He got me a little piece of joy.

I've been wanting to get myself a Moleskine.  But I always thought it was too expensive for a notebook.  I mean, it's beautiful and everything but I may just end up not writing on it.  Last Monday, Chips surprised me with a little gift - a pocket sized Moleskine!  Wee!!!  I love it.  I love him.  He just knows how to surprise me.

I'm one who is just in LOVE with notebooks and journals - basically anything that has to do with paper.  I'm sitting on my office desk and I have seven notebooks in front of me.  Two of which are already full, but I still keep them because I like seeing them and their worn pages.  One currently being used for work notes.  And another one being used for wedding notes.  I've got one I started using but stopped at the first pages, because I realized that the paper was too pretty (so I  decided to use the not so nice notebooks first).  I've got another that's been there for like 3 years.  It's a spiral notebook and the pages have turned a beautiful old cream hue.  I'm finding it pretty hard to start writing on it.

A few Christmases (or was it our Anniversary?) back, Chips got me a gorgeous journal.  It was made of plain paper and hand bound.  The front and back covers are made of intricately carved wood.  I honestly do not know what to write in it.  I like smelling the paper (I also have this thing about the scent of old books.  I like running my hand across the pristine leaves.  I have a fear that when I start writing, I'd make a mistake and ruin it.  I still don't know when I'd finally get to inking those unruffled pages.

I told him that I'll make the Moleskine my new travel-slash-poetry notebook.  Maybe I'll start on it when we travel after the wedding.  New notebook, new adventure.  I'm excited.  I think it will be a very inspired little notebook.