Forever Quirky
Wrapping my head around “quirky”, a word that recently used by my friend who really knows me. I had imagine that quirky was something I had grown into but no… she said that it is who I have always been.
I like to believe I am ruled by logic. Logic however can be manipulated fairly easy. So I can make collecting staplers, concocting a lunch based on color or traveling to Irish town because it has the same name as our dog, Doolin fit into my logic box, I am clever that way.
It stems, I imagine, from my aversion to routine and mundane. I rarely do anything the same way twice. Duplication is hard for me. Can draw, can’t trace. Can make exotic gelatins but don’t expect them to be the same the next time around. What routine I do own has a lot to do with living with husband that puts enough routine in our life not to rock the kayak and the dogs who know what we should be doing and when. I am not however “off the wall”. I don’t make dramatic turns causing things and people go off kilter. I am not crazy just quirky.
I continue to write this as I sit here in my sock monkey pajamas (Goodwill find) and non-matching curry colored t shirt and brown and tan striped socks. I drink my coffee out of a 1930’s restraurant china cup, Shenango Inca Ware cup to be specific. Nothing in my house is as you might expect. When people walk in the door their eyes get bigger and they smile because it isn’t anything they expected. Not the arts & crafts door not the icon on the wall not the guns hanging from the staircase nor the pottery amassed across the unconventional mantel. When I was in my mid 20’s I wore an oatmeal color t-shirt in to work that read “Run of the Mill”. It was from an old Quaker Oats factory turned shopping center. An art director from another department stopped on the staircase and commented “you my dear, are the furthest thing from Run of the Mill”.
So who would have guessed that the one of the most changeable woman you might ever encounter does not change her quirky stripes.
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