Little Things

My idiosyncrasies and other peculiar habits:

• When I get depressed I listen to depressing songs, like Shadow of the Day by Minutes to Midnight; Whatever it Takes by Lifehouse; pretty much any song from the first two Fray albums (The Fray and How To Save a Life); a lot of songs by Chris Daughtry (Daughtry); The Chain by Ingrid Michaelson; and a lot of songs in Coldplay's album A Rush of Blood to the Head.
• When I was a little kid, I used to think trading a dollar in for four quarters was an awesome deal. (FYI, four quarters equals one dollar-but I don't think you're THAT stupid...hopefully.) The sad thing is that sometimes I still think that. Yeah. Depressing, right?
• Bubble wrap is both the greatest invention of all time and also my favorite coping skill.
• One time I was in the car with my mom, and we were driving past a farm and we saw some cows, and she turned to me and said, "Hey, Katie, did you know that brown cows make chocolate milk?" I looked at her, and--in all seriousness--went, "Omigod, really?! That's so cool!" You'd probably like to think this happened when I was six, or something. Truth is, it happened a couple months ago. Welcome to my life!
• I get ridiculously territorial about pop culture stuff (for lack of a better term). I hate when I find a song before everyone else and I love it, and then it goes on the radio and then everyone all of a sudden starts going, "OMG, I love that song! It's been my favorite, for, like, ever!" even when they'd never heard of the song until it hit 104.1--so fricking annoying! And also, I'm not one of those people who go out and find songs that they think will be a hit on the radio and then just want the bragging rights for liking it first. I'm just aggressive about it. Judge me all you want, but that isn't going to change a thing. As my favorite singer P!nk says, "Eat your heart out, bitches." Damn straight!
• The word "like" is about as bad as nails on a chalkboard for other people. I hear people start to say it and I go nutso. Legit! I cannot stand it! Use your imagination and use something different! Depends on the context, but the most common use of like nowadays is what I call the "Airhead Apathy Syndrome." Offensive, but hey, I speak the truth.
• I don't like dictionary definitions when they use the word or a form of the word you're trying to look up in the definition; case in point, one time I came across a definition for 'dictator': one who dictates. Are you fucking serious?! Where'd you get your brains, at a two-for-one sale at the dump? One time my friend Hannah and I were in one of our school staff's car on a way to the Woman's Conference in Boston along with other kids (girls) and she asked Siri what the definition of "Unobtrusive" was. Siri's reply? "The definition of unobtrusive is being not obtrusive." Hello!!
• I'm crazy but sort of sane; intelligent but also sort of drop-dead stupid sometimes; beautiful but also ugly at other moments; kind but kind of bitchy in certain situations...I guess you could say I'm 'special.' Don't look it up in the dictionary; you won't find it there. Maybe you should try WebMD? They know everything!

Long story short is, I'm pretty much unexplainable. And whether or not that is a curse or a blessing, well...I suppose we will find out in due time, my dear Watson. :)