I Before E, Except after C...

I've always been a sort of a word nerd. I think I may have mentioned this before... I just love word games and words in general and sometimes I just write random stuff because I can't get my brain to focus. Usually it makes no sense but I just do.  And I always loved English in school and it was one of my best subjects (behind Etymology of course) and I was always good at spelling too. Like everyone in my fam besides my mom always asks me how to spell stuff because I usually know (though I have to write it down sometimes lol).

But.... confession time... there are some words I can NEVER spell right. Do you have any of those monsters? Eeeek they drive me crazy! No matter how hard I try, I ALWAYS get it messed up. I discovered that most of the time the words I can't spell are words that have goofy rules or that don't follow the rules. For example, one of my pet peeve rules is the "i before e" rule because even though I know it forward and backward I still get it messed up. I always wanna spell "believe" and "receive" wrong. And anyway where does "weird" come in? That doesn't "sound like a as in Neighbour or weigh" :P   

Sometimes my spelling issues are just a matter of my fingers getting a mind of their own which mind happens to be mentally impaired or else I just get dyslexic... but sometimes I just can't spell a word. and you know, I can't list any because I only realize them when I come across them ^_^

The other tendency (oh! There was one! lol I always try to spell it "tendancy" for some weird reason :-/) I have is to spell things the British way. Maybe it's because in school I always had to write my verses in King James English or maybe it's because my last name is spelled the English way or maybe it's one of those unexplainable quirks... I dunno. But I always wanna say "colour" and such which my spellchecker does not like ^_^

So do you have any trouble rules or words in writing? Any odd quirks like spelling the British way? :P