Bad Habits

• 06-30-2008 8:32 AM

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  sharismom Joined on 09-10-2007 mid-Michigan Posts 1,975 Points 0

  Re: Bad Habits Reply Contact chelsea_b: Chuffy: I've developed a new worst habit... leaving cupboard doors open. LOL! Apparently I do that too. I really don't see what the big deal is though.   You'll realize what the big deal is when you walk into one, esp. in the dark, or you stand up and hit your head on the corner of one.  That's how I learned to break that bad habit.  My bad habit is sticking stuff in drawers or closets without organizing it just to clear clutter.  Then I can't find something without taking everything out.  Or else it is crammed full enough it's like one of those trick jars of peanut butter with the springy snake thingy inside - you open it and it flies up in your face and all over the floor. Tina

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• 06-30-2008 9:25 AM

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  2shelties Joined on 04-30-2007 suburb of Atlanta Posts 647 Points 85	Re: Bad Habits Reply Contact I'm a procrastinator and a picker too, but according to DH I'm also a loud cell phone talker. It's the only thing he's ever complained about me doing, and I don't realize I'm doing it. But the cabinet doors thing...uggghhh!!! DH does that and it drives me nuts. Ripley - Shetland Sheepdog Frosty - Shetland Sheepdog Shiner - Border Collie Muffin and Pookie - the kitties
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• 06-30-2008 9:37 AM

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  BlackLabbie Joined on 01-27-2008 South of Boston Posts 1,138 Points 175

  Re: Bad Habits Reply Contact BEVOLASVEGAS: I am a morning person.  I wake up around 5:00 am, & I am immediately bouncing off the walls.  DH isn't a morning person, so he really considers this a bad habit. I'm a neat freak.   We have roombas that vaccuum daily, on each floor of our house because dirt, & dog hair on the floors make me crazy.  I can't sleep if there are dirty dishes in the sink or dishwasher.  It just bothers me... I'm very organized.  I will stress out over minor things that reallyshouldn't stress me.  (We are organizing a luau, & I have stressed all weekend over what kind of flower we will use for the women to put behind their ears.  The florist that we are using isn't open on the weekend, so it isn't like I could order them even if I had made a decision.) I am rarely return personal calls.  I intend to, but I put it off, & then decide not to return the call because I feel that I have waited too long to do so.  I do the same with emails as well.  Hey, seems like we'd get along well...well, except for the fact we'd never talk because neither of us is good at returning phone calls! If hunger is not the problem, then eating is not the solution. ~Author Unknown

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• 06-30-2008 5:14 PM

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  Chuffy Joined on 12-17-2006 UK Posts 5,504 Points 10

  Re: Bad Habits Reply Contact sharismom: chelsea_b: Chuffy: I've developed a new worst habit... leaving cupboard doors open. LOL! Apparently I do that too. I really don't see what the big deal is though.   You'll realize what the big deal is when you walk into one, esp. in the dark, or you stand up and hit your head on the corner of one.  That's how I learned to break that bad habit.    I have done that SO many times.  It just makes the place look so untidy, I can see why it bothers him... *thinks* I think I DID shut them all when I was doing dinner tonight.  So YAY me! "Give a man a fire and he's warm for a day, but set fire to him and he's warm for the rest of his life." (Pratchett, Jingo) "I used to look at [my dog] Smokey and think, 'If you were a little smarter you could tell me what you were thinking,' and he'd look at me like he was saying, 'If you were a little smarter, I wouldn't have to.'" - Fred Jungclaus

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• 07-02-2008 1:14 PM

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  tashakota Joined on 09-10-2007 Posts 2,616 Points 45

  Re: Bad Habits Reply Contact jennie_c_d: I'm a picker, too. I've had to really fight to not pick Ena's skin.  I am also chronically late. This morning, I was supposed to be at my friend's house at 5:30 to leave for a dog show. At 5:30, I woke up. Ouch.  Annnnd I talk really, really fast. Especially if I'm nervous. People hit me, occasionally.    lol about the hitting part.  I grew up in NY and we all talked really really fast.  Faster than Gilmore Girls.  ;) But I don't pick so much as fidget.  I have a compulsive drive to run my fingers along hems of shirts or felt-like material in which I either destroy the hem or material or I catch a nail so many times I can then tear off the end.     Would LOVE to be able to stop doing this because it makes my shoulders hurt and my thumbs!  Yet I can't stop!  I constantly cross my arms so I can fidget with the hems of my sleeves!  I should wear all tailored button down shirts instead of knit tops so I can't do it.  At work, my wrist rest is a felt-like material and I have "fidgeted" with it so much that it's a bit rough now.  If I wear gloves, the desire goes away.  Would like to find a pair of thin gloves to wear all the time until the conditioning is over.  Leslie and the kids..

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• 07-02-2008 1:34 PM

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  Maxs Mom Joined on 09-26-2006 Livonia, MI Posts 1,580 Points 100

  Re: Bad Habits Reply Contact tashakota: But I don't pick so much as fidget.  I have a compulsive drive to run my fingers along hems of shirts or felt-like material in which I either destroy the hem or material or I catch a nail so many times I can then tear off the end.     Would LOVE to be able to stop doing this because it makes my shoulders hurt and my thumbs!  Yet I can't stop!  I constantly cross my arms so I can fidget with the hems of my sleeves!  I should wear all tailored button down shirts instead of knit tops so I can't do it.  At work, my wrist rest is a felt-like material and I have "fidgeted" with it so much that it's a bit rough now.  If I wear gloves, the desire goes away.  Would like to find a pair of thin gloves to wear all the time until the conditioning is over.    I have a "texture thing" too. Hard to explain, I scratch material against the grain, my own finger print ridges.  I have to be doing "something" as a child I sucked my thumb, which grew into chewing my hair (maybe oral fixation is a better word ) then playing with (twirling) my hair and now grinding my teeth when I am awake. If I am eating, I don't play with my hair or grind my teeth. I guess I am a 'tense' person?  I am not a neat freak at home, but around my horse I am very very meticulous. He is cleaned until he shines, my tack is clean, my boots are clean and all my storage units are organized. I am a task master when I make the decision to do something, I have to get stuff done IF I stop it won't get done for a LONG time.   Maybe not tense maybe too much nervous energy. Funny thing that ALL goes out the window when I ride, otherwise I would pass it to the horses. I can not electrify a horse if my life depended on it.   Ann & Art Maxine CGC, UADNJIII, DDNJ-r (11 yr old Golden) Belle NJP, NAJ, OJP, CGC, UAGI, UADSJ, UADJJ (5 Black Lab) Teddi UADJJ, UJJ, CGC (1 1/2 yr old Golden) Pete 14 yr old TB

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• 07-02-2008 9:59 PM

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  jennyx0023 Joined on 09-10-2007 Pittsburgh Posts 1,489 Points 215

  Re: Bad Habits Reply Contact I am a hugeee procrastinator. I will wait until the very last minute to do something. I drive fast and I text while driving I pick at my lips if they are chapped I HATE cleaning I burp really really loud and don't care who's around I sleep in every single day way too late I think my worst habit is when I do drink, I drink way too much. ~~ Jenn ~~ "Dogs are miracles with paws"

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• 07-02-2008 11:17 PM

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  BEVOLASVEGAS Joined on 07-11-2006 Texas Posts 4,157 Points 640

  Re: Bad Habits Reply Contact I don't always remember to sit "lady like" when I'm in the Jeep.  (There is nothing worse than wearing a skirt when the doors are off of the Jeep.  Half of the city gets a free show.) Amanda "Life is not a journey to the grave with the intention of arriving safely in a pretty and well preserved body, but rather to skid in broadside, throughly used up, totally worn out, and loudly proclaiming --- ' WOW, WHAT A RIDE!!!! ' " - Author Unknown

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• 07-02-2008 11:20 PM

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  rwbeagles Joined on 09-10-2007 DFW, TX Posts 14,905 Points 2,035	Re: Bad Habits Reply Contact Probably my worst ones, that are in theory...changeable: Being negative Being cynical Yelling Gina H. dog.community Moderator "Carne Asada, is not a crime."
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