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lol, makes me happy.

Anonymous wrote:

HappilyTanned wrote:
lol, makes me happy.

It also sounds kind of creepy…

Yes Anonymous, don’t worry, your feet are smellable as well. :)

verge wrote:
It’s sweet :)

Thank you. :)

Neontime wrote:
lol are we this bored?

Just something unusual and light-hearted that I’d thought to share. :)

mindhealer wrote:
You could teach her this chant of “trick or treat, smell my feet, give me something good to eat.” It’s, something I remember from my childhood, it could come in handy if someone happens to be starving but has highly smellable feet.

I remember that too… brings back memories of halloween and dressing up…and getting away with loads of candy. mmm, good memories.

Neontime wrote:

HappilyTanned wrote:

Neontime wrote:
lol are we this bored?

Just something unusual and light-hearted that I’d thought to share. :)

I Love it uh huh :)

neat-o. spaghetti-o. hmm, i might be a little sleepy right now.

aha. wonderful idea windmills.

Where were you 1 hour and 32 minutes ago? lol. let me edit.

yea Cat’s poops smells a bit too sour, i think. I try to steer clear.

But definitely agree about the DNA bit. Makes sense.
I also read that it seems pretty interesting to note, many parents/esp. moms like the smell of the feetsies.

Partially due to the fact that at that age the feet don’t touch the ground, very novel idea.

Thanks for sharing, SlightlyUnique. :)

windmills, wrote:

HappilyTanned wrote:
aha. wonderful idea windmills.

Where were you 1 hour and 32 minutes ago? lol. let me edit.

Hmm, I don’t remember. Terrible memory. :]

Ah the fallacy of the human memory, it comes in handy sometimes. I’ve known it to be to so…

verge wrote:
I love to smell books (especially newer ones) and go swimming in the ocean when it is way too cold.

ah, the smell of new books. As do i! It’s kind of like the new car smell, I like that too.

As for the cold ocean, whew. I don’t know if I would like to do that. But I’ve noticed, after a very cold swim/shower, once my body keeps back to it’s core temp., I feel refreshed and renewed.

Araz wrote:
I take insanely long baths and end them with a shower. Every time. I’ve been told its weird! My mom calls me a waterbug :)

I too used to take long baths. So relaxing and quiet, (growing up in a full house, lol). I had a certain ritual for making sure that I would try to stay as clean as possible after, too. I’d dry off with the towel inside the tub, so that I wouldn’t attract dirt with wet feet, stepping out. lol. But I went past that.

Love the water still to this day tho.

okei! wrote:
Kinda ashamed to admit it, but I won’t go anon for this cause I might help someone or the least, enlighten him or her. I was addicted to thumb-sucking while pinching my right ear which eventually wounded a small part of the ear. Then I would put a saliva to the wound. Hehe. Yuck?! Or does anybody here do or did the same? I really felt good doing it, it satisfied me plus it gave me somehow a sense of security.

I kicked the habit when my father died (when I was 13 years of age). Yeah I was that old when I was able to get rid of it. I really don’t know why, but I guess at the back of my mind the answer is that I should grow, mature and be independent, and get rid of my security/insecurity issues.

But lately the ear pain and short hair caused me to go back pinching my right ear again. And I felt weird about it. I don’t know, but I guess the emotional roller-coaster I felt lately and the mental instability I experienced these past few months made me feel, quite fearful.

I watched Peanuts’ “Happiness is a Warm Blanket” where Linus is pushed to his limits when he learns his Grandma is coming to visit and plans on ridding him of his childish security blanket. As Grandma’s arrival looms closer the Peanuts gang tries to help Linus learn to cope without his fuzzy crutch. Lucy is particularly eager to cure Linus’ dependency using her own psychiatric techniques, and while Charlie Brown tries to help; he just doesn’t have the heart to see Linus suffer. All the while Snoopy is constantly agitating matters because he wants the blanket for himself. In the end, insightful Linus points out that everyone has their own type of “security blanket” and in life a little security is a valuable thing.

So I guess my weird habit is just part of my “security blanket”. Hope this helps. =)

I too, had habits that gave me security. I used to always talk to myself. lol. I mean, full blown-full converations. My mom used to think something was not “quite right”. I’d be standing there, doing the dishes and start and imaginery conversation with myself. Usually kind of going through an interesting drama and a question and answer session.

I’ve noticed, the baby, Catherine, doing similar to you. Whenever she lays down to sleep, she will pull and scratch at her right ear. She’ll even pull and scratch at her hair on that side as well. I get worried that she might hurt her ear and keep her fingernails, as short as possible.

Deborah, my sibling, was similar to Linus. She sucked her thumb and was very attached to the blanket that she slept on with her mom and dad. One day, the blanket got very mangled in the washer. And her mom, tried to discard of the blanket. But Deborah wouldn’t have it, lol. She cried and couldn’t sleep, I believe. As a result, someone cut out a piece of the mangled blanket, hemmed it…and gave it to Deborah as her own. She kept it for years until cicumstances took it away from her.

Security, we all crave it, one way or another. Thanks okei! That helped bring back good memories.