The first player of this game starts with the topic five weird habits of yourself and people who get tagged need to write an entry about their five weird habits as well as state this rule clearly. In the end, you need to choose the next five people to be tagged and link to their web journals."

Well, endofthe road tagged me.  I am still very new to this type of thing so I had to ask her how to do this.  Anyhoo, here goes.  Oh, and since I don't know how to link to the web journals I guess anyone who reads this can consider themselves tagged and leave me a note letting me know you have done this!

I consider myself a pretty normal person (what's really normal anyway?), so I'm not sure if these count as "weird habits" or not.

1.  I always prefer to read a book before seeing a movie version.  And almost always don't like the movie version after seeing it.  Now, that's probably not really a weird habit, but it does cause some "grousing" around here when I make the kids do the same thing (read: can't see Narnia until you finish the book!).

2.  I have 2 little stray black hairs under my chin that I am constantly (read: obsessively) checking to see if they are visible and plucking them out.  I think this goes back to remembering one of my aunt's really long, thick, black hairs on her chin when I was a little girl and not wanting to be that person!

3.  Like endoftheroad, I eat my M&Ms by cracking off the coating and then sucking on the chocolate.  I thought I was the only person to do that -- and it's wonderful to find someone else who does that, too!

4.  I don't have a problem sharing toothbrushes with anyone in my family (and some outside of my family) -- I figure if you rinse with hot water it can't be any worse than sitting near each other in the holder anyway.

5.  When I am really concentrating hard on something I stick out the tip of my tongue.  My mom says I picked up this habit when I was little.  I had a chihuaha from the time I was born until I was 15 (Cricket) and she always had her tongue tip sticking out -- so mama says I was trying to imitate her and picked up this habit.  My kids think it's very weird.

6.  I bite my fingernails.  I mean, I really bite them.  They are never without at least one or two that are so sore from my biting that I can hardly use them (and I type for a living).

So, I guess some of mine could be considered more of an off-shoot of obsessive-compulsive behavior versus weird habits, but, there they are.