Friday, October 27, 2006

Addiction

I have an addictive personality. I have addictive traits. This is not a new discovery to me, nor should it be to people who know me. In fact, all during my childhood I would get an idea or plan in my head and bug my mom about it and I heard her say more than once to me, "Gosh, Karen! You get one wild hair up your butt and it's all you can think about!" Although sometimes I'm sure it was more graphic that that, depending on how much I bugged her. Let's take a look at some past addictions. Most recently was Minesweeper. I think we all remember that. Sometimes I fall into a relapse when I'm watching TV and don't want to do homework. Good thing there's not a support group I have to answer to! There was my knitting phase. However, I still would knit all the time if I could, but I just don't have time. Still, I even dedicated an entire blog to knitting. And I have huge tubs of yarn that have never been used. I'm suppressing a Diet Coke with Lime addiction. When I was working full time I'd have one every day for lunch. Now I drink water--and my skin is thanking me for that. I won't even go into detail about my internet addiction. There are more I could mention but we'll just skip ahead to the present addiction. It came out of nowhere, really. And I didn't think it was a problem until the other night, when at about 11:30 pm I indulged in it. For the third time that day. What is it, you ask? Cinnamon Toast Crunch. I cannot get enough of this stuff. Tuesday I had it for breakfast. I came home after school around 3 and had a bowl. And then topped it off to use the remaining milk. Then later that night after I was studying I had another bowl. I will have singlehandedly finished an entire 1 lb 10 oz box--that the BIGGEST BOX on the shelf at the store--completely by myself this week. 7 days. 1 box. Me. Don't be surprised if you ever see me walking into a methadone clinic one day to get my daily dose. Because I am an all around addict. (But let's hope it never gets that bad!

Well, I should get going. I have much to do today and the rest of the weekend. Tonite I am having a sleepover with 12-13 year old girls from church. 6 of them. Should be interesting. And I have a truckload of homework to do on top of study for a test on Monday. And my house is a wreck. And I'm running out of Cinnamon Toast Crunch...

4 comments:

Anonymous said...

At least your addiction started now, after the folks at Cinnamon Toast Crunch decided to half the amount of sugar coating on their cereal. It was better in the good old days.

Anonymous said...

P.S. Yes, Mike Visser is hot.

Lara said...

Ha ha ha ha ha ha!!!!
I had the same "little problem" with Cinnamon Life once. But I had your seven days beat! Try FIVE!

;-)

Samantha said...

Why on earth are you having such a sleepover?

And we sound a lot alike judging from this blog, honestly. B/c I get addicted to things that same way. My diet soda addiction has been going on for...7 months now, it's bad. Tell me all the reasons I should stop, ok? Sometimes I hit chocolate addictions, internet, books, magazines, makeup, shopping,tv, almost all stupid things. And I, too, when I get an idea of something I want or want to do in my head, I can't let go of it until I've satisfied my cravings. Let's start a club.