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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:





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.

 

"You know you wouldn't want it any other way."

Narnia

Oct. 18th, 2018 12:45 am
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"Take your choice, adventurous stranger,
strike the bell and bide the danger,
or wonder, 'til it drives you mad,
what would have happened if you had."
 
That's from one of the Narnia books, I forget which one. But it's been on my mind today. Not particularly sure why. It's applicable to a tv show I've been watching, an Australian period drama, but other than that...

Speaking of tv, I am currently watching Old People's Home For 4 Year Olds. Such an endearing show, one of the best on telly. A pre-school gets set up inside a retirement village, and the seniors and the children interact every day and eat lunch together. Most form a senior-child partnership.The nursery teachers present daily activities that challenge the seniors in various ways, whilst making it look like they're challenging the children. Or that suits them both, really. Day 1, they had to draw each other. They've also learned ballroom dancing and are taking care of chickens. Last week they went out for a ride on the local trams, and the seniors had to negotiate buying the tickets (from a machine) and getting the children on the tram and sitting down safely and so forth. This week, they are going to a maze. They've had a copy taped onto the floor of the main room at the retirement village for two weeks, and have had practice sheets to work on, and now they have to navigate the real one with hedges 7 or 8 foot high.

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