8.21.2005
sloughing off the excess - to find your center
i'm obsessed with shredding things. i didn't used to be, but andy is pretty hyper about identity theft, so we've had a shredder for about 5 years now, and our 2nd one finally conked out. i decided i wanted a pretty hefty one and we bought an unnecessarily expensive (but so worth it!) one at costco the other night. i've been shredding like a maniac lately, but i do get this weird sense of comfort from it.
anyway, andy and i are finally going through all of our boxes and old stuff from decades ago. andy has these HUGE boxes of G.I.Joe's. Yes, the man still has boxes of toys. i was telling him he needed to get rid of this stuff and he looked at me like i was a psychopath. long story short, i got my title from "uptown girls" and i told andy that this is what he needed to do. as you can imagine, he doesn't really have a big interest in "finding his center."
it has been so fun going through all of my old boxes. i've found really old pictures of people; people i love, people who i now don't talk to, people whose names i can't even remember. i've thrown a lot of it away, but i've also kept a lot of things that i think will be neat to show my children one day. i found my senior will from the last UC High newspaper of my senior year and i laughed and laughed at some of the things i left people. i mostly laughed because so much of it was inside jokes, and i had to remember what they meant. good times, good times. it's so touching to be this young and have such fond memories of the life i've lived so far. and i must say, a large part of it was fun to share with andy because a lot of our old - like really old, memories include each other. anyway sometimes, there is a benefit in being such a pack rat.
i'm going to start my day now... there's lots to do.
anyway, andy and i are finally going through all of our boxes and old stuff from decades ago. andy has these HUGE boxes of G.I.Joe's. Yes, the man still has boxes of toys. i was telling him he needed to get rid of this stuff and he looked at me like i was a psychopath. long story short, i got my title from "uptown girls" and i told andy that this is what he needed to do. as you can imagine, he doesn't really have a big interest in "finding his center."
it has been so fun going through all of my old boxes. i've found really old pictures of people; people i love, people who i now don't talk to, people whose names i can't even remember. i've thrown a lot of it away, but i've also kept a lot of things that i think will be neat to show my children one day. i found my senior will from the last UC High newspaper of my senior year and i laughed and laughed at some of the things i left people. i mostly laughed because so much of it was inside jokes, and i had to remember what they meant. good times, good times. it's so touching to be this young and have such fond memories of the life i've lived so far. and i must say, a large part of it was fun to share with andy because a lot of our old - like really old, memories include each other. anyway sometimes, there is a benefit in being such a pack rat.
i'm going to start my day now... there's lots to do.
