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Alexa Tuttle's avatar

My heart seized up for you while reading your recounting of the lost notebook. What a relief! Also I love the aesthetic of those ink bottles!

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Meaghan McIsaac's avatar

They make me feel like a magical apothecary haha

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Alexa Tuttle's avatar

You are magical! Through your tool of choice you turn thoughts into tangible reality.

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The Crazy Cat Lady Writes's avatar

Funny story about losing things.....YEARS ago, me and two friends are headed to New Orleans from school (I grew up there and went to college in a wee town about an hour SW of the city) for a concert (I think Indigo Girls?). We took my car, and crashed at my parents house for the night. Me being the dork that I am, forgot to bring my contact lense case and didn't have a spare set of glasses with me. I had a stupid blond moment and put my contacts in a small glass of water by my bedside table.

You know where this is going.......

I'm Velma from Scooby Doo blind and things to see with aint cheap. Even back then (early/mid 90s?). My mom was FURIOUS. And one of my friends had to drive us back to school.

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Meaghan McIsaac's avatar

Oh no! Does that mean you didn't see the concert?!

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The Crazy Cat Lady Writes's avatar

The tossing of the contacts happened afterwards.

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Meaghan McIsaac's avatar

Phew!

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Mimo's avatar

This is such a great story to draw

Early morning everyone is waking up

You stretch and yawnn as you turn to see your friend drinking a big gulp of water from a cup nearby. Your brain manages to get through and you just yell

Brittany stoooop!!

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Meaghan McIsaac's avatar

lol!

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The Crazy Cat Lady Writes's avatar

Yeah, I went through a lose my debit card constantly phase. Last year I lost my apartment keys. That was a $30 lesson. Also, once my apartment keys magically fell out of my hands and into that space between the floor and the elevator. It was in our apartment building and lucky for me that said keys just dropped straight down. Our building's live in fix it guy just lowered a hook thingy and got them for me.

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Meaghan McIsaac's avatar

Ugh losing keys is the WORST (guilty). I actually lost the key to the car last week (IT WASNT MY FAULT - got them back tho). So glad the fix it guy got them for you!

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Natalie's avatar

Love this story. And that you have so many notebooks. I can relate the to preciousness of a brand new notebook, but thankfully I’ve worked pass the “fear” and anxiety and reluctance of “messing up” fresh pages. About kind strangers: there are more out there than we think. I have lucky encounters with a few of them that I still think of from time to time. Others’ kindness make us better person don’t you think?!

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Meaghan McIsaac's avatar

'Others kindness makes us better' - i love this! Yes, i like to think it does 🥰

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anon having fun's avatar

He protec, he attack,

But most importantly, he bring the notebook back ❤️

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Jodi Meadows's avatar

The idea of losing that kind of notebook -- terrifying! I'm so glad that someone saw its value and returned it.

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Meaghan McIsaac's avatar

haha also kind of embarrassing - the stuff in there, reading it without context? oh help.

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Rebecca Holden's avatar

I had to pause my reading of this post to make a cup of tea - the thought of losing my notebook had me landing straight in NIGHTMARELAND.

I'm so relieved that you got it back! I've got my first name and phone number on a label in the front of mine in the hope that if I ever lose it I'll get a call.

This is what I hope I'll hear: 'Rebecca? I've found your notebook!'

😊😊😊 #happydays

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Meaghan McIsaac's avatar

haha i he'd only known the ransom he could have asked for!

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Rebecca Holden's avatar

🤣

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Mimo's avatar

Your drawings are so wonderful I really thought you had a printed diary. So with your inspiration I finally got out my empty pilot petite fude pen and went downtown to get a bottle of ink.

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Meaghan McIsaac's avatar

Thank you! What's a printed diary?

And yay! Let me know how you liked experimenting with ink!

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Mimo's avatar

Oh sorry I meant like a journal you can buy that has inner page illustrations , an image header on the pages, etc.

I think im juggling a couple languages and came up with printed diary lol

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Meaghan McIsaac's avatar

Oh haha! Actually thats a really fun idea for some digital downloads!

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