Notes to Myself

I write a lot of little notes to myself and I seem to have gathered a bunch of them on my endstand here. I was looking at them and I realize how little sense they make. Even to me. I am the one who wrote them so I can usually decipher them but I can only imagine what someone else would think if they picked them up and managed to translate my hieroglyphic chicken scratch. They would wish they had a decoder ring for it so it would start making some sense.

Notes will go like this: What the note was written on/title in bold, notes contents in italics, and finally my thoughts in regular text below.

The following was all written on the back of a page from an old day-by-day calendar at work:

Ooops Ingrams E exploer use 1
Genres
Everyone's names are made up
Buying books for children
highschool and other words that aren't but ought to be
Being titian
thing I don't understand   sports
saving money by stealing    disclaimer

I know for a fact that I wrote these down as blog ideas but if I didn't? Some kind of internet explorer (wtf is ingrams?) mistake. Genres (of books?). Not sure why everyone's names are made up. I had lots of books bought for child-me. Highschool isn't a- oh right. Titian was a painter at some point between Rome and the industrial age (and I am bad at history). I don't understand sports. You better have a disclaimer (or a good lawyer) if you are going to "save money" by stealing.


These things were written on another calendar page:

star equation
calculus equation that graphs heart
any science sufficient advanced...
lots of smart ideas in books...
chemical formula DNA

Sciencey related stuff. Three are references to equations/formulas and two are horrible misquotes.

Tiny scrap of paper:

I need a reason?
                        Insanity.


My idea of fashion.

I'm not sure if I need a reason for insanity or if insanity is the reason or if those were intended to be separate but I do know that my idea of fashion could probably be considered insanity by the fashion-conscious.


Ripped rectangle of paper side 1:

fish
ground mustard
onions
sliced cheese
half-half
tea&lemonade
pickles
marinated mushrooms
freezer pop things?

Grocery list, I guess. The strange thing is that not only do I rarely write actual lists but I never bring a writing utensil to the store with me so I clearly crossed the other things off the list before I ever went. This must have been recent (I am still looking for freeze pop things) but I don't recall making some kind of fish thing for dinner as you might expect from the list so the ingredients must be unrelated.

Ripped rectangle of paper side 2:

sugar bowt
shirts/pants
insense holder?
toy cars
bouncy balls
fruit /veggie basket
sewing kit
freeze pop things
whisk

This is another list, I think for thrift-store shopping. Two things that strike me are: I am apparently regressing back toward childhood and damn do I wish I had a holder for my insense because I keep mixing it up with my outsense.

Note that is an obvious precursor to a blog I wrote a while ago:

If it's the thought that counts...


"greeting" cards - 5.99? Buy a book.
graduate mugs
notepads for teachers
plush rabit in box like chocolate rabit
magnet/"rock"/weight/placard with any kind of saying/sentiment
pocket token
3D bookmark
picture frame no picture
gardening "rock"
measuring spoon decorative
baby powder candles
scary-looking stuffies    top heavy big heads
key-rings
bottle openers
fake plant
door knocker (I only think the second word is "knocker" because everything between k and r is pretty much illegible but "knocker" would make sense within the context)
fad item

Well, I know what this note refers to and if you don't: Click here to go read it.

And on the back of the previous I wrote:

546 Mnine Med.
Ja d. Offce
###-###-####

Two things I wrote quickly on the phone while my mother was hospitalized.

Written in (I think) Ashley's handwriting for (I think) a blog I didn't write:

please hold people
know it alls
where do I go? questionitive callers
we should know it all people
helpless
the baggage people
we are not your babysitter
married/porn
glass tappers
porn obsessed
lurkers
crazy drunks
gothic
summer stalkers
bus crew
"library" people
audio
thieves
compulsive returners
basic regulars
craftfairers
pot heads
job seekers
jokesters
travelers
"cheaper elsewhere" people


Continued to a second page:

inattentive parents
porn/parent/with kids (or family) in tow
the silent people
we are not Hallmark!
let me tell you my lifestory-
litters (I think this is meant to be "litterers")
picnic/campers
webkinznuts
are you going out of business?
recommend me
way too excited people
RAC got bored

I believe these are all about the kinds of customers we have from one night when (given the length of this list) there weren't any. My favorite (description) are the picnicers. You know, they come in, hang out, sit on the floor, read, eat a little snack, leave their garbage around on the shelves as though they think I'm their maid, and often leave without buying anything.


So, yeah, feel free to leave questions and comments about things and enjoy the sneak preview into posts that (maybe) are soon to come.