And it's said that the first step in helping solve your problem is admitting that you have one at all.  Okay then.  Here goes:

Hi, my name is Voicelady, and I'm a Harryaholic.

I am obsessed.  It started with the books.  It was only one book, after all.  I mean, everybody says that reading is good, right?  So how was I to know the path I'd end up on?  It escalated after that.  Then came the next book.  And the next.  And the next.  The fix had firmly taken hold.  Harry Potter became a daily topic of conversation for me.  I thought about him.  I theorized about him.  I joined *clubs* about him!  And then came an even larger step.  I became [whimper] a pusher.  "Here, try this, you'll like it.  It's just a kids' book.  It's fun.  It'll make you feel good."  I found myself supplying all of my friends at work.  

But then [sob], I found out I might have to wait for two whole years for the next installment!  What was I to do?  I'll tell you what I was to do!  I began buying different versions of the books:  Canadian, UK with kids' covers, UK with grown up covers, gift sets, special editions, I just couldn't stop myself!  Did it matter that they were all the same, really?  No!  They were Harry Potter - I had to have them!

And then came the neat little *things*: bookends, buttons, posters, puzzles, keychains, games, Quidditch game cards, snowglobes, clocks.  It goes on and on and never ends!  I find myself wandering past my Hallmark and WB stores on a daily basis, even if I have no other reason to be there!  Today, I went to go buy the little Harry Potter Mini Figurine with Storyscope.  That's it - just the one. [giggle]  But when I got there, the store had each and every one.  And on the packaging (damn the packaging!) it said, "Collect them all, connect them all!  Each piece has an interlocking base!"  So I HAD to get them all!  Come on, people, INTERLOCKING BASES!!!  What else was I to do?!?

Help me...please.....


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