January 6, 2008
i’ve been sucking pretty bad at keeping a record
I started scrapbooking when jacob was wee. I loved it because it involves paper and I love paper. Lay me on a bed of paper and I will be - well, laying on paper which isn’t so thrilling, but you know what I mean even if I have not said it well. That’s what I like about you. You get me. We have that bond or whatever.
The hell was I saying?
Oh ya, record keeping. Well Dan got me a scrapboking magazine as a stocking stuffer at Christmas and I’ve been beating myself up since. I’ve done but little scrapbooking sicne having Madison and I’m pretty major bummed about it. And after I am pretty major bummed about it I am going to go listen to some eighties music and crimp my hair.
Walk Like an Egyptian.
I was just over at fluid pudding and she had a year in review type of thing going on and I was all the more pretty major bummed. Because if I sat down and tried to review my year I don’t think you’d get more than:
I got one year closer to forty and that made me pretty major bummed
Because I keep no sort of record. Not even here, on my website, my journally type website. Because I disdain blogs as journals. Rather, I do not disndain them in gneneral but disdain the thought of keeping one myself. I fancy myself above that sort of thing. I fancy myself more of a sporadic-pointless-poster more than anything else. It’s my recipe for success, might not be yours.
Today I am going to try to do some kind of record keeping planning scrapbooking paper related goals for the year setting slash photography inspired thang. Between loads of laundry and the eighty five thousand times Madison will bounce in front of me saying MomMomMomMomMomMomMom and completely breaking my concentration.
What? What was I doing? What is my name? Who are you?
See, like that.
I’ll let you know how it goes. Only I won’t. Because as soon as I walk away I’ll forget I ever made such a promise because I will be busy getting crackers and keeping a certain four year old from jumping on top of her brother’s 200 dollar robot that he had to have but never plays with.
Danielle said,
January 6, 2008 @ 3:07 pm
Ah, scrapbooking. I always like looking at other people’s scrapbooks, but I am not into doing it myself. I’m not sure why - since I am really into photography, crafts, and keeping things for posterity… maybe it is because I’ve never really been introduced to it.
Good luck on getting some done. It sounds like you just might need it, what with the interruptions and all.
Tamara said,
January 6, 2008 @ 5:12 pm
scrapbooking?
huh.
jenski said,
January 6, 2008 @ 8:09 pm
I still have not finished my scrapbook-like photo album from my time in China over 6 years ago.
I don’t like buying all the fancy scrapbook stuff, but like putting tickets and things like that together with the photos all laid out pretty.
Besides, if you wait long enough, it’s easier to pare down the number of pictures you want to include because you don’t remember half of them or don’t think every single last one is sooooo special. So you’re really doing yourself a favor by not being on top of it!
tommy said,
January 8, 2008 @ 11:50 am
Ha, I got one year farther from 40, so I win right?