Good Riddance

Today is the last full day that I will spend with this awful front tooth. It has been with me through so many memories and will I miss it? Hmmm, no. Ok, maybe a little because I am a terribly sentimental person and I keep everything and anything that has a story tied to it. From a plastic pink lemonade bottle all the way down to a single gum wrapper at one point in my life. I eventually got rid of the lemonade bottle but they sat on my shelf for quite some time. It wasn't that bad getting rid of that because the story didn't mean too much to me anymore but I will hold on to that gum wrapper because it will always remind me of dating Nick and arguing over sluffing weights because I just really didn't want to go. I was such a bad influence... The straight A student meets the average C, fortunately my grades went up and his stayed the same. My "strong tooth," as someone once called it, could possibly be missed. Will I keep it if they ask if I want too? Creepy, but maybe. It might end up in the top ten strangest things I have in my special book. It might even top the list... I'll let you decide.

In no particular order

1- A pill cam from a test that is supposed to track your digestion and take pictures all along the way to make sure you are functioning as you should, well we all know I don't and that little pill of technology that cost an entire paycheck got stuck in my stomach and had to be thrown up. Results of the test are obviously pending, I don't think I will ever try this again.

2- A broken heart pendant from a necklace that cost about $2.00. Nick and I were on one of our first dates downtown and running across the street when the pendant fell off and broke. I stopped in the middle of downtown traffic to pick it up. I have had it ever since.

3- A plastic one cent giraffe straw that I won from arcade tickets and gave to Nick so technically this should go in his book but we all know how much he loves clutter and useless junk :)

4- A plastic baggy with a couple of Shelbie's puppy teeth. This freaks me out to even type this because that is really weird. Maybe I could start a tooth collection. Just call me the tooth fairy.

5- A picture made in the middle of a downpour when I was about 10. I put my paper on the wet sidewalk and waited until it was soaked, then drew on it with chalk. I picked it up carefully and carried it inside where it took a couple days to dry.

6- A broken flower beaded necklace and turquoise frog earring from the first year our family started the yearly trips to Lake Powell. When jumping on the tramp I lost the other earring so I put the one in my special book so when I went back I could get another. I know that earrings come in pairs but I said that I would keep the old and get rid of one of the new. Told you I was weirdly sentimental.

7- A rusty washer found on the construction sight while building our house.

8- A drawing I did of a lion in colored pencil when I was 7 that I thought was the best drawing ever.

9- Pipe cleaner figurines I did of Nick and I while sitting at my kitchen table at home when we were dating. They sat on top of my bed until I got married and have been in my special book since.

10- 50 or so hospital bands. I keep every single one. Nick never understood it, neither do I, but I keep them anyway.

What's the weirdest thing you have?