new forks in the drawer. forks of my choosing. can you believe this is the very first time its happened? it's true. i've moved away from my hand-me-down flatware and got some that i actually like. form and function. a style of my own choosing. for however small this seems, it actually made me very very happy. ha! silly, i know, but it's the small things, right? and also, new bowls in the cupboard. bright white porcelain. just two. one for me, one for my sweetie. and this ensures there will never be more than two bowls to wash on any given gluttonous day. i'm going to hide the other bowls and only use them if there's company. and only if it's company who request soup or something that needs to be eaten from a bowl. i'll hide them and not tell my sweetie where they are. yep, i hate cleaning this much. and so i'm devising crazy little schemes like these, whittling down so there isn't much to clean. and it isn't so much a choice based in some sort of anti-consumerism (though i'm on board with that too except for when it comes to cool shoes and art supplies and books), it's pretty much an anti-cleaning campaign. the less there is to be responsible for in terms of dust and crap like that, the better. the more time opens up for painting, for play, for laughter. and so i whittle whittle whittle away and make space for better things.
also, i finally got through the huge stack of composition books i bought early in the year. i filled the last page of the last book yesterday. this is a proud moment. and so now i've decided to make my own notebooks for awhile. i have so many loose sheets of paper and scraps i've saved that need to be put to some sort of use. besides, i think notebooks of the hand-made variety generally look cooler... although i've always been partial to the black and white speckled composition book. and for as silly as it may sound, the type of notebook you use definitely influences your practice. at least it's influenced mine. i need a notebook i can be rough on, scribble in, scratch out entire sentences, make mistakes, spill ink and coffee on. those fine leather journals just don't work for me. they force me to be clean and polite in a way that is sabotaging and endlessly boring. i find it hard to be honest, to be brave, when i'm worrying about my penmanship. any other writers notice this?
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I love composition notebooks. I ain't no writer ;) but I do like writing occasionally. I have quite a few of those notebooks for different future projects and jotting down my feelings and ideas in them.
I'm right there with you in the getting rid of stuff, the more I converse with other females about my disinterest in cleaning and their disinterest in cleaning the more comfortable I am in my own unconventional ways.:) Hmmmm to do that mountain of laundry or not today. Maybe just one or two or maybe tomorrow. The idea of having a stash of dishes that you don't have to clean right away, that's a good one, I like that.
<3 Amends down there
totally! i'm so glad i'm not alone in the hating to clean realm of things. in fact, i think we're the majority. those commercials of women joyfully washing dishes or having a vacuum cleaner race make me want to barf. ;)
also, i think i might hide half the new silverware. hahahaha!
thank you for liking the 'amends'. :)
I like many different kinds of notebooks...I love tiny ones with ribbon or stretchy covers. But I'm also a fan of plan lined notebooks (a la high school). I like the size of the paper, and it stays open when you want it to.
:)
yes. staying open when you want it to is definitely a big perk. i always end up breaking the spine on the composition notebooks from folding in open to write. and the notebooks with that stretchy rubber-band that holds the notebook closed is RAD.
i like that you like all different kinds... especially tiny ones. :) those little dudes need good homes.
I got a red Moleskine for Christmas last year and I had to put surf stickers all over it and past crap in the front and then I got big blotches of blue ink on it from the pen that leaked on my quilt and then I broke the spine because I kept a fat pen inside and closed it with its rubber band and carried it around in my purse. The good thing was it fit in my purse. I need bigger pages to scrawl over. I need something I don't feel guilty about abusing breaking and messing up.
I use graph paper wire bound notebooks that are 110 for a buck at certain discount stores.
xoxox
hahahahahaha!!!! that's where i got my fat stack of composition books! yay for 110 for a dollar! i'm all about it! the crappier, the better. because i need something i can spill stuff on and let my dog lay on and stomp on. i have a very bad habit of leaving my notebook on the floor and even I walk all over the thing. there are shoe and paw prints on them. ha! and i stick stuff to the front cover too. :) heart stickers and old, thrift store valentines.
Hey how did you know I had a red heart sticker on my red notebook?!?
Also Checkalooka Surf Shop. Wonder where that came from?
xo
mind-meld! mind-meld!
i've got a fat stack of those red heart stickers. or used to have a fat stack. i've had them for years and use them quite sparingly but i am reaching the bottom now. i was hoping you'd stick yours on your notebook.
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