random or humorous obsessions anyone?

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Tall-P, I've just read some reviews and excerpts. It looks interesting. I'm much prefer to read the book; but its not in my hands tonight. I just found the movie on Netflix streaming. I'm going upstairs to watch it.
Thanks

Random obsession:
Inspecting Limoges china in front of lights to discover designs in the body of the piece. Also photographing these designs.

My 5 yr old son is obsessed with car makes and models (pretty common), but his other 2 obsessions are churches and religious denominations. He is also obsessed with bathrooms. He draws different bathrooms on his etch-a-sketch! He talks about cars, churches and bathrooms most of the time!

Okay so when I was very young around 2 or from the time I could walk outside until about 9 years old I was obsessed with garden worms. I would dig them up and put a few in my pockets, carry them around all day occassionally I'd take them out to look at them, or put them in the soil. At bedtime my mom would empty them back into the garden. I though everyone was as interested in them as I was and didn't understand why not. My mom tried everything she could to dissuade me but nothing would work.

English sports cars or fast cars was another in my teenage years as was the original Star Trek series. Writing movie reviews was another that I did for every movie I ever saw.

These days a bit more normal... psychology and the life of Jesus not from a religious standpoint but more from the human view.

Two minor obsessions of mine which I almost never talk about are the Salem Witch Trials and Colonial America in general. My fascination with them began around Halloween because I saw part of a movie about it. I'm thinking of incorporating witch trials into a story I'm writing, and I've also considered writing an unrelated Alice in Wonderland fanfiction set in an Alternate Universe which takes place in Colonial America instead of Victorian England.

Also, I remember becoming fascinated with the Boston Tea Party when I learned about it in school. Can't remember if it was elementary school or junior high, but I do remember being sad when we moved on to another unit because I liked it and wanted to learn more about it.

I have a random and humorous obsession with rubber ducks! The obsession is part of a larger set of obsessions of 'cute things'. I really enjoy things that are cute and make you say/think "awww that's so cute."

The closest I can think of right now was trying to talk as much like the characters in Buffy as possible. Making with the Buffy speakage. I still have bits and pieces of that, and it'll come back pretty strongly if I rewatch the series as I keep planning.

When I was 12, I was briefly obsessed with the shape of Louisiana.

It's not humorous so much as random, but for a while I was pretty into begonias. I don't really know why, I just really liked them a lot. Apparently, I'm not the only one, because there was a Begonia Society of America or International Begonia Society or something that I used to be involved with and some of the people in it were pretty serious begonia-heads.

Also, bluegrass music. And, when I was younger, I used to go to the library obsessively research remote, unpopulated places. I recall learning more than anyone really needs to know about Mongolia for some reason around the age of 8 or 9, but can't remember too much about it now. So, no pop quizzes please ...

Dubbing a tape of "Rock the Cashbah", over and over again, the ENTIRE tape, Downloading all the Mp3s I could find of "Kylie Minogue's Love at First sight", and listening to them for hours and hours, or Hero By Mrs Payaya. (which humming and remembering has kept me ALIVE because I was really contemplating sucide (not knowing why I was so freaky, clumsy, like the pig farmer girl on Desperaux), I even remembered he name Papaya (a Danish Euro Bubble Gum Pop star), so while my heart was torn out by and eaten by God (as I called it back then for making me into a malfunctional freak), this freaky talent actually saved me until the advent of MP3s and disc burning (Early 2000s), which further kept me alive. You truly are my hero Mrs Payaya. (I even remembered the name, and looked her up). Then discovered Rollergirl, ATC, then Rock, and anything musical. I love ALL music. Liek for instance Rock the Cashbah... (First heard on a Disneyland trip to LA in the late 90s, and all I could remember was Rock the Cashbah..... Sureef rock the cashbah,,, rock the cashbah.... then I looked it up years later.... ahahahahahaha thank you freaky brain thank you.... Now I am catching up missed music.

Being a tape recorder of movie references which I splice into real life conversation to describe abstract things. Games, movies, comics, It's like that race that couldn't communicate with the Federation, and the captain of that ship kidnaps Picard in a despreate attempt to fight some dimentional beast while on a camping trip. lol.

Dreaming outlandishly crazy ideas to entertain myself, with absolutely zero chance of accomplishment. For example, writing movies well, but as Alan Smithy (a pen name used when the script sucks so much, or the movie idea.... Is't like when the officer says "We do this with protest", or when a European classy actor told George Lucas that Indyana Jones 1, was Moronically "S"ty.

Being so weird, that I actually try out outlandish crazy ideas, to great success. For example after work at Esso, I'd collect bottles, (orginally was collecting old oil jugs, so I could properly recycle them in the green bin, (has oil residue and or used oil and toxic crap), but I found that there were LOTS of bottles too, even this one "Balantine's" whisky every sunday, without fail! I'd build "bottle mountain". (Garbage bags from work containing bottles, for when Scouts or some charity comes buy for a bottle drive. I got a shopping cart in SUBURBIA. looked like a hobo in Suburbia in my dirty grungy Esso uniform, defiled with coffee and garbage from cleaning the gas station.

Another outlandish crazy idea I actually succeeded in doing was driving my Dying Hyundai for one last big band, up to Edmonton, in a Blizzard (the orginal plan was 3 blood donation trips up there, but int only made once, I discovered I could still switch gears if I gunned it down a hill with full filled tires. (my transmission was bad). So here I was driving down, in a poor transmissioned car (if I stopped and turned if off I'd be stuck at gear one). Which is what happened in Edmonton. So I was stuck driving with my Hazard lights on with the steam billowing out like leaky warp radioactive goo. I gave blood as a final way to say good bye to the city, that treated me so poorly, by donating a pint, which would potentially save 3 Edmontonians. After the city was a hell for me as a Child in the ignorant 80s.

I planned a final trip up there where I'd burn all my personal effects, that were bad, ie a transit ticket I was humilated with when I had a full paid ticket. (was tired and going home after work and volunteering). Lots of other junk, my work uniforms, Unwashed. Ewwww like my Mickey Dee's one I had for like 10 years after my last shift there, EWWWWWWWWWWWWWW. I bet that would go like fooomp. However, There was no way I could achieve this goal. :_( I was planning to burn them in this forest called "Deadman's woods-Kirkness Park (so named that there was a story about a guy who was killed there or something), coincidently my bully's brother lived near by, and I read on Deadmonton.org (a sight that has chronicilzed a rising murder rate since 2005, (when the city broke it's old record), a Aborginal woman was killed there or just near by... They're probably likely going to cut the park down, to build homes.

I had this security protocol of checking every room in my mom's room when she vacationed in Hong Kong, playing that I was a president or royalty (England), and checked protocol, then locked the door. Lol. Just for Silly Buggers. I used to have this pattern where New washed stuff ie clothes and bowls, go the BOTTOM of the pile, I tell you time consuming..... Just plop them now, I do, but I wanted to wear the other clothes or cups, so I did that.

At the Homeless Shelter, I had a recurring schitick of being the "Clothing guy", ran the clothing room, the guests would come in see what was aviable.... Even try something they liked, then I'd critique, and man they are snappy dressers for free stuff. Like this one tall white dude, he found a nice long coat, so I said he looked like one of those cool Russian overlords (Old communism). I got many chances to talk with guests, Plus guest new that I was very prone to opening up the store longer, so they were pleased to see me, or even they, knew that I could allow extra clothing (but not to get greedy), that my interpretation of the Seed's rules were very lax. Or I'd allow like 10 guys in a time, instead of the mandated 3.Just to expedite the line up.
As a evolutionary derivitave as "Clothing Guy", I was also Underware Guy. As I noticed one thing the Seed didn't have was Underware, clothing plenty, women's underware lots, but not men underware. So I went to a dollar store to pick up lots, (Wal Mart propally sells those packs for like 4 for 3 bucks... It' was wacky to see me taking the bus to the seed, with boxes of undies, and one spilled all these women's underware out. ha ha ha pure comedy.


Years before my orginal tour of duty with the Shelter. I was the "Shower King", same set up, except in the shower rooms in the basement of the old seed. I'd allow longer showers instead of the stingy 5 min rule. etc etc. And got a free steam bath ahahahahahahah. What... Calgary is cold!

I think I win all the awards for the craziest obsessions over the years.

When I was age 7-10 ,I was obsessed with women's bathing suit backs...I had a system for all of the different backs, drew catalogues with them endlessly and counted each type when I was at the beach. It was by far my craziest obsession to date and I love making people laugh about it when I present: when I presented with Temple Grandin she was literally rolling on the desk laughing!

Other crazy ones I've had:

* Silos
* Service Stations along the highway
* Piercings
* Class photos/lists/yearbooks (Had this one for a LONG time)
* Jet planes (still ongoing...I love plane crashes.)
* Factories...especially food factories (still sort of ongoing)
* Anti-meat/animal rights
* Floor plans of houses/schools/other buildings
* Bus/train routes
* Enclosed buildings

Lately I have had a minor obsession with finding all the group homes in Toronto and imagining I'm living in them with a bunch of peers.

I like to imagine what buildings would be like on the inside if they were my own home/office/shop etc. I redecorate and reorganize them in my mind as if they were mine. I imagine which furniture I would put where, what colors I would paint the walls, what I'd change about the house and garden etc. to make the perfect home or the perfect work place or a fun shop. When I come inside other people's homes my mind goes off redesigning the place and I keep doing it in my mind long after I'm out of there. Everywhere where I have worked I have also reorganized the work place in my mind and made my own office, and sometimes I do it to pet shops, toy shops etc.

I've obsessed about certain Disney characters for over 20 years. I collect and read Donald Duck magazines, I collect pictures and items with the characters, I draw pictures of the characters, play online games with them, watch cartoons on TV/DVD etc.

I obsess about maps. I memorize maps, play online map games, draw/copy/color maps, watch maps, collect maps and globes etc.

I collect dictionaries in various languages and I used to read them all the time and memorize new words daily.

Those are some examples.

I used to draw a lot because I was so bored in school. And whenever I drew faces I was obsessed with everything being symetrical. I would erase at leas 3 times to get it right. Sometimes I didnt even get the second eye on there because it wasnt perfect.

Dragons. anything with dragons in it, movies, art, stories. dragons are hot!

I used to draw contraptions to kill and mutilate stick figures. I now watch the SAW films with great interest.

I also used to draw other square cornered, straight edged and symmetrical objects. I now have the need to draw curves like on a dragon. I can't get them right.

Taking things apart to see how they work (now with permission)
Collecting electronic components (with the hope that I might find a way to make them work)
Theatre fly systems.
Sliding doors on lifts and trains.
Airport baggage systems.
Maps, building floor plans/blueprints.
when I was in primary school I used to dig around in the dirt looking for insects.
Fire!
Stage lights, smoke and pyrotechnics.
PLC systems.

'It's caper time!' from the original version of The Italian Job repeatedly on the way to somewhere faraway which I don't remember in the car. I still have the tape lol!

The list goes on.