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Barbelith snapshot: What has it got in its pocketses?

 
  

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wembley can change in 28 days
07:57 / 07.01.05
Gazillions of old train tickets, shopping lists and ATM receipts. Oldest train ticket is from, uh, 28th July.

BedHead inspired me to open up that duct tape wallet.

Wallet contents:
- Note with the server logins to www.mimecentrum.de and the mime centre's address
- Return address sticker still attached to a bit of envelope with mom's address in Kentucky
- Toronto grocery store receipt from June 11 04 with 15 toronto phone numbers on the back
- ISIC card, expired March 11 03
- Receipt from Canadian Stage Company from June 23rd for tickets to Urinetown
- business card of a theatre reviewer in helsinki
- business card of my friend Ljusja, hat designer in T.O.
- Very faded library reciept (Drowning by Numbers, Ghosts... of the Civil Dead, Oxford Illustrated History of the Theatre, Nov 9 03) with my bank acct. # written on it, plus a balance of €923,74
- used ticket for the dome in Riga, Latvia
- folded into this ticket, a used ticket for Chekhov's Shorts by Theatre Smith-Gilmour, Tuesday, Feb 27, 2001 in Toronto
- 1 ticket valid for the finnkino line of movie theatres
- 1 ticket valid for the sandrew-metronome movie theatres
- Receipt from KaDeWe in Berlin for my Lumix DMC-FX7 digital camera and 512 MB memory card, €508,99
- Ontario Health Card, still valid
- social security card (KELA) for Finland
- Ticket for Urinetown
- Finnair Plus card
- Visa Electron bank card (never use)
- Bank of Montreal bank card
- card for the Rat Pack society in toronto (mods)
- health food store "buy lots, get discount" card
- business card for a helsinki film producer
- spent Berlin 7-Tage-Karte, used 2004
- receipt from the sunflower hostel in Berlin, 26.12.03
- boarding pass, HKI to TXL, 26 Dec 2003
- University of Toronto card (graduated 2002)
- swipe card for work here at satama.com
- business card for a helsinki sound designer
- Finnair luggage sticker, not filled out
- frequent customer card for Einstein Kaffee, Berlin
- another of Ljusja's business cards, this one for style consulting
- KELA card with my picture on it this time
- Helsinki library card
- Finnish National Theatre Academy library card
- business card of a person who makes bottle-opener rings
- €4 ticket valid at most fitness centres in Finland
- taxi receipt, 21.11.04, €21,80
- two stickers for the Volksbuehne in Berlin
- Wayne's Coffee 15% discount card
- note with the name of a good place for vietamese coffee in Toronto
- bank card/mastercard
- swipe card for Töölö swimming hall (8 visits left)
- gym membership swipe card
- twenty euros - w00t!

Oh my god, I shouldn't have done that.
 
 
wembley can change in 28 days
08:05 / 07.01.05
I'll just say that I also have my bag with me, and it is FULL of MORE STUFF.
 
 
Olulabelle
08:41 / 07.01.05
an amble (if you are not immediate family or one of three ex-girlfriends you will not know what this is, and will never find out, so don't ask. Please. Spare the bandwidth.)

Really, really don't ask?
 
 
■
08:43 / 07.01.05
No.
 
 
Squirmelia
08:48 / 07.01.05
Disapppointed with the contents of my bag, today I packed a forest! I feel like I could disappear into it when I need to escape from the office.

The forest consists of:

A small fake tree (yes, okay, it was once a Christmas tree)
A Lego tree
A brown leaf found in a car-park
A M:tG Forest mana card
A M:tG Ironroot Treefolk card
A photo of a tree (taken in Miami)
A Tree in Your Pocket book
A wooden mushroom
3 assorted plastic frogs (epipedobates tricolor, dendrobates fantastious, dendrobates azureus)
 
 
Kit-Cat Club
08:51 / 07.01.05
I'm obsessed with the liquorice Yogi Tea...
 
 
Benny the Ball
08:53 / 07.01.05
Liquorice yogi tea is fantastic. That and chai lattes make me happy.
 
 
Olulabelle
08:54 / 07.01.05
I think you probably mean "yes" there. As in, "Yes, really really don't ask."

"No" sort of implies, "Not really, really don't ask." Doesn't it?

Now I'm confused.
 
 
Olulabelle
09:01 / 07.01.05
KCC! Help me with my English confusion

I am also obsessed with the tea but it's the Yogi idea that I like. Is there really such a thing? I want some.
 
 
Benny the Ball
09:04 / 07.01.05
yeah, and each box gives you a little excercise to do. The brit liquorice tea just has 'brew for 7 minutes' on the tab, but the us version have little fortunes and pearls of wisdom... some of them are terrible though.
 
 
Olulabelle
09:05 / 07.01.05
Are you dressed yet Benny? I'm not talking to you until you are dresssed.
 
 
Kit-Cat Club
09:12 / 07.01.05
Yes, there is such a thing - if you PM me your address I will post you some, or you can get it in health shops sometimes (I get it from pretentious London organic shops) - it comes in all sorts, ginger, cinnamon, chocolate, etc., but I think liquorice is the best. My box has an exercise on it for 'simple yoga for stress relief' - not sure if they're all the same though...

I think it would be 'yes', i.e. 'yes, I meant really don't ask'. I am now speculating as to what an amble might be - I think it's one of those fluffy bees on wire you can buy to decorate Easter cakes with.
 
 
Kit-Cat Club
09:15 / 07.01.05
I also wanted to say to Squirmelia, what a brilliant idea - packing special bags - great - I wonder whether you would need to do anything with the contents, or whether the fact of having packed a bag would be enough - I'm inclined to the latter I think.
 
 
Benny the Ball
09:16 / 07.01.05
ha ha - funnily enough, I have just stepped out of the shower, so I have a towel around me, at least.... clothes will follow, soon, soon...
 
 
Papess
02:27 / 08.01.05
Okay, I'll play...

In my kitschy rhinstone studded Elvis handbag:
-Weekly agenda book
-Notebook for jotting down notes and lists
-Address book
-Cheque book
-Nurofen tablets
-My journal
-Goddess workbook
-Sketchbook
-Favourite pen
-Mechanical pencil with extra leads and eraser refills
-Travel pack of antibactierial wipes
-House keys
-25 pack of John Player Special
-Small black lighter
-Small toothbrush and toothpaste
-Orange moisturizer from The Body Shop
-Small hairbrush
-Lime and orange flavoured Tic Tacs
-Studded leather collar
-Rizla Silvers
-Eye mask/blindfold
-Purell antibacterial lotion
-Small bottle of Salvador Dali by Salvador Dali perfume
-Annabelle "Promise" lipliner
-Annabelle "Champagne" lipstick
-Annabelle "Black" eyeliner
-Revlon "Natural Tan" pressed powder compact
-Crabtree & Evelyn Aloe Vera hydrating body lotion
-A stolen polished stone that was used for a chopstick holder at a posh sushi restaurant where my lover took me for a romantic dinner
-Hair elastic
-Silver and carnelian earrings
-Cheap sunglasses
-Nirvae Botanicals orange and sandalwood moisturizing lotion
-4 pack of crayons
-Small blank notepad for fridge-art masterpieces
-Mini Die Cast THUNDERBIRD 2
-Wrigley's Extra mint wafers in spearmint flavour
-Corkscrew
-A feather
-A small carved ivory owl
-A rather large piece of Obsidian
-Mobile phone
-Wallet

In my Wallet:
-A few reciepts
-Old flight itinerary
-Two pictures taken in a photo booth of my son and myself
-Long distance calling card
-Wallet sized calendar from my work with a lovely friend of mine in a very sexy pose on one side
-5 English pounds
-110 Canadian dollars
-$1.45 in change
-Provincial I.D
-Debit card
-Birth Certificates for my son and myself
-Health Insurance cards for my son and myself
-S.I.N card
-Small charm with the word "Strength" on it
 
 
Papess
02:36 / 08.01.05
Oops, almost forgot my Cocoa and Shea butter lip balm courtesy of The Body Shop.
 
 
wembley can change in 28 days
08:38 / 08.01.05
Benny and KCC - I get the euro version of the tea now, and while the US/canadian version tags ("The peace of inner light begins with you," "Friends are the floating logs you cling to in life") used to drive me up the wall, now I kind of... miss them.

There's something about the taste of that tea - it gets right into the back corners of your mouth and.. oh! mmmmmmmmm!
 
  

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