Labels: "Obsessed", Biggest Loser, Monk, OCD, reality television
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Colleen Coble writes romantic suspense with a strong atmospheric element. A lovable animal of some kind--usually a dog--always populates her novels. She can be bribed with DeBrand mocha truffles.
Denise Hunter writes women's fiction and love stories with a strong emotional element. Her husband says he provides her with all her romantic material, but Denise insists a good imagination helps too.
Diann Hunt writes romantic comedy and humorous women's fiction. She has been happily married forever, loves her family, chocolate, her friends, chocolate, her dog, and well, chocolate.
Cheryl Hodde writes romantic medical suspense under the pen name of Hannah Alexander, using all the input she can get from her husband, Mel, for the medical expertise. For fun she hikes and reads. Out of guilt, she rescues discarded cats. She and Mel are presently taking orders from four pampered strays.
11 Comments:
Which is probably why you think you have OCD! LOL You read about it so think you have it. You're not the obsessive type! You like what you like. That's not OCD. That's being a girl!
Thanks for talking me down off the ledge. LOL I feel more normal already. LOL
I don't think wanting an organized and clean home makes anyone a candidate of OCD. As moms, we need that stability when children are involved, hee...
I am not a fan of reality shows, but I do love sci-fi. I am a huge fan of Eureka and Star Trek shows and of course, NCIS.
Leticia, thanks for the show of support. I'm not a Trekkie. I'm afraid I don't get it. Brave New World and Ray Bradbury are about as sci-fi as I get. I have to rebel living here with all the AV crew.
I'm a Californian, too, so I can't really form a definition of "normal". (LOL) I'm a perfectionist -- sadly, not in the Monkish, gotta keep everything clean way -- but in my writing and music. But I wouldn't say I'm OCD, and I don't think that buying and liking shoes is obsessive-compulsive, either. (As for reading WebMD, I do that too. The worst thing to read is my mom's dictionary of diseases and how to treat them. Anyone who read that thing could think that they had a thousand diseases.)
I think (and I'm sure you'll delete this comment)that there is nothing you could view on television that will bring you to what you want to be, with regards to normal.
And I don't know where you live, other than California, but if you have a backyard or access to the beach, maybe you could watch more of that. God made a lot of cool things that aren't perfect...
I think the illusion of perfection is a real ego-centric, insecure idea. It's like saying you don't trust God has things in hand, and so you're going to take care of it. I struggled with it for YEARS as an oldest daughter...just ask my sister!
We ended up shutting our TV off, shortly after having our daughter, and even though I'm culturally retarded (and have only just heard of John and Kate plus Eight), I think we're more content with our lives.
I don't think it's the illusion of perfection I struggle with, it's wanting to get things right for God, my family, etc. I can't step out of culture because I write for youth. That's my calling to speak to young women, and I have to talk to them in a language they understand.
If God calls me somewhere different, I'll go. : )
Can't help you here - I watch little TV, but I believe the things I do watch (anything on TLC or E, lol) make me feel much better about myself and my life. I'ts one of those 'wow, I though I was (insert word here), just look at those people!' I'm pretty normal by comarison. But, yea, the California thing....from the Californians I know, you seem way normal. :)
cheryl
I also feel compelled to add, that my grandmother the perfectionist, did not have a selfish bone in her body. EVERYTHING she did was for someone else. Even her hobby was baking for others. So I don't think perfectionism has anything to do with selfishness, sorry.
I didn't mean to insult your grandma! (I KNEW I shouldn't have commented...I was scared of saying anything, and now I've put down your grandma?!!!)
I'm SORRY!
I guess when I said ego-centric, I didn't mean it as selfish, I meant it more in a "no one can do it like I can, so I'll do it all"...more along the lines of an overconfidence, which may have been a better choice of words.
I'm SORRY!
I knew I was probably reading more into it, but you know, she's my grandma, and she was perfection, so I got a little out of whack. So sorry if I jumped on it, too.'
Please, don't be afraid to comment. I can handle criticism, but I'm touchy about my kids and grandparents. They helped raise me. : )
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