the most obsessive thing you ever done?

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as the titile suggest, what is the most obsessive thing you had ever done? here is mine

when i was 10, i really liked the lion king, i like it so much, i watch it like dozens of the times up to the point i actually memorized the entire script. i remember sitting in my room, reciting every single lines from the movie, from the singing to the screaming. hehe, i even annoyed my brothers, which is the best part i think, you know being the youngest and all.

Watching the 2004 Olympics almost nonstop.

Last summer I watched the movie 'Rent' once almost every day,
and the summer before? Lilo and Stitch.

Watching every Olympic Games from 1984 nearly nonstop, except for 1988, when the Games were on at odd times that prevented me from watching, and 2006, when I fell asleep every night except for one.

Listening to the soundtrack of Evita

Writing about the Olympics

Writing a fourteen page speech about German literature in the twentieth century for no credit in my speech class because I felt like it.

Probably food diaries.

Sometimes for months on end, sometimes just a few weeks or days, but for several years I used to write down exactly what I ate every day, everything in minute detail, together with observations of both my physical and mental state.
Not to lose weight, but to encourage/support, and structure my various food exclusion programmes when working out what food intolerances/allergies I had, and their effect on my mental health.

Stopped for several years and just begun again to a very mild, even lighthearted, degree here on wp in the last few months!

Was pretty obsessive about exercise for 5-6 months one year too. Measuring my heart-rate/pulse etc, ( 53 at best ) and freaking if I missed one session out of my 15 or so scheduled exercise spots per week. ( walking, swimming, aerobics dance, Tai-chi, and hiking/scrambling)

Cutting out pictures of houses , furniture, and gardens from magazines, and filing them to go with faces cut out too according to "families" that I had created. Still have the 7 files of single person households, couples, two person families, three person, 4, and 5 plus, aswell as "communities". They're gorgeous to look at.

Cutting my hair. Has got very hairy at times, fixated on getting it just right and cutting more and more and more , sculpting round the back of my head using a 3-panel mirror to see what I'm doing.

And so on.........

Uhm...compiling every song to ever make the Billboard Top 40, from the chart's inception in November 1954, thru the end of calandar year 2003 (when my research data ran out), and organizing them by year of release, month of peak chart activity and highest position on the chart. But then, I had to go back over the Billboard Hot 100 charts and add in anything that made the Hot 100, but never made it to the Top 40, if it still had pop cultural significance - say it got play on Album Rock radio and became a Classic Rock staple, or received significant MTV play (The Waitresses 'I Know What Boys Like" only made it to #52)...took about ten years altogether...but I don't know if that's obsessive, or just a hobby.

I do know all the dialogue from DOGMA, Raiders of the Lost Ark, and Firesign Theatre's comedy albums 'Everything You Know Is Wrong!' and 'Don't Crush that Dwarf, Hand Me the Pliers.'

Nick Danger, too, but then everybody knows Nick Danger. And Monty Python & the Holy Grail. And The Rocky Horror Picture Show. Right? Oh, and Jesus Christ Superstar, can't forget that one.

me, watching the same video over and over and over non stop on youtube, (doing that now!!) its of one of my freinds from the uk singing swannee river. if its not that i watch the videos from in my favorites.

For me it was probably my once a week detailed planning of exactly what food I would eat in the week to come and how many calories it contained. I would then get upset about any changes to my plans. This wasnt to lose weight (my planned food would often include a large bar of chocolate on a saturday night), but more to maintain it strictly and just to have control over my life.

Drawing all my favorite Hellsing and Trinity Blood characters with a pregnant tummy (for male characters, I draw them as women).

Memorising every minute detail of the life of actor Jeremy Brett and watching all the Sherlock Holmes episodes with him in over and over again. I got really upset when I wasn't able to watch one when I wanted to. I once shouted and cried because I could watch it when I wanted to. This was age 15-16 The obsession lasted a few months. It was really wearing. I liked having the obsession and at the same time got really annoyed with it It made my brain feel like someone had rubbed it over and over again in the same place

Eveyone got REALLY fed up with it

Spending hours and hours on the laptop. Not coming off to have lunch when parents weren't there because I was too busy in my MMO.

Doodling. I doodle all the time. Pen and paper in front of me? Teacher talking, and I'm doing nothing? I'll suddenly notice this random eye appear. Then a head. Then a body. Add in other random doodles of leaves, feathers, and foxes, and you get what my work looks like most of the time.

I've got more obsessive as I've got older actually...

written a 20+ pages essay on insects (in general), using only memorized information.

tied with my three day marathon of Futurama recently XDXD

Stayed awake for 14 days and nights straight to work flat out on college coursework, completed six months work in 2 weeks. My OCPD (or possibly OCD) can come in handy when harnessed.

When I was about nine or ten, it might take me an hour to put socks and shoes on. Today I still have to tie my shoes a certain way to make sure the laces are more or less even. This past year, I ended up limping out of a shoe store, because my mom had me dragged out of there before this was done. Recently, I also watched every episode of South Park on the internet, and seasons four through seven of Star Trek Voyager on my computer. I wish I had the first three.

Posting about Routemasters, with all of my free will, in 2006.