from aefre:

RULES: Each player of this game starts off with 10 weird things/habits/little known facts about yourself. People who get tagged need to write a blog of their own 10 weird habits/things/little known facts as well as state this rule clearly. At the end you need to choose 10 people to be tagged and list their names. No tag backs.

1.) I *love* Cute Overload

2.) I love to cook. The last thing I made was a weird “Creamsicle,” which was a splash of vanilla soy milk with a little vanilla sugar, topped with an orange foam, made by frothing some orange juice and lecithin with a stick blender, and then spooning off the stabilized foam. It was surprisingly tasty. Okay. That’s not that weird if you’ve read the blog, or really know me, but I suspect it’d be a surprise some of my coworkers, say. And yes, that’s basically an “original” recipe. w00t.

3.) I have incredibly flat feet, which resulted in two of the bones in each ankle fusing as I grew up. As a result, I have two bones fewer than most people.

4.) I’m actually perfectly content to live where we do for the forseeable future. That’s not to say I don’t want to travel, and see the world, or even that I wouldn’t mind living somewhere else temporarily. But I think of my current home as “home,” and am perfectly happy about doing so.

5.) I used to have *extreme* self-confidence issues. They’re getting better, and I know a lot of the time, I come off at least a little obnoxious, but for many years, I was genuinely convinced that nothing I ever did was good enough for anyone.

6.) I have a spectacularly poor memory for recent events. With the exception of certain things that I’ll retain with a crystal clarity, if you ask me what I had for dinner two days ago, most of the time, I have no idea.

7.) When I was very young, I used to think of things like cars and mattresses and stuffed animals as having “souls.” I knew they weren’t “alive” per se, but I felt a strong attachment to certain physical objects. Compensation for a relatively socially distant family? Who knows.

8.) I’m completely atheistic, though *technically* I have to admit I’m agnostic. But it doesn’t concern me at all. It’s not someting I ponder, or think about regularly, much in the same way that most people don’t think regularly about dragons or talking eels.

9.) I resist “doing things,” because I often do cost-benefit analyses in my head, and figure that for the two hours it’d take to watch a movie, for instance, I could conveivably do something else instead. 90+% of the time I *do* watch a movie, I enjoy it. 90+% of the time I think something better might come along, I end up doing what amounts to nothing. Which means that in this respect, I’m almost always wrong.

10.) I love my wife. I think she’s the best person in the world, and I’m not afraid to say it. I bet that’s the most surprising thing on this list, to her.

Tag: if you’ve read to the bottom, and you haven’t done this yet, you’re “it.”