Notebooks

I'm addicted to buying notebooks. Seriously, it's bad. I should probably go to Notebook-buyers Anonymous. If any of you hear of a program that caters to impulse notebook buyers, let me know.

I have notebooks of all shapes and sizes. My tiny Moleskine permanently lives in my pillowcase, just in case I wake up in the middle of the night with some amazing inspiration that I might lose if I don't write it down right away. I have several other small notebooks that are half filled with lists or ideas or quotes. There's also the normal, full-sized notebooks for each school semester. These I use for note-taking (hmmm, probably what notebooks were originally intended for). Then I have my travel notebook. It's the one that goes with me on every trip. I record anything and everything random in this notebook. Funny things that happen along the way. Amusing bits of conversations I overhear. Reactions to my favourite past-time, people watching. Possible itineraries, distances driven, things seen. Yep, that all goes into my travel notebook. It also comes in handy for keeping scores for card games. Many a game of 7-Up is recorded in my travel notebook. Oh, and on the SAU orchestra tour to Europe a year and a half ago I got every person in the orchestra to write down all the countries they'd been to. Our orchestra conductor won that contest with 41. We bought her a chocolate bunny in Brussels.

Last week while browsing the school/office supply aisle, I saw an awesome notebook that I just had to look at more closely. I ended up buying it (Give me a break...it has a spot-the-Sasquatch cover. How cool is that?) even though I have an almost new notebook to use for taking notes in class. I'll save this notebook for my second semester notes though. That's the thing about my notebook buying. I always have to buy them, but I save them in their pristine, unblemished condition until I need to use them. The funny part is, while I LOVE notebooks, I can't stand diaries. Wonder why that is? My best guess is because notebooks are so open and versatile while diaries are so restricting and constricting.