Ways In Which I am Weird

So Amalah tagged the whole internet with this meme thing, and since she's the Queen of Everything and all, I should do what she says, so here are 6 weird things about me:

1. I am allergic to green beans, rice, and peas, but I didn't know about it until after I was married and got allergy tests, so I ate them all up til that point.  Now I don't eat them at all, and if I try to, I get a stuffy head and a huge headache.
2. I have enormous tonsils.  Seriously huge.  I can barely breathe every time I get strep, and each time I get a new doctor they say "God, you have huge tonsils!"  It's bad enough that now I warn new doctors - "I have huge tonsils" but they still act surprised when they see them.  Did they think I was lying?
3. I have a huge tongue, too.  I can touch the bottom of my chin with it.  Gene Simmons ain't got nuthin' on me.
4. I only ever dated two guys who weren't musicians.  Over the years I dated 3 sax players, 3 trombone players (married one of them), and had a fling with a drummer (I shoulda known better).  I also had a penchant for guys with the same name - two Tims, two Steves, two Pauls, three Daves.  Not all at the same time.
5. I once learned someone's phone number by singing it outloud to the tune of "867-5309 (Jenny)"
6. Due to long road trips on the way to and from Nags Head, NC every.single.summer, I know most of the words to most of the songs by The Carpenters, Barry Manilow, the Mamas and the Papas, and a bunch of stuff from the Ray Conniff singers.  Sometimes, I'll catch myself humming "Top of the World" or "Copa Cabana" and I have to make myself stop.

Now aren't you glad you know all this?  Don't you wish you knew me IRL (if you don't already?)  I think I'm supposed to tag someone with this, so I tag Summer, Angi, and Jean.  And Uncle Orca, but I won't link to him because he only has a blasted Myspace page.

edited to add:

Eep!  I just discovered I was tagged by Izzy to do five weird things, so here are a few more:

1. Similar to Izzy, the national anthem makes me cry.  Always.  I had to train myself to not cry while playing clarinet in marching band by focusing SOLELY on my part.  Harmony was never so good.
2. I once SANG the national anthem for a HS basketball game.  I got through it by standing behind the team, so no one could see me.  Somehow I managed to sing most of the song, and only start to cry on "home, of the, braaaaaave."
3. I am 4'10" tall.  I used to wear a size 4.5 shoe.  Super hard to find in grownup shoes.  Now that I've had kids I can wear a 6.5.
4. My birthday is on the cusp of two different Zodiac signs.
5. My first pets that I can remember were my fish that I had when I was 5: Harry, Harry, Sally, and Sally.  Harry, Sally, and Sally died within a week, but Harry lived to be at least 3, until one day he jumped out of his bowl when we weren't around to throw him back in.

Comments

[Her Bad Mother]

Wow. I don't even know what it mean to have huge tonsils. I had mine taken out as a kid. So (this is so stupid) I don't even knwo what they are, beyond thingies that are in your throat.