Welcome to Codependency (A)

After much procrastinating and inspiration-searching (and procrastination disguised as inspiration-searching), A and K have finally decided to join the blogosphere.

In the words of the infamous Dowdyism of The Pen Addict, we are are addicts. We have a problem.

And this is just a tiny sampling...

As a full-time student and writer in what shreds of spare time I can cling to, I (A) do a lot of writing by hand. A lot. And nothing is more annoying than a pen that skips, bleeds, drags, blobs, or breaks - especially because they always seem to do so at the exact moment when you have finally come with an idea that feels worth writing.

Thus began an addiction. And of course I dragged by boyfriend K into it too.

And once you start collecting pens, then you need notebooks in which to write with them. And post-it notes to color code the notes you've written. And planners to obsessively track your Jetpens orders. And stickers, because why wouldn't I want tiny rainbow giraffes on everything? 

The tiny rainbow giraffes are in the USPS box.

So we've accumulated plenty to review, but that's not the only thing we want to do here. Lovers of pens, at least from my experience, tend also to be lovers of the things they were meant to create - words.

And none of that e-reader nonsense.

It's safe to anticipate some posts in what we're reading and writing. And last but far from least...what would any blog be without its faithful animal mascot?

Baby snake!

Our 10-month-old ball python Neville Squiggles will come out to play occasionally :] AND we have a bearded dragon joining the family pretty soon. Has there ever been a better combination than pens and reptiles? Methinks not.

xoxo,
A