For those of you that don't know who Eeyore is, he is the gloomy old donkey from the Disney movie Winnie the Pooh. I fell in love with him back in high school.

He was so sad and depressed I couldn't help but love him. He became my object of collecting. I collect any stuffed animal, beanie baby, and figures; anything. Eeyore was my very first tattoo.

When I was injured, I went into a bad depression and I was able to relate to this sad donkey. Of course I never had the problem of my house falling down or losing my tail. Ha ha. I have to include this story of me at Disney World back in Feb/Mar of 2000:

• It was a one-week family trip down to Disney World. We had planned a character breakfast with Winnie the pooh. I was of course dressed head to toe in Eeyore clothes, right down to my Eeyore backpack. Well, the food was wonderful. And Pooh, and Eeyore came by the table and took pictures. Now Eeyore loved me. I wished I could take him home with me. Well, Tigger would not come by the table because of all of my Eeyore stuff. He held up my Eeyore purse like it stinked! Well, to get back at him I put my purse on a Tigger stuffed animal and showed it to him across the room. He was angry. He came over and took it from me and started to body slam my Eeyore. Well, I wasn't gonna have that. So I was on the floor wrestling with him. Tigger and I called a truce and hugged. But I stood up for my little gloomy donkey.

Yes, one could say that I am obsessed!