Just Say Julie

Prompt 1:  Tell us about a hobby/addiction/obsession of yours. I used to have hobbies.  I would cross stitch and scrapbook.  I danced when I was younger.  I acted in musicals.  I was an avid reader. And then work got busy and I got married (again) and had a baby and my hobbies kind of disappeared.  I moved my scrapbooking supplies for the 3rd time and still haven't taken them out of the box because I have no time and no space to work on all the books I have wanted do over the last 5 years.  Same with the cross stitch work.  And the dancing and musicals fell to the wayside as I got out of shape thanks to sitting at a desk all day with no exercise.  I am trying to read more but even that is hard to fit in.  So I really don't feel like I have hobbies anymore.  But I am hoping that will change. As for obsessions, well, there is this certain college football team I am kind of fond of.  You know, the University of Alabama Crim...

A week ago Wednesday I sat in the comfort and safety of my living room in Texas and watched videos and read reports of tornadoes ripping through my home state.  The images were awful.  The fear I could read in my twitter feed was heartbreaking.  And I couldn't do anything about it except sit there and watch it all as it was happening.  I wasn't living it like my friends were.  I wasn't going to have to deal with the aftermath.  The next day I tried to write about what happened the day before but it just felt trivial and patronizing so I deleted the post.  I read through twitter and Facebook and other news reports of death and destruction and everything else just felt secondary.  I wanted to help but I didn't know how.  So I stayed out of it.  It was one of those moments in life where it felt like the rest of the world should stop and take notice of what had happened.  But here in Austin, Texas, life went on unaffected beca...