If you aren’t a frequent comment reader, this post is prompted by Chaia tagging me off an earlier post. You can read her blog to discover her random habits of nudism (Note: I can’t link to a specific post so just look around for a post from Dec. 13).

Anyway, I’m not going to state the rules, nor am I going to tag other people (if my friends really want to do this, just write five weird habits on your blog), but I will share my inane habits with you for some interesting reading.

1. I brush my teeth with a separate toothbrush in the morning than in the evening. I’ve been doing this ever since Eric told me that his mom (a biologist) mentioned that the bacteria in your mouth lives on the toothbrush for about 12 hours, which means you’d be brushing the bacteria back into your mouth. Technically, I heard on the Today show that said bacteria die after the toothbrush dries… but still… ew. I’ll stick with two toothbrushes.
2. The temperature settings in my car and on weather.com are both set to celsius. It took some adjustment at first, but I like it better… mostly because I have a hard time remembering what the freezing point in farenheit is (36? 32? 34? It’s so arbitrary). Remembering 0 is so much easier. As a side note, I’ve known one person who reset my car’s temperature reading to farenheit multiple times thinking it was a mistake. It’s not. If you do that, I will kick you out of my car.
3. I’m one of those weird people who washes the dishes before putting them in the dishwasher. To me, the dishwasher is only good for soaping them and drying them… I feel like if I don’t get all the food particles off then I’m not doing a good job. In fairness, this is how I was brought up to do the dishes… but I’m pretty particular about it now.
4. I don’t listen to, rate, or sort iTunes songs that I get from the iTunes music store until I burn them onto a CD and re-rip them in mp3 format. It’s not that I’m trying to enable sharing of the songs I download… I just have a hard time listening to the songs knowing that they are in a different format than the others. This usually results in me not wanting to waste a CD until I’ve downloaded at least 8 – 10 songs… so I may go 2 months after downloading a song without listening to it much, if at all.
5. The fans in my apartment are on 24/7, year-round. I actually do this because my apartment is perpetually hotter than my comfort level allows (no AC in the summer, everyone else’s heat rises in the winter)… so it’s good to keep the air circulating. But now, I have a hard time sleeping without the noise. It’s weird.

There they are. Some of my random habits that may leave you with that feeling of “… huh.” So good night.