just now i was looking through my address book. a real one, made of paper. and its sooo beat up. the cover is gone, its scribbled in addresses are crossed out & rewritten so many times. there's coffee rings & it looks like the whole thing got wet once. there's a few pictures the kids drew on blank pages under the letter "Q". there's some strange entries like the diaper service that seems so long ago & the gentleman who cut our lawn back in MD but i wanted his address so i could mail him a christmas card.
i was thinking to myself the adress book looked a mess, then i thought no it looks well used.

but since it doesnt have a cover i do have another i bought over a year ago and i have been slowly transfering the information on days i felt my handwriting was up to snuff & i had a black pen around.
maybe i'll finish that now