"I have grown fond of semicolons in recent years. The semicolon tells you that there is still some question about the preceding full sentence; something needs to be added; it reminds you sometimes of the Greek usage. It is almost always a greater pleasure to come across a semicolon than a period. The period tells you that that is that; if you didn't get all the meaning you wanted or expected, anyway you got all the writer intended to parcel out and now you have to move along. But with a semicolon there you get a pleasant little feeling of expectancy; there is more to come; to read on; it will get clearer." - Lewis Thomas
I have also become increasingly fond of tattoos & collecting tattoo ideas. A semi-colon, perhaps, or Kipling's line 'last, loneliest, loveliest' because I think it's the first line of poetry I fell in love with as a twelve year old reading Tessa; or maybe even just 'life must be lived' on my wrist, short, sweet, profound & reassuring. I like the idea of a beautiful permanent Post-It. I wouldn't ever get just an image because text, text is what I will always garner the most meaning from.
Anyway, the post title refers to two things that I've recently found that are awesomeballs.
1. Palmolive Coconut & Jojoba Body Wash - holy SHIT this stuff is fantastic, it smells AMAZING and you feel so clean clean clean and smell delectably coconutty & moisturized. Unforts they test on animals, so rebuying this will come with a super dollop of guilt.
2. Chux Magic Erasers - WOAH. Not only did they take the weird marks off my laptop with EASE, Shaun's been having entirely too much fun for the last half hour cleaning all sorts of assorted marks off walls & his whiteboard. Jury's still out on whether Chux tests on animals, but for my clean freak bf's sake, I hope it's animal-free.
This has been a wholly unproductive day! Yurk.
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