09/02/26
this entry is brought to you by my restlessness post social interaction:
for transparency's sake here's what accumulated on my wish-list since the start of the year. it's not like usually i'd have just bought all of this - there's always been a wish-list "waiting room" of sorts. i review it periodically, remove things that were clearly whims of the moment. but yeah, one or two items would have usually been bought per month. usually in that itchy emotional impulse moment. so it was a little more guilt-free - clicking buy on something i've at least vetted, pre-selected, waited on. but now i'm going for the root behavior: don't shop to fix emotions.
some of the below might make it until my birthday and christmas and will make for a great gift. some of it is more "household items" but since we don't actually need any of it and it's clearly a want of mine, it still counts as a perfectly good gift. i don't even know if i want to think of it as gifts. any item coming in needs to have a reason to be here. if it's not replacing something crucial, then it should be a "special occasion" sort of thing? (also i'm just noticing how fixated i'm becoming on "rules about things" again, that never helps. it's still being ruled by things, even if "in opposition" to them).
anyway, the list:
i know some of these items will still drop off. i already had the goddess of love on here once. stickers are just as easily printable off the internet. i don't need another rosary if it means even less time enjoying the ones i already have (and two of them are chef's kiss, one of those a DIY repurposing some other broken beads i had).
so far the most enticing item is the incense burner - because of the smoke detectors we haven't been able to use anything in our stash, but these theoretically don't smoke. (although when i used to DIY a similar contraption from kitchen foil, the resin was nowhere near as fragrant as when burned on charcoal, so maybe it's a gimmick? need to do some research).