a brief, irrelevant list

December 13, 2020

A Brief, Irrelevant List of Stuff I Sadness-Bought Myself That I Didn’t Actually Need, During the Period of November 20 - Present, by Sarah, Age 37-and-10-months

  1. Quiet Hollers, Quiet Hollers

  2. cozy sweater that no one will ever see from more than shoulders up

  3. little wooden deer figurines that I don’t know where to put because every flat surface in my home is a mess

  4. The Discomfort of Evening, Marieke Lucas Rijneveld

  5. The Wild Reeds, The World We Built

  6. several minimalist posters of transit systems in some of my favorite cities from a print shop that is going out of business

  7. the related guilt of wondering if I’d bought those posters ages ago like I’d meant, instead of during their final sale, that maybe I could have helped the company stay open longer

  8. The Mountain Goats, The Jordan Lake Sessions

  9. this shirt, which fucking rocks:

  10. 2021 calendar comprised of fan art inspired by The Terror, no, I do not want to talk about it, leave me alone

  11. “ticket” to stream Andrew Bird’s holiday show

  12. The Long Exile, Melanie McGrath

  13. stitch fixer so I can pick up dropped stitches in my knitting legitimately rather than just pulling on random strings and hoping for the best

  14. In the Dream House, Carmen Maria Machado

  15. cozy dress that no one will ever see from more than shoulders up

  16. Jack de Quidt, Marielda: Friends at the Table soundtrack

  17. [redacted]

  18. longer cable for my knitting needles so I can successfully knit the shawl I’m working on; please note I already have a cable this long, except there’s still a project on it that’s been there since basically like, May or something? and it’s a super easy project and I should have finished it quickly except that it’s still there because it’s a bunch of colorwork stuff and one of my cats literally pulled the whole project into his cat bed and tangled up the two different balls of working yarn into an enormous knot that I am still trying to untangle, Christ, I’m so tired.

  19. Amigo the Devil, Born Against and Volume One

  20. this art print which, based on current estimates, I’ll get framed and hung up some time around age 48

  21. a quantity of yarn

  22. Persephone Station, Stina Leicht

  23. this thing:

  24. The Inheritance Trilogy, N.K. Jemisin

  25. “ticket” to the My Brother, My Brother and Me livestream that I then forgot to watch until literally like the last 90 minutes it was available for re-streaming

  26. the subscription to CBS All Access that I got to watch Star Trek: Picard and then keep forgetting to unsubscribe from

  27. Murder By Death, Lonesome Holiday

  28. [redacted, again, only different than before]

  29. A Song Below Water, Bethany C. Morrow

  30. labels for cords so I can finally know what does what behind my TV without having to go on some sort of god damn archaeology expedition every single time