the most obsessive thing you ever done?

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I was obsessed with Dinosaurs when I was age 4 - 10. When I was in grade 3 I read every single Dinosaur book in the school library (most of them I read dozens of times). I read almost all the Dinosaur books in the public library too. I could name every single known species of dinosaur and tell you everything about each one; size, diet, time period they lived in, everything.

I loved the Transformers cartoon too. I watched the Transformers movie I had on tape almost everyday. I could recite the whole script of the movie from memory.

Lately my obsession is an online PC game (WoW). I do massive spreadsheets, mathematically modeling character stats and items so I know which is better. (It's call theorycrafting ) I scour the web everyday for hours trying to find any information on the game I don't already know....

Closed down my business for two weeks, bought 5000 rounds of 30-06 ammunition and shot targets at 335 yards every day from sunrise to sunset.

I still have no idea why I chose 335 yards, rather than 300 or 400 or...etc.

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At about 7-8 I saw the movie Amadeus and my uncle gave me a copy of the soundtrack. I became obsessed with his music. I was also quite the sketch artist. I would sketch copies of paintings of Mozart daily (and we're talking amazing accuracy that astounded my teachers). I forget how long I kept this up. But it was my favorite thing to draw.

Not quite as obsessive, but definitely impulsive, was that I skipped work (and in the military, that's no small deal) to go see my favorite band in concert 2 hours away by myself. I enjoyed the show so much I got another ticket and drove 8 hours one way to see them in the next location that weekend.

It's not so bad, but a few days ago, I listened to this song that I really liked probably 20 times to write down the lyrics, because it was really bothering me not knowing them, then I listened to it over and over to try to memorize it, and kept promising myself, "Only one more time..." Then I got bored and tried to go to sleep, still playing, then I woke up and had to listen to it. I still keep listening to it. Every time I listen to my iPod, I have to play that song first. It's like I'm addicted to the song.

Oh, and I always correct people with grammar. However, it's really annoying, and I try not to.

datamined a famous author, stalked his stomping grounds and got him all wound up on AIM.

I was obsessed with yahoo pool. I can't believe i used to care so much about ratings on a pool game and capital lettered usernames called "rares".

My mom paid ALL this money to take me, my brother, and some of my cousins to this expensive Disney place in the Valley. She rented a van, it was a huge thing. It was all great, but then I found this Tonka Construction game on the computer, and it was so awesome. I spent the whole time there on that game. That had to have been at least four hours! Haha. I look at the pictures of my birthday and I'm only in maybe one. Hahaha

Posting about cats and Roger Bannister (this is just one more of those posts!)

The summer of 1995 I became obsessed with Napoleon Hill's book Think and Grow Rich. I got the abridged version of the book on tape and listened to it over and over while walking around a college track from about 11:00 pm at night to 4am in the morning for about 2 months straight. Needless to stay I was in pretty good shape and I had parts of the book memorized by heart.

Watched Star Wars (the real one) 127 times consectutively...

Mapped and documented every space in all 3 Bard's Tale Games...

Collect 20 copies of every book published by Robert Heinlein...

figured out and documented all the possible permutations of stats, weapons, dps, spells, damage, armor, etc in Dark Age of Camelot with data figures of at least 1000 repititions each against each specified target

Stayed up over 3 days without sleep playing said Dark Age of Camelot...

Spent 1 week (recently) playing Pirates of the Burning Sea with breaks for bathroom and 2 hours of sleep per day...

Me obsessive? Naaaa

Posting on the Siamese Internet Cat Club, about Siamese, cats in general, and nearly everything else

play scrabble--i'm absolutely and utterly hooked.

Other than going online and reading forums like this one, I tend to obsess on painting portraits. If I'm bothered while I'm working on one, I'm told I can get very nasty-tempered. Sometimes I can draw for hours on end while trying to maintain one continuous line. I spent 18 hours once doing this - drawing without lifting the pen from the paper, and I drew a super-detailed tree with a woman's face/body embedded in the bark, as if she were part of the tree.

When I was eleven, I learned all the songs to the Sound of Music by heart and then wrote them out according to what I heard in a duotang notebook and sang them until my family went insane.

When I was twelve to fifteen, I drew floorplans for houses on graph paper. I made tons of these drawings for different situations.

When I was fourteen, I read cookbooks and made menu lists for at least a year, every day of it. They were all too fancy to eat, though.

I just finished organizing my lists of perfumes to buy from the Black Phoenix Alchemy Lab. I have two lists, one of the packs of 'imps', or sample vials, that I want- they are $3.50 each or $19.50 for a pack of six, so I have arranged them in six packs according to the different categories on the website. All the packs are labeled and numbered. My other list is of the perfumes that I can only buy in bottles, and they're arranged alphabetically.

I look at these lists and I am so happy. I'm not sure actually owning the perfumes would make me happier.

Is travel over 400 miles on a train to London to go to an Anime convention.. but I guess lots of people travel more miles than that, to stranger things.. ah well.