I'll Show You Mine, If You'll Show Me Yours....

Hello again, friends. I know you've all come here looking for a little "homework." Lady Java tagged me with the unspectacular quirks meme and here I am now, to reveal my quirkiest traits. Now I'll show you mine, if you'll show me yours...

Here are the rules:

1. Link the person(s) who tagged you
2. Mention the rules on your blog
3. Tell about 6 unspectacular quirks of yours...
4. Tag 6 following bloggers by linking them…
5. Leave a comment on each of the tagged blogger’s blogs letting them know they’ve been tagged.

Here are my quirks...

1. I won't walk under cranes/scaffolding or over subway grates/basement doors (since the recent crane crashes in NYC, this quirk of mine has been getting more respect)
2. I like to eat each item on my plate separately (e.g., finish the string beans before eating the steak, then eat the french fries)
3. I'm still afraid of the bogeyman. When I was a kid I thought he lived in my family's cavelike basement. These days, I won't go down our basement (which is fully finished and brightly lit) at night. The bogeyman stays away when Rex is home, but when Rex travels on business, the girls sleep in my bedroom with the alarm system turned on. One time after a birthday party, some helium balloons set off the alarm system and the Mendham Township police force had to come and save us from the bogeyman!
4. I have horrible, hideous fingernails, mostly my own fault. I bite them, I pick at them, and for several years I had a nail fungus (not my fault) that made ridges and bumps all over them. Eew!
5. When I do any serious writing, I prefer handwriting to my computer. I carry a leather journal with me everywhere and write whenever and wherever I can. When I was living the wild single life, I carried a small notebook in my purse and wrote haiku in all the Jersey Shore bars.
6. Despite my blogger persona, when I'm out and about "live" in the Roxiticus Valley (or anywhere else), I hide behind my camera and/or notebook rather than initiating conversation with new people.

OK, I've shown you my quirks, now it is time to turn the tables and tag a few blogosphere buddies to show my yours...I'm tagging Henson (this ought to be hilarious), Maggie (who has a brand new shiny job and a long train commute during which she can ponder her quirks), SpicyBug, Shinade, Tashabud, and Buffy (who just quit smoking, congratulations Buffy, here's something to do instead of reaching for a cigarette).