My First Giveaway!

Yay for free stuff!

In a shameless effort to increase followers, I will be randomly selecting someone to win one of the two necklaces pictured below.

(The winner gets to pick!)

http://www.etsy.com/listing/51788108/menagerie-collection-alexa

http://www.etsy.com/listing/44359684/simply-gorgeous

To enter, simply sign up to follow the blog in that little box on the left and leave a comment below with your favorite quote.

Mine = "Blow up your TV. Throw away your paper. Move to the country. Build you a home. Plant a little garden. Eat a lot of peaches. Try and find Jesus...on your own." -John Prine

(It's okay if you forgot who said it. I won't judge you.)
Existing followers, simply leave a quote to enter.

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Getting Things in Order

I make lists. I make lists of my lists. A few days ago, I wrote, "make lists" on one of those lists. I was serious.

Sometimes I wonder if I might be more excited about the idea of getting "organized" than the actual doing-ery of it.

The lists themselves have no real cohesiveness. I saw one crumpled on the bottom of my purse, written on half a sticky-note last week that read: "laundry, manicure, armadillo, falafel". It probably made total sense to me at the time.

More than anything, I like to feel the inky slippery scratch of the pen writing down all of these hypothetical futures. The meals I plan not to burn, the pulled-together look I'll surely accomplish with those particular Anthropologie earrings, the yummy falafel lunch I'll have with the armadillo.

I begin to think my subconscious was trying to tell me to write "make lists". It wanted me to check something off and feel accomplished.

http://www.etsy.com/listing/51788108/menagerie-collection-alexa