Synes-que?

Heyguesswhat!

I have a condition known as Synesthesia. 
Some people have never heard of it.
If you're one of those - hereyago:

Synesthesia: A condition in which normally separate senses are not separate. Sight may mingle with sound, taste with touch, etc. The senses are cross-wired. For example, when a digit-color synesthete sees or just thinks of a number, the number appears with a color film over it. A given number's color never changes; it appears every time with the number. Synesthesia can take many forms. A synesthete may sense the taste of chicken as a pointed object. Other synesthetes hear colors. Still others may have several senses cross-wired.

(www.medterms.com)

I am a digit-colour synesthete, but I also experience the same with letters, days of the week and months.

I didn't even know it was a "condition" until last week. I'd always assumed that it was normal and that people who didn't designate their letters and numbers with colours and genders were weird.

Apparently I'm the weird one.

I read that synesthesia is hereditary and more common in women, so I called mum:

"Hey Mum, what colour is the number 3?"

"It's green. Why?"

"Just wondering...   Hey, is it a boy or girl?"

"It's a boy."

'It's not, it's a girl. She's just a bit masculine."

"No, I'm pretty sure it's a boy"

So that answered that question.

Incase you're wondering what colours my numbers are, I've made you a very basic diagram. 

Notice how 10 and 11, while both containing the number 1, aren't red?

Yeah... I have no idea why.

The numbers aren't mapped out the way I would imagine that they should be. That's a whole 'nother kettle of fish.

If you have any questions, I'm more than happy to answer them. I love to talk about myself - hence I have a blog!

I hate you, 2010

This has got to be the worst year I've ever experienced.
Each month has been awful in it's own little way.
In the last thirty days the following has been endured:

• Can't afford car rego. Have to borrow from a friend.
• Can't afford to repay friend in short amount of time, need to borrow from a family member.
• Loose my manager, who I love working with.
• Work seven and eight days in a row due to being under staffed.
• Work unpaid hours on top of my own hours to prove my commitment to my company and prove I am management material.
• David's bank card gets eaten by faulty ATM. Supposed to take 6 days for a new one. It's been weeks.
• Drop a shelf on my head.
• Offered Tool presale tickets. can't afford them.
• Tool sells out in 12 mins.
• Can't afford groceries.
• Tuesday night trivia was won by the announcer's friends who turned up half way through round 3.
• Car battery dies, can't afford new one.
• Have to borrow money for car battery.
• Find out I didn't get management position.
• Come home to a very sick Czar. Don't know what's wrong.
• Feeling very angry most of the time.
• Feel very itchy, like I have something biting me. No bite marks or rash. Possibly just my imagination.

I don't believe in an interventionist god, but if I did...

I would give it the finger.