In middle school it was popular to make your notebooks sparkling silver. To do so, one must carefully peel the paper part of a gum wrapper from the foil part. There's a shiny side and a dull side to the foil and you use your nail to apply the dull side to your notebook. It's silver gum-wrapper foil leafing at its finest.
My confession is this: I still do it.
Several weeks ago I was thinking about cinnamon gum (serious, who sits around and contemplates cinnamon gum?) and how you can lick the gum wrapper and stick it to your forehead. It burns. I found myself wondering what else you could do with gum wrappers. A bright epiphany reawakened this knowledge about gum wrapper leafing. Now I subconsciously slip all of my gum wrappers back into my pocket where I would have thrown them away several weeks ago. One of my notebooks is gleaming with the shiny shininess of something shiny (in this case, gum wrappers).
You'd think I was a thirteen-year-old girl.
Two more confessions: I love watching Frasier and real estate "flipping" shows on TV.
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