Ya gotta love it!

Being an eccentric is considered quite something in the UK!
Why there has been a club associated with this uniqueness since 1781 in England: just copy and paste this site: http://www.eccentricclub.co.uk/are-you-eccentric.php
The five main ingredients that they feel you must have to fit their criteria are:
“nonconforming;
creative;
strongly motivated by curiosity;
idealistic; he wants to make the world a better place and the people in it happier;
happily obsessed with one or more hobbyhorses (usually, five or six)”

“The first five characteristics listed here are the most important and apply to virtually every eccentric.” This is also from the above site.

There are several more characteristics for you to delve into further by going to the above site.

Gosh could I belong to this elite group?
After all my granny was born in England in 1882, (Alas, she arrived here, in the US in 1884). Actually Liverpool is where she was from and it was not exactly an influential, rather more of a working class type neighborhood/village at that time or even in the 1960’s when four gents from there made it big in the music industry. They had an odd insect name, wish I could remember, kidding, 'the gnats' (I really do know that it was the Beatles, ha!); although one of them has since been knighted, Sir Paul McCartney, hmm, perhaps?
I have a feeling that he belongs to that club…

But in actuality I may fit the conventional meaning of the word, eccentric: odd, unconventional, unusual, peculiar, strange, weird, oddball, strange character, oddity, screwball (me and Lucille Ball, wow what a great possibility!), and unusual person!

Sadly or wonderfully most of those adjectives could describe me… maybe I am eccentric, just a little?
Not such a bad thing to be.
Albeit, the initial characteristics too have been way too many that seem to be me…hmm… a quandary or perhaps not so much.
How many of us feel that we have conflicting knowledge of ourselves, and you see yourself somewhat differently than others see you?
Sure we do.
Men are notorious for this, and you gotta love them for having so much confidence even in situations when conceivably they shouldn’t? Oh wait, is that arrogance?
Gosh, I get those two mixed up on occasion…kidding guys!
Women seem on the whole; even the successful ones seem that we are a bit insecure in our personal lives.
Why this occurs is beyond most professionals abilities to explain. Although, they might be harsh with some of these wonder women and insist that confidence in all realms of their existence is the answer to inner peace for everyone!
Years ago a good friend, a man, a lawyer who also had been a teacher told me that if you have confidence you could do anything. Words to live by.
We as women appear to be more critical about everything we do.
Some may call that being realistic and others may say it causes one to never ever to be truly happy?
Is denial of flaws better to be in the bigger picture of accomplishments?
I would say, maybe.
You know, whenever I managed in any field I worked in I felt that if I could delegate to good people to help with whatever degree to get to where we wanted to be that would be the way to go… But I must admit there were times when I felt that it wouldn’t get done right unless I did it myself…same with parenting I am sorry to say.
Analogies in life.

We are all imperfect and some of us happen to be eccentric too!
Oh what fun!
Being so many things to so many people…don’t you just love it?

I just read that in its beginning that the Eccentric Club was only a gentlemen’s club for over two centuries, but as of 1984 ladies were able to join, hip, hip hooray…!
But it is in the UK, with seventy reciprocal clubs internationally: “The List of the Eccentric Club is below: although it states in the 1980's who knows if they are still there?

“Reciprocal Clubs in 1980s:

UNITED KINGDOM:

ATHENAEUM, Liverpool
THE BRADFORD CLUB, Piece Hall Yard, Bradford, Yorks.
BRISTOL CONSTITUTIONAL CLUB, Marsh Street, Bristol.
DEVONSHIRE CLUB, Westdown House, Hartington Place, Eastbourne, BN21 3RN.
LYCEUM CLUB, Paradise Street, Liverpool L1 3EU.
MANCHESTER CLUB, 50 Spring Gardens, Manchester M2 1EN.
PORTSMOUTH COUNTRY CLUB, Kent Road, Southsea, Hants.
ROYAL SCOTTISH AUTOMOBILE CLUB, 11 Blytheswood Square, Glasgow G2 4AG.
ROYAL SOUTHAMPTON YACHT CLUB, 10 Northlands Road, Southampton.
ROYAL TEMPLE YACHT CLUB, Ramsgate, Kent.
ST. JAMES'S CLUB, Charlotte Street, Manchester M1 4DZ.
SUSSEX MOTOR YACHT CLUB, 7 Ship Street, Brighton, Sussex.
WORTHING SAILING CLUB, 40 Marine Parade, Worthing, Sussex.

IRELAND:

HIBERNIAN UNITED SERVICE CLUB, 8 St Stephen's Green, Dublin 2.
GALWAY COUNTRY CLUB, Weir House, Galway, Co. Galway.

AUSTRALIA:

BENTLEIGH CLUB, Yawla Street, Bentleigh, Melbourne - 3204.
CITY & OVERSEAS CLUB OF MELBOURNE, 291 Dandenong Road, Windsor 3181, Melbourne.
CITY TATTERSALL'S CLUB, 198 Pitt Street, Sydney.
CORIO CLUB, 16-24 Villamanta Street, Geelong West, Victoria 3218.
KELVIN CLUB, Melbourne Place, Melbourne.
NEW SOUTH WALES SPORTS CLUB, 10-14 Hunter Street, Sydney.
SOUTH AUSTRALIAN TATTERSALL’S CLUB, 1st Floor, 14 Grenfel Street, Adelaide 5000.
SOUTH YARRA CLUB, 226 Toorak Road, South Yarra, Melbourne.
MELBOURNE SAVAGE CLUB, 12 Bank Place, Melbourne.

CANADA:

MOUNT STEPHEN CLUB, 1440 Drummond Street, Montreal, H3G 1V9
UNIVERSITY CLUB OF TORONTO, 380 University Avenue, Toronto.

NEW ZEALAND:

CENTRAL CLUB, 26d Brandon Street, P.O. Box 1063, Wellington.

PERU:

THE PHOENIX CLUB, Apartado 1387, Lima.

SOUTH AFRICA:

NEW CLUB, 12 Loveday Street, Johannesburg.
ROYAL NATAL YACHT CLUB, 136 Victoria Embankment, Durban.

UNITED STATES OF AMERICA:

DETROIT ATHLETIC CLUB, 241, Madison, Detroit, Michigan.
ECCENTRIC CLUB, Gloversville, New York.
NEW YORK ATHLETIC CLUB, 180 Central Park South, New York N.Y. 10019.
PRINCETON CLUB OF NEW YORK, 14 West 43rd Street, New York N.Y. 10036.
WILLIAMS CLUB, 24 East 39th Street, New York, N.Y. 10016.

ZIMBABWE:
THE NEW CLUB, 54 Fife Avenue, Salisbury.
UMTALI CLUB, Umtali.” Thanks to the original site above.

Maybe there is one nearby you!
For most all my viewers/readers are more like me than not, with all our wee eccentricities, but you got to admit that we are all very lovable, sometimes!

On that inner dissection of our personalities adorable imperfections; oh alright just mine, okay?
Allow me to be the first to wish you all a very happy good night and ask you kindly to count all your blessings and share your overages and we will too!

And next time please be here or be square, ya hear?