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Sigrun tagged me to write about six weird things about myself, and I fear that if I don’t write them out, she’ll haunt my dreams for-ev-er. At first I couldn’t think of what I do that’s weird, because I’m so used to it, so hopefully this is interesting enough to blog about. If not, death to you Sigrun.

I put mustard on everything.
I’m not sure when my obsession began, but I have had this ridiculously strong relationship with mustard for a long time now. I put mustard on celery, mushrooms, shrimp, steak, cheese burgers, crackers, chicken, basically anything that isn’t a fruit (excluding tomatoes, because yes, I have had mustard on ‘em before.)

Never put ice with my pop but with my milk, yes.
Whenever I go out to eat with Mark, and I’m able to refill my own cup of pop (or soda for you weird people), I never put any ice in it, nor do I want any. I hate it when the ice melts and waters down my drink, especially when I plan on drinking it later (I don’t mind drinking room temperature pop, so long as it’s not brown.) But I have to have ice cold milk. Since it will never be ice cold from the fridge alone, I usually put a few ice cubes in it. It makes the milk that much more enjoyable.

I sometimes pee with the door open.
I know this may not seem that weird, and maybe it isn’t, but I actually like peeing with the door open when I’m in my own house. I suppose I’m just used to it because that’s what I would do in my apartment (unless I was taking the crap of my life) and I had some friends that would go pee with the door ajar too. My sister hates this, so I make sure I do it all the time. And to think I used to have a pee complex where I couldn’t go if I thought people heard me or if I was in public.

I drive with my windows down in the winter.
A few months ago when I was driving and my boyfriend was in the car he said “Are you hot?” I didn’t realize that he was freezing his cute butt off despite the fact I had the heat on in the car, but the sunroof open with the temperature around 40 or less. I don’t know what it is, but I cannot be in the car with the heat on, and have the sunroof closed. It’s just nice having a breeze coming in, but the warmth still keeping me comfortable.

I make random noises.
For some reason, at my parent’s old house where I grew up, I got accustomed to walking around and literally screaming, yelping, barking, bawking, clucking and god knows what else. I still do this at their new house. I’ll be walking up the stairs from the basement after doing a load of laundry, and I’ll just shout out random jibberish. This has always, and still, pisses of my dad. It’s just kind of relaxing to let it all out!

I get compulsive urges to buy office supplies.
I’m sure this isn’t just something I experience, but I feel happy when I am around a mass quantity of office supplies–especially if it’s on my desk. I don’t know what it is, but I like seeing a bunch of unsharpened pencils (I never use their erasers either, my pencils must look pretty!), pens (with their caps of course!), paperclips, white paper, crayons, pencil sharpener, sticky notes, markers, highlighters… I want it all. Which is why I found working in an office supply store so hard. I walk around the store lusting after all these items, and the various organizers that I would keep them in.

There, all done. I’m sure most of those weren’t too weird, and were more in the quirky department, but that’s all I could really come up with. I’m sure I’d have to have my friends and boyfriend answer that question for me, since they have to put up with it on a daily basis!

Since I’m supposed to tag other people to do this, I am going to force Rose, Pamela, Josh and Becky. If you don’t do this meme, you will suffer a bout of herpes.

I’m starting to love making fun of this asshole: The internet lets you lie, and How well do you know someone?. I came across a website (violentbones.net) that was talking about a “new CMS” called Wordsex, which I happened to remember reading about somewhere that this was one of Meng’s projects. So I decided to take a visit, and again, I brought the LOL.

I didn’t even have to scratch my head to wonder where I had seen this design from before because I knew exactly where. Last year sometime I came across a host that used Loadingdeck.com as their designer, and since then I’ve been visiting it once in awhile to see what new concepts he’s come up with, because I happen to enjoy them. He does unique sites but still has the style that’s recognizable as his. Since I’ve seen that design before I went ahead and searched through his past clients, and Meng’s Wordsex design is identical to Loadingdeck’s template design for template #7. And with that being said, I’m sending an e-mail to the owner, Dan, to let him know about this so he can take care of it. I’m sure the website will disappear into oblivion much like any other domain Meng owns (if you try to check out prokrypt.net, or blt-tech.net they no longer work! HA!)

Oh, and in case you’re wondering how I know that Meng owns that domain, the DNS nameservers were pointed to mixxture.net, which is his old, defunct (and crappy) webhosting company, that zooned.com is going to replace.

Thank you so much for providing me with this entertainment.

Edit 5/21/07: Well, he seems to have removed everything from the website, but I managed to save the page to my server for archival purposes. To view what was on wordsex.us, view atourworst.org/WordSex.us _ Next Gen CMS.htm. Thanks Melissa for letting me know that it wasn’t up anymore.

I started to work on my own topsites script since I’ve been wanting to have one up and running for people to have fun with. I’ve gotten the main functions down (signing up, receiving referral link, votes and tallies) but now it’s a matter of working on an the backend for the topsites administrator and then the user backend so you can add an image, update information, and grab the url code. As far as stats go, I’m not that advanced in regards of how to output all of the tabular data.

This is just going to be really simple, and just something for me to work on and really get familiar with the whole process. I’m having a lot of fun with it too. =)