validated...

so i was talking to the girls i work with about scrapbooking. about how a lot of people have a negative perception of the hobby. they totally thought i was crazy and think it is one of the coolest things ever. {could totally be a ploy to trick me into making fabulous works of art for them...anywho.} i told them that a lot of times i am leary of telling someone that i scrapbook. so sad. i'm a grown woman. who cares what other people thing, right? wrong. it bugs me and i know it shouldn't but i'm sure i have a zillion insecurities that years of therapy may not even touch. but now that i have had a card picked to be published, i almost sort of feel validated.
i know. horrible right? i always said that this hobby was for me. that i wasn't doing it for anyone else to be published. but now that it's happened, i am kind of relieved.
that if someone ever snickers after i tell them that i scrapbook that i can oh so maturely, zing back at them, 'oh yea, well, i've been published.' what the heck is wrong with me...
again the girls thought i was a loon. love them for being supportive. i might even have suckered a few of them into this hobby!
any thoughts? shall we discuss? or should everyone just tell me that i'm nuts? :)