everybody has their routine

we all have routines.  routines for just about everything.  From getting ready in the morning to how we eat our dinner-- whether its clockwise around the plate or a specific order of meat, vegetable, bread, fruit.  One routine every single person has is how we write.  It might not be something you think about, and it might not be an OCD routine, but it's there alright.  For me, I can never write at a table, desk, or basically anything solid.  I can't write well on a regular computer either.  My best writing is done on my laptop, while I slouch comfortably on the couch in our living room.  Sure, it's possible for me to type out a conveyor belt piece of writing on a school computer, but it won't be close to my best work.  One more must is music.  It doesn't matter what kind of music, classical or rap, but it's gotta be there.  When I first turn it on, I immediately start belting out the song, be it "My Heart Will Go On" or "Smack That", creating an almost impossible place to work.  But as the second or third song ends, my singing turns to writing.  I only hear the background music, not the words.  Then, I write until the paper is done.  After I'm done, there is NO recollection of any song that played while I was working.  Most of the time, I hit "back" on my iPod about twenty times to see what songs played, most of them being one of those songs I always skip, when my iPod is on shuffle.  I then pause my music, and print out my paper.  Now I gotta edit.  I yell for my dad (actually scream), and ask him to go through.  He always is better at editing the ideas and comprehensibility of my sentences and paragraphs.  After that, I go through and merge those ideas, along with my new ideas, into my essay, and reprint.  This time, it goes to my mom.  Grammar and spelling edits are what she does best.  Those are an easy fix.  Now, "play" is tapped on my iPod, and I sing...again.  The whole process gets to start over.  I do this about twenty billion times before I'm done.  yeah...I actually might seem OCD about these things, but oh well.  It's my OCD, and no body is gunna take it away. (Just to let you know..I'm not crazy enough to edit my blogs like that.  But some out of tune singing did happen.)