What are your little Rituals?

[Grabbin Keelz]

When I enter a chat I say 'hallo' instead of 'hello'. It always reminds me of Wheatley's accent from Portal 2 and I love it.

 

[Fleetfiend]

I drink water by cocking my head to the side and swallowing a little bit in each side of my mouth, so that it coats my throat evenly. It's really bad before I go to bed... It usually takes a half a glass or more for me to be satisfied that my throat is thoroughly moisturized. It started happening when I got strep... eight times in a year. So now I'm just in the habit.

 

[Lekonua]

Whenever I get a glass from the cupboard, I have to blow into it to make sure there's no dust in it. My dad saw me do it once and thought I was spitting in it.

 

[deserteagleeye]

I usually blast my favorite music over games that I don't like the soundtrack. But this usually conflicts with me not being able to hear anything else in the game.

 

[Agayek]

EDIT: I also eat my boogers. Yes, I am very ashamed of this. Yes, I know it looks disgusting, that's why I try to make sure noone sees me doing it. I don't know why I do it, but I have tried to stop and I couldn't do it.

You could always try to use the same method fingernail-biters use to cure themselves. Basically, get some nasal spray that will make aforementioned boogers cause you to gag when you try to eat them.

Chronic nail-biters use a special nail polish that does that when they bite their nails. I'm not sure if such a thing exists in nasal-spray form, but it's worth looking into if you want to break that habit.

OT: I don't have a whole lot of specific rituals, but I do have a compulsive need to organize things in a way that makes sense to me. It's not OCD, as I can easily ignore it, but I feel the need to sort things.

The downside to this compulsion is that oftentimes other people can't make heads or tails of my sorting method, so my stuff all appears disorganized. It's weird, but I can reach right into a seemingly random pile of papers and grab specifically the one I'm looking for. Whenever I do it around other people I always get weird looks about it.

 

[Nedoras]

If I'm eating smarties (brightly coloured chocolate candies) I have to tip them out onto a plate and separate them into colours; then count how many are in each pile and eat any excess smarties until there's the same number of smarties in each pile. After that I eat one smarty from each colour pile, so there's always an equal amount in each pile, until they're all gone.

And I have no idea why.

Honestly I do the same exact thing, practically with any food or snack that has different colors. M&M's, Skittles, jelly beans, fruit snacks, you name it. This same thing applies to other things that I do as well. Like when I'm leveling up my characters in Disgaea, or any rpg really, my party members always have to be the same level and have equal quality gear or it drives me crazy.

 

[Dango]

Always wash my hands after using electronics and before eating.

And I tend to tap the front of my foot on the ground before going through a door.

 

[Twilight.falls]

Wake up. Check websites like MMO-Champion, That Guy With The Glasses, The Escapist, Cracked, Facebook. Check webcomics. Check Dota 2 for any news (since November, NOTHING AT ALL. FFFFFFFFUUUUUUU-) Always, no matter what, try to get the First Win of the Day in League of Legends.

Brush my teeth at 9 in the morning, again at 9 at night.
Comb my hair regularly, even before I go to bed.
Take a shower every alternating day.


That's pretty much it.

 

[s0p0g]

there's an order in which i take off and put on my clothes. i once changed one small part of this order (left sock first instead of the right)
i couldn't bear it for more than five minutes. when i arrived at school i took off my shoes, took of my shoes, and then put on my socks in the "correct" order.

then all was good again

 

[Drakos.Amatras]

I crack my knuckles when I'm bored or getting ready for something. Does that count?

 

[Rakkana]

I must have the volume on the Tv at an even number or at a 5 or 0.

 

[Wuggy]

When I start the computer I open the programs and tabs of my browser in the same exact order every time.

When I make coffee (and this is multiple times per day) I manage to super-multitask it and I time myself everytime I do it. I always go under a minute.

When I wake up in a non-work day I never have my first cigarette of the day before I drink my first coffee cup of the day.

 

[Tharwen]

Every time I open my browser, I ctrl-click along the top row of my bookmarks to open all of them. Even if I've just checked them and closed the window, or only want to look up a specific thing on the internet.

Every time I leave some place I have to do the phone-keys-wallet check. In that order.

I never have to do the check because I compulsively put them all in my pockets whenever I see them. Is that better or worse?