Do you ever feel like 'that creepy person'?

I love all the comments and likes i get it fells good, sometimes when i fell a little down i came back only to see if a have any alerts they always make my day!!!!

 

When I see someone has commented on one of my layouts, I have a Sally Field moment - "You like me, you really like me!"

 

Um @Serena ... have you SEEN my tagline under my name? I think that just says "creepy stalker"

I don't mind gallery stalkers AT ALL. In fact, I LOVE when people leave all the kind comments because even though I am creating for me and my family, it's nice to hear my creations don't stink.

So a slight stalker story... every year since my daughter was little, we have celebrated pretty much every birthday at the same restaurant. It's about an hour from our house and we drive right past another location to get to this one. But, we just love it. They have revolving doors to enter and no matter how many times my daughter has gone through them or how big she gets, it's one of her favorite things to do (over and over again) when we go. Anyhow, we missed a few birthdays so it had been a little while since we've been. But, we went in a few weeks ago for my birthday. This server we have seen for years was in there. She wasn't our server this night, but my daughter wanted to go say "hi" because they always enjoy talking when we go. She was SO EXCITED to see us! We talked to her for a long time and she told us she was moving next month. Her mother is dying, so she was going home to the Philippines to be with her mom until she passed. Then, she was moving to Wisconsin to be near her sister. We hugged and talked about how we'd miss seeing her and she talked about how she would miss seeing Raileigh grow up. Then... a few days ago, I get a Facebook message from someone I don't know. IT WAS HER! Somehow, she'd found us on Facebook which I think had to take a lot of looking because I don't even know if she knew our last name. Maybe I SHOULD find it creepy, but I don't. I think it is AWESOME. I love that we are now connected and even though she's moving, we can stay in touch.

My family just seems to connect with people like this everywhere we go. I cannot tell you the number of cast members we have met at Disney that I now consider friends. Some no longer work for Disney but we still meet up with and stay in touch with when we're down there. We wrote letters for one of these friends when he was going through the process of obtaining citizenship. Many send postcards, Christmas and birthday gifts to my daughter. One is an artist and did a custom art piece of Yoda for my daughter. I still remember the very first time my daughter connected with one of these cast members. She was FOUR. We had been standing on Main Street waiting for the fireworks to start, chatting with a cast member who was stationed there. We chatted for probably almost an hour about Disney, rides, princesses, and everything really. After the fireworks, she appeared with a hand full of fastpasses and a stuffed Rapunzel for my daughter. Raileigh promptly looked up at Lauren and said "Can I have your address? I want to write you letters." The rest was history. Lauren is still very much in our lives- in fact, Raileigh mailed her a Valentine yesterday!

I think my point is that MOST people love these connections. I think we are all just afraid of being viewed as weird or creepy or stalkerish.

 

When I first started scrapping back in the Mesozoic Era, I was so excited to post my first page using a Ronna Penner Kit. I thought I would jump out of my skin when she posted a comment on it loving what I had done with her kit.

I clearly remember my first one too - and so does everyone within 50 miles earshot.

 

I am totally a stalker.. *L*.. I may not always comment.. but I stalk the gallery a lot and than end up going to peoples personal galleries and stalking some more.. saving layouts I love.. so forth..