Thinking Out Loud: OCD/Quirky Habits

The other day I was listening to one of my and Henri’s favorite podcasts and they had a segment where people called in about their OCD/quirky habits. It had me laughing out loud – more so because I could relate to what a LOT of the callers were saying. Henri has always teased me for the quirks that I have and his uncle has even told me that I remind  him of Sheldon from the Big Bang Theory because I have certain ways of doing things just like Sheldon.

On my run this morning I came up with a loonnnnnng list (embarrassingly long) of my goofy/quirky habits and thought that it would make for a fun Thinking Out Loud Thursday to share some of them with you – Thanks AMANDA!!! 

Thinking-Out-Loud

I know we all have a least one funny habit so please please please join in in the comments so that I don’t feel like such a crazy person! 😉 lol

  1. I have to end my runs at X.00 mileage. In college my friend and I were known for running in circles around the fields until we hit X.00. I mean if someone asks you how far you ran who wants to have to answer with 7.86 miles??
  2. I hate crushed ice and like exactly 4 ice cubes in my glass. If it’s a shorter cup – 3 cubes. I have it down to a science so that my drinks aren’t too cold or not cold enough.
  3. I don’t like eating pieces of chips, pretzels, crackers, etc. When I’m chips I pick out all of the big, full chips first and will eat all of them first before moving on to eat the broken pieces/crumbs.
  4. I always eat M&M’s in groups of 3 and they have to be all different colors. The same goes for gummy bears but the 3 colors have to be clear, green & red. Yellow and orange gummy bears just aren’t worth it.
  5. I put on 7 swipes of deodorant on each armpit… and exactly 4 squirts of perfume.
  6. My book shelves are just as organized as a library. I sort the books on my shelf by category and then alphabetically by author. (yes, Henri thinks I’m loco)
  7. Sock, sock, shoe, shoe – anything else just feels wrong!!!
  8. I do not like writing in pencil… the feeling, the noise it makes – bleh! So I’m always writing in pen, even when I’m working on a crossword puzzle or doing math (<– I can’t tell you how many teachers this annoyed but I really just can’t do pencils! ha)
  9. All of my clothes have to be hung up facing the same direction (to the left). Henri is no longer allowed to hang up my clothes because I end up just having to go through and fix it all because he just doesn’t see the need for all the shirts to face the same way! 
  10. I LOVE numbers and math so much that I find an unnatural amount of joy in discovering patterns and math problems in everyday life (license plates, race bib numbers, etc.). I can’t even explain how happy it made me that I ran 03:06:09 on 10/12/14 at Chicago…. that’s a math nerd’s dream right there!

What is one of your quirky/OCD-like habits?

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