Six Unspectacular Quirks

So... a partner in crime bloggin mama, Elizabeth over at Three Channels tagged me for this meme and I panicked. What the heck am I going to share that isn't so ridiculously boring and lame?

Anyways, humor me - I'll play along. Call me a joiner.

Thems's the rules..
1. Link the person who tagged you.
2. Mention the rules on your blog.
3. Tell about 6 unspectacular quirks you possess.
4. Tag 6 following bloggers by linking them.
5. Leave a comment on each of the tagged blogger’s blogs letting them know they’ve been tagged.

So here goes... in no real particular order

1) I don't like to take showers. Now, don't take that as I don't shower. I shower. I am a bath person. I grew up in a house that didn't have a shower - it was an old giant updated farm house and the bathroom had a ginormic claw-foot tub. We took baths. As a teen I moved into a new house and that had bathrooms with showers. Again, it had a giant whirlpool bath with a handheld shower in addition to a shower stall but the bath was the best. I actually prefer to shower quickly to get clean and then draw a long bath and soak. When I spent time in Japan during both high school and college I LOVED this about the Japanese culture. I like my baths HOT - like get out of the water and you are pink.. hot

2) I have some made up words that I use on a regular basis.. my daughter now uses those words, so maybe I should be concerned.. but I'm not. I call hair elastics/rubberbands - "bing-bings". My daughter loves her some bing-bings too. LOL.

3) I like to take pictures of my kids in front of funny signs. Case in point:

Beware of killer jellyfish @ the Jersey Shore:


Or this one: Important Advice - there is indeed a body of water in the back.. with Killer Jellyfish.


And my latest ... which I don't even think needs captioning!

4) I play piano. Very well, I took lessons from the time that I was 5 til I graduated high school. My parents have "MY" piano at their house and I have the piano that belonged to my grandmother in my home. When she passed away it went to another relative and I was so upset that I fought and finally got it back for myself. Thing is that, I don't let anyone hear me play it. My kids play it all the time though. And, if someone asks me to play piano for them I won't. I only play by myself - and since I'm never really by myself, I rarely play. I should get over that.

5) I love to eat macaroni noodles with a little bit of butter and some ketchup on it. Its my comfort food and a 'dish' that I have enjoyed since I was a child. I'm sure that it started because we didn't have sauce and my mother improvised once - it stuck.

6) I only wear one earring - its actually a Tragus piercing and not a lobe piercing. Now, my ears are pierced and pierced and pierced... In college I used to pierce my ears and other people's ears when I was stressed. I have no less than 6 holes in each ear but I only wear the tragus ring all the time. Occasionally I'll put some earrings in the bottom 2 sets of holes but that's it. My 3 year old daughter seems distressed that I only wear one earring and she has 2. She tells me to go put the other one in - I only have one tragus pierced, not 2. The other day she asked me if she could wear one earring when she got older too. Then she put her clip-on dressup earrings on her nose. I'm not concerned, I had worse.

So now.. tag you are it to the following bloggers: Wendy, AndreAnna, Frogs' Mom, Mama Mara, Bonnie ok - I think that is actually only 5. I'm a rulebreaker sometimes.