hmatt's blog

Even if you are on the right track, you’ll get run over if you just sit there.

-Will Rogers

For the next few days I will be scanning all my old school papers and notes and such. It will be great to finally rid the garage of all those old papers. I can’t imagine trying doing this all with a flatbed scanner.

I keep running into certain things that I don’t know if I should archive or not: notes and memorabilia from old girlfriends.

A part of me wants to preserve those memories because they were precious at the time. However, those chapters of my life are LONG over.. what is the point of keeping all that stuff? Plus, how would I feel if (in the future) my wife were keeping things from an old boyfriend.

Hmm.. it is such a hard decision to make. I have a box of stuff from different eras of my life. I don’t want to delete those memories; remember what happens in Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind!

Yet I also don’t want to live in the past.. not when there is so much hope in the future.

I’m running into the same problem with receipts too. For some reason it is REALLY hard for me to delete them. I don’t crave the actual paper, just the info on it.. just in case I need to research something I guess.

I wish I could pay someone to scan all this junk for me– it is taking a long time!

• I had to walk a couple miles to Union Station because I missed the second bus. Now I’m finally sitting in the flyaway. #
• The weather is great up here. Oh how I’ve missed the green of WA. #

• About to attend a 60s party! #
• Arg! The LA marathon has trapped me! #

I kept making squiggles on these scraps of paper and then turning them into something.

I hope you enjoy! I even named them all if you hover over them.

• Had a great ComedySportz class last night! #

• I felt that one! #

• Ramshackle Film Day was a blast! #

• Another cloudy morning and here I am wearing shorts. #

• I’ll be visiting WA May 28-June 9. #