As almost all of you know, I LOVE office supplies, journals, pens, all that kind of stuff. One of my favorite notebook purchases in the last year or so was a side flip notebook with different colored sections of graph paper instead of lined paper. After deciding to splurge on a new notebook earlier this week (and it is splurging when they're almost ten bucks a piece), I found one in a faux-leather that is full to the brim of graph paper. Love it. Like, my heart actually skipped a beat when I found it on the shelves at Barnes and Noble. I realized then that I'm obsessed with graph paper notebooks. Lined paper implies a right or wrong way of use. Graph paper says, "Look out, I might start going in circles, and it's okay."
Yes, I am a complete weirdo. I've come to grips with this fact.
Despite the fact that I love my new notebook, I'm almost afraid to write it in. Which is typically why I don't buy the kind that are more like books (faux-leather and perfect-bound rather than plastic and spiral) than notebooks. I feel guilty tearing pages out. But you know what, screw it. I don't want it to look perfect. I want it to be a useful tool, a place to gather all the thoughts that are running circles in my head, and it should have post it notes and scribbles and pages missing. It should look well-loved.
Ha, take that perfectionistic tendencies!
(Yeah, we'll see how long that lasts.)
6 comments:
Ok so I am the same way. I love getting new office supplies! But it is heart-wrenching to use them. You want them to stay perfect and new forever! It is an awful burden that us weirdos must live with :).
Susan
But at least we're not alone! : )
This has absolutely nothing to do with your post . . . but I read "Eye of the Beholder" over the weekend and loved it! I vote for Erehen (sp?) over Caelan anytime . . . he's alien-licious!!
Jeanine
Done! Glad to help . . . I expect to receive a portion of your royalties when you're rich and famous!!
Jeanine
Thanks, Jeanine! : )
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