As I was considering what to write for this contest, I looked back at my life to figure out what I am really passionate about.  Of course, it would be easy to say I'm passionate about my family, that's a given.

Family aside, I realized that over the years I've had many passions and often they come and go.

It seems I find "something" and I get a little obsessive... ok maybe alot obsessive.

Whatever that "something" has been, I take it on, full force and I stay with it until I reach my maximum potential and I move on to the next challenge.

I don't understand failure.

I don't do mediocre, or I try not to at least.

I thrive on good, healthy competition.

What are some of the things I've been passionate about?

Here's a few:

• Weight loss/getting in shape - A few years ago, I finally committed to losing a few pounds.  I lost 40 pounds!  Next thing you know I was a moderator in a weight loss forum; I never worked out a day in my life, but suddenly I was considering a career as a personal trainer; I didn't know a gram a protein from a gram of fiber, but I became the local nutritional expert.  The photo on the right is when I won my President's Challenge Gold Medal!  Woo Hoo!
  
  
• Budding Videographer - Before digital was "cool" I was on the cutting edge of digital photography.  I was obsessive about creating perfectly timed slideshows, finding the perfect song, looking for the perfect graphic.  I would spend hours and hours and hours creating slideshow videos and giving them as gifts to my family.  I see some of the same obsessiveness in my blogging.
  
  
• Internet and Video Gaming - The day the computer became affordable to the general public, I've had one.  And thus, my passion for gaming began... anyone remember Larry the Lounge Lizard?  The more interactive the gaming has gotten, the more obsessed I've gotten.  I've compulsed over Texas Hold 'Em, Spades, Hearts, Mah Jongg, Neopets and most recently, Facebook's Mafia Wars (just ask Don Cecily!).  As for Video Games, I remember many, many red-eyed late nights trying to get Mario to jump over the mushroom or trying to save Zelda!
  
  
• Bowling - Been doing it a looooooooong time.  Now it's a hobby, but in my younger days... a passion for sure.
  Tournaments, leagues, Sunday morning high stakes
  games with the old men in Brooklyn. 
  

Here's the best part... 

My most recent passion/obsession is, you guessed it, Blogging!  Ok, not just blogging, but more appropriate would be to say creating and improving my professional internet presence.  Talk about a productive hobby!