Documenting Life: Lessons from Harriet the Spy

Mood:

Listening to: Levity – By My Side

This weekend was the Chardonnay festival at work. The first day I worked inside our tasting room instead of on the patio. I was a little disappointed but then when I discovered that there was a live band AND it was going to be busy outside because of the stupid, gorgeous weather, I was thankful to be inside. The outside people complained about being outside all day so today, they’ve switched it up. Everyone switched their positions around 3pm so I had to go outside. It was alright. The band wasn’t so loud and people were very nice, as usual. Lots of time to twiddle my thumbs though. A coworker said that I was very Type-A when I showed her my laminated notecards on the wines. I always associated that with being negative but it’s actually a good thing. Determined, motivated, future-thinking people are Type-A. I just want to be successful and I don’t know a thing about wine nor will I be tasting to acquire such knowledge. I need it written down, I don’t have time to access it on the tablet in real-time so anyway. I like being good at my job and I wish that I could professionally train people on how to do something. When I have trained people, they always comment on how good I do…. But maybe they’re just trying to flatter me. Who knows?

I watched Harriet the Spy the other day. I truly believe it flicked on my switch to document my life. It’s what she does. I wanted to spy on people and write things down, just like her. I used to have a handwritten diary, but that was comprised (thanks Dad), then I transitioned to a public livejournal which much to my chagrin did not go over well with the public. Then I had a public but cryptic livejournal, then it became private and cryptic, then back to public and cryptic. Now I don’t even post anymore. I’m sitting on a dream to have my own website like the girl from past, AppleCat. I don’t want to show my face though, plus everything has been cryptic since the beginning. I even changed names a couple years ago to draw in even further confusion. I love to type, with my fingers and my thumbs so a digital blog will always be for me. Just where though? You know?

Today was Day 11.