Six Foibles

I went to bed at about 11 pm. I got up at 3 am. I went back to bed at 5 am. I got up again at 9:30. So, let’s see, I DID get nine-and-a-half hours sleep. It was just not consecutive sleep. I think sleep is like exercise. it doesn’t really matter if it is for a long or several short periods just as long as it gets done, right?
 Weesprite challenged me to write down six weird things about myself so I shall. Except that there is nothing weird about me at all.   

But I DO have foibles so I shall write about those!

1. I am not a tidy person   {Waits for readers to get up from the floor where they have fallen in astonishment upon learning this fact.} But, although I am not an excessively tidy person, there are a couple of things that I HAVE to know are where I put them. One of these is necessary tools. When I lived with my younger son, I would get very angry when he borrowed the screwdriver or the scissors from the tool drawer in the kitchen. It was not so much the borrowing but the fact that he NEVER put them back! When I need a Phillips-head screw driver, I need it right then and there and not when I have had to find it in the chaos of a teen’s bedroom! I feel the same way about Band-Aids. {Are they still called Elasto-Plasts in England?} Fred uses them and then then the box is  "on {his} table." Ha!   Finally, I went out and bought myself ANOTHER box and they are in the bathroom cabinet and that is where I expect to find them! And, since I dropped the bread-knife yesterday and it cut my ankle, that is where I did find them!
2. I bite the inside of my mouth. I know it is a nasty habit. When I catch myself doing it, I stop but often, by then, it is too late. it is, I think a little less nasty  {because it is a little less visible} than nail-biting which is what I used to do before…
3. These days the clothes I wear have to be matching or co-ordinating. I have written about this foible before. {This morning I am wearing black shorts, a  turquoise T shirt and purple-and-turquoise Laurel Burch earrings. I Laurel Burch earrings.}
4. The bills in my purse have to be all facing the same way and organized. I actually know where this comes from. When I worked at Waldenbooks {a chain bookstore} my manager-and-friend insisted that we all learn to put money in the till in this way and it has stuck with me for my purse. The ones are in the front compartment with the fives and the tens. The twenties and anything higher, are in a separate compartment behind the smaller bills. Change, is, of course, in a change purse. I have been known to stuff paper change higgledy-piggledy into my purse when shopping but the minute I get home, I sort it all out and tidy it! But the real foible here is that I will also stuff change — both paper and coins –into the pockets of the shorts or bluejeans I am wearing and leave it there, wadded up for days! However,  the minute this money  makes it into my purse, it gets tidied up!
5. I really don’t mind washing dishes. Every morning before I do this, I put away the dishes from the drying rack with no problems. But, I really dislike putting away knives, forks and spoons. So, I leave them in the drainer. And when it gets too full or when he just can’t stand it another minute, without a word of comment, Fred puts them away for me! {It is the small things that people do for you that show love…}
6. I really don’t like sweet things too much. When I was a child, I gave up sugar in my tea for Lent one year and was amazed to dicover I preferred the taste of the tea that way! If I have to choose between savory or sweet, savory wins out every time.

Now, I am supposed to nominate six more people. I will do what I usually do and say if you are interested enough to think about this and want to do it, you are nominated…
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Until later….