What are your weird interest/obsessions?

serendipityRox · December 2008

I was just thinking about how there are certain things that I am drawn to that as my DH would say "make me a big nerd". I love buying an collecting antiques, but not just any antiques. I like odd things. Rosary beads, tarot cards, obscure books, etc. I just like the odd stuff.

I also love learning/reading about Mormonism although I'm a Catholic.

What weird interests/obsessions do you have?

P.S. I may have just told you far too much about myself;)

puahula · December 2008

Crazy - I just wrote this to Michelle on facebook, regarding a book I got today:

Heather at 7:27pm December 17

it's called "The 19th Wife" - I'm fascinated by Polygamy! (Don't support it at all, just intrigued!)

https://www.amazon.com/19th-Wife-Novel-David-Ebershoff/dp/1400063973/ref=pd_bbs_sr_1?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=1229570767&sr=8-1

I'm also (recently) into Fiestaware. I've gone to a couple local antique shops looking for pieces and found some but they're crazy $$$

Dragonfly_Bride · December 2008

I would like to own some farm animals. I'm always looking for houses that have enough acreage for at least a couple sheep and llamas.

I have more, but can't think right now.

Celyn · December 2008

I collect antique lady's tools - glove stretchers, button hooks, lace-making bobbins, and accessories like 1920s-30s mesh purses and peineta combs. I also have a decent collection of vintage clothes from the 1870s to 1960s. When I had time to obsess and search stores and ebay, I did, but I don't have time anymore.

dblhappiness · December 2008

I love reading about ghost stories. DH thinks I'm a big time nerd for being so interested in the paranormal. Also I love to watch all those crime stories First 48 and other crime documentaries on TLC, etc.

titantsmama · December 2008

Another crime show watcher here- though DH always gets frustrated because some of them freak me out, but I still watch them.

I also love the medical mystery type shows...

chedder143 · December 2008

I love watching TV crime documentary type shows, like the ones they show on MSNBC.

I'm also intrigued by unusual medical shows or just medical shows in general, like the ones on Discovery (Untold Stories of the ER, Mystery Diagnosis.

I love to analyze dreams. Although, I still have yet to get a dream book. Maybe I should add that to my Christmas wishlist.

Ang&Garrett · December 2008

it's called "The 19th Wife" - I'm fascinated by Polygamy! (Don't support it at all, just intrigued!)

~ Ha! I think Polygamy is so interesting.

ZoeMay06 · December 2008

I'm obsessed with the Romanovs...you know, the last tsar of Russia and his family. Not other royal peeps, just them. No idea why.

dblhappiness · December 2008

titantsmama:

Another crime show watcher here- though DH always gets frustrated because some of them freak me out, but I still watch them.

I also love the medical mystery type shows...

I often think I should've been a FBI agent or something. Wink I also was pretty dang good at picking out forgeries at my work. Wink

Kellina71 · December 2008

chedder143:
I love to analyze dreams. Although, I still have yet to get a dream book. Maybe I should add that to my Christmas wishlist.

Josie- I took an awesome Sleep & Dream class at UCSD. (It was a psych class- so it even went toward my major.) I think I still have a book or two... I can send them to you! I'll email you.

titantsmama · December 2008

dblhappiness:
titantsmama:

Another crime show watcher here- though DH always gets frustrated because some of them freak me out, but I still watch them.

I also love the medical mystery type shows...

I often think I should've been a FBI agent or something. I also was pretty dang good at picking out forgeries at my work.

Hehehe...I always joke with DH that I would love to be a CIA agent. Undercover. My dad used to teach on Thursday nights and my mom and I would always watch Rescue 911- don't know if you ever watched that show, but we LOVED it. Never missed an episode- it started my fascination with medical/crime shows.

emeraldwednesda · December 2008

I have several, but probably the most unusual is Regency fashion (1790s-1820). I have several reproduction gowns. Now I just need somewhere to wear them...

chedder143 · December 2008

Kellina71:
chedder143:
I love to analyze dreams. Although, I still have yet to get a dream book. Maybe I should add that to my Christmas wishlist.
Josie- I took an awesome Sleep & Dream class at UCSD. (It was a psych class- so it even went toward my major.) I think I still have a book or two... I can send them to you! I'll email you.

You got me all excited!

KaseyBrent · December 2008

In high school, I was obsessed with suicide, not for me, (I have always been greatful fir life, maybe thats my adopted self speaking) just about how and why people resorted to death as an end.

I am now obsessed with snowboarding, not anything fascinating, but it is my favorite hobby/obsession.... and I do have many!

soon2Bkranz · December 2008

Hmm I dunno...I think I obsessed with my child! And I need to always be doing two things at once...

Dragonfly_Bride · December 2008

ZoeMay06:
I'm obsessed with the Romanovs...you know, the last tsar of Russia and his family. Not other royal peeps, just them. No idea why.

My mom just came back from Russia and brought me back a book about Nicholas II and the fam.

ZoeMay06 · December 2008

Dragonfly_Bride:
ZoeMay06:
I'm obsessed with the Romanovs...you know, the last tsar of Russia and his family. Not other royal peeps, just them. No idea why.
My mom just came back from Russia and brought me back a book about Nicholas II and the fam.

That's cool! I went through a phase a few years ago where I read absolutely everything I could find about them.

I forgot my other obsession: Audrey Hepburn. I've read a few of her biographies and now I'm working my way through all of her movies!

I<3MYHUSBAND · December 2008

titantsmama:
dblhappiness:
titantsmama:

Another crime show watcher here- though DH always gets frustrated because some of them freak me out, but I still watch them.
I also love the medical mystery type shows...
I often think I should've been a FBI agent or something. I also was pretty dang good at picking out forgeries at my work.
Hehehe...I always joke with DH that I would love to be a CIA agent. Undercover. My dad used to teach on Thursday nights and my mom and I would always watch Rescue 911- don't know if you ever watched that show, but we LOVED it. Never missed an episode- it started my?fascination with medical/crime shows.?

This is Me. Drives DH crazy. I record them all and often think I should be a homicide detective.

dblhappiness · December 2008

titantsmama:
dblhappiness:
titantsmama:

Another crime show watcher here- though DH always gets frustrated because some of them freak me out, but I still watch them.

I also love the medical mystery type shows...

I often think I should've been a FBI agent or something. I also was pretty dang good at picking out forgeries at my work.

Hehehe...I always joke with DH that I would love to be a CIA agent. Undercover. My dad used to teach on Thursday nights and my mom and I would always watch Rescue 911- don't know if you ever watched that show, but we LOVED it. Never missed an episode- it started my fascination with medical/crime shows.

Hehehehe, yup we watched Rescue 911, too....funny!

ljlkm · December 2008

I'm an obsessed knitter! You'd all have me committed if you saw the massive quantities of yarn I have stored in plastic tubs all over the house. Suffice it to say that if I stopped buying yarn now and just knitted from what's it my stash (not likely), I'd be set for the next decade....

And what is up with the polygamy obsessions?! I ask because I find it endlessly fascinating, but I didn't realize the phenomenon was so widespread. Another polygamy book recommendation: Shattered Dreams.

sfgiantsjo · December 2008

I am obsessed with two things, which aren't weird in and of themselves, but the extent I am obsessed with them is weird! The first I share with Marisa - Owning a Farm (or a ranch. or a resue for animals. or a big ass house with room for a zillion animals. whichever!). I want to save evey single animal I see. Especially ones that are hurt or disabled in any way. My farm would be completely usless, but it would be filled with one legged Chickens and one eyed cows. Dogs that are blind would be hearding deaf sheep. I am a sucker for animals. My heart bleeds for every single one.

And my second obsession is books. I love them. Not just reading them, but they are a security blanket for me. I have them in my car, in my purse...stashed at work, everywhere. I love how they smell. Especially old books. I love buying them, I love seeing them. I would love to own a bookstore. Tri-Reader and I once spent an afternoon detailing our dream bookstore that we would own, we even gave lots of you Nesties jobs! LOL

OK, wow that was long, but how fun is this post? I didn't know this stuff about a lot of you!

serendipityRox · December 2008

sjgiantsjo-

I took have an obsession with books and collect old volumes. I'm currently reading a copy of Jane Eyre from the 30's.

sfgiantsjo · December 2008

I'm a sucker for Used bookstores! I lurve them.

danandkelly · December 2008

I have a morbid streak in me. I love things like rotten.com, and medical documentaries especially if they are graphic. I also love crime dramas, but I prefer the true stories, like first 48 and snapped.

I like going to garage sales and thrift stores...I generally don't buy things but I love to see what kind of stuff people had and are getting rid of.

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