No, I’m not talking about those extra five pounds that you wake up with the day after Thanksgiving. I’m talking about those little things that you pick up over your life, habits, mannerisms, that you keep going long after the first time. Those things that you’re not exactly sure why you keep doing them, but you do.
I remember in High School there was this thing that kids did. Eat their pizza with ranch dressing. It was disgusting. Well, I thought it was disgusting, and refused to try it for a very long time. Then it became so popular that they would have an entire tub of ranch dressing out every time they served pizza in the lunch line. Regardless of if there was salad that day. I decided it wouldn’t kill me to try it. I don’t think it was amazing, or even all that great, but I still do it to this day. Every time I take my two year old out to Gatti’s…. there’s ranch dressing on my plate.
I have a lot of things that I can think of that I’ve kept doing over the years, but the ones that stand out the most are always food related. I guess I just like food. There are a lot of things that, thankfully, I’ve stopped doing (like saying “Dude” after every phrase).
Something I just did today that reminded me of this. Arby’s curly fries with cheddar cheese sauce. For years in high school every Saturday was a band competition (yes, I was totally a band geek) and we would stop at a little place that had three restaurants. A McDonald’s, an Arby’s, and a Burger King. I always chose Arby’s and I always had a large fry with two cups of cheddar cheese. Maybe I did that because it was just at $5 with a small drink and that’s all I had to spend on each of these trips, who knows. But I still do it. No ketchup for me, give me cheese!
One thing that started much earlier than high school is me playing with my hair when I’m tired. I can remember my mother playing with my hair when I had trouble falling asleep and even now when I’m tired I’ll subconsciously run my hands through my hair.
I really wonder how many of these little things that I’ve picked up over the years that has me so set in my ways are things that came from my parents? I wonder what kind of habits I’ll be “accidentally” giving to K-Kitten over the years. I wonder what new habits I’ll pick up or if I’ll ever stop with any of the ones that I’ve got now.
Do you have any habits or weird things that you started one day in the past and keep on doing? Inquiring minds want to know. Mine.
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I’ve decided to participate in NaBloPoMo – where you blog every day for a month. This is going to be insane, but I’ve got to get out of the habit of writing and then deciding because I don’t have anything to say that’s not been posted five-thousand times (or so I feel) that I shouldn’t keep the conversation going. Hang on for the ride. This is gonna get crazy…
