crazy woman

yeah, that's me. so i went to fetch the mail since i was in the area taking out bag after bag of trash. might as well invite a little something in the house while you're dumping all this other stuff, right? like an equation, it all has to be balanced or something.

anyway, i saw the slip that says 'you've got boxes' in the mailbox, and i know that sr sent me some stuff. so i zipped over to the office to pick them up. yea!

this isn't the part where i'm crazy.

i opened all the boxes, put away the knife, and started unpacking. charlotte helped me fold the packing paper as we went, and made sure the box was really empty once we finished going through it.

here's where the crazy lady stuff comes in.

first out of the shute was the lava lamp i got for my 16th birthday in st.l. along with that, i received a rubik's cube which soon became so worn that i had to resort to using nail polish just so i could see the difference between red, yellow, green, and white. blue and orange never had much problem with fading. the third item that year was a book, assassin's apprentice, by robin hobb. there may have been other stuff. but these are the three that stood out. i had a blast that day, and spent most of it delightfully enraged by the rubic's cube. that night, i started reading what became one of my favorite fantasy books. the rest of the royal assassin trilogy is pretty good, too. book two suffers a wee bit from sequelitis, and book three has a somewhat bizarre premise that almost doesn't quite match up with the rest... but on a second read through, the whole thing works. the first is by far the best, though. it has chade in it. (so do the others, but not like this one)

anyway, after that romp through long, long ago, i started on the second box. here's where it gets *really* crazy. there was paper on the top, naturally, to keep various glass items safe. i got past that level, and there were these marvellous rainbow pastel striped towels, a whole set! i got very excited about the towels, to the point where i was about ready to stop what i was doing and go shower again just so i could use the towels and see how they went with the shower curtain. there were also some pink towels that didn't come in a complete set, but were wonderful for handtowels by the sink, and this pale turquois towel that was a bit lonely but would be wonderful for drying my feet after a good long soak.... it's now folded neatly in the soaking tub.

yes, i am aware that these towels served as packing material. and yes, i'm aware that they are either very, very old towels from my grandparents' house or equally old towels from my parents' house. there is absolutely no reason to get excited over towels in a box.

especially when the next items (the ones i was supposed to get excited about) were a lovely glass dish with a top that i can use to keep candies or nuts or decorative bobbles of some kind, and a truly gorgeous cut glass cake pedastle. and i was very happy about those. i'm trying to think about whether i have anything good enough to store in that dish, and i'm trying to figure out if there's a way to store the cake pedastle so that it can be safe and admired at once.

but for some reason, the crazy woman in me went bonkers over the pretty towels. it's like when you buy cat toys and the fools want to play with the plastic bag their toys came in. or when the kids spend hours and hours on christmas day playing in the boxes and swinging the ribbons around pretending to be exotic ribbon dancers from tibar performing before the ..... you know what, let's not finish that one. the point is the same.

yarn! i can keep pretty yarn in that dish. it'll go on the dining room table, and it will have pretty yarn in it! this has an added bonus of freeing up a wee little space in the regular yarn stash....

at least until i finally start that collection of round and egg-shaped polished stones. then, of course, the stones will go in there. but for now, yarn. it'll be lovely and colorful and cat-proof.

love and peace, and knocking on wood