how to keep something really safe ~

[lookingland]

tintype circa 1860s
(horrendous scan ~ they're playing cards
and it's very clear in the image,
but you can't even seen it here.)
when i took down my bulletin board a month or so ago, i put some of the things on it in a "safe" place ~ yup ~ so safe i can't even find them.

i can't believe this.

among other precious non-essentials, i've lost payton, anselm, and a very very very important tintype. not just any tintype, mind you ~ but a very very very important one.

i have this crummy scan (which is extremely crummy ~ i don't even have a good scan!). but i've lost the silly thing! it's here somewhere.

and it's very very very safe.

alternate title: "how to completely lose an evening as you tear your office apart."

i can't believe i could actually lose these three pictures in particular. it's just brain-blowing.

so frustrated.

and they're pictures! they could be anywhere. they could be slipped between the pages of a book, at the bottom of a drawer, tucked into a shelf. i've checked all the albums and checked all the boxes of scraps and other nonsense doodads (packrat me) ~ but they're gone!

what i really can't figure out is that i put casey, adams, and katrina on my other board. why did i move those and not the others? it just doesn't even make sense.

what an inane post. this is how a person loses their marbles.

: o p