Hello!
Much has changed since we spoke last. I’m actively seeking employment, slowly furnishing a small room, and contemplating going back to school. I have an oven so I’m baking and I’m obsessed with candles. The last candle I bought was Whiskey & Oak, because I want my room to smell like old money and secrets.
I have grown a large red beard, I have gained weight, I am blossoming like a swamp lily. To celebrate this cycle of rejuvenation I’ve complied my Christmas list for this year, and it is in need of a little explanation. Enjoy!
A Desk – One can’t do without a desk, not unless one wants to apply for jobs and do research on college programs on the kitchen table, which one doesn’t.
Last week I found a white table with floral accents and a painted bunny – when I approached the woman at the thrift store I took care to say “I’d like the white table, the one with the rabbit” because I couldn’t imagine a grown man saying the word bunny in any context outside of storytelling – but the Bunny Table is holding my video game console and my DVD player, and sacrificing the Bunny Table to this purpose got those things up off the floor and made my room look put together and finished.
Hardbound lined notebooks, 8 ½ x 10 – No spirals! Spirals don’t stack, they fight each other for space on the shelf, they can’t be reckoned with. In my dreams of the future I have a long shelf with an index of every first draft I’ve written for the past decade in identical hardbound notebooks. I’m using a Green Military Record Book for my schedule now, and I’d like to continue.
WPA Poster – There’s something a little less serious than agitprop and less frivolous than kitsch about reproductions of Works Progress Administration posters. I’m more than happy to mount them myself, but I’d love something to hang on these walls.
A food scale – For measuring portions. I can never seem to bring myself to splurge for one — they seem ridiculous — but the nutritionist said they are indispensable.
Pens – Anything that writes fluidly without being inky or scratchy.
Original Artwork – I was unaware my fiancé painted until I saw a striking self-portrait hanging in his grandmother’s home and I’ve been fixated ever since. A tiny square done in acrylics is all I ask, something to hang above my dresser. This is the only non-negotiable item.
Wasn’t that fun? What’s on your list this holiday season? Leave a comment, tweet me, tell me what you hope to find under the evergreen.
W♥YCG 