder!

Really getting a kick out of this.

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[nohika]

My cell phone is set to the correct time in my area, which is central standard time. However, the alarm clock in my bedroom is set approximately 23 minutes ahead of the correct time on the cell phone. I've been doing this for at least ten years.

Also, I must set my alarm for odd-numbered times. If I must awaken at 7am, I'll set the clock for either 6:59 or 7:01, but never exactly at 7am. If I set the alarm clock for an even-numbered time, I fear that I'll experience doom that day.

I know. I really do know that this is all weird.

I accidentally set it wrong a few years ago and ever since then it drives me crazy if it's not four minutes! It makes me feel better. It's awesome how quirky we all are!

[nickos]

Wow..and here I thought I was the only one

I don't shave my legs every day, but about every 2nd or 3rd day...all my friends are like, "You shave your legs in the winter? and you are single? Why bother!" but the FEELING drives me crazy!

[nursel56]

Alarm clock number rituals= pretty common I guess. Mine-- No right on the dot as in 7:00. If a number of minutes over 9, both have to be either even or odd. 6:42 is OK. 7:53 is, too.

vena cava[/b] 4346993]i leave stuff open. (only at home though) cupboards, dresser drawers. drives my boyfriend nuts.

I've got the opposite! Open dresser drawers make me insane-- especially if they hang down on an angle. If I go in my son's room to talk about anything at all, I must make a beeline to the drawers and quickly stuff all the hanging debris back in and slam them shut.

Ruby Vee and Sharpeimom- about the books, me too. Both fear and desperately covet the Kindle. :)

[RPN_2012]

i had a good laugh reading some of your comments

here are mine. enjoy.

my cell phone is always 5 mins ahead of the official time, so i'm not late and my alarm is about 5 mins ahead too, so that i have more time in the morning

if i have early classes, and have to get at at 6am, the alarm must be set for exactly 6:00, not 5:59 or 6:01, thank goodness it's digital..., but still because it's 5 mins ahead it's not ringing at 6:00 exactly but it has to be set for 6:00 go figure.

i hate open drawers, cupboards

i don't shave my legs every day, i'm lazy, and single, and they are so fun and pirkly (spiky)

once i get to the kitchen in the morning (on early classes day) i don't feed my cats until i turn on the kettle, and get my travel coffee mug and all the stuff for breakfast ready and set out, which only takes a couple of minutes but it pisses of my cats that they have to wait, and they meow loudly and impatiently while i do that, and rub against my legs, almost tripping me ... which pisses me off that they are both so impatient, even though i know they are hungry, but for some reason i can't feed them first and then do everything else (it doesn't feel right), so they don't get on my nerves... go figure:lol2:

i brush my teeth before i was my face, i don't know why the other way around feels weird.

i screen calls on my home line, practically all of them.

i'm weird with numbers. i like 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 7, 13. the ones in bold especially, and 13 i totally love! it's my favorite. :) some numbers i don't like, they "don't feel right" but none in particular, it varies...

i usually double of triple check that the front door and the balcony door is locked before i go to bed.

i have when people leave stuff all over, or when they don't put things back, and i have to look for them.

for some reason sometimes i leave a dish or cup on the counter right beside the kitchen sink instead of putting it in the sink and sometimes it bothers me when others do that! go figure!

if i'm going to bed early and i say "g'night everyone" it feels weird if someone doesn't reply

when i need to sit down and study, i start doing what ever like picking at my skin or doodling

i love huge mugs usually 16oz ones. and certain cups, plates, glasses are "mine":o

i hate most commercials (some i love) and if i'm watching a movie, and a commercial starts, i have to start surfing the channels... and then the movie is back on, and i'm late... surfing...

i a huge perfectionist on some things, and will work on it until "it feels right" and careless when it come to some other things. ugh. why can't i be somewhere in the middle on both occasions?

can't think of anything else right now but i a bunch of other stupid little habits or what ever you wanna call them. i guess i'm a bit ocd, though never diagnosed, and sometimes a bit add, also undiagnosed.

oh! almost forgot:

i love emoticons. can't help it!

i got the message "you have included 21 images in your message. you are limited to using 20 images so please go back and correct the problem and then continue again." on several occasions, even when i tried posting this message, i had to remove 1 emoticon so it would go through.

[jl_nurse]

I have the very bad habit of sucking my two front teeth. This relieves anxiety and feels good. I have sucked my teeth so much that I am developing a small gap between the two teeth.

I also have quirky behavior with numbers. For example, I do not like to set the alarm on an even numbered time, such as 6:00am. I'll set it for 5:59 or 6:01, but never at 6:00am.

LOL. My son says, "mom, you are silly for setting that alarm for 6:04, etc.." Glad there are other kindred spirits out there!

[scoochy]

1. I cannot sleep without a fan running and a window open, even in the dead of winter..makes it tough, because sometimes I will be visiting someone until the wee hours of the morning, but I will go home just the same...have to have my fan.

2. I will not sleep with any pillow unless it has feathers. Since I was a little kid,

I pick feathers in my sleep, and even when I am bored. Thank God my bed-

room is away from the rest of the living area in my house!

[Ruby Vee, BSN]

i don't dry myself off with a towel before i get out of the shower.

i just drip dry my way out of the bathroom, leaving small puddles.

i do that one too sometimes. luckily there are four bathrooms in the house, so i have my own!

[pca_85]

I have to stock babywipes, garbage bags...............if I run low, it drives me crazy. I vaccum almost every day and brush my medium length haired cat three times a week, whether he likes it or not. My gas tank will not ever be under a quarter tank!

[annacnatorn]

I used to think we were all a bunch of weirdos, but now I know for sure we are... :).

Ok, so here is mine:

I have to have my "special pillow"..anyone touches it and they are dead

I have my special blankie, "Don't you dare use it, you'll ruin a good nights sleep or nap...

I have to have the fan on, set at 2 or medium (thanks to my Husband) and I can't sleep when I don't have it.

I don't like a wet bathroom floor and my kids do!

I love things ironed...creases please!

I don't like eating the same thing over and over...variety please! (no rice with every meal!)

I am a picker...when my kids have zits..they hide from me! I say, here let me get that for you. When I see people with white heads or black heads on their face I wanna go up and pop those little babies....(sick I know)

I HATE day old coffee.

I'm meticulous about my charting...If I can't read it, then no body can and I hate it when I have to try to decipher short hand instead of actual writing. I don't like scribble.

I hate it when the neighbors dog poops on my lawn and then denies it was their dog...come on, clean it up (I got so mad one time that I scooped the poop and put it on their porch, never had to clean up dog poop again :) )

Hate it I say, Hate it when My Husband opens the fridge and asks where something is...it is right there, infront of him...urgh..

ok, thats if for now..

ohhh one more....you get to work only to be told to go home cuz the census is low...ummm you couldn't call me 30 minutes ago....what the census just dropped in the last 5 minutes....

have a wonderful day in the World of Nursing....Life is to short, make happy thoughts!

[LNFNP18, MSN, NP]

Picker here!! I just broke the habit of picking at my nails, but still any loose skin around my fingers, or anywhere... my lips! that's the worst... picking at my lips when they are dry

[PedsAtHeart, LPN]

I can't stand for the food on my plate to touch.

I have to press my snooze button on my alarm 3 times before I can get out of bed, even if I'm not sleeping anymore, so I have to set my alarm 30 minutes early.

I pick at my cuticles, and anything else for that matter.

I am a neat freak at work but not so much at home. I can't stand clutter on my desk, it will throw me into major anxiety.

I hate for my nose to be touched, makes me feel like I'm suffocating.

I cannot do "text talk" when texting. I have to completely write out all of my words and use correct grammar and all.

I had a very difficult time in nursing school learning to write nurse's notes because I wanted to write a novel about every patient every time I did something.

I will read a book and stop at the last chapter because I have become bored with it.

I have to do everything in a certain order.

I count everything...

I could go on and on but I will stop at that!