Pictures of My Stuff

I have a lot of stuff. This is what it looks like.

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I enjoy the concept of this blog very much, but as it turns out I am struggling to maintain it and keep new content coming. I am going to repost everything that is already here to my main blog - gowithyou.tumblr.com. There will be new Pictures of My Stuff posts there, but probably sporadically. I'd rather post once in a while there, around my normal posts, than let the whole idea languish here. So please follow me there! Thanks!

P.S. My photography/art lives at andaflamingo.tumblr.com

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A  green Rubbermaid water bottle. My husband and I purchased a pair of these (the other is blue) at Kroger because our nighttime Mason jar water glasses were too exposed to the funky critters that visit our apartment from time to time. I think they were purchased sometime in the late spring of 2013. Maybe. I originally claimed the blue one but somehow the green one became mine. I don't go anywhere without it.

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A red mini Coleman lantern. This was given to me in late October of 2013. The parents of one of the children I take care of gave this, plus another in green and a nice picture frame, to my husband and me for a wedding present. The lanterns were two of the four things we received from our actual wedding registry. I registered for these to aid late-night camping card games, though my husband is not convinced he really enjoys camping all that much.

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A family of resin birds. These were given to my husband and me on October 11, 2013, the day before our wedding. Our wedding (and subsequent lives) had a theme of fat birds. My younger sister gave them to us to represent the family we would someday make. I love how sassy the babies look.

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A three inch llama figurine. This was given to me for Christmas 2013 by my older sister. She and her boyfriend spent two months trekking across Ecuador, just to see what they could see. This llama is made of actual llama wool and is incredibly soft.

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It's been an incredibly long time since I've posted anything here. Got caught up in wedding plans/execution. But that's done, so I'm back!

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A green Chuck Taylor hi top sneaker. These were mailed to me for my 17th birthday, from my Aunt. They were to replace a pair of the exact same shoes that she had bought for me a year earlier, which I wore every single day and had already destroyed. I still have the original, shredded pair as well. They were my first Chucks.

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A multicolored, jelly bean-ish necklace. This was given to me by my Secret Santa at work in December of 2009. It was the final gift of our months-long game, and it was packaged with a box of sample sized oil paint tubes. I've only worn it a handful of times, but I take great pleasure in looking at it.

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A pink plastic lawn flamingo. I stole this flamingo (who used to have wire legs) from the grass next to the "portable classroom" in which I had a creative writing class my Sophomore year of high school. October of 2003. He lived in the pot of a palm tree I had in my bedroom. The palm tree died, the legs were lost, and now he lives on top of my kitchen cabinets.

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I've been lazy/busy lately. Getting back into gear very soon.

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A 7 oz. container of Kroger Pure Ground Black Pepper. I bought this in 2012, at Kroger of course, when I was feathering my current nest. The container has "Don't sprinkle!" written on it in Sharpie three times because the holey plastic cap on the inside broke. This container is for scooping and pinching only. We've barely made a dent in its contents.

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A hand painted, square soup/cereal bowl. One from a set of four. These bowls were given to me by mother in July of 2010, as an early birthday present. She was helping me feather my first independent nest.

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A lantern style Sylvania nightlight. I bought this at Walmart in March or April of 2012, when I was preparing the basement apartment in my parents' house for Andrew and me to live in. I have a tremendous fear of the dark, and this lights up the living room so I can get to the bathroom at night.

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A Ball wide mouth quart jar. I got this jar, and many others like it, sometime between July of 2010 and August of 2011. My grandmother had canned an enormous amount of tomatoes, and every time I visited home, I would steal a few jars of them to bring back to my apartment. I was supposed to give the empty jars back afterward, but I never did. This jar sits on the windowsill by my bed, and I use it for water every night.

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A Ghirardelli chocolate tin, made to look like a trolley. I got this tin, full of delicious chocolate, in the early 2000s, from the grocery store my family owned at the time. Once I had eaten the chocolate, I started to use it as a place to store movie tickets, notes, photographs, letters, drawings, etc. It was basically my first journal. I used it through most of my teenage years, paring down its contents only a handful of times. Reaching in now, the first thing I pulled out was a business card for L'Appartement Hotel in Montreal. The second was a gift card receipt for The Toadstool Bookshop in Peterborough, New Hampshire.

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An all natural, handmade journal, made in Nepal. I bought this journal in a gift shop in downtown Amherst, Massachusetts on November 1st, 2006. I was doing my first (and only) semester at Hampshire College at the time, and was incredibly lonely. This journal spans from the day I bought it until August 18th, 2008, when it was replaced with another, similar journal. The first thing I wrote in it was "Ready when you are." The last thing I wrote was "Pise con cuidado."