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While I don’t have any good, juicy stories, here are a few tidbits about me (that took Mr. Sushi 3 years to find out).
proof of my gross cuticle picking
What a fun way to come back to the hive. Missed you guys!
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My best friend from college picked at her cuticles (like you do) and also could blow the bubbles (like you do). Are you secretly my best friend? 
I always winced when I saw her nails and tried to avoid being hit by the “spit bubbles” but I loved her anyway 
I used to pick at my cuticles really badly. It was at its worst in high school, where I would have to get band aids all of the time because of the bleeding! I notice trying to do it now, but I won’t let myself touch them until I can get to a nail clipper or cuticle scissors!!!
That’s awesome to have been to so many countries!
I’m a picker too! Mr. Cookie hates my nasty habit, and tries to prevent me from doing it too, but I will always be a picker!!!
i’m with you on the cuticle-picking thing!
my cuticles are the worst, if they are the slightest but dry i tear them up. the only thing that helps me is burts bees cuticle cream. and im with you on the face picking too!
There is actually a condition called dyscalculia, which sounds like what you’re describing when it comes to numbers. just a thought!
i’m a cuticle picker too! i thought i was the only one. i do it because i’m bored…my parents and sister have tried to get me to stop by slapping my hands whenever i go in for the kill but to no avail!
my best friend and FH are both pickers too, and i’ve since turned into one, although I try my hardest not to, especially my face. i used to be a bad nail biter, but now i file them and carry a file so in case i get any snags i file it instead of biting it. works most of the time…but now i am in the habit of picking at my cuticles too! i try to keep them lubed up with lotion cuz if they’re not dry and flaking, i tend not to pick as much.
maybe you should try to wear gloves with lotion at night, which is when the lotion penetrates the best. your hands will look and feel so soft and smooth they’ll be too pretty to pick!
out of all the bee secrets, yours are the ones i most identify with - cuticle picking, blowing bubbles off my tongue (mr. pink thinks its gross too!) and getting caught for shoplifting from a store and being banned (except i got banned for 2 years!) oh, the good old days…
I could swear you took a picture of my fingers. I thought I was the only one! I don’t even know why I do it… but thank you for admitting this secret!! I feel much better about my nasty habit.
My face looks like pepperoni pizza today because there are these 4 spots I just can’t stop picking it. It was the greatest willpower I have ever displayed in not picking my face before the wedding, it was really bad after the honeymoon because I decided to go it at like none other. It was SUCH a relief to start up again. I think it’s a sickness really.
@Tea: My mom wasn’t amused either. Although my dad thought it was quite entertaining for YEARS. I guess when the MPs called my parent’s house they wern’t home, so my parents were the last ones to get to the MP station. While we were waiting for an officer to talk to us, I had asked my dad where he was that he wasn’t home. He said he was renting a movie. “What movie?”, I asked. “My Father the Hero”. Yep, that’s the movie they rented that night.
About 3 years ago I got “My Father the Hero” on dvd for Christmas. Yea, my dads got jokes. 
I’m VERY happy to know I’m not the only cuticle picker! I do try to moisturize, but sometimes I’m too lazy. :o)
@DQ: I don’t think I’m that extreme, but I do have some of those “symptoms”. Thanks for sharing the medical name!
@pink: Ahh the good ‘ol days is right! LoL.
I’m a terrible cuticle picker too. It’s a really bad compulsion. FI has tried everything he could think of. I actually managed the willpower to stop for several days, and my fingers got better. Then I noticed that they were flaking and peeling anyway and I got depressed and went right back to it. I’d love to stop, but I can’t figure out how.
I’m a face picker and FI is the cuticle picker. I can relate.
I can blow spit bubbles too! I do it almost unconsciously when I’m in the car and it drives my FH NUTS. Can’t really blame him tho.
@Lissy: I have just recently started on my lips!!!! Maybe that’s why I have been ignoring my cuticles. With winter coming, there’s no way I can keep messing with my poor, chapped lips!
What a coincidence! I’m a number-dyslexic picker, too!!! (She says with a disturbing abundance of excitement… ) I’ve tried to stop but my fingers always seem to find a way to any raised bump and pick, pick, pick away.
And as far as the number dyslexia goes, I’ve had to face my problem head on since I’m a Reading & Math teacher. Good to know I’m not the only “dyslex-pick” out there.
I’m a picker, and I always get this weird looks when people see my nails! I’m glad to know that I’m not the only one out there that does this… In fact, I’ve got a cuticle bleeding right now… Oops!
Yeah! Pickers unite! Mine have gotten so bad I couldn’t clock in at work with the finger reader because my fingers were covered with bandaids! The only thing I can find that works are those damned fake nails. They sure do look pretty and they do not allow for picking of any kind!
dyscaculia is a real LD (learning disorder), i have it and after years of torment from professors (once a mean nun) and shame i was tested for it and diagnosed, and its akin to dyslexia, but with numbers.
OMG! It is so nice to hear that there are other ‘pickers’ out there too! I must say, I never was able to control my cuticle picking, it is compulsive. And, the thought of sleeping with or wearing gloves seems just weird. But, there is one thing that I do that truly helps- I get my nails done with gels. This way, it’s clear and you can’t tell that they are ‘done’ (since I’m not that kind of girl. And, it makes your nails thick and stong- good for 2 reasons:
1. it raises the height of your nail so that your cuticles tear much less.
2. it makes it really hard to pick with such thick nails
Good luck!
Cuticle are very, very close to NAILS …. aaaaaah! (Yeah, can’t handle the thought of cuticle-related issues either.)
But I’m totally with you on the “little bit dyslexic” thing. It took my a long time to figure it out because it’s not usually an issue — I grew up reading so much that I just “know” what the words are supposed to be. But foreign words, unusual names, and numbers are all problems … and don’t even get me started on those stupid character-strings you have to type into computers to prove you’re not a spammer. The bane of my existence!
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Mrs. Sushi, Hershey/Hawaii
Age and Occupation: 27, Graphic Designer/Photographer
Fiance's Age and Occupation: 25, Laborer/Aspiring Hip Hop Producer
Engagement Date: December 25, 2007
Wedding Date: March 2009
Blogging Since: October 9, 2006
Venue: Byodo-In Temple, Luau Reception
About Me: I’m a notorious people-watcher who loves all things paper, food, traveling, grubbin’ on food, gossip magazines, food, sock monkeys…did I mention food?! Mr. Sushi and I are both haolepinos (half Filipino, half Caucasian) and hope to be able to somehow incorporate our cultures at our destination wedding in Hawaii. All while planning from the sweetest place in earth, Hershey!
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