prompts for september 2026

What nervous habit(s) do you have?

I was thinking that I don’t actually have any nervous habits and that I sure notice them on other people but I do do that leg swinging thing a lot.

I’m not sure if it’s nervousness though, or is it simply something to do, a way of moving while sitting still.

And by leg swinging, I mean that when I sit with my legs crossed, I swing the top leg back and forth. It sounds and seems strange to describe but it’s probably fairly universally common.

I actually had a dream a few weeks ago that I was in a mall, there was also a boy band in the mall and one of the members kept trying to hit on me, (my kids died laughing when I told them this dream, I said you can’t help what you dream!! No I’m not secretly wishing for someone from a boy band to flirt with me, I don’t even like younger guys and never did ok!!! But still they called me a pick-me).

Anyway, in the dream I’m walking through the mall and this one kid (from a famous boy band) won’t leave me alone, complimenting me and trying to flirt with me. I said bro I’m old enough to be your mom and then he said that he noticed me sitting down and liked the way I was swinging my leg back and forth.

The ridiculousness of dreams, omg.