Another meme:

Id·i·o·syn·cra·sy
Pronunciation Key
n. pl. id·i·o·syn·cra·sies
A structural or behavioral characteristic peculiar to an individual or group.

Write down (blog) five of your own personal idiosyncracies. Then, if you wish, tag five people from your live gerbil or friendslist to do the same.

Only five?

1. I need time alone. I get overwhelmed easily and need to "shut down." I can usually push myself pretty hard until I hit a "wall," but once I hit that "wall" I really do need to pull back and shut down for a while.

2. I don't deal well with not having plans or with having to change plans on short notice. I'm not a tremendously flexible person.

3. I don't like cola drinks.

4. I'm too deferential to what I view as "authority" even when the person's sole "authority" over me may be in their rude or overbearing attitude towards me. (As I said last night - I'm easily bullied).

5. People have asked me if I'm from Canada (I'm not) because of the odd way I pronounce some things. (I once even had someone ask if I had lived in England as a child).

and, because I have to keep going, a few more:

6. I'm most excited about any project at its beginning and when I can see the finish line for it. The middle slog, not so much.

7. I like cottage cheese and ham together.

8. I've never been afraid of speaking publically in front of an audience; that's just a fear I never had. Back when I played the clarinet, though, I was terrified of playing in front of an audience.

9. I can live with clutter but dirt really bugs me.

10. I love bad puns; the worse they are the funnier I think they are.

11. Two things I used to be really terrified of but am not any more: bees and deep water. (Deep water because I had a really, really bad experience in swimming lessons when I was a kid - basically, the instructor threw me into the deep end one day when I didn't want to go in. At one point the deep-water fear was so great that I couldn't even cross a bridge over water without crying).

12. Certain foods I cannot bring myself to like: coffee, beer, broccoli, cauliflower, hot peppers, catfish.

13. I tend to get into "color jags" where I will buy yarn and fabric in the same color family and not consider another color until the jag breaks.