I used to watch TV and Netflix movies. Yup, that's now a thing of the past. And since I'm the sugar-mama around here, it chaps my ass that I pay the DirecTV and Netflix bills and I don't even watch TV. My RL friends think I'm whacked because I haven't seen Modern Family or Glee. Meh. What-the-fuck-ever.
I used to read magazines like Living the Country Life, Better Homes & Gardens, and Midwest Living. I still subscribe to them but I haven't read an issue in months. I recently started going through the Pottery Barn and Williams Sonoma catalogs. Get this - I had stopped looking at those when they came in the mail and that's just fucking crazy! I love those stores!
I used to be my neighborhood's answer to Martha Stewart. In the summer of 2009 I had a fabulous garden filled with tomatoes, peppers, onions, corn, strawberries, raspberries, asparagus, herbs, garlic, peas, beans, carrots, rhubarb, and other stuff I can't recall. Some of these veggies, like the tomatoes and herbs, I started from seed with grow lights and whatnot. I made pies and canned salsa. In the summer of 2010 AFF (after fanfiction), I planted 7 tomato plants and weeded once. I did read a lot of fanfiction on the deck while sipping wine or martinis.
Our family went camping in August 2010. I brought along the laptop and wireless internet aircard so I could read fanfiction. What is a vacation on the beach if you're not reading your favorite stories? I also learned that it's tough reading a laptop while lying in the sun; that damn screen just isn't bright enough. I'm definitely getting an e-reader before next summer!
I now plan my vacation days around meeting my fellow Twitards and fich00rs. I have been to Forks once and am going back in September. Can't. Fucking. Wait. And yes, I'll be gone on my wedding anniversary again. Sorry hubs, you understand right?
I could go on and on with this...How has your fanfiction addiction changed your life?
7 comments:
Great post! So true! My fan fiction addiction has definitely not helped slow the development of my RSI... all that scrolling!
I go to bookclub every month and make up excuses as to why I haven't read anything. Again. Thank gawd this time it's been three months and I read the Hunger Games. Thank god they're printed matter, I won't have to lie through my teeth this week.
I flove this blog. Good on you, Sugar-Mama xx
Micki we are such true twi-fic-sisters! I am right there with you! I'm also a Sugar-Mama with messy house and you always know I'm reading something. I am glad you started this blog. We do like similar stories! Love ya bunches! Mwah!
Micki - are you my American alter-ego? I sooo hope I can meet with you in Forks this year - I feel a kindred spirit thing going on...
CC x
I'm exactly the same only without the vegetable garden..no green thumb here! lol...you are one sweet girl and I am so happy we all share the same twi fic addiction...it's the glue that holds us together! I don't know what it is about these characters that have taken over our lives, but I'm so glad we found them and each other. Luv u to pieces girl!!
God I am so glad I am not alone!
I get chewed out for not knowing what is going on in the outside world. I don't watch TV at all anymore...I would rather read. Read until I am blinded and my vision gets all blurry..then I take a break be it short...till the words are able to be visible again and I can take up where i left off...housecleaning...just the necessities...dishes, cook, laundry...if someone knocks...I freak! lol....
I am so glad I am not alone in my addiction!
2010 AFF <-----LOVE THAT!!! LOL
I was reading FF on my phone on the beach last year--sun glare sucks! I've read it at an indoor concert on my phone. At a concert!!!! Who does that? Apparently I do.
I've let tv and stuff fall to the side too.
I guess you already knew you weren't alone in this, right? You're not. :)
This describes my life too. In fact, I'm trying to weam myself a bit. My hubs & gardens were neglected last year. :-(
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