Do you have an obsession?!

Gorky also Gorki, Maksim also Maxim Pen name of Aleksei Maksimovich Peshkov. ****.

No, that is definitely not my mental image mini ?

I dont remember any of his books- cant be that great!

Thanks HT- ?

Dresses!

Whenever I see a nice dressage a good price I buy it, as a good dress never goes to waste. When looking through my stuff last month while having a clear out, I decided to work out hat I need for honeymoon. We have 14 nights in Mexico, so 14 posh a la carte dinners...I counted over 40 dresses, managed to get it down to 18 that I love... So will need to have two dinners some nights ?

Mellow-Yellow - fear not - you can dress for lunch too if you so wish, and TBH you wouldn't look out of place in a pretty place at breakfast ?.

My obsessions are plentyful:

Candles - I like to have on burning whenever I am home
Flowers - I insist on having fresh flowers in the house
Photo's - I take photo's of everything / everywhere we got
Expensive make up - and then keeping it all in the expensive little boxes they came in
Underwear - I bet I must have well over 50pairs of knickers/bra sets and I insist that they match
Shoes & bags too - I can't get enough
Chocolate - there has to be some in the house at all times, else I will wory.
Ironing - and making sure everything is sufficiently ironed

There are more, but i'm going to stop there....

LM - good to know, will take 28 then....breakfast will have to do without fanciness as my luggage allowance won't allow for 42 of them! ?

Though also - thinking about it, what we often did was, when we went to the posher places (The french a la carte, the japaneese, the indian, the lobster, the mexican) we dressed very formally, then went back and changed for drinks/the show afterwards - so again.. Plenty of options.

I miss EPM so very much ?. I had a dream about being there the other night - heaven on earth for us!

We pre-booked our seats yesterday. We were considering upgrading to premier purely for the fact that there a seats of only two together. Turns out standard class is a 2-3-2 on our plane so we have 10hrs of nobody sitting next to us - squeeeee!

We had the same - we got row 14 - which i'll be booking again! We had sooo much space! ?

Wasn't there a band called 'gorky's zygotic mynci' or similar?

My obsession is books an dvd's. I buy n sets and they have o be in order. I now have to et books on my kindle app as we have no more space in the flat. Bu when we get a house I want a mini library in a spare room. My dvd's are plentiful and in alphabetical for ease of location.

I got to 8mm in both ears in 2 weeks. I rushed it to get it done before my Mum got back from her holiday. I was 16 and was scared of getting told off ?

I've stayed at 8mm, and luckily never fooked my lobes up. I have very stretchy lobes.

How big you going Mini?

Will they stay like that forever ER? Even if you take them out?

I can't say. Everyone is different. My friend stretched his to 18mm, and they shrunk back pretty much to normal, a friend who had 6mm, has been left with the hole. Depends on how much elasticity your skin has, and wether you have scarring from stretching too quickly.

I believe you have more chance of them shrinking back, if they've been stretched to 8mm or less.

NYR - Can I join the ty party please? I used to collect them for about 3 years. My first few were all bought together and were The Beginning, The End, and Almond (I think) who shares my birthday. I have loads stored in boxes and can't get rid.

I may have some rare ones you don't have... ?

I am going to 8mm in both ears- as they are in my second holes not first I dont have *that* much skin left to go alot bigger!

Its stretching time this weekend- wish me luck- am going to 5mm

Good luck mini. You *will* get that highlighter through soon!

My highlighters look like this;

I can stretch all I want...thats never going to fit? Square peg, round hole etc.

NYR this makes me so happy! I was an avid collector myself, me and my friend made it our mission to get as many of the retired ones as we could. We went on holiday together and even found a whole shop dedicated to Beanie Babies (it was in Cornwall) it was heaven! I'm very impressed with your collection. I have hundreds, not sure of the exact amount but they're all in my mums loft. I always said that one day they might be worth something. Are there any you're particularly after? I could have a look and see if I have them? Not that I want to feed the obsession but I would rather they go to a good home ?

Back on topic, I don't think I really have an obsession now. If anything it's my pets, particularly the cats. They're spoilt rotten and have; numerous toys, activity centres, a water fountain, lots of beds and expensive food. I'm always researching how I can make them happier or how to read their behaviour. At the moment they're being switched onto a fully raw diet as that was my latest research topic. I spend a lot on money on them each month and H is sick of them taking over! But they're my babies and are complex creatures, I like to do my best to provide them a happy environment and it also keeps my knowledge up as I'm not currently working in my profession ?

Edited to add - if you're wondering why I'm up at this insane hour, I was letting the cats out ?

I have to say, that's very impressive.

I'm not even that dedicated to my kids* ?

*Obviously a joke