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Strange obsessions

Lotus

Sometimes I get strangely obsessed about something that would probably sound odd to most people. 

I've recently been doing a Sims 4 alphabet legacy challenge, which is where you play a household for 26 generations and give the sim for each generation the next letter of the alphabet. I thought you started by naming the founding sim with a name beginning with A, then their child a name beginning with B, then B sims child gets a name starting with C, and so on until the Z child is born/adopted, at which point you complete the challenge. It turns out that I was supposed to start the alphabetical naming with the first child, not the founder, so when child no.26 was adopted I had already used all the letters of the alphabet.

Sorry for the long story, but it's to explain how I got to the latest weird obsession. I decided the final daughter of the legacy challenge and her future partner should have names that included all the letters of the alphabet, and I set about obsessing over trying to find two first names and two surnames that between them have all the letters.

Finally got there yesterday - the names are:

Jacquelyn Kempsworth & Alexander Von Fitzburg

What strange obsessions have you had?

Parents

  • I like to record the max and min temps along with the rainfall each day in my garden. If I miss one it pains me. I used to watch it but not record it, but since covid I have every day.

    Now I am not sure how I can go away or have a holiday. Not sure if this counts.

    I used to like cars so subscribed to some car magazines. I have not opened more than a handful of them in the last 20 years. They are in large piles. I need to cancel them and throw them away but I can't bring myself to do it. I guess this is a bit strange.

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  • I like to record the max and min temps along with the rainfall each day in my garden. If I miss one it pains me. I used to watch it but not record it, but since covid I have every day.

    Now I am not sure how I can go away or have a holiday. Not sure if this counts.

    I used to like cars so subscribed to some car magazines. I have not opened more than a handful of them in the last 20 years. They are in large piles. I need to cancel them and throw them away but I can't bring myself to do it. I guess this is a bit strange.

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  • in reply to Stuart333
    Stuart333 said:
    Now I am not sure how I can go away or have a holiday.

    I organise a lot of my life around getting in my steps target for the day. I set myself a low target of 6,000 and I haven't missed it in 6.5 years. This involves a lot of pacing up and down inside the house on rainy days (even once with a slipped disc). I read while I pace, so it's not really wasted time. I also did 10,000 steps for 1,000 consecutive days and 11,000 steps for 366 consecutive days. Why? I haven't got a clue. But once I started, I found it hard to stop. I think I just like numbers and counting things. It's also probably a stim that I didn't recognise as such until recently.

  • in reply to Stuart333
    Stuart333 said:
    Now I am not sure how I can go away or have a holiday

    This made me chuckle. Why would you want to go away on holiday, where everything is different and you can't indulge in your special interests or obsessions?

    I really get obsessing over weather data. I always check the forecast every day, not just if its going to rain or be sunny but min & max temperatures, wind speed & direction and humidity. I can't understand why most other people aren't interested in all that data and the small talk about weather goes no further than its hot/cold/rainy/very windy/muggy today, isn't it? - expected answer, "yeah", or "it's going to be hot/cold/rainy/very windy/muggy tomorrow/at the weekend" - full stop. I think it's because NTs think about weather in terms of how it might affect what social activities they want to do, while we enjoy a dive into the data.