Five Things Meme

Richard tagged me for this meme...probably because he knows how much I like to talk about myself. ha! It's a simple one...Reveal Five Things About Yourself is my directive. Well, ok, then:

1. I am left-handed. Writing, cutting, eating..lefty. Playing softball, though, I am a righty. Sometimes I feel an odd sense of pride over my left-handedness, as if that somehow makes me more authentic as a total weirdo.
   
2. I do a lot of crude chalk drawings when no one else is looking. I have been doing these for years and years. I have some up in my room, and I have shown some to a select few people. They aren't terribly good, artistically speaking, but they are mine...and I think they reflect me.
   
3. I'm not sure how obvious this is, but I'm terribly obsessive. I have recently discovered, in comparing myself to other friends I have who have obsessive/compulsive thought patterns, that I somehow managed to train myself to shift my obsessive focus to something positive or at least neutral whenever I start to get overly focused on upsetting stuff. Thus all of the weird tangents into things like birds and trees...and, really, my obsessiveness explains my need to have a running dialog in the form of blog or chat. It's good to have a place to put one thought so I can move on to the next.
   
4. I don't have a functioning clothes dryer in my house, so I hang all of my laundry out on the clothesline. I actually started doing this before the clothes dryer broke, and I think the dryer would be an easy repair, but I am worried that if I fix it, I will be less motivated to hang clothes out.
   
5. When I was in middle school, my mom took the whole family to this dude ranch in Chicago. We had been there one time before, but this time there was this whole Urban Cowboy thing that had just begun to ignite, so my brothers bought into it hook, line, and sinker. Anyway, I spent my junior high years earnestly listening to country music and recoiling whenever I would find random makeshift spittoons lying around the house. One of my brothers actually went on to get a degree in range and ranch management. I wonder if John Travolta appreciates what he did to my family. Hahaha. (I actually had to just visit IMDB to reassure myself that it was, in fact John Travolta who starred in that movie. And...Indeed. It was.)

Oh, I guess I am also supposed to tag people to do this. Fuck. I suck at tagging people. Just do it if you wanna, and leave a comment so I know to go peek.