Habits and The Hangover

I started wondering how we establish out habits. Take me for instance....I have some habits, that even I stop them for a short period of time, sooner or later, they always find me again.  One habit I've had since I can remember is biting my nails.  Yes, I am a nail biter....and not it's not because I'm nervous.  People tend to think all people who bite their nails are nervous.  I'm not, because I can be anywhere doing anything, and I bite them.  I've actually gotten better at it.  I don't bite them if they are long.  I only gnaw on them if they are short.  Oh, and usually, I also bite on the skin around the nails.  I know it sounds gross, but there are definitely worse habits.  Oh, I can break this habit for a while, if I paint my nails.  So, for the most part, my nails are ALWAYS painted.  The thing that really sucks is that when you bite your nails, repetitively, and too much they become “nubs” or “nubbins”;, as I like to call them, to the point they just hurt.  Oh another habit of fine, is I'm a little obsessed with nail files.  I think this stems from me being a nail biter.  I ALWAYS have to have a nail file around.  If my nail is a little uneven, and I don't have a file around, I will end up biting my nail until it is even, hence, the need for a nail file...so I don't bite them.  I always carry at least two files in my purse, just to make sure....just like I always have Chapstick in my purse.  Oh, that's another habit of mine...I have to put on Chapstick before going to bed and keep a tube by my bed.  I used to use Blistex til a friend of mine told me that they put something in Blistex, so people become addicted to it.  I stopped using it then, but now I just substitute it for Chapstick.  I need to have a tube in my purse. Even if I'm watching a sporting event and not taking my purse, I put my Chapstick in my pocket.  Isn't it funny how when you spend time with people, you tend to start saying things they say?  Well, I've picked up some sayings that just bug the heck out of my sister.  But what's really funny, is she is the only one who realizes I say these things.  When telling a story about "My friend, Marc."  She tells me she knows that Marc is my friend and I don't need to say, "My friend..."  The funny thing is I say, "My friend," when I'm talking about any one of my friends.  I never just say their name.  I have no idea why this is....I don't even know where I got this from.  As a matter of fact, I don't know where I got any of my sayings from.  When I'm really excited about something, I tend to repeat it three times.  For instance I would say, “Oh my gosh, did you hear that?  Did you hear what they said?  Oh my gosh, that's so great, did you hear that?”  My sister says, "I heard you all three times you said it."  I never even realize I'm saying it three times.  I finally told her that I say things I'm really excited about three times, because I know how much satisfaction she gets from saying, "I heard you all three times you said it"  So, I'm really doing it for her satisfaction.  Another thing of late that I say is, "I'm just saying... "  I could be talking about how much I liked the movie, The Hangover.  Heavily laughing, I was telling my mom and my sister about the part where they are in the desert and the Asian man jumps out of the trunk, swinging a crow bar, hitting the guys in the face.  I say, "As he jumps out of the trunk swinging, he is naked...and, I'm sorry, so very small."  I'm not a perv in any way, but I was having problems seeing it.  I was laughing so hard, my mom and sister couldn't really understand me.  I looked up and they had dumbfounded looks on their faces, which were saying, "I guess you had to be there."  So I reply, "I'm just saying...it was hilarious.  Guess you have to see it."  By the way, I thought The Hangover would be such a guy movie.  A guy I know said if I didn't like it, he would give me the money I paid to get into the movie.  In that case, I had to see it.  And dang it, I wasn't going to get my money from him....because it is so not a guy's movie.  It was so much funnier than I thought it was going to be.  Keep in mind, Something About Mary is not my style of comedy, which people said The Hangover was like...which it's not.  My type of comedy is When Harry Met Sally.  I'm a person who doesn't really laugh out loud.  If I find something funny, I'll say to myself, “Oh that's funny.”  But I just don't find things sooo funny that it's necessary to laugh out loud.  Well, there are a few times when that's not the case…any random episode of Friends.  I just love that show. I can watch the same episode of that show, just like When Harry Met Sally, several times and still laugh out loud.  Like the episode when Ross, along with Rachel and Chandler, are moving a sofa up the stairs, and Ross keeps saying, "Pivot... pivot...pivot."  I say this to others when I'm moving furniture...it's too classic.  Or the episode when Rachel is about to give birth and Ross keeps yelling at her.  She tells him to shut up.  Then he says, “Push,” and she head butts him. I laughed so long and hard at that one...I'm laughing even now about it.  So during The Hangover, in the part I previously mentioned about the Asian guy getting out of the car hitting the guys with a crow bar.  I not only laughed out loud.  I laughed so long and hard, I couldn't stop laughing...and then I started thinking to myself, “Jessica, you're embarrassing yourself, you're laughing so hard.”  The funny thing is, I'm laughing just thinking about the scene.  That's when you know a movie is really funny!  Habits are funny things too...when you think about how they came to be or how you don't even know how they came to be.  Well, we all have them, nubbins or not. Sometimes you just have to laugh about them.  Now, wouldn't that be a great habit....the habit of laughing too much. We all can use to have that as our habit : )