Happy paper girl

[same_sky]

I've spent the whole day playing with paper and doing other craft-related activities. That's kind of unusual for me because I tend to have a short attention span. I even took pictures of the first project, although it doesn't look all that exciting from the outside and not a single person will care about this other than me, but I had a lot of fun with it.

Can you guess what it is? My password book! I finally found a great place for that lock picture I love so much! :) I had a little spiral-bound index card book thing on my desk that I write all my passwords in. It had, of late, been an impractical solution because they were hard to find and I couldn't change the order of them. I bought myself an index card binder at WalMart last night and a package of neon cards, and it's so perfect for what I wanted. I was looking for a box, but thankfully I found this instead because a box is big and ugly. This even had the clear pocket on the front to put a picture, and I'm extremely happy with the whole thing. Most of the work was in copying passwords, of course, but umm, couldn't really show that part, seeing as how I'm not quite as careless about that kind of thing as certain major computer coorporations (*cough* Dell *cough* -- Anyone else seen that? A photo from the Dell website that shows a serial number to Windows?) And it's color-coordinated! Yellow for web stuff, pink for scripty goodness, green for money, orange for random sites of interest. I feel just a little obsessive compulsive, but in a nice kind of way.

After that project (which was doubly exciting because it allowed me to caress my hole-punch and paper-trimmer again) I finished up Whitley's birthday cards.. addressing, stamping and stickering them, and finding small sheets of stickers to put in each envelope. Why would a grown-up have as many stickers as I do, just laying around for no practical purpose anyway? I can't be sure, but I know I would have loved getting nine birthday cards at her age, so hopefully she'll like it. :) I don't spend as much time with her as I wish I did, but hopefully she'll know that I think about her a lot, at least.

I've also been working on my baby quilt this evening. My mom and I are both making one right now.. I'm not entirely sure if I'm going to give this to my cousin's baby or if I'm going to keep it for hypothetical future children. My fingers got sore so I quit for a while and am now pondering what other thing should occupy my time tonight besides writing blatantly uninteresting descriptions of paper projects. I think I'm going to work on web things for a while--I have a few things that are just so behind that it's silly. I'm really liking the time off from serious work, though, and my blahness seems to be over, at least for now. Yay! The INFJ flu is gone! ;)

Oh! And the grass has turned partially green again in town--I can't wait until we get green in the trees again. Pre-spring is my least favorite time of year.

Comments

[totte.livejournal.com]

You ARE obsessive compulsive, in a nice sort of way :)

[same-sky.livejournal.com]

It's kind of you to notice..

[carrieb.livejournal.com]

That's such a perfect picture for such an application. I didn't know you could get a notebook for index cards. That's what I need! It would make all my random information laying around here much more orgainzed. Like I need another project though. . . Maybe I'll make Mr. Mikey copy your idea.

[same-sky.livejournal.com]

I don't think I knew you could get one, either, but I'm very glad I found it. It didn't take all that long to put together, except for the copying, so Mike will have plenty of time to get that done for you. ;) I just wish I had thought my system through a little better before i started because I'm already almost out of orange..

[lizardek.livejournal.com]

What a neat idea! I didn't know about the index card book either OR that they now come in neon. Very cool! Your comment about caressing your paper trimmer cracked me up.

[same-sky.livejournal.com]

Thanks. :) They had colored but not neon cards at an office supply store the other day but I didn't buy them because I wasn't sure what I would use to put them in at the time. They were prettier, but these work just as well, I guess. ;) I keep trying to think of other things to use index card binders for, but it's a limited market, it seems..