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Seven Weird Things
Aug. 15th, 2007 01:11 amI was tagged by ![[livejournal.com profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/external/lj-userinfo.gif)
wishuponakate to do this. So, without further ado...
1. I can dislocate and/or pop every joint in my body, including my sacrum. I can always tell when I need to pop things because they get abnormally stiff. Most of my joints are hypermobile.
2. I've broken my neck. When I was 7, I fell on my head from the monkey bars at school, depressing part of my skull, compressing three disks, and stress fracturing several vertabrae. No one on the playground noticed, so I didn't tell my mum for several weeks, until the pain was so bad I could hardly move.
3. My short term memory is awful. It's not unusual for me to forget what I've done ten minutes earlier or the day before, but I can remember things that happened years ago down to the minute details, as well as random facts and the latin names of most of the whales native to this area.
4. My mother and I both tend to describe things based on colours, such as music (the piece I'm listening to not is citrusy oranges and sparkly yellows). I also have a very vivid memory for colours that tends to encompass more than one sense (such as a certain shade of blue will mean I can literally smell the ocean or a shade of green will mean I can taste limes). I didn't realize that this was kind of odd until I got older and tried describing things to my friends only to have them look at me like I was insane.
5. I quit smoking cigaretts cold turkey on a bet. I've had one in the 8 years since a quit and it reminded me of why.
6. I can write my name with my toes. It's not very good, but I can do it. I can also pick up almost anything with my toes. I guess that means I'm set if I ever lost my arms.
7. I had geese as pets growing up. My mum saw two little goslings at Agway and they were too cute to resist, so we brought them home and built a pen. We actually had to teach them how to swim and tried to teach them how to fly. They used to run after us, flapping their wings but never achieved liftoff.
I tag:
lauraxmarie
bosbullterrier
plunkybug
and anyone else who wants to do it.
wishuponakate to do this. So, without further ado...1. I can dislocate and/or pop every joint in my body, including my sacrum. I can always tell when I need to pop things because they get abnormally stiff. Most of my joints are hypermobile.
2. I've broken my neck. When I was 7, I fell on my head from the monkey bars at school, depressing part of my skull, compressing three disks, and stress fracturing several vertabrae. No one on the playground noticed, so I didn't tell my mum for several weeks, until the pain was so bad I could hardly move.
3. My short term memory is awful. It's not unusual for me to forget what I've done ten minutes earlier or the day before, but I can remember things that happened years ago down to the minute details, as well as random facts and the latin names of most of the whales native to this area.
4. My mother and I both tend to describe things based on colours, such as music (the piece I'm listening to not is citrusy oranges and sparkly yellows). I also have a very vivid memory for colours that tends to encompass more than one sense (such as a certain shade of blue will mean I can literally smell the ocean or a shade of green will mean I can taste limes). I didn't realize that this was kind of odd until I got older and tried describing things to my friends only to have them look at me like I was insane.
5. I quit smoking cigaretts cold turkey on a bet. I've had one in the 8 years since a quit and it reminded me of why.
6. I can write my name with my toes. It's not very good, but I can do it. I can also pick up almost anything with my toes. I guess that means I'm set if I ever lost my arms.
7. I had geese as pets growing up. My mum saw two little goslings at Agway and they were too cute to resist, so we brought them home and built a pen. We actually had to teach them how to swim and tried to teach them how to fly. They used to run after us, flapping their wings but never achieved liftoff.
I tag:
lauraxmariebosbullterrierplunkybugand anyone else who wants to do it.
