i am neurotic.

If it starts raining outside, no matter how cold it is I have to roll my pants legs up — or walk around in shoes for several hours upon making it indoors. I can’t stand the feeling of wet fabric on the backs of my legs and ankles.

when i was little and would play with our piano, i always had to play more high notes than low notes, because low notes were monsters and high notes were angels, and they were having a war in my closet. I needed the angels to outnumber the monsters so they could win. If i ever accidentally played more low notes than high ones, i had to poke the higher keys at least 10 times to make up for any loss on the angel’s behalf.

Whenever I reply to an e-mail, I always erase the original message that automatically gets copied into my message when I hit “reply.” I don’t know why. Also, I have a horrible memory, so when I get a reply to an e-mail that doesn’t have my original message, I forget what I said and get annoyed and need to go find the sent message so I remember what the reply is regarding. But I still always erase it before I send it.

i hate that windscreen wipers dont clean the whole windscreen and leave that weird double cone shape, just like with the chalk board.

My colleges dining hall has different colored plates, and I can only eat off the orange ones. I am convinced that the food only tastes good on the orange ones. If the server tried to give me my food with a different colored plate I won’t eat it.

When I was younger I had to sleep with every stuffed animal in a very specific equal order to keep them from getting jealous and attacking each other or me. I only sleep with one now to prevent that! Ever since watching Toy Story when I was five, I can’t shake the idea that they might be alive!

Whenever I make a comment on this website or one like it (like FML) I have to keep the browser open and compulsively refresh it for a few hours to see if anyone has responded to my post…do people think i am witty? mean? do they agree with me?

There are certain ways I watch DVDS. Like if its a dramatic or scary movie, I have to watch it at night, but if its a comedy or romance then I could watch it anytime. And I don’t like watching certain movies on my small personal DVD player. Like I tried watching Phantom on the Opera on it, but the movie seemed so much bigger than the small screen could handle.

When I or my husband plant a plant in our yard, it must go EXACTLY where I planned it to go. Not one foot to the left, not three inches to the right…EXACTLY where I want it. Then everything lines up and offsets everything else perfectly. And it if doesn’t, I obsess for weeks until I move it to the right place–even if it requires moving subterranean sprinkler systems to get the right plant placement.

It bothers me when people do not use the correct punctuation and capitalization. Like in the title of this website. I am neurotic. I.I.I. Capital I. Please change it.