breaking things
Oct. 17th, 2017 11:47 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
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I’m on a run of destroying semi-treasured possessions lately.
Well, that’s misleading. It’s two things, and they’re not ‘treasured’, I’m just particular about objects.
I have this water bottle, and it’s an ugly water bottle and not very nice, it was probably cheap to begin with. But, and this is weird, it was my grandmother’s. When she was in a nursing home, she had this dumb weird pink water bottle, and someone gave her a beer coozie with a B on it (her name was Elizabeth but she went by Betty), and when she died my mother was like, well, your name starts with a B, here you go, and I did use the beer coozie on disposable water bottles which was great until someone threw it out and I was sad. But the water bottle, well. It was weird and ergonomic and hard to wash, but it went into my rotation. The fridge broke at work so I put water bottles in the freezer to make an impromptu cold pack so at least my leftover whatever for lunch isn’t sitting there at complete room temperature, but I’m such a disaster that I don’t even have an insulated lunch box or anything. I’m sure I own one, but I just put everything into a plastic bag because I can find a plastic bag.
Anyway. I put too much water in it and it cracked in the freezer and I didn’t realize until it leaked all over my lunch and desk yesterday, so. Well, bye, I guess, but I feel weird about it.
And then this morning I woke up because the heat came on (!!! well it’s 34 out, so I guess that’s not a surprise), and went into the bathroom and took a drink from the mug I keep in there as a tumbler. And then I set it on the edge of the counter, missed the edge, and it tipped into the sink. A fall of like, four inches? And shattered.
That mug was given to me in Norway by my cousins when I spent Christmas there in 1997, so it’s a decade old and quite lovely. I guess I should try to glue it but what will I do with a smashed-glued ceramic mug? Probably stare mournfully at it a lot. :(
I’m on a run of destroying semi-treasured possessions lately.
Well, that’s misleading. It’s two things, and they’re not ‘treasured’, I’m just particular about objects.
I have this water bottle, and it’s an ugly water bottle and not very nice, it was probably cheap to begin with. But, and this is weird, it was my grandmother’s. When she was in a nursing home, she had this dumb weird pink water bottle, and someone gave her a beer coozie with a B on it (her name was Elizabeth but she went by Betty), and when she died my mother was like, well, your name starts with a B, here you go, and I did use the beer coozie on disposable water bottles which was great until someone threw it out and I was sad. But the water bottle, well. It was weird and ergonomic and hard to wash, but it went into my rotation. The fridge broke at work so I put water bottles in the freezer to make an impromptu cold pack so at least my leftover whatever for lunch isn’t sitting there at complete room temperature, but I’m such a disaster that I don’t even have an insulated lunch box or anything. I’m sure I own one, but I just put everything into a plastic bag because I can find a plastic bag.
Anyway. I put too much water in it and it cracked in the freezer and I didn’t realize until it leaked all over my lunch and desk yesterday, so. Well, bye, I guess, but I feel weird about it.
And then this morning I woke up because the heat came on (!!! well it’s 34 out, so I guess that’s not a surprise), and went into the bathroom and took a drink from the mug I keep in there as a tumbler. And then I set it on the edge of the counter, missed the edge, and it tipped into the sink. A fall of like, four inches? And shattered.
That mug was given to me in Norway by my cousins when I spent Christmas there in 1997, so it’s a decade old and quite lovely. I guess I should try to glue it but what will I do with a smashed-glued ceramic mug? Probably stare mournfully at it a lot. :(
