TGIF

sharismom

. I do, however, eat my M&Ms one at a time, in order of color I like the least to the one I like the most. It's a sickness, I know. You should see how seasonal colors wig me out.

Well, you get points for sorting them!!  I simply eat mine by twos, with the colors with the smallest amount first.  (My husband saw me doing that one day and almost called the funny farm because I 'sorted' them.)

I'm no good at the decorating thing either.  I really don't give a fig ... 

This OCD M&M talk is cracking me up. When Sonja was potty training, I had a small Pyrex glass of M&Ms. After she peed, she got to pick a couple. She would always eat every single brown one in the jar first.

janobonano

When Sonja was potty training, I had a small Pyrex glass of M&Ms. After she peed, she got to pick a couple. She would always eat every single brown one in the jar first.

I knew I liked this child!  

I think it is hysterical so many of us do this (in our own ways LOL) -- my husband thinks i"m NUTS because I play Spider Solitaire when I need to calm down my brain.  And if I don't "win" I don't quit -- I back out of it again and again until I get it to resolve JUST BECAUSE it helps me organize my brain in working things forward.  

 OCD?  I'd sooner think for most of us it is a way of making the enjoyment last.  I mean it's a little frigging bag of M&Ms and if you're a chocolate freak it's gone in a heartbeat.  But stringing it out -- it's a way to make it last.  

(besides -- M&Ms melt in your mouth ... NOT in your hand!! -- now how old do we all admit to being to know THAT one!)

 He rarely plays solitaire ... and I love it.  

Kate -- I gotta try your "row around the dinner plate"  ... 

calliecritturs

 OCD?  I'd sooner think for most of us it is a way of making the enjoyment last.  I mean it's a little frigging bag of M&Ms and if you're a chocolate freak it's gone in a heartbeat.  But stringing it out -- it's a way to make it last.  

Janice, do you know why Sonja chose the brown ones?  I'd assume kids would immediately go to their favorite color first, yet brown isn't a color you think of as a favorite for most children.  However, DH's kindergarten teacher told his mother she was concerned that when he colored in class, he'd only use black crayons, no other colors.  Oddly enough, he wears black T-shirts or sweatshirts a lot as an adult!

tacran

Janice, do you know why Sonja chose the brown ones? 

LOL my first thot wasn't ... nice (she was on the potty?  BROWN?? LOL)

But no -- think SMALL child -- think -- chocolate is brown.  You LIKE chocolate -- so you eat the brown ones first because you KNOW those are chocolate right?

 Someone said above something about how awful it would be to have to hear little kids all day long and that it might give you a headache?  nope -- for me it was always the dearest sound ever -- teach them to "hush" when you need them to, but the exuberant sound of kids playing?  *smile* I'd love being next door to a pre-school. 

 Art Linkletter was right -- kids DO say the darnedest things.  But it's the most refreshing kind of honesty.

Yup Callie, she said she wanted the "chocolate" ones. If there were a purple that would probably be her second choice.

I'm running a 5k tomorrow. It's the same one I did last year. I was in better shape last year and trained a lot more, but hopefully I'll do ok. 

calliecritturs

Someone said above something about how awful it would be to have to hear little kids all day long and that it might give you a headache?  nope -- for me it was always the dearest sound ever

No, not the sound of kids all day long.  The sound of kids making that high pitched, ear drum breaking screech they sometime make when they're playing. If that's the dearest sound ever, you've not heard the sound I'm talking about. lol

Stick a fork in me - I'm done. I got to the other house to clean at 8 and just finished up at 6. DH actually had to make one more trip over there and was going to stop and buy Taco Bell on the way home. I had 2 pieces of cold pizza around 10, so I'm starving. It was the hottest freaking day ever and I can't remember sweating so much. We didn't turn on the air there because there was doors open all the time, so it got pretty steamy. One trip back, my car said it was 117 - ugh! I'm glad we are finally out of there but the entire house looks like a tornado hit it. Hopefully I can get things a little organized tomorrow but tonight I'm done.

the M&M stories cracked me up too. I'm totally non OCD and just grab a handful and put them in my mouth. DH is super OCD about jelly bellies though, so I could appreciate the image.

No, I think I've always used M&Ms. Much higher value than Goldfish crackers. lol. Plus the potty-trainER get an occasional reward, too.

janobonano

No, I think I've always used M&Ms. Much higher value than Goldfish crackers. lol. Plus the potty-trainER get an occasional reward, too.

JackieG

calliecritturs

Someone said above something about how awful it would be to have to hear little kids all day long and that it might give you a headache?  nope -- for me it was always the dearest sound ever

 No, not the sound of kids all day long.  The sound of kids making that high pitched, ear drum breaking screech they sometime make when they're playing. If that's the dearest sound ever, you've not heard the sound I'm talking about. lol

I get it -- truly I do.  But much of my history was teaching developmentally disabled kids -- so the sound of normal kids making horrific noises?  you tend to hear it differently like "I wish _____ could sound like that".  But when you work there & are immersed in it, it's kinda like a room full of mothers and in the nursery next door ONE baby starts crying and THAT mother will stand up and react and the others will ignore it cos they know which are there own?  and what sort of "cry" it was??

You can stand with your back to the playground and KNOW who probably did what to whom just by the general sound of the hubub and the one bellow or cry or scream.  It ceases to be "Noise" and somewhere becomes information?  I miss it, Jackie -- so of course my memory is selective too, I'm sure LOL

Now the sound of Luna whining?  Can drive me right over the edge big time.  LOL -- I think it's "frame of reference".