Daily checking of the forum-am I obsessed?

[anna pugh]

In preparation for my first (although that suggests there may be others , and that's highly unlikely) Camino Ingles, I have been devouring every scrap of information from peregrinos, books and as many other sources, so I'm fully aware and ready. Is this normal?

 

[wayfarer]

Yes, you are as normal as the rest of us..................

 

[Aidan21]

Oh Yes, perfectly normal and obsessive at the same time. I suspect given the interest you have displayerd that one Camino will not be enough!! Buen Camino!!

 

[NualaOC]

In preparation for my first (although that suggests there may be others , and that's highly unlikely) Camino Ingles, I have been devouring every scrap of information from peregrinos, books and as many other sources, so I'm fully aware and ready. Is this normal?

Just once a day? That is very restrained

 

[musicman]

I walked it this September ; great Camino and although short, it is testing in parts.
My Blog gives, I hope, a lighthearted account :-
" ensuitepilgrim blog.com/ Wordpress"

Hope you enjoy it as much as me!

Utreia

 

[Icacos]

....... (although that suggests there may be others , and that's highly unlikely)..........

Ha !

 

[Annette london]

Yes, you are as normal as the rest of us..................

NORMAL!! Did you say normal!my daughters are beginning to think that I am not normal being on this forum! I can assure I would get more work done around the house if I was not checking this a "few" times a day. Must try and wean myself off of it!! Any suggestions as to how I might do this??? Best wishes Annette

 

[wayfarer]

NORMAL!! Did you say normal!my daughters are beginning to think that I am not normal being on this forum! I can assure I would get more work done around the house if I was not checking this a "few" times a day. Must try and wean myself off of it!! Any suggestions as to how I might do this??? Best wishes Annette

Plan another Camino...its the only way.

 

[Annette london]

Plan another Camino...its the only way.

Did France's this year again. Would love to take off again next year but my other half wants to go somewhere else!! I'm thinking! Thinking! thinking! How can I manipulate without being too obvious about it!!! Will see how it goes but defenitely again in 2017. Will not be open for discussion as I used to tell the daughters many years ago!!!! Best wishes Annette

 

[nidarosa]

Yup, you're hooked. Or as I like to say: We're all here because we're not all there. Buen Camino(s)!

 

[mountaingoat999]

Did France's this year again. Would love to take off again next year but my other half wants to go somewhere else!! I'm thinking! Thinking! thinking! How can I manipulate without being too obvious about it!!! Will see how it goes but defenitely again in 2017. Will not be open for discussion as I used to tell the daughters many years ago!!!! Best wishes Annette

Just saying

There are two people in a relationship........"One is always right" the other is a man?

 

[Annette london]

Just saying

There are people in a relationship........"One is always right" the other is a man?

Thank you mountain goat, you are so right.i would do the smiley face thing if I could find it but I AM smiling.guess I will have to get the kids to do the technology things again!! And if I don't get off this forum soon today there will be trouble! Nothing getting done in this establishment today. Anna Pugh has opened a can of worms and we are all guilty as charged!! Best wishes Annette

 

[mountaingoat999]

Hi Annette

when you start a new post reply ,it says ghosted in the background "Write your reply" above Hi Annette is the tool bar(once you start writing).....you see the smiley face ...click on it once and another tool bar appears below with smileys choice , click the one or ones you want

 

[Annette london]

Hi Annette

when you start a new post reply ,it says ghosted in the background "Write your reply" above Hi Annette is the tool bar(once you start writing).....you see the smiley face ...click on it once and another tool bar appears below you with smileys choice , click the one or ones you want

Thank you so much. Found them. Gosh I am getting good at this technology.thank you best wishes

 

[anna pugh]

Just once a day? That is very restrained

No...by daily I meant almost every spare minute during each day... haha

 

[Seabird]

Welcome to the club!

 

[Dennis D]

Hello Anna, my name is Dennis and an am a Caminoholic. Welcome to the club that offers the positive addiction of a lifetime.

 

[nidarosa]

(I'm not even going to talk about escalation. Like planning to go back not one, not even two, but three times next year. No-uh, not going to mention that.)

 

[Former member 42123]

In preparation for my first (although that suggests there may be others , and that's highly unlikely) Camino Ingles, I have been devouring every scrap of information from peregrinos, books and as many other sources, so I'm fully aware and ready. Is this normal?

Whilst I am not preparing for my first Camino,I suffer the same problems.Like you I too devour books on the Camino,having a collection of hardbacks,paperbacks and now a large collection on kindle.I too find I continually dip in and out of the forum numerous times a day.Alas,this. Is a fate that awaits you on your return, from your first and inevitable subsequent Caminos. Buen Camino.

 

[Carmo]

Your camino has already started.

 

[Anniesantiago]

Yes. I'm here every day too

 

[anna pugh]

Hello Anna, my name is Dennis and an am a Caminoholic. Welcome to the club that offers the positive addiction of a lifetime.

Hello Dennis.. I think is the correct response and return

 

[jumpingin2014]

In preparation for my first (although that suggests there may be others , and that's highly unlikely) Camino Ingles, I have been devouring every scrap of information from peregrinos, books and as many other sources, so I'm fully aware and ready. Is this normal?

Buen Camino Anna - sounds perfectly normal to me. Instead of 12 steps though you'll need about 1 million.

 

[Teresa Santamaria]

In preparation for my first (although that suggests there may be others , and that's highly unlikely) Camino Ingles, I have been devouring every scrap of information from peregrinos, books and as many other sources, so I'm fully aware and ready. Is this normal?

Oh man oh man, that is hilarious. I talk to people and say, yes, I am still checking the forum and I love reading pilgrim posts and contemplating and learning and thinking and I think of the Camino on the subway (was at a High School Open House on the Upper West Side of Manhattan tonight, and on the subway home, I found myself musing about the Camino and how there is no route cost, and how there is no route donation, etc., I don't know why I was thinking about it, but I was thinking about what means (income/comfort)someone has to have to do a/the/some Camino). So you know, the Road lives with me, and I found myself telling a friend on Sunday night, that my spiritual journey was private because I, well, was not ready to share in the loud kid-friendly pizza joint we were in.... You know, you live a Camino and it becomes part of your language and your relationship (in my case with my son and even tho my husband was not there, with him too). It's sort of feels like being baptized in a very cognizant way...I've been Camino-tized in whatever way that means for me. There will be reflective journeys of the mind to come, even if the feet do not go there. Enjoy! y Buen Camino! Teresa

 

[Wokabaut_Meri]

In preparation for my first (although that suggests there may be others , and that's highly unlikely) Camino Ingles, I have been devouring every scrap of information from peregrinos, books and as many other sources, so I'm fully aware and ready. Is this normal?

Define 'normal'

 

[wayfarer]

Define 'normal'

What we are..........

 

[Wokabaut_Meri]

What we are..........

A dear friend who had a severely disabled son had the Define Normal sign in her kitchen. Her boy was bullied mercilessly and told that he wasn't normal. She taught him that normal is however you are made and that everyone's normal is different. It helped him greatly.

 

[alexwalker]

NORMAL!! Did you say normal! Any suggestions as to how I might do this???

Walk The Camino.

 

[rometimed]

I did the French and English Caminos (along with a bunch of other walks) this year and was on here quite a lot prior to leaving. Nothing like Santiago though... the 2nd time in feels almost as good as the first.

 

[HeidiL]

First? Ha. I thought that as well after the first time. But then we went back after a couple of years, and...

 

[Icacos]

Just once a day? That is very restrained

No...by daily I meant almost every spare minute during each day... haha

Yes, that's right.

 

[SYates]

In preparation for my first (although that suggests there may be others , and that's highly unlikely) Camino Ingles, I have been devouring every scrap of information from peregrinos, books and as many other sources, so I'm fully aware and ready. Is this normal?

Ask me <<< looks at her post count<<<. And I wouldn't count on it being your first and last camino, the camino virus strikes out of the blue and you are infected forever ;-) Buen Camino, SY

 

[Kanga]

I think people who are obsessed with the camino are the sanest people on earth. Or, in the words of Robert Owen: "All the world is mad except thee and me, and sometimes I think even thou are a little mad...."

 

[wayfarer]

I think people who are obsessed with the camino are the sanest people on earth. Or, in the words of Robert Owen: "All the world is mad except thee and me, and sometimes I think even thou are a little mad...."

Exactly my point.........

 

[anna pugh]

A dear friend who had a severely disabled son had the Define Normal sign in her kitchen. Her boy was bullied mercilessly and told that he wasn't normal. She taught him that normal is however you are made and that everyone's normal is different. It helped him greatly.

I was being ironic... certainly didn't mean to sound insensitive or to upset anyone

 

[Wokabaut_Meri]

I was being ironic... certainly didn't mean to sound insensitive or to upset anyone

That's exactly how I took your original post. No offence taken. I just thought that the label 'Normal' was an interesting one to explore. I am enjoying this topic.

Please post on.

 

[Peter Fransiscus]

In preparation for my first (although that suggests there may be others , and that's highly unlikely) Camino Ingles, I have been devouring every scrap of information from peregrinos, books and as many other sources, so I'm fully aware and ready. Is this normal?

Hi Anna, it is so normal.
Wish you well , Peter.

 

[anna pugh]

Thank you everyone for your reassurance that I'm seemingly becoming a proper fledgling Peregrina .. it's just the training to do...

 

[chrisje]

I do also have the camino virus We will do the camino via de la plata again !
Buen camino

 

[zzotte]

Plan another Camino...its the only way.

at least I would have "an excuse" to check the forum multiple times every day

zzotte