I'm a freak

The evidence is mounting. I've always felt like a bit of an outcast, but the fact that I am a freak has become a lot more obvious and undeniable lately. The things that sound perfectly normal and rational in my head become insane once I verbalize them, because it usually causes others to either roll their eyes or just burst out laughing at me. It happened twice yesterday.

Yesterday I was on the phone with my friend Tiffany and we were trying to figure out a time that we could grab our partners and get together for dinner sometime in December, and I mentioned that we already had plans on the 10th, but if we wanted to stick to Saturdays we could do it on the 3rd or the 17th. I guess Tiffany hadn't thought much about the December calendar because she asked how in the world I knew all those dates and I said, "Because they're football scores." It seemed perfectly logical to me. All of the Mondays in November were common football scores too--7th, 14th, 21st, and 28th. Today is a football score if a team gets three touchdowns and three field goals. Or four touchdowns and a safety. That's how my brain recalls dates. Angela's birthday is three field goals. Mine is two touchdowns and a field goal. Tiffany cracked up said I am officially a freak. I agree. I accept.

I was weird about the refrigerator repairman yesterday too. Not visibly weird, but it gave me the willies when he opened up our fridge and freezer and looked inside. The contents are so personal. I'm sure he wasn't looking at the chicken wings and individually wrapped oatmeal bars because he had to concentrate on the tube that went from the wall to the ice maker and figure out why that stopped working, but while he was fiddling with that I imagined him having all sorts of wildly uncontrollable thoughts about our skim milk and mayonnaise. Irrational? Yes. But that didn't stop me from wondering if he was enjoying the pumpkin bread peep show. Angela thinks I'm a total nut. She's right. But I'm a happy nut. :-) Word.

P.S. Tomorrow, the 1st, can't be a football score.