Friday, September 19, 2008
How many licks does it take to get to the center of a lollipop?
I was just wondering how many other people count! I count everything these days. I used to never do this. It started a few years ago when I fell down the stairs at my house. I was carrying a big box and down I went. I thought I was at the end, but really had a few stairs left. I had a very bad sprain that took a few months to recover from. From that point on I started counting the steps when I went up or down them. Then it turned totally OCD! I started counting everything, steps, bites of food, how many rocks it takes in the rocking chair to get Esme to sleep. I now have to make myself stop counting things. I really wish that I had OCD with cleaning my house!
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I think i'm prone to OCD things also. Like when I used to type everything I would here people say. I had to always tell myself not to do it and I don't do it as much now.
oh man ok i meant hear. sorry i had to fix that it was bugging me.
That is to funny. I'm with you on the OCD clean well organized house thing. I just think it's funny that you have to count. I talk to much and would mess up my counting and that would make me more nuts!
I just tried to leave a comment confessing all my little OCD peeves and then I lost it. I am now thinking better of my personal truthfulness and I'll just admit to some issues that I'm still working on. Aren't we all plagued by some pretty habits?
I count how many steps it takes me to get around the school. I also count most everything else. I don't realize i'm doing it until I realize that SOMETHING is driving me CRAZY..... oh i'm just counting again!
I started my counting habit long ago when I was watering the pigs. I would count how many steps it took me to go with the buckets from the faucet to the pens. It didn't matter how many times I had to do it each day, I still counted every step. Then when I went to BYU I counted the steps I took from building to building. When I was running I would count how many steps between each telephone pole. Sometimes I would count how many steps in a mile. Sometimes at night when I can't sleep I have tried to remember how many steps I took between here and there during the day which then totally makes me crazy. I never count chewing, but I am obsessed with steps and I even count the ticking of my bedroom clock. OK, that's really weird. So when I find that I'm counting to much, which usually happens at least once a day, I start throwing random numbers in so I get mixed up and I will stop counting. Otherwise, I would count the whole day long. Its very tiring to my mind.
When someone is talking I always pick up on a word and count the strokes it would take to write it. And it has to be divisible of five. It gets pretty intense sometimes... and it takes a lot to stop...
That is the funniest thing. I would try it out myself but it sounds like it has turned out dangerous for you. Maybe you should sing songs in your head to break yourself of that habit.
i always couny what i am reading. i count how many stairs there are in every house and i memorize them. most houses have 14 stairs.
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