my list book

I've decided to stop using this blog for dumb anecdotes and whining, and instead use it for what some people call "proper blogging".

So I'm sitting at my desk, it's 2.15 in the morning, I'm strung out on 1.4 litres of coke and a packet of toffeepops and I'm wondering what to do with my time on the internet. My eyes wander and fall upon this:


This is, simply put, the best journal I've ever owned. I bought it at a bookstore on Auckland's North Shore, while my dad waited (a tad impatiently).
I love it because I'm a journal snob, and this was the perfect purchase. It was $13, I think. The lines are perfectly spaced, the design is simple, the inside covers are a vibrant pink (though I covered them up with images I found on deviant.art):

pink! god, I was a bit odd back then.

(sorry about the bad quality; my webcam is crap).
The very first thing I wrote in this journal was a detailed list of all the crap I'd bought in Auckland (I was there on holiday with my sister, visiting my dad). At the bottom of the page is evidence of my terrible math. First it's $226 total, then $227, then $231. I think I gave up at that point and used a calculator.

I bought this journal in 2008, on Saturday the 12th of July. I know this because as well as using the front of the book for lists, I turned the back into a travel diary. There's an index, too and, oh! the first 80 pages are numbered. Hello, everyone, I'd like to introduce you to 15 year old me- the me who indexed and numbered her journals.

Also in the travel diary section are accounts of:

1. A dog show I went to in Taupo, 1st-2nd November, 2008
2. The Kawhatau Base tramp, 18th-20th May, 2007 (copied from a diary before I threw it away)
3. Westwood Camp, 11th-17th January, 2009
4. My stay in Christchurch with my Aunt, 13th-17th July, 2009
5. Vinegar Hill Camp, 3rd-8th October, 2009.

I also had an account of our camp at Mangaweka, January 2010, but I lost it when I moved to Wellington (along with months worth of other stuff- worst thing that's ever happened to me, and I'm still not entirely convinced that my sister didn't take it).

Further back is a list I made for Vinegar Hill:


There's also a list of music I wanted to download, demonstrating my music taste in 2009:

good taste, y/y?

and a list of what I got for Christmas that year, too:

all people ever bought me (and still buy me) are art supplies and books.

The reason why I wanted to post all this is because at some point I fell out of touch with my list-making, journal-keeping self, and I think that's sad. Since this journal is full I think I need to find another (and it has to be fabulous).

God, it's 2.30 now. I should go to bed....

but I won't :)

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