What's your obsession?

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what is warhammer?????

It's a science fantasy collectible tabletop miniature wargame... Very expensive hobby.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Warhammer_40k

I've been obsessed with History since I was about 7 - Romans and Tudors when I was younger (I had a cat named after Henry VIII but he was run over ) but more modern history as I've got older. The only time I really go out apart from university, dentist and opticians is to museums

And at the moment I'm a bit obsessed with Zelda

There is a good tudor style house/museum in Bramhall near Stockport; I remember going on a school trip there some years ago. Worthwile checking out if you are into that type of thing (and if it is still going!). IIRC they had a couple of priestholes which I found quite interesting.

Thanks, I have relatives who live in Stockport so I'll try and find out if it's still going. That'll give me somewhere to go over the holidays

My turn! My obsessions tend to run in cycles, with one superseding the next every few months to a year (but I always come back to them!). Some of the highlights:

Wolves (in particular, timber wolves of the Upper Midwest of the US and central Canada, and the elusively-rare Mexican wolf)
Ohio State University football (Go Buckeyes!)
Calligraphy
Board games (particularly traditional ones, or ones I can make myself; this goes back to when I was a kid and has never let up)
Counted cross-stitch
Pencil & paper RPGs (in particular, tweaking them and playing the variants, or helping a friend of mine craft new systems)
Classic video games, and the history of the personal computer
Ages (particularly of things; I must know how old something is! Particularly with old books, or other antiques, or with buildings. I like history, and I have to be able to fit everything into the timeline in my head.)
History (especially the Middle Ages in northern Europe, the American Civil War, and WWII)
Robin Hood
Christmas carols (I collect obscure verses and alternate lyrics/renditions)
Playing acoustic guitar

I love your avatar, SaraR. Looks like it's out of "Howl's Moving Castle"?

I like pen + paper RPGs too. I mostly play D&D 3.5, with the occasional Everquest, D20 Star Wars, and Monte Cook's Arcana Evolved. Which ones do you play?

Well... there's birds, and pink flamingoes and kitchy 50s stuff and 50s clothes and old stuff (20s - 50s)of anykind and making formulae out of liscense plate numbers and phone numbers so i can remember them even though i dont do math.

Doesn't the definition of obsession preclude people from having 15, 20, or 25 obsessions at the same time like some are listing? I don't understand how that works.

My 7 yo hfa son currently focuses on WWI fighting plans, mostly the Red Baron's.

Before that it was astronomy and space travel.

In my case, all the facts I have gathered about my various interests have entered my memory bank as stored knowledge. Some of the interests were of a transitory nature, but others, such as history, literature, music and cats, have been constants in my life.

Kingdom hearts ... Anime. Trying to get my hair dyed silver

Russia!! !!

I'm obsessed with this place at the moment:

for me obsession can stay in a 'passive state' as long as i'm not 'going into' it.

from the moment i touch it too closely it's like i'm sucked in and the world doesn't excist anymore.
a little example perhaps: i'm going for a walk and take my camera with me, as long as i don't encounter any of my obsessions like 'transparency' or 'certain shapes' i'm ok, i'll take a picture here and there and all is calm, but from the moment i see a reflection in some transparent pool, i'll look at it and try to photograph it and stay just as long as i got it. so if i'm going for a walk and someone goes with me, i'll either try to not take my camera with me or look the other way when i see water or pools or anything of the like cause i know that people find it anoying to wait for an hour or more because i absolutly need to take this picture.
another little example: i don't post in a thread called : "what are your favorite painters", cause i don't know where this will lead me to, and will lose the control to stop it.

so there is a certain control from the outside (especially when i'm aware of it) and almost none from the inside (towards the outsideworld that is, if this makes sense)

I agree with Lemon.
Obssessions are like books on a shelf, or collections in jars. They stay up there, and all is fine with the world. But if I take one down, I'll spend hours reading about the SR-71 Blackbird, researching more material, even attempting to compile a list of sources for pictures and articles.
They never sit on the shelf for very long either, try as I might to resist the little devils, I have to take one down every once in awhile and get possessed ...