numbers...

i know this is weird...but i have to post this...

i have this thing with numbers... i'm not obsessed with them...but i find that, strangly, numbers, often the same ones, seem to repeat at various points during the day for me...

for example:

~ K was born on 10.23... so, when we're rocking each night, i admit i look at the clock... :) i always try to get her settled and rocking by 10, at the latest... (yes, she goes to bed later than most kids, but she sleeps until 9 or later each morning - it works for us!)... but i can't help but pay attention to the time... 10:17...the day she was "due" to be born... 10:23... her "birthday" time... is she sleeping yet?

~for months after I had K (she was born at 5:41 AM), i would wake up at that time...and i'd always wonder why...

~i almost always look at the clock at 12:34...consecutive numbers...either after noon or past midnight... weird...

~i also seem to look at the clock a lot when it's 9:23...again, it doesn't matter if it's AM or PM... and when i see 9:23, i always think of a few phone numbers of people i know from teaching since their phone numbers begin with 923... then i wonder how they're doing...

~i wake up a lot through the night...but, almost always, the time has a 5 in it... i guess it's pretty good odds if one of the 3 numbers (or 4, if i'm going to bed earlier) is a 5, but, still... weird... sometimes, i even wake up at the same time... that hasn't happened for awhile though...

~i have never ever been good with numbers (math wasn't my "favorite" subject in class), but i remember numbers...like phone numbers of people who i haven't called in 15 or 20 years...address of people, again, i haven't seen in years...zip codes... i even remember my phone number and address when i was in kindergarten, but that's probably because, "for fun," my teacher would let me go and type on the typewriter on an index card...and i always had to type my home address and phone number...

i know...i'm a little odd...but i think this thing with numbers is even more odd... :)