What You Don't Know

What you don't know

There is a post circulating Facebook right now that is something along the line of "7 things you may not know about me" where people make a list of little or unknown facts about themselves. This gave me a thought… It is my serious opinion that one doesn't realize the strange and obsessive habits they have until they live with someone. Every boyfriend or roommate I have had has been open about pointing these little behaviors out to me. I decided to follow suit with the old FB and list the strange and possibly mysterious things I do and feel. Here it is:

Turning left at unprotected green lights gives me anxiety and I avoid them at all costs, that's right I'm a three right turn girl

While we're talking cars and driving I have to turn my music down to parallel park and am awful at it even though it was an area in which I excelled in Driver's Education

Until recently I didn't own a trash can, I think they're gross and they stink. As a result it is still an obsessive habit for me to save my plastic grocery bags to the point of overflow

When I was little I asked the tooth fairy for a friend who cared about me in place of money (my poor parents)

I'm fluent in Spanish and pretend not to be so people speak it more slowly to me

I used to count syllables in my head when I was a kid shifting each from my right hand to left needing always to end up on the left and starting on the right when speaking

I took dance for eight years and walk with my feet slightly turned out as a result

I often bounce from interest to interest and envy those who carry things all the way through with such conviction

I stopped drinking coke when I was 21, before that I had at least one a day

I stole a pack of cigarettes from my older sister in 5th grade and tried to hide them in the snow. I smoked from ages 14 to roughly one year ago

I look up DIY cute hair updos on the internet and try them. They are all epic fails.

Sometimes I lay in bed and think about how big the universe is and it makes me so afraid I become short of breath

I moved to California to escape heartbreak

My dad and I talk on the phone nearly every day

My friend Robb and I talk on the phone at least once a day

Nine times out of ten if I call my sister Kelsey she won't answer

Kelsey and I had a really rough time with each other when we were younger and we weren't really close until the winter I moved in with her to save money to move to Cali.

My best friend Liz and I didn't talk for 7 months and I kept a journal with letters to her in it that she has never read

I want to be a writer but I don't know how to get there

I have a lot of fear, I'm serious and anxious often despite my positive demeanor 

I think that might be enough...