Yes of course it was me
Adorable: I also keep ‘the whole thing’ as do many chassidish or sefard people. I explained the reason in one of the sefira threads, k’minhag arizal. If you disregard the days where there is no aveilus or tachnun eg yomtov, rosh chodesh and shabbos, then from Pesach to Shavuos there are 33 days.
Those keeping 1st or 2nd half is just another way of counting 33.
Eclipse: If I had a choice, 1st is shorter, cos 2nd is basically whole thing besides from pesach to rosh chodesh which is only a little more than a week.