Numbers

I balanced my checkbook last night. It made me happy.

If that scares you - it's OK. The things I like to do are scary sometimes. Not in a creepy stalker, dogs talk to me and tell me to kill people way.... but still scary - or let's just say eccentric. Yes, I like that - eccentric.

I've always had a thing with numbers. Walking to school as a kid I'd play a game with the cracks in the sidewalk. It involved counting a certain number of cracks and then jumping over a number of sidewalk squares. I have no idea how I came up with it. But I loved it. I tried to teach it to my kids, but they thought I was weird......no - let's stick with eccentric.

Some people write songs, some people are great decorators.....I like numbers. They make sense to me. It's helped me out in many areas of my life and when I worked. Since I've had my children and stopped working I had been on a search for a small part time job and I thought of bookkeeping. When I mentioned it to a friend she commented "Why don't you find something FUN to do?" You know what? I think bookkeeping IS fun. (It's OK if you've shifted back to scared).

I've hesitated to post this entry. An admission of this sort does not exactly place me at the top of people's party invitation list. But my friend Karen has shared with me about being authentic. And this is who I am. Warts and all.