I'm It...

I have been putting this off because I have a hard time with self-reflection, but here goes. 6 quirky things about me:

1. It bothers me when the closet door is left open at night. This is all thanks to Laura. I never thought twice about it until we became friends and she had to close the closet door. It stuck. Now that I'm married and Gary's closet door is the one that we can see from our bed, I fight the urge to get up and close it when he leaves it open.

2. I don't like for my hands to be dirty. I realize that most people probably prefer to have clean hands, but if I've been working in the dirt or petting a dog (which is often because I love dogs), I think about the fact hat my hands are in fact dirty until I can get to a sink to scrub them. This makes playing in the sand at the beach tricky because I hate to have sand on them and then, if I wash them off in the ocean, I'm thinking about how gross that ocean water actually is and all of the things in that dirty water that have now been transferred to my hands.

3. I usually have a pile of about 5-10 books that I am in the process of reading at any given moment. Whenever anyone suggests a book, I will put down the one that I am working on and start the new one, going back to the last one occasionally. As of right now, I am reading Oswald Chambers: Abandoned to God, What to Expect When You're Expecting (although this really doesn't count because you're supposed to read this one a little at a time), Unshaken by Francine Rivers, The Screwtape Letters, Do Hard Things (a book that we were going to go through with the youth at our church, but decided to go another route), and The Reason for God by Tim Keller. There are about 5 others that I am waiting to start until I finish a few of these).

4. I love organization. Everything in my house may not be in it's place, but I certainly have a place for everything. I used to love the night before school when I could get all of my notebooks labeled and full of paper - I know, I am such a nerd!!!

5. This may go along with #4 - whenever we move to a new house or buy new furniture or something to this effect, I have to get everything put away immediately. For example, I just bought some nursery furniture that Gary was going to put together for me once he was finished with the harvest season. I let it sit in the nursery for one day before I decided to go in there and do it myself. If I had another set of hands, I would have taken a picture of me balancing two sides of the crib against the wall and my leg as my protruding stomach kept me from contorting into the position that I needed to be in in order to screw the two together. However, I did get it finished. I also really wanted to finish before Gary got home. You would think that I would be excited to see him and have the extra set of hands, but I was disappointed that I didn't have a finished product to show him when he walked in the door. So I made him wait outside the room until I finished my project. I also have to unpack my suitcase before I do anything else whenever we go on vacation.

6. I talk in my sleep. I will have entire conversations with Gary - but most of them don't make much sense. Gary loves it when I do this and eggs me on my continuing to ask me questions and will keep me going for as long as he can.

Well, this is a little glimpse into how strange I am. Gary thinks that this list makes me sound very OCD. I think that I probably am a little bit. I won't tag anyone in particular, but would love for others to share. Please let me know if you post your quirky things!