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I don't have an addictive personality.
I have an excessive personality, but not an addictive one.

If I was told, "You can never have a drink again for the rest of your life" - I wouldn't blink. Recreational drug use; not interested. Gambling? It offends my value of money and security. There's not a single thing I can think of that I have a big collection of, save when I was in 3rd grade and had 500 Charlie's Angels Cards.

For the record, of the three and then eventually four of us girls (four, after they added Cheryl Ladd and we had to find another blond to add to the group) that use to play out Charlie's Angels in 3rd grade, I was Kelly Garrett/Jaclyn Smith... (Give me a break, we were 8 years old). Ironically, I just met back up with our Kate Jackson/Sabrina Duncan after 30 years on facebook...who could have seen that one coming...

I do like Diamonds, Rubies (if they have the coloring of a garnet) and Garnets. I have a decent amount of those items, but no one would call it an addiction. I have what I wear and wear nearly all the time.

For you father's out there... buy your daughter's their first diamond! This will probably sound insignificant to you because I've really yet to meet the guy who saw the value in diamonds, but to her? You will FOREVER be the "first guy who ever bought me a diamond" and NO ONE can compete with that... Trust me, it counts.

When I'm on vacation, I don't give the internet a second thought.

I bought a larger TV not because I care about electronics, but because it was a solution to having to wear my glasses when I watch something.

Option #1) Always know where my glasses are.
Option #2) Buy a bigger TV.
Sold!

I've never met a guy who thought that buying a bigger TV was a bad idea, so it was an easy sell... My reasoning didn't even have to be uttered out loud...

I bought a stand alone water cooler with hot and cold water not because it was something that most houses I've been to don't possess, though that has it's appeal - but because at the time, I was drinking those International coffees and it cut out the step of having to microwave the water before being able to drink it.

Piping hot, right out of the faucet!
Instant gratification.

If I was told there was a crisis and couldn't have the internet anymore, I wouldn't see my life as damaged. I'd just do something else.

Those examples stated, what my problem is (if I bothered to see it as a problem) is: I'm excessive.

If I start a game, I'll see it from beginning to end - and then never think about it again.

If I find a new author, I always hope that they're not new and they have a ton of books I never discovered before so I can read their whole life's work from beginning to end.

Good example of that is Laurell K. Hamilton. By the time I discovered her, she had dozens of books under her belt...

If I discover a new area of interest, I'll read 75 books about the subject consecutively; and most likely some of them concurrently.

Good example of that is when I went on my Catholic Church mission and wanted to learn all about their politics and what their architecture meant and that led to the Knight's Templar, the Celtic calendar, the significance of Venus in History, The Rosslyn Chapel, the Sinclair family and the Apprentice Pillar which led to the book "When God was a Woman" and the statues that have been buried of women since the Neolithic time period and then King Solomon and oh my God, there were so many things that that led to afterward... I'll spare you...

Okay, maybe I lied.
Maybe I do have two addictions.
People - and knowledge.

Alright, fine - maybe I should have said that I don't have any bad vices or ones that will doom me in the end.

Well, unless I'm researching some knowledge and some person kills me over it...

All in all, I still think it might be a fair statement to say that I'm not an addictive personality. CLEARLY though, I AM excessive.

Which brings me to my original reasoning for writing this in the first place. Which seems utterly stupid to me right now after all of that...laughs

My new obsession?

I have a $2.00 a day habit. It's a habit that gets supplied from the local corner gas station. Which just sounds funny to me as I type it.

Grant: "I'm going to the store for some Pepsi. Need anything?"
Me: "Cheezy poofs!"
said like in South Park...poofs...like proofs without the r...
Grant: "Again? You're going to turn into a giant cheezy poof..."
blatantly disregarding that statement...
Me: "And I'm going to eat the entire bag, just so you know."
Grant: "Yes, I know..."
Me: "So if you want any, get two bags."
Grant: "I don't know how you can eat those things..."
Me: "..."
Grant: "Alright, I'll get you your stupid cheezy poofs..."

God Bless Chester Cheetos!