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daisysparrow) wrote2018-10-24 04:15 pm
daisysparrow) wrote2018-10-24 04:15 pm
LJIDW-LPF Week 3 "Tsundoku" (having books but not reading them)
Hi, my name is Daisy and I hoard information. A couple of thousand ebooks that I haven't catalogued yet, so it's either pot luck or don't bother. I have perhaps three times that amount of recipes I have never made and probably never will (yes, I have had therapy about that). At least a couple of hundred sites on a blogroll that I hardly ever look at. I had the house to myself for a week recently and I managed to get the TiVo down to 84%. And I'm not even allowed to go on Pinterest any more...
It's a form of gluttony, I know. It crops up in a lot of areas in my life, from hoarding craft supplies (and patterns!) to getting so absorbed in a project that I loose all sense of perspective*, to the obvious, over-eating, which I have been working on minimising but have otherwise been doing for years. *Reference the time I was making crafty Christmas gifts -- token gifts, really, the kind you'd give as a thank you for a party invite -- and I gave my best friend a box of 12 of them. (And nothing else...)
I do go to extremes. I have had to accept this; it's hard. But there is one thing that makes it easier:
It's a form of gluttony, I know. It crops up in a lot of areas in my life, from hoarding craft supplies (and patterns!) to getting so absorbed in a project that I loose all sense of perspective*, to the obvious, over-eating, which I have been working on minimising but have otherwise been doing for years. *Reference the time I was making crafty Christmas gifts -- token gifts, really, the kind you'd give as a thank you for a party invite -- and I gave my best friend a box of 12 of them. (And nothing else...)
I do go to extremes. I have had to accept this; it's hard. But there is one thing that makes it easier:
Amongst everything else that I do full-speed, I also love extravagantly. Abundantly. Magnificently. To any potential future soul-mates who may be reading this, if you give me a little bit back (I do need that), then I will love you more than you ever thought possible. I will be your biggest champion, the bringer of the romance and the one who will make your life easier when I can. You will feel so great about choosing me! :-p You just need to be able to deal with all the extremes in every other area, too.