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Accessory/Chaos/Writing

Accessory

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I’m not a big {accessory) girl…

It’s a bit of mystery to me…
I just don’t know how to do it…

Scarves, headbands, belts, rings, chains, bows…

I have one favorite belt that I wear…

I have two favorite necklaces…

Headbands will not stay on my fat round head…

I only know one way to tie a scarf and that is no longer the “cool” way…

I’m ok with it though 🙂

Chaos

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In spite of my efforts for a clean, organized home…

{Chaos} lives just down the hall…

I promise I tried with both of my boys to instill in them the joys of having a bed made and a organized space to live in!

But my children are practical…

Why make a bed when you are just gonna mess it up again?

Why put it away when you are just gonna get it out again?

Why be organized when I have you mom, to find anything I just randomly through down and then can’t find?

I realize I have to be honest here because my mom is reading this…

I have to admit that my room as a teenager was {CHAOS} as well…

Ironically I did not enjoy the benefits of organized tidiness until I moved out of my childhood bedroom and into my dorm room…

Sorry about that mom…

Writing

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I have been a journal writer since high school.  Not consistently, but off and on.  Sometimes I can lose myself for hours reading the musings of my teenage self…my 20 something self, my 30 something self, and now my 40 something self…
My first journals were calendars.  I would simply write about that day, whatever I could cram into the box for that day…I began in January of my Junior year.  I have the day I met Jeff on that calendar 🙂  I love that…

My first proper journal began in 1987 when I was Shelly Ritz…

And yes I spelled “journal” wrong…

The very first page is about Jeff breaking up with me and my heart-broken self and how I was sure I just lost the best thing that was ever going to happen to me…

Happily the majority of the {writing} in this journal is about our engagement and the days leading up to our wedding…a happy ending 🙂

I also keep travel journals.  I am so happy that I have done that.  I remember the first journal I bought for my very first trip to Europe. I was sure I would never fill it up, assuming that trip would be my only opportunity to go wandering with my passport.  Happily, I have filled one and I’m working on a second.

I also like {writing} down quotes, inspiring words, that I come across.  I like having them in one place where I can look them up and be inspired at any time.

Today’s inspiration:

“Our beliefs can move us forward in life – or they can hold us back.”
–unknown
-S

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  1. I'm glad you owned up to the chaos of your teenage bedroom because I was going to have to comment on it if you hadn't. My compromise with you was that you would clean it one day a week on Friday that way it didn't get to chaotic 🙂

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