When did I become a crazy dolphin lady?

These are the pictures from my desk at work. I won’t even show you pictures from my house, but let’s just say that we have a room just full of dolphins. I do not know when this happen, maybe it always was, but when did I become the crazy dolphin lady. People go to stores and they buy me dolphins. During Christmas time, people buy me dolphin gifts. This has occurred for as long as I can remember.

The Origin: When my brother and I were younger, during our Summer breaks from school, our parents would drive us all around the East Coast taking us to different aquariums. Any time we went on vacation, we would also go to aquariums. Possibly, the earliest memory I have is my dad holding me over a dolphin tank to feed them fish when I was 3 or 4 years old. My mom would always buy me books about the ocean and dolphins. 

When we were younger, our family use to have a friend that swore up and down that she was a dolphin in a past life. At the time, Chris and I thought she was crazy, and I thought how could anyone be that crazy. Fast forward 20 years, and it's now me. While I don't think that I was a dolphin in a past life, I seem to be at that similar level of crazy.

My brother and I can visually identify and probably tell you a couple facts about a majority of the fish in the known world. I’m better with marine mammals, but my brother can ID most fish. It’s a shame that neither of us studied Marine Biology.

I think I like dolphins because they’re intelligent, beautiful creatures. They can be mysterious or show-offs. Plus, they live in the sea.

So I guess that I’m a crazy dolphin lady. I’m sure if they could live in bathrooms I would have a bunch of them in my house. I do have one request to anyone reading this. No more dolphin gifts. I really have no use for them. What would be useful is money. If you don’t want to give me money, at least give the dolphins some money : The Whale and Dolphin Conservation Society.