10 Weird Things I Do

'Cause you did it first...

1. I count stairs when I climb them. I start with the initial landing as #1, and I remember what most of the sets of stairs that I climb regularly have. The steps up from my garage, for example, count nine.
2. My mantle has stuffed animals on it - like a dozen of them. A couple of times a year, The Girl and I go to Valley Thrift and drop five or ten bucks and get stuffed animals for our elder dog to carry around like his baby, use as a pillow, and eventually eviscerate.
3. Once every spring break - and summer break, too - I get up obscenely early and head to Little Dutch Bakery (in Mt Healthy) for an apple fritter fresh out of the fryer.
4. I make my cat dance from time to time - hooking my thumbs under her front armpits and making her move. Her typical move from there is to kick and punch one of our dogs while I make bad kung-fu movie dialogue about them.
5. I put pretty much everything into spreadsheets and have been for a few years. If somebody asks me to type up a list, it'll be on Excel so I can sort it a hundred different ways. And anytime somebody sends me data on an excel spreadsheet, you can bet that I'm going to resort it and ask questions.
6. I'm a completist. At one point I owned every cd by Neil Young, Queen, Wilco, Richard Thompson, The Beatles, Ryan Adams, Chris Isaak, and John Mellencamp. As tastes have shifted, I've gotten rid of lots of them. I do the same with songs, too, and the best example of it is when I couldn't find the 80's music collection I wanted (every cd had some crap songs), I hunted down (in pre-iTunes days) about 400 songs of the 80s and made myself an eighteen-disc collection that is perfect 80s to me. And I have every figure (including the alternates) of the Kevin Smith Inaction Figures for the first three series.
7. I write a blog to which I am (for some reason that exists pretty much only in my head) desperate to post to every day.
8. I play everything to win. I just borrowed the Wii game Zach and Wiki, and I don't really enjoy it. So I'm playing it semi-obsessively until I win it so I can return it. I play Wii Tennis to win and get little enjoyment just playing around - especially if the other person isn't taking it seriously. If I find an online game that has me frustrated, I either quit or search for a walkthru and finish it so I can move on. I'm not a good person, clearly.
9. At home in the winter, I spend nearly every weekend day in some variation of jeans, hoody, ballcap, socks (no shoes if I'm just 'round home) and it's about a 50-50 chance that I'm not going to leave the home or even shower on a typical weekend day if I don't have a pre-scheduled social engagement. Sometimes, this level of laziness drives The Girl bonkers.
10. I spend most nights sleeping five on the bed - the order from left to right if you stood at the foot of the bed and looked at the menagerie is Dog #2 (under covers), The Girl, Dog #1 (on top of covers), and then ChemGuy with the cat on top of one of the aforementioned people. No kids...pets rule.

For those of you who know me, I'm kind of curious to hear what you think I should've included on the list but didn't.