I donno if its your quirk or mine …
you for calling a 64 year old woman “girl” … or me for feeling a need to pointing this completely irrelevant stuff out
I still say ‘girl’ and referred to her as one when I mentioned talking to her on the phone today.
‘Woman’ sounds too informal for a girl I know. Even if she’s 11 years older than me.
We get around that by introducing each other as husband&wife. We’ve cohabited 18 years and unless one of us dies we will continue to live together.
If you saw her, you’d call her a girl/cutie/babe.
I’m a 62 year old girl and I shave my legs and put on my socks and shoes while standing too. How else would you shave your legs? Sitting on the floor of the shower?
I do mine sitting on the toilet. Yes, the floor gets wet, I mop it up.
Shaving while standing can be hard to do. Sometimes.
My gf’s shower is big and has a seat molded in at one end. If I had to shave my legs, I’d sit on that seat area.
I have mentioned in similar threads…
…I have real official background music from the '60s, '70s, and '80s .playing in the background every day all day long. I have done this for years.
By “real” I mean I scour eBay for Seeburg 1000 records (a 16 2/3 RPM oddball record format) and own several hundred of them at this point. They are all played on a proper Seeburg 1000 machine.
So, the weird quirk is: the music most people snicker at is what I found most appealing to listen to.
Nice username! I was just playing some Chicago - and at least up until XI, had many interesting chords…
This album I listened to and shared with someone received similar criticisms of it being “elevator music” but unfortunately, they’ve done this with jazz, and some don’t even look at it as music… I must admit when I first heard Bob Seger’s “Like a Rock” was on this basketball VHS, and when I later heard it on the radio, I thought, “Yuk… It’s that commercial song” and I think I still have that, although I don’t watch commercials anymore.
Dutch Treat - Tranqulity
FWIW, I’ve recently been told by someone I’ve known a long time ( while exchanging emails ) that “You’re a psychologist by formation, but not practicing”. We’re both mechanics.
OK.
I’ve been wrestling with whether this is a quirk or just something that commonly affects people with anxiety. But I have this thing where starting at about 11pm at night by brain just enters nightmare mode. One minute I’m thinking about work tomorrow or whatever and the next moment I’m imagining the most horrible things that could ever happen to anyone. “And then Dr. Mengele would… wait, why in the hell am I thinking about the Holocaust right now? Oh. It’s 11pm.” It’s really, weirdly predictable, almost to the hour.
That has happened to me a few times in the past.
Not at 11 though.
Yes! It happens to me in the wee hours. And I’ll be like, “What the hell… oh yeah, it’s nighttime brain.” Nighttime brain is not my friend, but it helps to see it, recognize it, deliberately change the subject. As many times as it takes!
I fall asleep while listening to an audiobook. This keeps me focusing on “what’s going to happen next” instead of nightmares (or worse, a replay of every single stupid thing I said in my first job, in the 70s).
And I do the same for getting back to sleep. Oh, I guess I have a Weird Audiobook Quirk…
…which includes “has to have a relaxed narrator, properly British, with no yelling”.
When I’ve been up for 30-35 hours, I’ll play audio and then lay down and listen, and I’ll kinda drift off, wake, drift off, listening but not listening. Half-sleep which is better than none.