10 day meme: day 7

[ravnsdaughter]

Day Seven: Four silly quirks.

1. It drives me nuts when only one of my hands gets wet and the other doesn't. If I somehow get something on one of my hands and need to rinse it off, I have to get both hands wet or I go crazy.

2. Cupboard/closet/microwave doors left open drive me insane. It also bugs me when the shower curtain isn't pulled across the shower after being used (though this is more because it doesn't allow it to dry out properly, and then it gets icky).

3. Despite #2, doors between rooms drive me nuts when they're left closed and no one is in the room. This especially goes for bathroom doors. However, this only applies in my own house and other houses I consider my home-away-from-home (my parents and grandparents' houses), unlike #2 above (chances are if I go into your house and you've left a cupboard door wide open, as long as I know you well enough to know you won't freak, I'll probably close it for you. :)

4. No matter where I'm working/what programs we use, I always end up with a certain order I want them open in. My email program comes first, then whatever program we use for organization (Amicus Attorney, etc.) and then a Windows Explorer window, and then Word. Whatever comes after that can be random.

Day Eight: Three pet peeves.
Day Nine: Two things for which you're proud of yourself.
Day Ten: One secret plan.

Comments

[brienze.livejournal.com]

It's fascinating to read about other people's quirks. I'm really not very OCD at all, but I have to line up the labels on the stacks of cat food cans. And I use food service gloves when preparing raw meat, because even though I'm a dedicated omnivore, I don't like touching it. When I put a week's worth of pills into a pill case, I alternate colors/flavors of Caltrate chewables, even though it's not like I'll remember tomorrow what flavor I had today.

I don't care about what order my applications are in, but since I have over a dozen firefox tabs open at once, I get irritated if those are out of order and I have to scroll for things that should be visible all the time.

[ravnsdaughter.livejournal.com]

If I had more time and less side-effects-from-depression (ie. didn't feel exhausted all the time), I'd probably have a lot more OCPD quirks. Hehe.

Why do you have so many Firefox tabs open at once?

I guess it's a quirk of mine that I hate having very many programs/tabs/windows open at once, and I obsessively close ones I'm not needing... but I also tend to set things up so that I can open them up again quickly when needed.

[brienze.livejournal.com]

In order, I've got:
1 - LJ
2 - two Inception stories that were too long to read when they came across my flist, but I plan to go back and read later (children of the LJ tab)
3 - Ravelry
4 - Facebook
5 - my Wordpress knitting blog
6 - flickr, for loading pics to 3 & 5
7 - a tutorial on using easter egg dye on yarn (because leaving it up there reminds me that I really need to try this)
8 - a spreadsheet of Inception WIPs
9 - my favorite recs list, for when I've finished reading the internets and want to reread something
10 - icanhazcheezburger
11 - shirt.woot
12 - teefury
13 - a Sherlock LJ comm, calendar view, set to Dec 13 because that's when I had to stop reading for the holidays

Basically I want to be able to refresh everything quickly, so I can see whether it's worth sitting down to read new things, or whether I ought to not get sucked into staring at the screen, and instead go knit or do something else useful. And the tshirt sites are because I forget to check them otherwise.

[auronsgirl.livejournal.com]

I share #4 with you. I'm glad I'm not alone.