RSS Sep 27, 2007
Thursday Thirteen: #14–13 things I’ve found in my home while packing
Filed in Blog- My Blue Peter congratulatory letter.
- The original box for my laptop, complete with ID numbers.
- My childhood swimming certificates: over 30 years old, some of them.
- The map of the fantasy world from my novel.
- A print-out of the first email Don and I ever exchanged.
- My hand-crafted walking stick.
- A sales pack for advertising at Sturgis.
- A pin from a family trip to Krnski Jezero (black lake) which instantly brings back memories.
- About ten million socks. (No pairs, of course.)
- A second Edwin Wisewings talking plush bald eagle.
- A leather bookmark from Tewkesbury.
- A book I borrowed from Shendoah some while ago (oops).
- A brochure of Irish historic properties.
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7 Comments, Comment or Ping
jennifer (2 comments.)
it is amazing stuff we find when we are moving etc. I found a bunch of stories my daughter wrote in elem. school this last time we moved and she is now 18!!!!
Sep 28th, 2007
Susan Helene Gottfried (21 comments.)
So did you keep it or pitch it all?
Sep 28th, 2007
J. Lynne (36 comments.)
I kid you not, this has happened to me twice. When I moved from New Orleans to Maine, I went through all of my socks and got rid of the unmatched ones. When I arrived I had a bunch of unmatched socks. When I moved from my apartment into my house, I went through all of my socks and got rid of the unmatched ones. When I unpacked, I had a bunch of unmatched socks.
It’s a complete mystery to me how it happens. It’s a bizarre phenomenon.
Sep 28th, 2007
Mathew James Didier (2 comments.)
There’s something both universally wonderful AND scary about finally doing big clean-ups and organizations for moves… One move, many years B.S. (before Sue… my wife…) a girlfriend who I was moving in with located a box I’d long forgotten about… with letters and poems written by me to another girlfriend years before I met the young lady who found them…
That was NOT pretty… and was a year’s worth of torment to me…
Between the disastrous breakup of that relationship until I met Sue, a shredder and loads of often-used garbage bags became my best friends! :)
Sounds like your finds are MUCH happier! :)
Sep 28th, 2007
Nicholas (17 comments.)
Why did Blue Peter congratulate you?
Sep 29th, 2007
Linda R. Moore
‘Cause of this:
http://www.ravensroads.com/index.php/blue-peter-badge-winner/
Sep 29th, 2007
OpenChannel (16 comments.)
Thanks for the Blue Peter question, Nicholas, I was about to ask the same thing.
J. Lynne - LOL!! The same thing has happened to me! I’ve stopped questioning it and chalked it up to a rip in the space-time continuum.
Linda - I actually love moving… and I like finding things I totally forgot I had (and things I wonder why I’ve kept).
Sep 29th, 2007
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