B.A.

(Blogaholics Anonymous)

My name is Clarissa Gifford, I am 28 years old, and I am a Blogaholic! I have been suspecting this for some time now. I thought I might have a problem when I realized that I looked at my life in terms of blogging. Anything and everything that happens, I would think, "OOH, I should put that on my blog," and then I would start writing the story in my head. There was also a sense of sadness when I didn't have anything to blog about. Well, it has only gotten worse. I came to the absolute conclusion that I have an addiction during my last blog entry. You see, I had woke up Saturday morning pretty sore and tired and had a massive sore throat. I wanted to just brush it off because I thought it was mostly because of going riding on Friday. Well, some pretty severe symptoms started to develop and all I could think of was posting to my blog about Thanksgiving and riding. I kept having to stop to regain my thoughts, rest my head and focus. My husband said, "Go to bed, you don't HAVE to blog!" I was like, "what did you just say?" Towards the end of the post...I was typing with trembling hands and blurry vision. When I was finally finished, I rushed to get into my bed!! I was shivering with terrible cold chills and feeling weak and tired all over. I had a fever of 101.9. I stayed in bed the rest of the day not really being able to pick my head up off the pillow. Needless to say, I was miserable. We spent most of Sunday in the ER (because there is no urgent care open on Sunday mornings) and filling prescriptions for me and the rest of the family for strep throat. Not how I wanted to spend my Sunday!!
But here's the thing...I am not completely better, my kids are super sick now, I am running on about 6 hours of sleep over the past two nights, the house is in complete disarray, I have a ton of stuff to get done and I am here blogging! Yes, my name is Clarissa Gifford and I am a Blogaholic.