Can I have your tickets to the next home game so that I can go find whoever is responsible for this abomination of a trade and punch them in the face?

Okay, so anyone who has been around here for a while knows I have some pretty strange quirks. I can almost never order something right off a menu, I always have to change something around because of one food pickiness or another. Though I have gotten a lot better about it. Even Keegan says so, and he's the one who teases me about it the hardest. I also have to put my left sock on first, though it doesn't matter which shoe I put on first.

There are certain things that totally bug me, or that just totally squick me out, generally for no good reason other than that I'm a weirdo, which I totally blame on being dropped on my head as a baby. (Explains a lot, doesn't it?)

So, people who are missing teeth... It just freaks me the eff out. Including both my sister and my best friend. Except for this guy I know, and was good friends with when we were in our early 20s. He was missing a tooth and it took me like, 2 years to notice. And it was a canine, so it's not like it was just in the back of his mouth and easy to miss. Apparently it had just never grown in. He had a retainer with a prosthetic tooth attached to it, but he rarely wore it by the time I met him. He had really good oral hygiene, which probably had something to do with my not noticing. If you look like your tooth rotted out of your head, keep your mouth the hell away from me. And also, except hockey players, because, well, yeah.

And even I have no idea why, but if your bed is a mattress on the floor- um. No. Pass Go and do not collect $200, instead, collect a damn bed frame. I don't know why this bugs me, but it does. You don't have to have a headboard, but your bed has to be raised off the floor. Oddly, I have friends whose bed is a mattress and box spring on the floor. They got sick of breaking bed frames with all the sex. I can get behind that logic. And they have a headboard, which maybe helps.

There are other things that bug me, but the ones I can think of are the ones that bug most people, like kids not in carseats or allowed to run amok in restaurants (I used to babysit this little girl, and I'd go on vacations with the family to watch her, and they let her run around the restaurant and it nearly killed me. And I was only 13 then. (Said little girl is not so little anymore and is in fact getting married in less than a month, but that is a whole 'nother post)). Actually, there are a lot of things I see parents do that makes me want to shake them, but since I don't have kids yet we'll just leave those alone. Ooooh, and people who don't hold doors for other people, especially if said other people have their hands full.

Anyway, I'm done now. Back to gathering up paperwork to get my fix-it ticket signed off on. Which maybe I'll tell you about later.

So, I saw this on Kathy's blog (I'd link her but she's mostly friends only). And being that a) it’s very difficult for me to resist a good meme, b) the subject matter interests me, and c) I haven't posted in almost a month I thought I'd share. Here’s the "fine print":

This meme is from "What Privileges Do You Have?", based on an exercise about class and privilege developed by Will Barratt, Meagan Cahill, Angie Carlen, Minnette Huck, Drew Lurker, and Stacy Ploskonka at Illinois State University. If you participate in this meme, they ask that you PLEASE acknowledge their copyright.

So there you have it. You know the drill. You are supposed to bold all the statements that apply to you, your upbringing, your family, etc. Little comments are fun too.

1. Father went to college (he went from high school into the Navy and then straight into his job of 35 years)

2. Father finished college (see above)

3. Mother went to college

4. Mother finished college

5. Have any relative who is an attorney, physician, or professor (my mom is a teacher, but I don't think that's the same as professor)

6. Were the same or higher class than your high school teachers

7. Had more than 50 books in your childhood home (I probably had more than 50 books in my bedroom)

8. Had more than 500 books in your childhood home (One room of our house was a library. I think it's safe to say that there were more than 5000 books in my childhood home.)

9. Were read children's books by a parent

10. Had lessons of any kind before you turned 18 (swimming, ballet, tennis)

11. Had more than two kinds of lessons before you turned 18 (see above)

12. The people in the media who dress and talk like me are portrayed positively (I don't even know what this means)

13. Had a credit card with your name on it before you turned 18

14. Your parents (or a trust) paid for the majority of your college costs. (We had a deal. They'd pay for tuition and books until we dropped out, flunked out, or got kicked out.)

15. Your parents (or a trust) paid for all of your college costs - (I dropped out at 20, so when I went back for a semester at 26 I paid for it myself)

16. Went to a private high school

17. Went to summer camp (I went to Girl Scout Day Camp for two weeks every summer, but I don't think that counts)

18. Had a private tutor before you turned 18

19. Family vacations involved staying at hotels.

20. Your clothing was all bought new before you turned 18

21. Your parents bought you a car that was not a hand-me-down from them - (Bought my own first car, they bought my second one but I had to pay them back)

22. There was original art in your house when you were a child (My mom's best friend is an artist. I owned my own original art by the time I was 15.)

23. Had a phone in your room before you turned 18 (the only time there was a phone in my room was if I unplugged the den phone and plugged in this other phone we had and ran the cord across the hall and fervently hoped my dad wouldn't catch me)

24. You and your family lived in a single family house

25. Your parent(s) owned their own house or apartment before you left home

26. You had your own room as a child

27. Participated in an SAT/ACT prep course (it was through my high school and it was free, but technically I did)

28. Had your own TV in your room in High School (I didn't have a TV in my room til I was 28)

29. Owned a mutual fund or IRA in High School or College

30. Flew anywhere on a commercial airline before you turned 16 (My dad worked for United for 35 years, so we flew all over the place.)

31. Went on a cruise with your family

32. Went on more than one cruise with your family

33. Your parents took you to museums and art galleries as you grew up

34. You were unaware of how much heating bills were for your family. (Totally oblivious. But living where we did we didn't really need heat...)