Things I am obsessed with

… recently, and for the time being.

I have never been addicted to anything. Not even to love. That’s the tragic burden I have to bear as someone who can never seem to manage to stick to anything. But once in a while, I have passionate, obsessive affairs with some things that abruptly break into my consciousness to command all my attention, and then leave soon afterwards just as abruptly.

As a piece of evidence to the above tragic character flaw of mine, I present to you, The Ukulele.

 

It showed up from Amazon.com last August. Was used as a prop in several pictures. And then… sadly, it along with the instruction book and CD, was never to be seen again… until last month when I traveled with it all the way to San Francisco for a team building event, and then back, without once taking it out of its bag.

On the night of February 10, I jumped on the Linsanity wagon and stayed up the WHOLE night to follow New York Knicks’ win over Lakers. I was gaga over Jeremy Lin, and all the lin-puns that ensued.

 

Hey, if even Spike Lee caught the fever, who was I to pretend to be cool, right?

 

That weekend I had a lot of fun with Jeremy Lin Word Generator (of course!), and below is my favorite:

Actually, I’d like all of you to start calling me Linja from now on. In return, I will give you the awesome Dynamic Einstein Caption Generator: Have Einstein write anything you want on the blackboard! Yeah, naturally I had fun for a while with Einstein also.

My obsession this weekend? Quicken. Yup. Turns out that I have not reconciled my bank statement on Quicken since… drum roll please… September 2009, interestingly coincided with the time when I started getting to know the blogging community… You guys are a bad influence, you know that (and are probably proud of it too). I am now up to October 2010. Pray for me.

There is one thing that I should be more obsessed with but haven’t got around to it:

Sleep.

I am going to give it a try right now.

 

 

30 thoughts on “Things I am obsessed with

  1. Ameena

    Oh my. First of all, Quicken is a boring product. I love to reconcile on Quickbooks instead! It’s fantastic. And yes, I work in finance so I can say this without being considered a loser. Which I sort of am regardless. As evidenced by the fact I’m writing a comment about Quickbooks on a Saturday night at 7:45pm.

    Anyway…

    I had a nap in the car today so I feel fantastic. Sleep is definitely under-appreciated.
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  2. Justine

    Linja, you crack me up. Reconciled bank statements. What’s that?

    I can understand your obsession. Surely it has nothing to do with the fact that you guys share the same name in some way…
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  3. Velva

    Linja, I remember your passion for the yukele…I thought how cool was that? I cannot imagine be passionate about Quicken (smile). Now, sleep that’s a passion.

    So let me ask you…I know why you are watching basketball…but that means you are watching sports. Hmmm…

    Velva
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    1. Absence Alternatives Post author

      I played Basketball and volleyball in high school… Of course I was always the Weakest Link… It was yelled out by our rival teams many times: Give the ball to Lin! There is a legit reason why I HATE sports… That and dodgeball.

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  4. patty punker

    1.) what dufmanno said.
    xv.) i’m the same way! current obsession: chess with friends.
    !?*.) i too am avoiding pinterest. how long do think it will be before we cave?
    abc.) my obsession with you never fades@!
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  5. dufmanno

    Full throttle or not at all, I say.
    Obsession reminds you to remain engaged and alive. If we didn’t burn hot and bright for things that evaporate quickly we would stagnate and turn beige. Too hard to sustain the gusto for extended periods but when it’s firing on all cylinders? That’s when all the best stuff gets generated.
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    1. Absence Alternatives Post author

      I had a day off today so I slept until 11 am. WINNING! 🙂 Now I just want more though… Probably not a good thing to be obsessed with… With your baby so young, you probably need sleep more than I do!

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