Girlfriends, Are We Wierd or What???

My blog friend Claude in Paris has become a memer for the first time.  I, too, have never done a meme thing. She didn't tag me but she did put the idea of this I am wierd meme in my head so my fingers itched to write about weirdness.  She wrote about her personal weirdness on her blog yesterday.  She is the most unbelievable talented photographer and posts her photos on her photo blog - another blog she runs - where she captures photos on her daily walks in Paris.  Claude thinks she is weird because she has posted some 13,500 photos on Flickr.  I don't think she is weird.  I think she is unbelievably talented and is an inspiration for following our passions.

So here is my meme thing and I challenge you to do it too.  I think you are supposed to tag people like "you're it" but I'll forgo that. 

Am I weird, too????

• I like broccoli and enjoy decorating food with edible flowers and I'll eat dandelion greens as long as they are organic and not toxified with pesticides.  That is the goat in me!
• I can not tell a joke.  I forget the punch lines or ruin it by getting it wrong in the delivery.  I also am slow in "getting" jokes.  However, I do get silly giggly sometimes, especially with my husband and my oldest daughter and sometimes my mother. It is terrible to have this happen in church.
• Moving is not easy for me, nor is being a "corporate wife," and I feel somewhat alone in this and probably gripe and blame way too much and grieve for the friends and family I leave behind.
• I get my syntax mixed up, sort of like Bush does.  My Dad does, too, so it must be a genetic weirdness.  It happens with numbers, too - sort of dyslexic.  I'm so not a math person because it requires detailed logical thinking.
• I have a habit of humming when I exercise -- from my years of being on the swim team.
• I can't stand Barbie dolls or Cabbage Patch dolls.
• I do love love love babies to the extreme.  I had to go work/volunteer with needy little ones to satisfy my mother urges.

OK.  Enough of memes.  Am I the only weird one?

Comments

[ra]

Is it "wierd" or "weird" ? You spell it one way in the headline, and the other way in the text. Or, are you making a point ? After flying to every state in the country for business, and on my way in from every airport is a new clean, brick shopping mall, and in every one is a Barnes and Noble, Bed Bath and Beyond, Starbucks, Macy's , Godiva, and you get the picture. The other day it struck me that I couldnt tell you what town I was in and I had to open my briefcase and look at the plane ticket I had just used. First, it was just "wierd" that I couldnt tell one town from another. Sad too! But mostly, BORING. Thats what I like about the country villages in England, the wide spots in the road in France, and the Tuscany region of Italy, nothing is the same. So whats my point? Since we insist on being homogenous and boring, and everything has to be the same, the last bastion of individualism is ourselves. So, please, everyone, keep acting wierd, it's all we have left.

[janet]

Hey, Hey I'm back. Not a spammer anymore.
Should I go back and add all my comments that I couldn't add before??

[Eleanor Mainwaring]

My weird nesses: You spell it weird! Or weird isn't weird; it's correct !
#1 Never met a dog I didn't love, love, love. #2 I have short tiny toes...one day after a pedicure they said I should get a discount ! #3 I love my books...they are like old friends. Love to even re-read /visit them. #4 NOT a morning person...don't talk in the morning and wake up easy...5:30 pm...dusk is my hour...I come alive ! #4 Was married to a man 24 years older than I as a very young woman; and as a 45 year old divorcee dated a man 22 years younger ! #5 I consider myself a universalist when it comes to religion...I enjoy things from many faiths and beliefs...inclusiveness... and believe we will see Jews, Hindus, Buddhists, and Christians in Heaven ! #6 Love to kiss babies on the tops of their heads and, like you ,love babies! #7 Very intense little creature...when I am happy; I am elated and when I am mad, I am mad as hell; when I am depressed, I am in a very low place. #8 I believe family is everything ! But then again, I have a great one.

[Claude]

Hey, nice to see you are weird too! Thanks for mentioning my blog!

[Aimee]

Glad to join you in your weirdness. I went to a refined tea tasting recently, and it was anything but refined....and I started wondering does a mother of 3 need to be at anything that might be refined on the one night she is without her kids....weird, I tell you!