Obsession List

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hmm. in no particular order

Dinosaurs, martial arts (or almost any "combat") , football (as a child). video games, music (particularly the Blues or Jimi Hendrix), movies (almost anything), spelling lol, words, etymology, languages etc. History, especially "non-western", & hand washing (OCD) & ASD's/WP are/is an obsession now i think.
i can't think of anything else now.

Haha I didn't think to add OCD to this. My other obsession is washing

Foreign Countries
Constructed languages
Google Street View
Football Statistics

What team d'you support, twix ^

Mine are (or have been)
- Extreme weather events (hurricanes and tornadoes in particular)
- Musical traditions
- Stadium/arena construction and capacities
- very occasionally... people with similar interests become my fixation. This is the one I'm working on the most, as you'd imagine, as it leads to a lot of confusion and upset friends

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-marine biology/anything to do with the ocean
-circus (doing it more than watching, but watching is fun too)
-knitting - I <3 knitting, it's calming
-music - playing and listening. I play piano and viola and I like classical best, followed by showtunes and a cappella. Sometimes I like oldies and other things. I don't like most popular music.
-Computers, though to a much lesser degree
-reading - when I was little I'd read everything with text. This includes the shampoo bottles in the shower and the serial numbers on anything I could find.
-math/numbers in general.

Queen (the band, as a group and the separate members)


Past obsessions:

- Labyrinth (the film)
- Cars (not the film, the automobiles)
- Next Top Model
- Full House
- Hair care

I'm still very much into those things, just not quite as strongly.


A very recent and current obsession has been my dieting. Hopefully this one will pay off.

Music

I generally get into one band, listen to nothing but them for like the next 5 months until I find another.

Other than that, snowsports, I guess that's about it.

Mainly clever/interesting maths stuff.
Also roman army and organisation of it..

TrojanPower83, mine tend to be things relating to computer games as well as both Godzilla and Star Trek universes..Anyways, that does it for me at this moment..

SpongeBob SquarePants

Animation / Cartoons
Languages
Maps

I've run into quite a few people here who have both a fascination with music and with maps. My mother always thought they were related somehow.

This seems like pretty much the most perfect thread for my intro. Since my obsessions generally define me. Honestly, I always assumed that I was normal and couldn't figure out how BORED everyone else must be to not be spending all of their free time (and work time) becoming experts at whatever their interests were/are. Hahaha. I still thinks it normal because I wouldn't want to be any other way.

I'll probably miss stuff that should be on the list, but this is a start:

- Animal behavior, particularly operant conditioning and how it applies to marine mammals and dogs (and humans and everything else).
- The history of South Africa
- genetics and evolutionary biology/anthropology
- data networking (no longer an obsession - which is a problem since this is my current job )
- photoshop
- digital photography
- regular photography (back in the day)
- painting and illustration
- indian cooking (my husband appreciates this obsession greatly)
- lo carb dieting
- raw food diets for dogs
- running, biking, swimming (off and on at various times)
- golf (has anyone else had to stop golfing? Golf brought out the very worst in me in terms of perfectionism. I became scary even to myself! And I still kind of love the game)
- knitting
- sewing
- bands: Barenaked Ladies, Dave Matthews Band, Johnny Clegg, Al Jarreau (some of these are old, some are new)
- in the past I've seriously obsessed over unattainable men (the more unattainable, the more obsessed. I've had some seriously intense relationships that were mostly in my head)
- financial stuff (dave ramsey)
- web development/design/programming
- cars
- pc repair
- dogs, dogs and dogs
- dog agility
- herding
- various authors - particularly Paul Auster and Neil Gaimen, but there are others as well - these two are the latest.
- maps (me, too)
- hiking - the trail system in my local park systems
- religion and non-religion
- quilting
- gameboy tetris
- sudoku (waxes and wanes - right now I can't stand it)
- horses


(It's funny - all you have to do is come over and look at my bookshelves as there are sections dedicated to the subjects of my obsessions. My bookshelves are my history)

Some I have been previously obsessed with and some I am now.

- Invertebrates: this would be my biggest obsession that I have all the time
- Pokemon
- Digimon
- Adolf Hitler and Nazi Germany
- Clocks
- Weather
- T E Lawrence

I repeatedly get obsessed with particular TV shows or movies, so there would be too many to list.

At the moment, my obsession is Japanese language and dramas.

Routemaster buses
Crafts
Punk music
Holidays
Food
Life
Work
Money and savings

Video games, tv sitcoms bad movies from the 90's, wrestling, MMA and music.