Aha, swearing and calling people 'dude/man' are two of my verbal tics as well! I wind up swearing in front of my mom and I wind up pausing and being like "...Did I just tell my mom that I fucking loved something? Why yes, yes I did."

Also, muuusic. I don't really do synth stuff but that is more because i have no idea where I would start with it. I just wind up poking about bandcamp and 8tracks and yes. Ho hum, ho hum.