January 23, 2009
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Left foot, right foot, feet, feet, feet.
My family has a foot fetish. Not in the twisted “I get turned on by the sight of toes” fetish, but the kind of subconscious fascination with them. I was lying in bed (where my feet issues show up) and started thinking about how this was true for all of my family.
For instance, Ducky plays with one foot while she reads. We didn’t even realize she did this until she was like 11. One day she got up from the couch where she had been reading for several hours. As she walked in the kitchen I noticed she only had one sock on. I asked “what happened to your other sock”. In complete surprise she looked down to realize that she did indeed only have one sock on. (OK, let me interject a question here – how do you get up and walk around and not realize your not wearing two similar things on your feet?). After this incident we began to notice that whenever she was reading, she would get up with one bare foot, the other usually still encased in a sock, and often a shoe as well.
The other day LadyBug was on the couch reading — I looked up and realized while she was reading she was mindlessly stuffing the tip of her belt into the top of her boot. I’ve seen LadyBug get up with only one shoe too — but this was weird. I asked “What are you doing???” She looked up- completely unaware — pulled the belt out of the top of combat boot and defensively said “Nothing” while blushing. Five minutes later, she was engrossed back in her book, and the belt was working it’s way down to her ankle.
Hubby used to have a weird habit of putting the back of my foot, right above my heel in between his big toe and the second toe. He would do it while we were going to sleep. I say used to, because I have my own foot issues and that was not at all comfortable for me, so I finally broke him of that. He may do it to his own feet now, I have no idea, and frankly, I think I’m better off that way.
For myself, as I’m drifting off to sleep, I often rub my feet together. I catch myself doing this all the time. I also will bend one knee and cup the other knee with the bottom of my foot, making a number 4 out of my legs, and maybe channeling my ballerina spirit – who knows. I also can NOT have anything on my feet while I sleep — I will subconsciously move away from the weight, which is how both the cat and the dog have learned to hog the bed. They know if they lay on my feet — I will move. I wake up crunched and twisted, while the animals stretch luxuriously at the end of the bed. My feet are working against me.
Question of the day:
What are your quirks?
Comments (7)
I rub my feet together when I go to bed. It makes them nice and warm and is strangely comforting. I can’t explain it.
I have too many quirks to mention but dh rubs his foot at night to go to sleep, he’s rubed a hole in more than one set of sheets doing this, drives me insane!
I stick my frozen feet on Dominic’s legs to hear him scream like a girl.
That is a strange blog! I love to have my feet rubbed and to use them to walk on. They are also a great reason to buy shoes.
quirks as in qualities neither good or bad but weird… normally these are things i do spur of the moment and not realiziing it…. they are never the same. usually something happens to put me off balance. i once spun in cirlces trying to figure out what direction to go when i got really excited about something (don’t remember what now)…
i think your foot things are cute. the belt things a little weird though… i have done the number 4 myself.
Well the do say we have alot of nerves in our feet so maybe it is a comfort and relaxing thing for them. I don’t rightly know what my quirks are to tell you the truth, mayhap no one has been brave enough to draw them to my attention lol xoxox Tynee
J.B. and i have our own feet quirks as we fall asleep. LOL