For Implace ... sadly, I cannot respond to comments on this blog -- I don't know why. But I wanted to let you know I got the new Harlan Coben and read it in a day and a half. I loved it!
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I have this characteristic that has followed me most of my life. When I find something I like, I end up getting lots of things like that. Look at the Photo of the Day to see how many boxes of stickers I have (and that's not all of them...some are in drawers). There are also two shoe boxes of postcards, more than I will ever send in my life. I don't have a clue how many rolls of washi tape I have, but lots.
But it's more than stuff like stickers and postcards and washi tape. I loved being a mother--so we had five children. When we had such a good time with our first foreign guest, Eduardo, I took over arranging for families to have visitors and in our house we had 70 foreigners from 14 different countries over 10 years.
I enjoyed sponsoring my first Compassion child, a girl in India, so sponsored a boy in Brasil...and at one point was sponsoring 28 different Compassion kids. Now I have 22, some I pay for, others I just write to.
When Peggy was here, we listened to a lot of John Denver music as we were driving around the state. She liked John Denver and I had a CD of his that we played in the car. I enjoyed the music so much I started buying Denver CDs and now have most of the CDs he recorded. I also have almost every book ever written about Judy Garland and every album she ever made.
At one point I got interested in rubber stamps and bought lots of them, most of which I have never used because I don't really know what to do with them. I have thousands of photographs--more now that they are digital, but thousands of hold in your hand photos from when I was 10 years old and got my first camera.
We adopted a dog from the SPCA and agreed to foster a dog. Suddenly for the next five years, we had about 100 foster dogs in and out of our house, and adopted 3 of them.
With writing, I have pen pals, now over 50 of them. With some I exchange letters frequently, others less frequently. Most people have a few pen pals. I just get more and more.
I don't know what you call this condition, but I realized the other day, when I thought back on my life, that my life is filled with lots of whatever I'm interested, whether people or "things."
PHOTO OF THE DAY
(2 of them...only 1 shows here)
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