10 on the 10th - Things I hate to love

Welcome to February's 10 on the 10th.
This is the prompt Marsha from Marsha in the Middle has given us for today - tell us about ten things you secretly love and hate that you love them.
I don't think I can do that. Either I love them secretly for a reason and don't want to put them on the web for everyone to see (that doesn't mean it has to be something "bad", maybe it's just something I don't want to discuss) or I don't really care which means I don't hate that I love them because it's my choice.
Or does it simply mean guilty pleasures like watching Hallmark movies for Christmas and liking a few because they are nice or some because they are hilarious? Does that make me guilty of being not intellectual enough and therefore I should hate it?

Now I think I might be overthinking this, another thing I'm totally a pro at (not just making toast, and by the way, did you know that Merriam-Webster says it's a preposition is absolutely fine to end a sentence with, also this here definitely isn't academic writing, anyway).

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Teslariu Mihai via Unsplash

Let me give you one example. I'm a pushover when it comes to my cats. That's why I don't live with dogs. When I say "my feline overlords", that's pretty much true. Surely, it can get annoying at times and make me hit my head against the wall (not literally), but like so many cat servants I'm still kind of proud for them to be little punks (that's not the word I would use in real life, I don't think I have to explain more). Do I dislike that I am? No.

Wait, maybe I hate to love my parentheses, I already have four in this post so far.
Nah, not really. If you knew me in person, you could probably hear parentheses when I talk. I can feel them in my thoughts. Sure, there may be better ways to deal with my added information that probably no one but me finds in the least interesting, but ...

Maybe I hate my habit of leaving some sentences open and my fondness of ellipses ...
Nope. Some sentences need additional information and some sentences don't need an ending - not to be accompanied by a dramatic look of mine hinting at ominous things I like to leave hanging in the air instead of writing them - because you know where they are going, anyhow ...

Oh, and of course the em dash — which I'm never typing right simply because I'm too lazy for ALT+0151 (which I keep forgetting after using it once, so ... (oh, and by the way, the German one has a different combination)) - or rather the hyphen that runs through my posts without hyphenating anything.
Again, no real regrets.
I'm not a writer and don't pretend to be one, and while I'm sorry that you have to deal with it, I feel no hate for it. This is pretty much what falls directly out of my brain onto your screen, and if you have been grinding your teeth over this, I apologize again, but I doubt it's going to change.

Wow, I haven't even found one single yet ... (ominous pause)
I think I might have been better at "things I love to hate" although that makes it sound as if I hate something because that brings me joy which makes no sense at all. Argh, overthinking again!

While I'm at it, feel free to take a few of these if you need them! I have plenty.
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Marsha, I'm sorry, seriously.
You didn't get what you asked for, but who would even be interested in my not appreciating the fact that I still can't keep my fingers off dairy? Oops, gave you one, do you think you could let this count? 🤡