tenacious C

i always knew i had a tenacious streak in me, but it was never so obvious as these last few weeks. i mean, i'm pretty determined that if i want something i will do what i can to get it {exclusions are selfish ambitions and other stuff that would be at the expense of someone else, quite obviously}. but my tenacity is often a result of my parallel tendency to procrastinate {i am the worst procrastinator}. let me illustrate...so i see this awesome red moleskine diary 2011 that i fall in love with. but i don't buy it immediately because i figure, hey, it will be cheaper in jan, right? when all the sales are on?

it will also be totally sold out in jan. everywhere. the more i struggled to track it down, the more tenacious i became to get it. i called every possible moleskine stockist in joburg. i would not accept defeat. yes, i am aware this is just a diary. i eventually found it at estoril books in village walk {kudos to the manager there that did not sell my beloved diary to any of the other 20 people that phoned in to get one}. so i think i quite possibly got the last red moleskine A5 page a day diary in joburg.

but it got me thinking. about how ocd i am, yes. i mean, there's no greater good here, no noble cause. it's just kind of sweet when you really want something and then you get it. this was a microcosm of something bigger really.

and it is so lovely. with all its rad stickers and world maps and rulers. i feel like now i can really organise my 2011 :) and i think about all the possible places i can be writing in it -- i mean, what will i be putting my calendar in like september 2011? will i be on the other side of the world? where will i be going? who will i be starbucks-ing with?

that's all
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