2002 / january / 13
fitting
some people complain about the holiday season. personally, i dread the week after new year's initiation much more - cause i will find myself in a familiar scenario. which goes roughly like this:
- december comes. hm. is it time to buy a new agenda? oh man, they're expensive! and where's the one i like? hm, i've got plenty of time.
- christmas's near. i know it's time to buy a new agenda but how i hate the christmas shoppers paradise (obvious Carter USM link here). Hey it's holiday time. i have time. i can make one myself! cut lined paper, fold, staple and voila.
- early january. i know i shouldn't buy a new agenda yet. the old one has two months of plan-ahead space anyway. and the should be getting cheaper in a little while.
- ...panic! oh no! is it getting too late? are there still agendas about? scramble! rush to the stores! oh, there is still one! (actually, there are piles of them).
- and before i know it, i'll have a new agenda.
today i transferred from last year's to the new one - copying the appointments,
noting the next dentist's checkup in may, that kind of thing - and i realised
it immediately when i put my pen in the paper. it sucks balls (been watching
too much south park lately). it doesn't fit. the act of writing is not joyous:
wrong paper surface. Colour's just a bit off, with an irritating shade of green,
the kind that you don't see under fluorescent lights.
ah well. it'll grow on me. it's the same dance every year.
now i have to take you back into time (timmy!).
my grandma used to knit jumpers for the whole family - grandchildren included.
she loved it! but i *hated* new clothes. i'd have a favourite jumper and would
not part (think that peanuts blanket bloke). so my mom would take it away in
the night, and sit through the mayhem in the morning, presenting me with the
new jumper. it would take a *lot* of patience on her side, but i would put it on
eventually, or rather, i would allow her to put it on me (i was 3 then, or 4).
after a day or two... i would not part with the new jumper, and i would be
as attached to it as to its predecessor. hm. i see a pattern.
(insert a glorious grin here)
