And the Purple Pen...

Just call me Harold. Or maybe I tend toward excessive adjective usage.

Or it could really just be a purple pen.

Normally I use promotional pens from conferences or pens lifted from hotel rooms if I like the way they write, or if they are the really slim pens, I'm a sucker for a skinny pen. But the problem with promotional pens and hotel pens is that they don't write well for very long. Even if they start smooth they get really choppy really quickly. Nobody buys nice pens to give away.

I reached the point last week where I need to replace my everyday pen. The one I use to do my little write ups from my secular devotional book. The one I use to fill out my calendar. My living room pen. Now, I have a good office pen. The one we use to sign checks (the three we write a year), or fill out forms, or I use to when I am tracking things like blogs written and future plans. And I still had two promotional pens in the pen cup, but neither of them are smooth so I decided to be extravagant and buy a nice pen.

I know, right? I'm so bougie. Buying pens!

Looking at them all on Sunday at Freddy's and they had packs of Pilots which I used when I was in school and Brent said he liked. They were also described as "extra smooth" on the package and they can't just say that if it's not true right? I originally had a pack of four pens and then saw a two pack and the pens were PURPLE! So yeah, that was that. I've got pretty purple pens.

BUT THAT'S NOT ALL!

After posting my story yesterday I made my tally mark on my fiction count and THE INK IS PURPLE TOO!

Which, my reaction was a blending of YAYTHISISSOCOOLohnonownothingwillmatch Yes, all together like that as one thought.

I landed on it being more cool than not. Yes, my January calendar and first week of posts will not match the rest, but the rest of the year will be really pretty purple. And it really was a clean break, all of last week was in black, turn the page and now it's all purple. So the mismatch isn't really even noticeable. And I mean, it's purple!

(I did go back and trace over the tally mark in black, mixing the colors there was just wrong)

I also warned Brent that the purple pen in the pen jar really was a purple pen so if he needed to sign something he could make sure to grab the good black office pen instead. His reaction when I told him the ink was purple too, not just the casing? "how cool is that?" No mixed emotions at all.

So now I have a purple pen and all is write with the world...