Passion

August - Pursue a passion. Now I just have to figure out what. I have many passions and so little time. I'll have to figure one out and concentrate on it. 

In Gretchen's book it is the goal for September but I figure, why not do it when I don't have to work? 

I have a lot of things I love to do but we're trying to pay off debt so I can't pick my favorite thing which is traveling. 

I've heard it said that hobbies cost money while interests are free. 

And to be honest I've always been a jack of all trades kind of person. I just love to get involved in everything a little bit. It's why I speak 6 languages but none of them fluently. (BTW, the 6 are English (ok, I guess I am fluent in that one), Spanish, Italian, German, Hebrew and Russian). I just like to do everything from skydiving to genealogy to read to white water rafting to scrap booking. Heck, I've even written 3 screenplays. Pick something, I probably like to do it. And if I don't like it, I've probably tried it.

I began thinking about what my hobby interest could be last week and could not for the life of me come up with anything. Separately, I've been cleaning out the house I am in to get ready to move it by next spring and in the basement I came across lots of interesting really old things like stamps, baseball cards, rocks, pictures and money. And instantly, I wanted to find out everything about this stuff. How old is it? What is it worth? I wanted to scan in every picture and know who was in them. None of it is mine. It's all my dad's. He was some what of a collector in his younger years. Some of it was my grandpa's. 

I even found this picture of my dad from when he was born-ish. He may be like a few months old. No idea. He was born with skin on one side of his face missing/scabbed so since it looks somewhat healed, I'd assume he was not JUST born in the pic but I don't know... yet.

Anyways, a lot of it is interesting and will take me a long time to catalog and God knows it I'll get bored of doing it but I found what I want to do when I came across this:

It is a 50 million mark from Germany in 1923. The money was worthless then and since so much was printed it's worthless now but I teach about the hyperinflation in Germany after WWI so to be able to put my hands on an actual bill is very cool. This bill back them was maybe worth 5 or 10 cents but probably less. It would likely not even buy a loaf of bread but again I need to do some research.

More to follow as I pick through this stuff.