Daydreaming of Nonsense

I've always thought it'd be really cool to become an expert in something that I've no specific use for. Like a wine expert, which would be hilarious and probably impossible since I don't drink, but at the same time it'd make the venture all the more quirky. Or a fire arms expert. I'm never going to shoot anyone or anything for that matter but you have to admit it'd be fun.

This year I've been fully operating in robot mode. I've taken little time to notice life happening all around me. The past 8 months have just sort of happened. I've hardly read. I've hardly crafted. My house kind of looks like there was an explosion of sorts. Maybe I should become an expert in organizing, wait NO, that'd be totally practical.

So, the past few days I've been trying to shake the funk and the top two things on my list of stuff that I MUST do in order to be me, in order to live and breathe and take life by the horns are: 1. READ!!! By golly I'm gonna suck it up and pay the library fees! It's sad but this little obstacle is truly the reason I've not been reading this year.

AND 2. become an expert in something really random.
I'm thinking I could continue me study of all things Irish. Honestly there's no value in it but I've such a passion for it and I've already begun.
I'm also thinking cheese. How neat would it be to be a cheese expert? I bet you could accomplish a feat like that in under two years. Unfortunately I think it'd be expensive. I'd be insistent on trying all the different cheeses of course. Oh how I do love cheese and sadly I feel I'm very uneducated on the subject.
I'm also considering plants. However I'm already overwhelmed just at the thought of it. I'd really like to know the names of all the vegetation growing in the fields and woods of Michigan; know if they're edible, poisonous, perennial, annual; what could they be used for, how long have they been here, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah. I'd really like to be a bit more woodsy. I do LOVE the great outdoors.

Any suggestions or comments on the above three possible ventures???

I'm nothing if not a daydreamer.