Weirdness

I have been tagged by Daisy to post 6 weird things about me. The way
it works is that I am supposed to tag 6 other bloggers to post 6
weird things about themselves. The trouble is, Daisy's blog is the
only one that I read regularly. I read a couple of others, but the
people don't know me.

I asked my husband for his opinion. At first he said he couldn't
possibly narrow it down to only 6. I am just a vast, complex entity
composed entirely of weirdness, peculiarity, and idiosyncrasy. When
pressed for details, he waffled and said that he is just so used to
my strangeness that it doesn't even seem weird to him. So, I have to
figure this out myself.

1. I meditate for an hour every morning. That is something that most
people don't know. I have been meditating on and off for years, but
lately I have been doing it very regularly. I'm not sure if it is
going to solve all of my problems, but I definitely feel like I'm on
top of my game, "with it", and generally have my act together a lot
more than I usually do.

2. I have a very bizarre relationship to science. There is a tonne of
it that I just do not understand, and I am extremely skeptical about
almost all of it. Like gravity, chemistry, time travel, oh, and
physics. Especially physics. My husband gets great laughs almost
every day because I really don't get physics. I mean, you've got
laws, you've got theories, and who can keep them straight? Not me.

3. I am a home-birthing, attachment-parenting, co-sleeping,
home-schooling, health-food eating, environmentally-aware
crunchy-granola type of person. Those are 6 things right there that
make me weird to most members of my family. However, I do not
compost. Several people I know are completely shocked that I do not
compost. So, now that my kitchen garburetor is broken, I guess I am
going to start composting.

4. I actually like going on trips all by myself. I travelled around
Europe for 3 months all by myself when I was 22, and it was fabulous.
It is the only way to travel, the best way to travel. It's great.
Nobody to have to try to get along with, compromise with, or even
talk to if you don't feel like it. You can do exactly what you want
to do, whenever you want to do it.

5. I have a long-standing fascination with Laura Ingalls Wilder from
Little House on the Prairie. It started when I read the novels around
age 8 or 9. I developed an extremely colourful internal relationship
with Laura. I had fantasies that involved travelling back in time and
living with her. I would know so much because I was from the future.
Then I would imagine that she travelled to the present, and I would
take her around and show her things and explain everything to her,
like cars, music, shopping centres, dishwashers, airplanes,
absolutely everything. This was DETAILED.

As an example of how severe the Little House thing is: My husband has
always wanted to go to Disneyland or Disneyworld and a whole bunch of
other big attractions in the United States. I have always resisted
because I feel very weird about travelling in the US. I mean, people
there are allowed to carry guns! When I was in Las Vegas, I kept
looking at everybody and wondering, Does that person have a gun? How
about that one? That person could have a gun in her purse right this
second! One day last spring, I was perusing some home-school sites,
and I found some stuff you can do with the Little House series
(hooray!) and OH MY GOD you can actually VISIT Walnut Grove! There is
a museum and some other stuff there to see. I almost freaked out. I
called my hubby over to show him, and I was like, "Forget Disneyland,
honey, we're going to Minnesota!" I get excited just thinking about it.

Okay, I admit it, THAT is weird. I kind of want to start reading the
Little House books to my daughter, but I notice that I'm holding
back. What if she doesn't like them as much as I do? It could cause
irreparable harm to our relationship.

6. The vast majority of what I read for pleasure is non-fiction. I
almost never read fiction because I get completely absorbed in it, to
the exclusion of all else. Meals go unprepared, children are ignored,
the telephone goes unanswered, and I'll stay up until 5am just to
finish. Then I need 2-3 days just to recover. On top of that, I find
that I often take on the mood of a book for days afterwards. If it
was a very profound book, or very sad, or very dark and depressing,
well, that's how I'm going to be feeling for the next week. I won't
even permit myself to pick up a novel unless there is NOTHING going
on for the following week.

Okay, that was long. I guess the 7th thing that's weird about me is
that I like to go on and on and on and on. I just can't shut up.

I think this whole branch of the weirdness game is going to shrivel
up and die here, because I have no idea who I could tag. Maybe if I
sleep on it, I'll come up with something. Pam, Isla, Lisa, Nicole,
Alan, Mark, Andree, why don't you have blogs yet? Get started! Start
with the weirdness poll!