The Predictable Me by MFD

This extremely attractive photo was taken during a hurricane in Wildwood in September 2008. It always makes me laugh. 

This weekend, Dirty Dancing was on twice. Naturally, I watched it both times even though I a) own it and can see it without commercials whenever I want, and b) have seen it eleventy billion times. If it's on, I'm watching it, and you can take that to the bank. When it comes to certain things, we're all creatures of habit. To myself, I am a very predictable person because hello I live this shit, I know what I do all the time.

On our way to dinner Sunday night, I said to MFD, "Can you think of some ways I'm predictable?"

He burst out laughing and said, "You are so predictable in every way." We've been together for 11 years this September. I certainly hope I'm predictable to him in some ways, otherwise he'd be caught asleep at the wheel, you know what I'm saying? Of course, he's predictable to me in a lot of ways too. Cohabitation breeds familiarity.

I was curious what he'd come up with at a moment's notice since he doesn't like to be put on the spot about anything. Here is his minute and a half list of ways in which I'm predictable:

• You are going to write a blog every day or every other day.
• You want me to do chores right away, and you yell at me because I never do them right away.
• You will prepare food for the week on Sunday. 
• You will wake up at the last possible minute you can and still get to work on time.
• You love water with lemon and a lot of ice. You use three glasses in one day and never finish any of them.
• You leave those glasses in bizarre spots where glasses don't go, like on the entertainment center or on the front table by the door.
• You go to Target and get the same things there all the time. You go to Redner's for certain things as opposed to Giant, which you never go to.
• At bars you ask for ice in a glass for your beer.
• When you're going somewhere, you will pack four days in advance at least.
• You will have a very long and lengthy reading list for every vacation and you will finish all the books. 
• You will look for shells on the beach.
• You will always ask me to put lotion on your back and say, "Make sure you get under the straps" like I don't know to do that. 
• Your birthday will be celebrated in grand fashion for a month. 

All of those things are true. The glasses thing cracked me up. I never noticed that I did that, but now that I think about it...

Here's something else predictable: Tuesday sucks. 

The End.

In what ways are you predictable?