I doubt this list needs an introduction. But secret single behaviours are those quirky, weird, embarrassing habits we all develop after living alone for some time. These are some of mine.
- Watch a time-wasting show (like One Tree Hill) and pluck the stray hairs on my legs. (I feel the same satisfaction as I did at my university graduation when I find and have to remove an ingrown).
- Eat Chinese takeout in bed while testing my celebrity knowledge on People.com
- Pretend to have a captivated audience when I cook.
- Channel Taylor Swift in her You Belong With Me video and do goofy dances in my bedroom (Hairbrush as microphone is a MUST)
- Rearrange something in one room of my house every week
- Without fail, check the progress of my eye wrinkles in the bathroom mirror after a shower. (Smile. Solemn face. Smile. Solemn Face. Smile. Solemn Face.)
- Secretly love, watch and cry during every movie set in a high school ever. (Do you have any favourites you can recommend?)
- Take obnoxious self-portraits on my Mac before going out.
- Facebook stalk until my hand is numb.
- Facebook stalk until I am convinced that every single person on earth is living a much better life than I am.
- Ask my cat questions. (For example, ‘Do you think he’s going to call? OK, fine. If you think he’s going to call, just sit there staring at me.’
What are your secret single behaviours?
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This is a bit sad but…I’m not single and I do those things! In front of my boyfriend…
I guess after over 4 years, ya just don’t care anymore and the single behavior comes back into play! ;)
Not ‘if’ Hope…’when’ someone falls madly in love with you and you choose to call him your boyfriend because he has proved that he is a match for you!
Not only do I watch time wasting shows, but do so in a marathon style, mostly box sets, the last 8 months have included Sex and the City, Alias, LOST, Buffy the Vampire Slayer, and right now Roswell. I also fully manicure and pedicure during.
Other SSB:
listening to guilty pleasure sad pop music ie Colbie Caillat.
Seriously spending HOURS on Craigslist furniture looking for vintage finds, while on the phone with my BFF who is doing the same thing, while we email links to each other.
Obsessively organizing jars in my kitchen.
Taping my rugs flat on the floor (cat likes to ruin them)
Haha! I do the same with my friends. We’ll be on Skype, Facebook, email and on the phone all at the same time!
Definitely watch (and cry) over every movie set in high school. Also, stay “invisible” on facebook and gchat so no one knows you are on it constantly on a Friday night.
And discover the West Wing many, many years after everyone else, proceed to watch all 7 seasons in a very short period of time and get very depressed over the fact that you do not work for Josh Lyman, because with your crush on boss, you are kind of like Donna.
Another West Wing fan! Whenever I am down, I watch my favourite clips or entire episode!
I want to have Josh Lyman’s babies.
I constantly talk to the cat (& myself for that matter).
Can shower or go to the toilet with the bathroom door open (the cat will bash it down if i close it anyway)
Sing loudly & badly.
Wear awful clothes that I wouldn’t be seen dead in (the cat has bad taste too!)
I leave the bathroom door open too! It’s going to get weird if I get a boyfriend…
wow. you’re like my twin! especially the first 2, but the 3rd one an awful lot too.
Yes to all of those!
I make the same pouty face into my photo booth each time I take picture, smiling gets too boring Hah!
I have conversations with my dog, prepare food that involves the least amount of cooking, and think in terms of Facebook status updates that I never post.
Yeah, we’re awesome.
We totally are!
i stare at my facebook page…waiting for comments. pretty sad, i know!
Ditto!
“Ask my cat questions. (For example, ‘Do you think he’s going to call? OK, fine. If you think he’s going to call, just sit there staring at me.”
Haha. Hilarious. Love this post. We all have secret behaviors, no shame in it! Boys have them too!
Skype over which Bachelor is our favorite, and obsess over which one I’d love to take home! (ummm Roberto, for sure)…
And I do all of which Sarah mentioned….
I’m guilty of talking to my cat (who mostly ignores me) and pretending I’m accepting awards for best actress, best single, etc. I love that you have an audience when you cook. :)
I have literally PLANNED acceptance speeches in the event that I move to Hollywood, make it big, and end up in a situation where I may need one.
I need a sex life in the worst way. :)
Ah, the planned acceptance speech, I know it well. ;)
i used to watch One Tree Hill on my girlfriends house. great tv series.;,-
“Angus, Thongs, and Perfect Snogging” made me cry like a baby. But in a good way. It’s the cutest British movie about teenage girls that you will ever see. I love it!
P.S. When I still lived with my room mate, I used to talk to her cat all the time. He was never very amused. But when I would cry over a boy for some reason, kitty always made himself available to me. He just knew. And I came to the conclusion that cats are way better than boys, anyway.
And I always take self-portraits right before I go out. They give me confidence that I am, in fact, beautiful and that I can, most definitely, attract someone this way. And if I don’t, at least I have the pictures to remind myself of my potential. Someday, it will work.
- watch a downloaded tv show almost every day after work
- read jodi picoult books because they’re long and addictive
-lie on bed and stare at ceiling, thinking of fantasy events like meeting mr.right, first dance songs, what i’ll say to my unborn babies
- check out indie music on youtube
just stumbled upon your blog, can totally relate! :-)