we've talked about ciggerettes being vices but what about for those nonsmokers..

i have a problem with cracking my jaw and neck. i know that cant be good for me.

i dont know if it counts but i really cant seem to break the habit of eating so much shit. i am constantly trying to start eating healthy and it just isnt possible. i have no self control when it comes to food. its always "well tommorrow ill start eating healthy." hmph. yeah. right.

Shopping. I don't do it all that often, but when I do it's always on a binge. Thanks to the recent Target thread, I have given in to some serious temptation lately.

Another bad habit is that I always have to obsessively align and arrange things so that they are symmetrical. If there is a piece of paper on a counter, it had better be parallel to the edge of that counter...that sort of thing. I'm not too extreme with this, but it still seems a bit ridiculous at times.

I am addicted to comic books, which is a lot like being addicted to any type of drug (well, at least from what I've seen on TV). I meet my dealer every Wednesday without telling anyone where I go. I immediately hide the bag when I get home. I seclude myself in my room to use the merch. I also cannot quit. I tell myself "this isn't good anymore, I have to stop" but I can't. I'm hooked. I love it too much. I also spend all my free money on it. If I have $0.50, you can bet it's going towards the ones in the bargain box.

I also cry at TV shows. That's a pretty big problem what with all the testosterone that's supposed to be coursing through me. I also eat too much chocolate and frozen pizzas.

aww.. thats not bad, thats cute.


i have this thing where my eyes make too much water or something (thats my theory) and if i even sort of laugh my eyes start pouring water. its pretty annoying. they never get bloodshot, though.

(Edited by rachel1808 at 11:22 pm on May. 18, 2003)

rachel, you will be the savior in this drought of topics. way to go!!

since i quit smoking (3 weeks yesterday!) my vices include sex chocolate and lifetime. i also order pizza WAY too often bc its so convenient.

i just cant stand to hear anymore about the matrix.

and yay for quitting smoking! good for you!

As far as bad habits go, I think popping my knuckles is the only one I can really think of.

I don't really think of it as a bad habit, but I shop way too much. . . really, way too much. If I find something at an antique or thrift store or something, I must have it because I think, "oh, that's worth so much more than what they have it priced at". And my logic is that I can always sell it on ebay if I decide I don't need it, but, of course, I never do that. I keep it all. But, I enjoy shopping more than just about anything else, so trying to stop doesn't really work out too well.

And, I also have to have everything (on my desk and whatnot) lined up all symmetrically like Token does.

The only other bad habit I can think of is when I get nervous or anxious or something, I start to pick at my nails (not bite, that grosses me out) and then I have to file them.

same! i also do that because a lot of times i dont know what to do with my hands, especially while dancing. im always either tugging at my bracelets, playing with my ring, or picking at my nails. i also tend to look at people at shows. i get bored looking straight ahead so i look around and im usually surronded by people so i look at them. tf caught me at the last show. so if any you ever thought i was staring at you, i apoligize.

Ah, yes, I fidget way too much. If I don't have pockets, I can never decide what to do with my hands. I usually end up swooshing my hair out of my face or looking at my watch constantly.

when i had hardwood floors, i would sweep them several times a day. now that i have carpet and a shiny new bagless vac, i vacuum every day and sometimes more than once a day.
i also have a bad habit of throwing my drinks or beer on people.

I realized after a somewhat painful phone coversation tonight that I have a bad habit of tuning out my mother when she gets long-winded...still. After the teenage years, you think I would have matured into some higher being who has infinite patience, but I sure haven't.

I have that problem to, so I usually stand one of two ways, with my hands in my pockets, or arms crossed, I'm weird

i feel so unapproachable when i cross my arms and my pants are usually to tight to put my hands in the pockets (hmm that could be a warning sign).

i really like the front kangaroo pouch thats on hoodies and sweatshirts. thats a good place for hands.

i pop my back way too much and have chronic back pain because of it.

Yes, I heard an NPR special on how those tight low-rise jeans can cut off a girl's circulation, so be careful!

Aside from smoking:

1. Popping knuckles, back, neck
2. Fidgeting
3. Addicted to Trading Spaces
4. Addicted to plastic surgery/ER shows
5. Being moody

my roomate had a bad habit of biting the skin around her fingers.. sometimes until the finger would bleed ugh and she also would rub/scratch the crown of her head when she was worried she told me to let her know when she did it because her hair is thinner now.

biting my nails.......it's dreadful and I really must stop.......

Man, I am so terrible about that. I always have things lined up perfectly at work and if they get moved it pisses me off. Oh by the way, I'm sort of what you would call "obsessive compulsive."

I bite my fingernails
My CDs are alphabetized in my CD books, facing the appropriate direction
I spit too much
The areas that I live/work in are always clean.

I also must have my CDs facing the appropriate direction.

which direction is the appropriate direction?

When you look at them, they are not crooked. The face of the CD would not be aimed diagonally, but instead text or pictures on the face would be read horizontally.

exactly.

i think they have medicine for people like you guys

(Edited by rachel1808 at 11:18 pm on May. 21, 2003)

It's called speed. I can't speak for Sexy Sadie, but people like myself get more cleaning and straightening done when we take speed; however, I don't speak from experience...yet.

I think we all know of my drug addictions...after a message board member's suggestion, I'm now hooked on my repetitively-named MAOI inhibitor...

Seriouslly though, I'm a cleaning and straightening fool. I can fly through a room or house with the aid of a little of the old musica.

i meant to control people like you guys not to make regular people like yall

but- a friend of mine took aterol (aderol?) a while ago and ended up staying awake all night and cleaning my other friends completley trashed playroom and developed a severe case of ocd along the way. she ended up putting all of her pictures in chronalogical order, her entire bookshelf in alphabetical order, cleaned/vaccumed/dusted everything in the room, and she says she used a ruler to make sure the chessboard was exactly in the middle of the table and the chess people were exactly in the middle of each square. anyways, my other friend was really psyched about the new clean room. i might have to have her over and get her clean on for my room as well.

irrelevent but i bet that illegal aterol sales are highest in december & may because of finals.

Well, I wouldn't use the ruler...I would just gauge the chessboard with my super-keen eyesight. I also don't dust much, but the rest of it sounds as though it was ripped from a biography on myself. I am what you would call a neat-freak. I guess that would be my mutant power if I had one (thinking about this since I saw X2 a couple of days ago). I would be able to clean stuff really quickly. Wow, what a lame superpower. If I had a choice, my superpower would be to stop time and accomplish many tasks in no time. I could make killer money doing that at a factory that pays you by the job. Or, better yet, I could just steal money since time would be stopped. Yes, that's what I would do. I would also put people that I don't like in "compromising" situations. It would be great. Ah, mutant powers...

oh yeah, my other bad habit - speed.

I used to have to take that aderol crap, it was suposed to help me concentrate better, but it gave me head aches, therefore i couldn't cancentrate. I have know clue how it was sposed to work on me, but I dont have to take it anymore so I'm happy.

oh, sales on aderol are def. higher in de. and may.

i think i might take some today and get some cleaning done.