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Post by tillystar on Jun 1, 2009 12:32:20 GMT
hmmm not sure if this is a good or a bad thing
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Post by Kimby on Jun 1, 2009 21:33:07 GMT
I do the book thing too Jazz. If I'm visiting someone else's garden I compulsively start pulling their weeds. And I can't stand to see yellowing leaves on a plant,HAVE to remove them. Jazz and casi and I are separated-at-birth triplets! I also rearrange misplaced items in stores and pick off yellow leaves.
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Post by Deleted on Jun 2, 2009 16:39:18 GMT
I pet mangy dogs who look like they need affection but that nobody else will touch.
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Post by Kimby on Jun 2, 2009 17:36:51 GMT
I pick up litter along trails and in campsites. It's the Girl Scout in me that makes me do this.
I draw the line at tissue and cigarette butts though.
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Post by rikita on Jun 3, 2009 21:14:35 GMT
i check the oven at least three times before i leave the apartment, to be really sure i turned it off. i also get nervous sometimes and think i smell gas, but the oven is always out, so i must be wrong.
am also scared off the toilet, though in my case it is just that the lid always has to be closed, and that it makes me nervous when the paper isn't all properly flushed down (my pipes must be a bit weird, it sometimes takes several flushes to actually get everything down)...
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Post by Deleted on Jun 15, 2009 12:46:28 GMT
I check my travel ticket constantly on the day of travel, because apparently I must think that there are gremlins in my pocket that are capable of changing the time or the date printed on it if I don't thwart them.
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Post by spindrift on Jun 15, 2009 16:43:33 GMT
Nowadays I always turn the key in my front door lock. I have reason (perhaps) to worry. As usual my life is drama.
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Post by rikita on Jun 15, 2009 21:23:33 GMT
i constantly check my pockets for my mobile phone and keys, and get really scared when i put them somewhere else for that day and thus don't find them - until i remember... but the reason i do that is that i am just very good at losing stuff...
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Post by tillystar on Jun 19, 2009 11:00:22 GMT
I hope all is OK with you Spindrift?
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Post by bixaorellana on Jun 5, 2010 14:30:49 GMT
It's time to poke our neuroses again!
Mine are still pretty tame, as far as I know.
I do like to have my dinner plate turned in a way that feels internally correct. Roughly, it would be something like the main/meat food at the six o'clock position, vegetable at 1 & 2 o'clock, and starch at the 10 and 11 o'clock spot.
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Post by onlymark on Jun 5, 2010 15:07:29 GMT
My martini must always be shaken, not stirred.
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Post by onlymark on Jun 5, 2010 15:13:13 GMT
I do like to have my dinner plate turned in a way that feels internally correct. Roughly, it would be something like the main/meat food at the six o'clock position, vegetable at 1 & 2 o'clock, and starch at the 10 and 11 o'clock spot. Does your brain go into a never ending loop when you eat enchiladas then? You keep turning them round to try and get everything to line up?
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Post by bixaorellana on Jun 5, 2010 15:46:25 GMT
The real reason I live in Oaxaca is that the enchiladas here are triangle-shaped, rather than rolled. I like to have the pointy end facing E, NE.
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Post by Jazz on Jun 5, 2010 15:55:23 GMT
Seem to like the 'gunfighter position', in any room, whether private or public. A corner where I can see everything going on and would rather not have people behind me.
Very sensitive to lighting. I hate overhead lighting...harsh and dull, destroys nuance, texture and ambiance. Love dimmer switches, table lamps, standing lamps and candles. My controlling nature? ;D
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Post by bixaorellana on Jun 5, 2010 18:25:49 GMT
I don't know if those are compulsions, so much as matters of comfort. It certainly seems more normal to me to want to be able to see what's going on, to not have a draft on the back of the neck, and if in a restaurant, not to have anyone bumping the back of my chair.
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Post by Jazz on Jun 5, 2010 21:35:13 GMT
oops...it may be a matter of semantics. Feel free to delete it, my Three Minute Time Limit for Delete/Modify has passed, sadly.
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Post by Kimby on Jun 6, 2010 16:54:34 GMT
The real reason I live in Oaxaca is that the enchiladas here are triangle-shaped, rather than rolled. I like to have the pointy end facing E, NE. and what direction is your mouth facing when you eat it, then, bixa?
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Post by bixaorellana on Jun 9, 2010 15:46:56 GMT
*snork*
Well, E, NE on the plate was just a way of saying at @ the 2 o'clock position. Because of where the table and chair are, my mouth is generally facing SE when I'm eating.
It was probably compulsive of you to ask that question and for me to answer it.
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Post by Kimby on Jun 9, 2010 17:01:40 GMT
I am familiar with using the face of the clock to locate items, but didn't make the leap to compass directions for the same purpose.
I thought maybe one of your compulsions might be feng shui, bixa
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Post by bixaorellana on Jun 10, 2010 3:33:42 GMT
No, no ~~ I stay away from it, knowing it could become a compulsion.
(for instance: you're supposed to keep the toilet lid closed at all times, to keep money from running out of your home.)
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Post by Kimby on Jun 10, 2010 14:33:42 GMT
Though that sounds strange, I can see how the Chinese came up with it.
Human waste was invaluable as fertilizer. In fact, I have read that if you went to a neighbor's house for tea and stayed long enough to need to use their latrine, your deposit was expected to be reciprocated by the neighbor coming to use YOUR latrine.
In rural China we saw outhouses perched right over the irrigation ditches....
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Post by Kimby on Jun 10, 2010 15:55:47 GMT
...you're supposed to keep the toilet lid closed at all times, to keep money from running out of your home.... So how does feng shui deal with the piss on the floor when you get up in the night to use the can and groggily don't notice the lid is down?
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Post by Kimby on Jun 10, 2010 15:56:35 GMT
Since the frog discussion has arisen on The Sound Around You thread, I have become enamored of cueing up all of the frog YouTubes and playing them at once. It's just like lying in a sleeping bag in my childhood treehouse by the pond, listening to the frog and toad chorus. In recent years, frogs are far less abundant, so this is very nostalgic. As soon as the audio ends, I restart it. I'm afraid it's become a compulsion. I also watch the owl box video too much. There is only one owl still living in the box, and soon they will all be gone... www.ustream.tv/theowlbox
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Post by bixaorellana on Jun 10, 2010 16:13:09 GMT
So how does feng shui deal with the piss on the floor when you get up in the night to use the can and groggily don't notice the lid is down? It depends on which way your head is facing after you slip and fall in the pee when you jump back up, all sleepy and surprised.
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Post by Deleted on Jun 11, 2010 10:38:26 GMT
Kimby, I flashed on your post several times yesterday after reading...the image of you listening to the frogs compulsively had me grinning a few times. Funny how the hearing of sounds can conjure up nostalgic memories much like the olfactory recall we touch on as well. I think I've been avoiding this thread in an attempt to squelch my compulsions of late. I suspect some of them could easily be characterized as some traits I id'd while visiting my mother. Nothing too bad though,all fairly begin.
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Post by Kimby on Jun 11, 2010 16:58:34 GMT
I also watch the owl box video too much. There is only one owl still living in the box, and soon they will all be gone... www.ustream.tv/theowlbox Today there are two owls in the box. Around 8:30 at night (California time) they leave the box to hunt, but return to perch on the box with a mouse or rat now and then. One almost never sees owls in the wild. This live cam is addicting. How can you not get hooked on that? There's even a Facebook group for the addicted called the Molly Obsessive Disorder group (M.O.D.). However the plug is going to be pulled on the camera in 3 days, so we'll all be going cold turkey. (There are lots of other nests with UStream cameras on them, though, so maybe I'll find a new compulsion!)
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Post by Kimby on Jun 11, 2010 21:19:23 GMT
Kimby, I flashed on your post several times yesterday after reading...the image of you listening to the frogs compulsively had me grinning a few times. Funny how the hearing of sounds can conjure up nostalgic memories much like the olfactory recall we touch on as well. Well, it's getting worse. Now I have saved the mp3 frog calls to my laptop so I can run through the whole frog playlist over and over while I do other things. But I saved them so I could play them for my family members, who also have fond memories of the frog pond. That's my excuse.
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Post by bixaorellana on Jun 15, 2010 0:43:18 GMT
this is getting a little strange now!
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Post by palesa on Jun 19, 2010 15:44:11 GMT
I turn the tea pot 3 times each way before pouring tea, I discovered today it is something my cousin and I have in common, inherited from our grandmother!
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Post by auntieannie on Jun 19, 2010 16:48:00 GMT
I always check the entrance door is locked before going to bed, even if I perfectly "know" I locked it earlier in the evening.
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