The Laughlins

Tag! You're it! My friend, Mat has tagged me, so that means that you all get to learn a bit about my quirks...see below...
(So the rules are, once you've been tagged, you have to write a blog with "6 weird facts/things/habits about yourself." In the end you need to choose the 6 people to be tagged and list their names. Don't forget to leave a comment that says "you are tagged" in their comments and tell them to read yours.)

1) I routinely click the emergency brake button while I am driving as an obsessive compulsive means of making sure that it is not pulled up at all...Mark makes fun of me for it.
2) I am in the habit of "organizing" insanely fast when I put my mind to it and often have the bad habit of cleaning cooking items up before Mark is finished with them, throwing away the "junk mail" before it hits the table, and otherwise "finding a place" for everything...everything needs a home...a real home :) Amazingly enough, that does not mean that we have a pristine apartment...just that I go into clutter frenzies every so often.
3) When I put gel in my hair (which I normally do), I end up "playing with my hair" most of the day, or at least until the gel dries and I have sufficiently "broken it all up" so that my hair is softer and not so gelled. Even then, I usually end up twirling random sections of loose hair into what I think are curls, but they usually end up looking more like dreds when I am done.
4) Certain noises can really drive me crazy under different circumstance. I hate all hissing/high air pressure noises, balloons popping, people chewing or gulping ANYTHING near my ear (mough noises), extremely loud noises, etc. I still jump everytime a firework explodes (even though I expect the noise) and when guns go off (unless I have ear muffs). I never thought I would run track at all because I hated the though of wincing and waiting for the gun to shoot...but I did.
5) I don't mind unavoidable, unplanned pain (for the most part) - I can beat myself up pretty well doing fun activities or sports I enjoy, but I don't like the idea of pre-planned pain (certain doctor visits, wisdom teeth pulled, etc.)
6) I'm always checking to see if things (mostly food/drink) are "contaminated." I make Mark sniff the milk (and taste it), I NEVER put my toothbrush on the counter, and I even cover the top of my open cup of water that I keep by my bedside, so that it is not full of dust by morning since the fan blows in that general direction all night.

That's all for now...there are many other weird things about me, as I am sure most of you know :)
I tag Jake/Sheri, Melinda/Tyson, Ben/April, Ben/Johanna, Nate/Ashley, and Leah!! However, all of you feel free to be tagged since I would love to have blackmail on each of you :)