Obsessions

February seemed to have just flown by! It started off great, ended not-so great and now here we are in March! Time is flying by for sure.

My post today has to do with obsessions.

I happen to have a VERY obsessive personality. I didn’t notice this until my best friend Erika pointed it to me one day. She noticed how, when I started dating a guy, I’d become obsessed with whatever his interests happened to be. There was the one guy who was into baseball and guns and Christina Perri. So I started reading baseball fiction books (Mike Lupica is SUCH a great author!) and looking up info on stuff he’d mention and I started listening to Christina Perri a lot more than I had before. One guy was into this song about rain, and I hate to lie, but it was a GOOD song! Another guy was into drawing and computers and animation, so there I go looking into it. I know it’s cool when your partner tries to get into the stuff you like, but I just took it too far! Anyway, I wanted to write about the periods of times when I became obsessed with buying certain things. I go through these phases quite often where I just buy a bunch of one thing. Some of things have included:

Earrings
I got my ears pierced when I was 19 for the first time so I went way overboard buying earrings. I must have bought at LEAST 20 pairs, and I ended up only wearing maybe 5 or so pairs.

Lotions from Bath and Body
SO many. I ended up having to give some to my mom because I had a huge collection that I was NEVER going to finish. Plus after awhile I realized that the smells were so strong, they were ok for awhile but then they got on my nerves.

Pens
All sorts of pens. Especially colorful, girly, cute ones. I ended up not even using these and most of them dried out so it was really a waste. I can’t help it. I just love having tons of different colored pens.
 
Journals/notebooks/composition books
OMG I have like 70 unfinished journals! I try to reuse them, but it’s hard. And I always end up buying NEW ones when I start a new hobby.
 
Eyeliner
I went through this phase where I’d buy every eyeliner I’d see. Thankfully, I won’t run out for a few years!
 
Lipgloss
Same issue as the eyeliner. But I had to throw away a lot of it when I realized glitter got everywhere and annoyed me too much.
 
Stickers
Especially Barbie stickers! I still have some, but nowhere to put them.
 
Magazines
I have stopped this since then, but I once had a pretty amazing collection of magazines. My favorite was “m”, but it stopped printing back in the day. I loved it because it had quizzes and free posters!
 
Phone cases
I actually haven’t bought a phone case in a few months, unless you count me signing up to a subscription that sends you a case monthly!
 
That’s all I can think of at the moment! Oh wait… my biggest obsession:
 
BOOKS.
I have too many. I buy several every month. I have a problem.
 
No I don’t.