"OCD" and the Making of a Tallit Katan

DISCLAIMER: I DO NOT ACTUALLY HAVE OCD.  I WOULD NEVER CLAIM TO HAVE A DISORDER WITH WHICH I WAS NOT ACTUALLY DIAGNOSED, HENCE THE QUOTATION MARKS IN THE TITLE.  MOVING RIGHT ALONG...

Yesterday I began tying the sacred fringes on my purple flowered tallit katan.  Very quickly, a problem occurred: I thought I had tied an invalid knot! I laid the project aside and checked with my father today.  Turns out any double knot is valid.

I also had the following thoughts:

1. Judaism is made for the obsessive-compulsive.
2. I am not going to enjoy this project if I let myself be too obsessive-compulsive.
3. I refuse to not enjoy this project, which, after all, is my Hannukah gift.

So there you go.  I will enjoy this project, even if it means--and it does--letting go of familiar thought processes.