So, there was this:
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…and things like this:
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…and friends who would tell me they had emailed me but sent it to ‘whoamolly’ instead of ‘woahmolly’. And once I started to really notice it, it began to drive me slowly and deliberately insane.
I’m one of those people who has to have everything ‘just right’. My old flatmate, after watching me fuss over whatever in our old house, asked me if I had OCD, and he was totally serious. You know what? Maybe I do. I’ve got this bizarre compulsion to make everything perfect or it just plagues my brain when I could be thinking of other things. So a week or so ago, when someone pointed it out to me (and I’ll admit it – I thought that was the correct spelling) that little, gnawing sense of things not being right started to eat at me.
Last night, it got too much. I relented and changed it.
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The relief was palpable. But holy shit, was it an effort and a half. WordPress, Twitter, Instagram all had to be changed. I didn’t have to, but I got a new email address (now I have four to keep track of! Yay!) I had to update links everywhere. I had email people to see if I could change links they had up and competitions I am entered in. Bleh.
But I’m glad it’s done now. If someone pointed it out to me a year from now, it probably would have been impossible!
And it would have slowly driven me insane until my dying day.
Here’s to fastidiousness, spelling things right and the new mis-readings of the URL that can now happen due to my name change. Whoa, Molly – you can relax now.
Haha…
I totally get the need to having things just right especially spellings! I’m a a grammar nazi and possibly OCD-ish too. At work, we had someone new start last week and within a day they knew I was probably the most organised person on the team — apparently my OCD is that obvious! I also have this thing where when we do an assessment at work, I have to be the one writing in the forms so that it looks just right…anyone else who does the assessment with me just messes up my system of writing. Most team members are happy to let go off that responsibility except one of our doctors who really, really messes with my OCD and writes all over the form *shudder*
I need to have everything ‘looking’ right too. I can’t relax if my house is untidy, I can’t sit down if things aren’t where they are supposed to be. I will tweak my blog and other things like that until they are JUST RIGHT, to the point of distraction. I’m glad I’m not the only one!
A change of profile pic too… always wanted to know what was up your nose
Note: relief is spelt wrong
AHHHH! No, I’m going to leave that. I can do it. Deep breaths…
Sorry, couldn’t help myself!
Damn you! I had just trained myself to search for woah. Now I need to change back….
…or embrace these new fangled bookmark-a-hickeys.