Quirkiness…

I was just browsing the feed and jotting down some stores to check out when my pen started running out of ink. I’ve been using this pen for months but I didn’t think I used it *that* much …so I glanced around my desk and …well, yeah, I have used it quite a bit. So, it inspired me (yeah, inspiration comes from some of the weirdest places) to give you guys a peek into “Dove-ities” …

1. I tend to write everything down, even though I have this huge electronic machine in front of me that could easily store all of the information I could ever want it to …I still keep a pen and paper handy.
2. I have a notebook that is almost full of ideas for poses, pose sets, magazine page numbers to reference, etc and so on. Nothing but pose stuff goes in this notebook. When I create new poses, they are numbered – “pose348″ – it’s not until they get in-world that they get a dorky name – so I write all of that in my notebook ”pose348 = Goofy”…it might be a little redundant and overkill (especially considering I also keep this information in a spreadsheet)…but yeah.
3. I have all these little shreds of paper and envelopes and netflix movie packaging scattered all over my desk and each one of them is covered, front..back…top…bottom …ALL over in nothing but SLURLS, store names, items I want to buy, checklists of things to shop that day and things I’ve marked off.

Now, I do make use of this handy machine from time to time…

1. I keep a notepad that I copy and paste snippets into …this might seem smart but the part that’s kind of stupid is that I copy and paste EVERYTHING and ANYTHING into it. So, when I go to look for something, I have to skim through email addresses from 1942, funny quotes from people who I haven’t spoken to in ages, webpages that have long since expired and gone inactive – etc. I’m not sure what’s so hard about creating a new notepad file each time?
2. As precisely organized as I can be (I know it doesn’t sound it, but at least I know *where* everything is, just might take me awhile to find it. lol), when I go shopping in SL, I still haven’t learned the trick of keeping a “daily shopping folder” …so my inventory becomes this cluttered mess that has to be sorted folder by folder, piece by piece. I DO keep a demo folder though. Hair, shoes, skin, clothes, whatever….if I can’t try it on while I’m there, I stick it in my demo folder and try it at a later time and if it’s a win, I go back and buy it.
3. You know that “My Notes” tab on people’s profiles? I keep ALL sorts of stuff in there. Any time I meet someone new, I jot down a ‘where-how-why-when’ kind of note so that I can remember them. I know that’s really almost shallow of me, but I have a terrible name-to-memory ..memory. I also use that tab to store other information (birthdays, connections between people, etc). The tab on my profile is full already with my to-do list, custom job requests and such, so sometimes I will use the tab on my close friend’s profiles to keep other stuff….”don’t forget to pay SOM on this day. Don’t forget tier is due X. Don’t forget to download an illegal movie before sunday.” That sorta stuff.

Yeah, I’m kinda bored. Law is at work, I’m supposed to be working on poses or decorating our treehouse and planning a party….but …I just can’t be arsed! I think I’ll log in, go shop and spend ungodly amounts of monies. Yay!

EDIT:
Some more quirks for ya, they just dawned on me while I was looking at flickr.

I am a perfectionist. I am also a procrastinator. And I have a loyalty complex. All of these combined at certain times can make me almost intolerable. Examples?

*Dove doesn’t have a decent AO. When I reopened I thought it might be a little tacky of me to run around using someone else’s AO (even though I adore ANA:Mations!) when I’m a supposed pose maker myself. So I stuck a few of my poses in an AO and voila – I’ve been using it ever since. It’s lame. I’m a freakin POSE maker and I can’t even be arsed to make my own avatar an AO??
*I have been promising AOs and animations for months, I am currently working on a bunch of guy stuff that should lead me in that direction, actually. Why is it taking so long? Because I can’t be pleased with what I’ve done so far. I work in Poser, I upload, I stare at them for a few minutes each and then I decide that they’re utter crap and I don’t want to release them. Rinse, repeat.
*My loyalty complex isn’t quite so harsh as my perfectionist/procrastination issues (which seem exact opposites of each other at times yeah?) – but it can be annoying. Say, one of my favorite designers under a certain label decides to split and do their own thing – I’m suddenly, completely, torn. Do I stick with the old label and remain true and faithful – or do I go with the favored designer in their new adventure or can I simply remain loyal to both? Isn’t that insane? But that’s how my brain works.

I really am a weirdo. Hmm.