obsessions.

I think I just figured out last night that I have rather odd obsessions. But the even odder (if that's even a word) thing is these obsessions are short lived. For example:

-When I was younger (like 12 or 13...haha) I watched the movie, "The Miracle Worker." It's the story of Helen Keller. It was a made for TV movie with that curly haired girl from the Pepsi commercials way back when, playing Helen Keller. After watching that "newer" edition of the movie, I watched the classic one. And then I became mildly obsessed with Helen Keller. Even going as far as walking around the table pretending to be blind and eating off my parents plates one evening at dinner. Seriously. Ask my mom. She'll never let me live that moment down. Of course that was a scene from the movie and I was freshening up on my acting skills. My freshman year of high school I did a skit for my drama class with two other girls from the play, "The Miracle Worker." And guess who I played? Yep, Helen Keller.

-This past Spring I read "Mistaken Identity", a true story about two girls in a car accident whose identities were mistaken for one another. One died and one was in a coma. The wrong family buried who they thought was their daughter and the other family stayed with the girl they thought was their daughter for five weeks in the hospital while she was in a coma. A very fascinating story that you can briefly read about here. Needless to say I also became mildly obsessed with this story. I think I read all the news articles I could find online about it. I mean I spent countless hours and days looking this stuff up. I was so interested.

-Also, earlier this year I re-read a book called, "Rachel's Tears" about one of the girls, Rachel Scott, who died in the Columbine accident. And yes, you guessed it, I did hours of research about her story too.

-A couple months ago during the Olympics I developed another obsession: gymnastics. I was taken back to the year 1996 when I was just nine years old and watched the female gymnastics team win the team gold. Back then, I cut out all the newspaper articles about the "Magnificent 7" and pasted them onto construction paper and stapled the papers together to make a scrap book. Unfortunately I must've thrown it away because I haven't seen it in years. Anyway, the female gymnastics team this year made me think about the one from 1996 and I again, did "research" on them. I watched Youtube videos, read personal websites of the girls from the Mag 7, read news articles, fan sites, whatever I could find.

So now you ask what is my newest obsession? The Brady Bunch. I know, I know. It's so weird. But with Maureen McCormick's (Marcia Brady) new book out it sparked the newest obsession. Last Friday night, the boyfriend and I went to Borders and I sat down with her book only reading anything related to The Brady Bunch. Side note: Though the show is beyond my years and not from my generation, I have the DVD sets and absolutely love the show. Okay so I must've read the darn book for like an hour and I'm still not even done with the Brady Bunch parts of it. I need to go back and finish it. Anyway, since reading those snipets, I looked up The Brady Bunch on Youtube and found out they did "The Brady Brides" in 1981 which was a short lived series about Jan and Marcia being married and living with their spouses in the same house. And a few years later they did a Christmas made for TV movie with the Brady's. Two years after their show ended in 1974 they did a show similar to Sonny and Cher's (which, by the way, I also used to watch) with singing and dancing and short skits. I watched a little bit of The Brady Brides and it didn't compare to the original Brady Bunch. Along with my Youtube adventures, I also looked online reading some fan sites a little.

Agh, I feel like a loser. These obsessions are short lived, but seriously after writing the extent that I go with this stuff, I feel stupid.

Go ahead, laugh.