AUTHOR: Sara TITLE: 10 Weird Things About My Husband DATE: 3/06/2005 06:29:00 PM ----- BODY:

*I have made this list in love, even if it seems I am mocking his strangeness. To be fair, please be on the look out for the upcoming "10 Weird Things About Me" post . . . 10. My husband has two toes that are connected on his left foot. In other words, the skin in-between his toes grew together before his was born. I like to call him the winged squirrel. (In our genetic testing, both of us have normal chromosomes, no translocations. It is just one of those things!) 9. If you tell Mike to put together anything (i.e. a piece of furniture, a desk, a BBQ, an entertainment center) he will put it together backwards 10 times out of 10, even with the directions. I have disassembled so many damn pieces of furniture I cannot even count them anymore. 8. He eats approximately 7-10 Granny Smith apples a day. He carries them in his car, in his backpack, and on a rushed-morning, in his pockets. The cashiers at the grocery store keep asking us to bake them a pie. 7. Mike began turning gray when he was seventeen years old. If he didn't dye his hair, he would have that lovely salt-and-pepper look that I actually think is kind of sexy. Considering that he is only 28 years old, I often wonder what he will look like in 10 years. :-) 6. He is the best cook . . ever. I tell him all the time we should open up a restaurant, but he does not seem to think he cooks that great and won't cook for guests. (So I am the only one who REALLY knows that I live with Wolfgang Puck.) 5. Because Mike is finishing up his student teaching, he is currently a waiter at an Italian restaurant here in town. It ends up that Mike has a certain way with elderly women. They e-mail him jokes regularly and make up 50% of his tips, which suprisingly enough, are damn good. (Maybe it is the gray hair!) 4. He has more shoes than I do. We have a separate closet downstairs for his precious collection. 3. He didn't begin talking until the first grade, apparently. His mother died when he was a toddler and being that his father was in his mid-fifties and working all the time, his aunt and female cousins took care of him. (Spoiled him to the point that he didn't HAVE to talk, I think. They didn't know any better, really. He ended up in speech classes until high school.) 2. Mike would rather drive nails through his skull than leave the outgoing message on the answering machine. 1. Back to the fruit thing, even though he is pretty healthy, Mike hates the taste of water. So, he cuts up every piece of fruit you can imagine and puts them in his Aquafina water bottle so his water has taste. (Propel and other flavored waters don't work.) It starts looking like a huge bottle of sangria by the end of the day, but he still drinks it. Strange . . .

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