Obsessions!

First off, to my faithful readers, I apologize for my absence. Life got busy and time for such things as writing seemed to diminish. As I will explain shortly, my passion for writing has been revived so I hope to be able to write more often.

Secondly, the title of this blog will be changing, I just don't know what the new name will be yet. I'm changing it because I discovered the housewife within myself but quickly realized that wasn't me. My poor husband...I'm a busy little bee at everything EXCEPT housework! Thankfully my poor husband is amazing and willing to help out so we do the housework together in our "free time".

That brings us to three. Have you seen the movie "the Rum Diary"? I had my doubts but since I am an avid Johnny Depp fan, I decided to go ahead and rent it. When Eric and I watched it, I prefaced before hitting play that I reserved the right to turn it off at any point in case it was just awful. Anyhow, we watched the whole thing and the craziest thing came of it, a spark that renewed my passion to write! I'm horrible about talking about movies and ruining them for people so I won't say much about it except that in the movie, Mr. Depp finds his voice and passion in writing. It got me to thinking that maybe the reason I had lost my passion to write was because I hadn't really found MY voice. So my new challenge for myself is first to learn something new or to challenge an idea as often as possible, hopefully every day.  Part two of my challenge is to write about what I discovered in part one.

So, here goes.  The first idea I challenged was that of personal obsessions.  This challenge was sparked by a recent random tweet which said "tweeting is my newest addiction", an addiction that I'm obsessed about...what???  As I began thinking about what I obsess about, even just mildly, the list kept growing and I was in shock!  Everything from personal appearance to sports.  But my point here is not to obsess about what I obsess about :), it is to suggest better things to obsess about.  What if I obsessed about making sure everyone I come in to contact with knew that the God who created them loved them.  Yes, this is something I want, but (honesty check), I get busy and don't slow down and talk to these people and make sure they know it, but if I obsessed about it and spent as much time doing that as I do watching NASCAR, facebooking, tweeting, etc, oh how things could change!

Just a few thoughts from the mind of me

Have a great day ya'll