The first day

This was just a spur of the moment thing. I have some time on my hands and thought, why not?

I think I am an interesting girl. I have stories to tell. You wouldn't believe.

If you find this and have never heard of me, I guess my life is pretty ordinary in terms of day to day goings on.

Yet, behind the scenes, things are not always as they appear. I have issues. Health issues. Money issues and now Lord help me bead issues. That's right I said BEADS.

I was just speaking on the phone with my friend Esther and opened up to the fact that I am totally and amazingly addicted to beads. I can't help myself.

I surf and find sites and more sites and OH MY GOD, I haven't run up my credit card like this since I worked in the music business and was always charging a new outfit.

I still buy clothing, but the beads have even displaced the Shopping Channel which was my last addiction. Since beads I have only bought skin care once.

But the beads. They are precious little gems sitting on my table and calling to me. They are beckoning me at odd hours. I know I have other things to do, but I hear the beads calling my name and I am a slave to them.

If someone had told me last year that this would be my new fantasy I would have told them they had lost their minds. Beads. They are all consuming and pervasive. They work their way into your system and believe me, it is like heroin only better. Your health doesn't suffer, but certainly your pocket book does. The good thing is that I am actually selling them. I must admit that I have surprised myself on more than one occasion. The bracelets I have been making are really nice and some even outstanding. I had no idea that I had an eye for beading.

In my own defense, I have sold over 100 bracelets and have given quite a few away as gifts. Thank heaven I have an addiction that can turn into a cottage industry. Beads are hot right now and what I sell, at a ridiculously low price, makes up for the fact that I just can't stop surfing, buying, shopping in stores etc.

I have probably got 10,000 beads and more on the way. I owe, I owe it's off to surf I go.... will return later with a new tidbit and remember it could be affecting your world like it does mine.

Randi