i am neurotic.

I change the lyric “love” to “glove” whenever I hear cheesy love songs. This allows me to listen to them without feeling cheesy.

whenever i get a takeout cup of coffee from starbucks, which is several times a week, i have to turn the lid around so that the sip hole is 180 degrees from the seam line on the cup. if it is handed to me wrong, i must immediately go to the coffee stand and fix it, no matter how full my hands are or how much of a hurry i am in.

I have several neuroses about eating at other people’s houses if the family sits at a table. I cannot eat until someone who lives in the house starts eating or if they tell me it’s okay to dig in. I have to finish all of the food on my plate because I don’t want people to think I didn’t like it or I was being wasteful. But I cannot finish eating first, because I don’t want to seem like I’m just scarfing the food down like a pig.

Every day when I leave my house I walk all the way to my car and have to go back to my door to make sure its locked. Three times. I do the same with my car door when I get to work and my alarm before I go to bed.

When I go to get a drink of water, I have to shake the water bottle first. Sometimes if I don’t have the cap on tight enough it spills all over myself and others around me. I have been mocked by teachers in class. When I am somewhere where I have to be really quiet like a movie theater I turn the bottle upside down several times. With non-bottled drinks like a glass of juice I have to swish it around in the glass. I have no idea why I have to do this.

after i condition my hair in the shower, i have to stand under the water and rub my face, shoulders and arms for a long time, until i feel better. the idea of stepping out of the shower with conditioner still on my body makes me crazy.

Whenever I play any racing video game I lean in the direction my car is going. I actually believe it helps, but probably doesn’t. I do something similar when I play any FPS video games. I actually try to dodge bullets as if they were to actually come out of my TV.

I must wear sunscreen every day (sunny or not), and every night too. Otherwise, my face will get wrinkled and old in a few hours.

When I play Wii Fit I have to move at the exact same time as my trainer when we do yoga. If not, I have to start over and do it again til I get it EXACTLY RIGHT.

When I go to a movie I can have anything in my pockets, period. Otherwise I am distracted thoughout the whole movie that something is going to fall out. So I often find odd things to put all my valuables in, because I definitely don’t think of this ahead of time.