I Am Queer

My choice of words is deliberate. I bet my blog title piqued your interest. Daniel has been gone this whole week at Lake Powell and I haven't been doing much of anything. For some reason while I have been hanging out with myself I have noticed many bizarre, and seemingly hypocritical things I do. Here is a list:

• My closet is color coded and separated by clothing type (shirts, pants, skirts, etc.); however, many of the clothes are inside-out on the hanger because I don't feel like taking the time to fix them. Margaret Tueller was the first to point this out to me. She is about to pop with baby #2, by the way. (Margaret- the question to you is: are you going to create a whole new blog for Tueller-Proffitt boy #2, or morph Booker's site into a dual-approach with posts from one or both of the boy's points of view? I am dying to know)
  
• I exercise a lot but I eat unhealthy foods. Today I went to the gym and I also ate 5 cupcakes. Lest you think any less of me, eating 5 cupcakes in one day is not necessarily typical, but it was a great example.
  
• I set my alarm clock to very particular times, such as 8:27 AM, but I NEVER get up the first time it goes off.
• I wipe down my kitchen counter tops multiple times a day but I rarely scrub the floor. Rarely means rarely (like less than monthly). Don't judge me. Our 15-year-old linoleum looks essentially the same after being scrubbed for 2 hours. There is no point. I do sweep or vacuum it regularly.
  
• I am a very good speller and I don't know Roman Numerals- at all. I was out sick when we covered them in third grade. That is not a joke; I really was out sick. I came back to school and we had one more day of them but I was too shy to ask for help so I just never learned.
  
• I spend a lot of energy and money on clothing. I like nice clothes (only on sale of course). However, I hardly ever spend time doing my hair. In fact, there have been multiple times when I did my hair and someone told me they had no idea my hair was that length. Side note: Daniel has asked me several times why buying nice clothes for a great price that I don't really need is okay. He doesn't understand the satisfaction of knowing that the pants you are buying were originally $99.99, marked down to $59.99, then to $34.99, and finally to $15.49.
  
• I have never paid a bill late. Ever. I managed to be late to my first class nearly every day during graduate school.
  
• I hate The Hills but I still watch it. My excuse is that Daniel likes it.
  
• I love writing long emails but I hate long phone conversations.
  

Yep, I am definitely queer!

*Editing note: The above picture is of me in a kitchen cabinet. There is currently a microwave occupying that space. Daniel and I went to visit his cousins when they had just moved into a new house. I climbed into the cabinet just to see if I could. Daniel shut the door and we surprised everyone when they came in!