i am neurotic.

I have to press the refrigerator or freezer door eight times and count out loud after I have closed it, just to make sure it is “really” closed.

Whenever I eat gum or mints, I have to have at least two pieces in my mouth, never just one. For this reason, I usually decline when someone offers me gum or mints, because I would feel greedy asking for two.

In front of my stairs at home, there are three tiles. I have to step on the center tile with my left foot, and then step up to the first step with my right, no matter what. This rule doesn’t apply to other staircases though; only my own.

I hate getting bowls dirty just for a scoop of ice cream so I usually eat out of the carton. But I can’t let my mouth touch the spoon or the carton so I sort of drop the spoonful into my mouth. I get this image of my spit getting in the ice cream and digesting it while it’s in the fridge and it creeps me out!

I have to fold each dollar lengthwise before handing it to the cashier.

When I order a tv show on demand, if the message before the show starts says “thank you, enjoy your show”, I have to pretend to enjoy it even if I don’t. If not, I feel terrible that the tv was so polite and I couldn’t fake it. Also, I feel incredibly rude if I fall asleep.

I refuse to eat cooked tomatoes. Like stewed tomatoes in chili. Reminds me of jelly fish. The texture KILLS me. I don’t even have proper table manners when accidentally stumbling across one. I just open my mouth and lean forward until it falls out.

I can’t, and will not do “#2″ at my house without reading material. It seems to make the entire process go faster. If I have to, I will read shampoo bottles, and the back of random items such as toothpaste ingredients. If I haven’t anything to read, it seems to take 2x as long to go.

After I comb my hair, I always have to check there is no hair left on both of my combs or else I think something bad feel happen to my family.

When I find a new musical artist I like, I download the discography and get rid of the albums other people (or Wikipedia) say aren’t as popular or good. Sometimes I have compulsions to not download any more music because the number of songs in my iTunes is an important number. Like 1984 (my favorite book). The number of songs on my iPod is now 2010 (next year).