"Hello!!! My name is Brenda and I'm a 'Netaholic'".
I jokingly uttered those words over 25 years ago, and I haven't found a fix for my problem yet. I don't know if I want to find a fix. I love the internet!!! My life is generally an open book, and here are a few things that people should know about me.
1. If you haven't realized it by now, I LOVE dogs and cats. I can't imagine my life without some of each in it. It's not enough for me to be interested in mine. I'm interested in yours too.
2. I don't particularly enjoy organized sports (College Football, NFL, or Baseball), but I really like College Softball, (fast pitch only, thank you). My daughters played on Jr. Olympic level, travel teams when they were younger, and I was their biggest fan. I like to watch college world series games to see the level of play. I suffered symptoms of withdrawal after they graduated from high school and college, (respectively), because I actually had to cook meals during what had been softball season, and I didn't get to travel out of state on the weekends for their tournaments anymore.
1. If you haven't realized it by now, I LOVE dogs and cats. I can't imagine my life without some of each in it. It's not enough for me to be interested in mine. I'm interested in yours too.
2. I don't particularly enjoy organized sports (College Football, NFL, or Baseball), but I really like College Softball, (fast pitch only, thank you). My daughters played on Jr. Olympic level, travel teams when they were younger, and I was their biggest fan. I like to watch college world series games to see the level of play. I suffered symptoms of withdrawal after they graduated from high school and college, (respectively), because I actually had to cook meals during what had been softball season, and I didn't get to travel out of state on the weekends for their tournaments anymore.
3. Although I understand and agree with the concept of hunting (a way to thin the herds so the animals don't starve over the winter), I can't understand the hunting mania that seems to exist in some areas. The first time I heard that there was a weekend set aside so that youngsters could go out and hunt, I was astounded. I said, "hmm....just what we need. A sanctioned weekend to take kids out and kill things". I also don't understand "cammo" as an everyday wearing apparel.
4. I love to crochet, although in the 40something years I've been doing it, I can't say I have ever made anything that anyone could wear. I like to make afghans for people. Some have told me that I should sell them, but I make things from my heart, and if I am moved to give someone a blanket that I have made, it is because it is a gift that comes from my heart. There are actually stores that I cannot go into without "adult supervision" because of my love of crocheting. Entry into any store that sells upscale yarn or fibers requires me to relinquish my bank card and wallet to a responsible companion to prevent me from spending hundreds of dollars on yarn that I don't need. I'm powerless to resist the allure of pretty colors or interesting textures. I just know that I could make something really "neat".
4. I love to crochet, although in the 40something years I've been doing it, I can't say I have ever made anything that anyone could wear. I like to make afghans for people. Some have told me that I should sell them, but I make things from my heart, and if I am moved to give someone a blanket that I have made, it is because it is a gift that comes from my heart. There are actually stores that I cannot go into without "adult supervision" because of my love of crocheting. Entry into any store that sells upscale yarn or fibers requires me to relinquish my bank card and wallet to a responsible companion to prevent me from spending hundreds of dollars on yarn that I don't need. I'm powerless to resist the allure of pretty colors or interesting textures. I just know that I could make something really "neat".
5. I must be really disorganized - I constantly lose things. I sit something down in the kitchen, return to that room 15 minutes later, and can't find it, IF I can remember what I was looking for in the first place. I recently went on an OCD fueled clean up binge. I tossed things I hadn't used in a year, boxed up things (with labels on the boxes, no less), arranged, rearranged, sorted, sifted, and generally got rid of everything that I didn't deem totally necessary, in an effort to dejunk and declutter my home. I hoped it would help keep me from having to tear my house apart the next time I wanted to find something. You be the judge...I put my cell phone down yesterday and.....well, does anyone know where I put it? I can't find it anywhere. I even checked inside the freezer and refrigerator. I know for a fact that the next time I'm looking for something, which could be at any time, I'll find that cell phone.
6. I love chocolate. I have even gone to the extent of trying to convince people that chocolate is good for you because it comes from a bean, and is therefore a health food. How can you argue with that logic? It's only a matter of time before the medical community recognizes chocolate as the healthy food that it is, and gives it its due.
7. I believe that there is no "right time" to have mid life crisis, and I don't think you have to be done having mid life crisis by any particular age. I, personally, began the phase of mid life crisis when I was in my 30's, and have continued to be in that stage of my life into the present day. I don't feel that I have done it right yet, and so, I will continue until I'm convinced that the job is finished. One example of my crisis stage includes the time I "had to have" a Jeep Wrangler as my personal vehicle. My ex husband declared it to be the most impractical vehicle he had ever seen, but I was not deterred. He stated that with three children, all of whom were in school, that the last thing I needed was what could basically be described as a two seater vehicle. How was I going to fit the family when we all had to go somewhere? My answer was that I drove a 72 passenger vehicle for 40 plus hours a week, and when I was in my personal vehicle, the last thing I wanted was a child, or children, sitting behind me, asking if we were there yet. If we had to take the whole family, then we could use his van.
8. I love to read but have gotten lazy. I purchased my first Ipod about 10 years ago and subsequently discovered a website (www.audible.com) from which you can buy audio book downloads. For a membership fee, you can download just about any title or author you can think of, and then listen to it as an MP3 file. The books come in two types........either abridged or unabridged. I always chose unabridged since they were longer. I could plug in my headphones, and do housecleaning, or yard work, and listen to my book at the same time. If you love to read but don't feel you have sufficient time to do it (gee, why would a college student have time to pleasure read?) I recommend this website with all my heart and soul. If anyone ever wants to buy a gift for me I always request that they buy me a gift certificate from this site.
9. I love the Caribbean. I love everything about the tropics except I hate sand. I lived an hour and a half from the New Jersey shore for most of my life, and even went to the beach sometimes, but oh, dear, how I hate getting sand on me, and in my clothes and in my hair. I can't stand the stuff. And I'm afraid of "water critters". When I was 13 years old, I saw the Atlantic Ocean for the first time. It was dusk when I got my first view of the ocean, and the tide was coming in. In the failing light, the breakers had an iridescent look to them and I thought it was the most beautiful thing I had ever seen. Later, the next day, I was floating near the lifeguard stand, and a man next to me dove down into the water. When he surfaced, he brought with him an enormous horseshoe crab, and all I could think of was that, had I not been floating, I could have stepped on that ugly thing. From that day forward, Ive been scared of whatever might be floating in the ocean. I love to sun on the beach, and frolic in the waves, and I even like to snorkel, but always with my heart in my throat because of what could be down there with me. My favorite way to enjoy the ocean, is on a party boat, with a rum drink in one hand, or on a double hull catamaran, riding the waves. If I had been introduced to the Caribbean at a younger age, I probably would have found a way to move there and live my life selling snow cones to "snowbirds" on the beach.
10. I love Mississippi, but one day, I want to go home to Pennsylvania. That is where my heart is, and it's where my children are.
6. I love chocolate. I have even gone to the extent of trying to convince people that chocolate is good for you because it comes from a bean, and is therefore a health food. How can you argue with that logic? It's only a matter of time before the medical community recognizes chocolate as the healthy food that it is, and gives it its due.
7. I believe that there is no "right time" to have mid life crisis, and I don't think you have to be done having mid life crisis by any particular age. I, personally, began the phase of mid life crisis when I was in my 30's, and have continued to be in that stage of my life into the present day. I don't feel that I have done it right yet, and so, I will continue until I'm convinced that the job is finished. One example of my crisis stage includes the time I "had to have" a Jeep Wrangler as my personal vehicle. My ex husband declared it to be the most impractical vehicle he had ever seen, but I was not deterred. He stated that with three children, all of whom were in school, that the last thing I needed was what could basically be described as a two seater vehicle. How was I going to fit the family when we all had to go somewhere? My answer was that I drove a 72 passenger vehicle for 40 plus hours a week, and when I was in my personal vehicle, the last thing I wanted was a child, or children, sitting behind me, asking if we were there yet. If we had to take the whole family, then we could use his van.
8. I love to read but have gotten lazy. I purchased my first Ipod about 10 years ago and subsequently discovered a website (www.audible.com) from which you can buy audio book downloads. For a membership fee, you can download just about any title or author you can think of, and then listen to it as an MP3 file. The books come in two types........either abridged or unabridged. I always chose unabridged since they were longer. I could plug in my headphones, and do housecleaning, or yard work, and listen to my book at the same time. If you love to read but don't feel you have sufficient time to do it (gee, why would a college student have time to pleasure read?) I recommend this website with all my heart and soul. If anyone ever wants to buy a gift for me I always request that they buy me a gift certificate from this site.
9. I love the Caribbean. I love everything about the tropics except I hate sand. I lived an hour and a half from the New Jersey shore for most of my life, and even went to the beach sometimes, but oh, dear, how I hate getting sand on me, and in my clothes and in my hair. I can't stand the stuff. And I'm afraid of "water critters". When I was 13 years old, I saw the Atlantic Ocean for the first time. It was dusk when I got my first view of the ocean, and the tide was coming in. In the failing light, the breakers had an iridescent look to them and I thought it was the most beautiful thing I had ever seen. Later, the next day, I was floating near the lifeguard stand, and a man next to me dove down into the water. When he surfaced, he brought with him an enormous horseshoe crab, and all I could think of was that, had I not been floating, I could have stepped on that ugly thing. From that day forward, Ive been scared of whatever might be floating in the ocean. I love to sun on the beach, and frolic in the waves, and I even like to snorkel, but always with my heart in my throat because of what could be down there with me. My favorite way to enjoy the ocean, is on a party boat, with a rum drink in one hand, or on a double hull catamaran, riding the waves. If I had been introduced to the Caribbean at a younger age, I probably would have found a way to move there and live my life selling snow cones to "snowbirds" on the beach.
10. I love Mississippi, but one day, I want to go home to Pennsylvania. That is where my heart is, and it's where my children are.
