It's time for another exiting installment of Get ideas from Maggie's Book!
Idea # 9 is to list my bad habits that I would like to change. Well, let me tell you. I have more than one blog entry worth of these, but here's a few.
1. I bite my fingernails. I have for almost my entire life. I can remember asking my dad that if I quit biting them for a month, could I get a hermit crab. I managed to do it, and after several months of smelly hermit crab, feeding it raw bacon, and no fingernail biting, the crab wanted a new shell, and we had none that were acceptable and it died a horrible, smelly, unhoused death.
2. I curse a lot when I am in nerve racking situations. I always tell myself to stop, but then another "shit" pops out or a "damn" and I always end up kicking myself later. Add my country ass voice to curse words and you get a country bumpkin sounding semi-professional.
3. I read all the time. Now, this may not seem like too bad of a habit, but I am obsessive about it. One of TP's and my first dates, you know, out of the house, I had a book, and while we waited for a table, I said, "I am almost finished with this, so you mind?" And I proceeded to read for 20 minutes until I finished the book. Some days I wonder why he puts up with my bookworm self. I've probably spent as much on books as he has on pool.
4. I am terrible with names. Horrible. Something in my brain just does not get the connection between hello my name is... and that girl who is wearing a dress two sizes too small, or the guy with the great hair. And I'm shy when meeting new people or presented with a group of strangers. That whole "networking" situation is like one big naked in front of the class dream. It is totally lost on me. And then, when I actually speak to someone, I end up saying "shit." It's a vicious cycle.
5. I don't go back and check my work very well. This gets me in tons of trouble. As readers through bloglines well know. Because I can't just have one new post, I have 4, because I realize too late that something is messed up and I have to republish. It's also why I get review notes on tax returns. I can always tell a difference when I slow down and take my time and review my own work, but sometimes I just can't do it, to my own detriment.
Last one.
6. I don't keep up with people I need to, as often as I should. I never call my brother or sister. My Dad and I talk about once every two months. I do the same thing to blogs. I go out and read a ton of people, and I don't feel like I have a good comment to leave (unlike Silly Hily, who never fails to leave something spot on) so I just keep on reading. And then people don't think I care, or that I don't like what they have to say, or maybe they really don't care and I'm just projecting, but I need to do better with the outside of my head contact. I could go a whole day without talking and not be bothered by it at all.
Alright, it's your turn. Tell me your bad habits.
