Of curly hairs and barmy behaviour

Who's that crazy chick?

Yesterday was "hair-in-my-grub" day. At lunch, I found a short curly hair (pray it wasn't from down south) in my dory fish and at dinner, I found a medium length straight hair in my dry fishball mee pok. As a kid, I used to get squeamish about finding hairs in my food - one strand in my noodles and the whole bowl was rendered vile; I just couldn't bring myself to finish it. Either my gut has since grown more tolerant or I'm just plain greedy because I casually pulled out the hair(s) at both meals and carried on gobbling. What were the chances of finding hairs in both meals on the same day?! I figured that chefs have probably done worse to the food I've sent back through the years, so what are a couple of strands? Hygiene levels have reached a new low. Oh well, I consider it building my body's resistance, just in case I ever have to go to India one day.

I'm a different person today than I was yesterday. I'm less uptight, I think. Where I used to hem and haw over whether to get a dress just because the shop didn't have a new piece, I'm a lot more impulsive now, which isn't necessarily a good thing. I figure that since I hardly have the time to shop these days and that life is so short, why obsess over whether it's been worn by someone else? It's gonna be tossed in the wash repeatedly and worn out over the next year or so anyway.

That said, I'm still insanely anal about certain things, to the point of being a tad OCD. Things like dents in cereal boxes (I blame my mum for this), the level of hand soap or drink in a bottle (the more the merrier), bruised fruit (hate ugly fruit), loose threads, how straight the stitching is on a dress, how stiff a zipper is, scuffs on new shoes (always happens on the very first day I wear them!), scratches on my bags and a whole bunch of other inane things.

A whole post on eating food tainted with dubious strands, my spendthrift ways and OCD behaviour! I don't update often, but once I do, a whole lot spills out heh? ;) I guess I'm just loco that way. It comes from the OCD. Surely I'm not the only nut job. What's your OCD behaviour? JT