If you’re here, you’ve hopefully hopped from Dani Jace, so welcome! Today’s installment is from the ever-delightful Sarah Hegger, who asks: What is your secret passion? I have a thing for shoes and B-grade fantasy movies, what are some of your guilty pleasures?
Well. Hm. While guilty pleasure implies I feel bad about this–and I don’t– I have a thing for pens. I love pens. Fountain pens, fine point pens, calligraphy pens. I even have a thing for a certain edge on my Expo markers. Buying a pen (if I care about it; I do own BIC pens, after all, but I hate them) is a very personal thing for me. I like a certain weight of pen, not too heavy, but not too light, something firm with a certain weight so that the ink falls just so–except for fine points, which are supposed to be light. The right pen just has a certain… je ne sais quoi about it. The type of pen, to me, determines the optimum weight and the optimum width. Not every pen has to be the same, but I do like them when they are the right pen for a given task. I’ve even been known to go out on a hunt for the right pen, and gotten excited when I found a pen that I knew was THE PEN (I once got breathless with excitement over a pen that was pewter, engraved with Celtic symbols, fine point–shoot, it’s almost like I’m describing a wand in Harry Potter. I then gave it to my husband. I must like him.)
Gah, I sound like such a weirdo. “I like pens.” Who says that? Well, me, I guess. I suppose I am that weirdo.
Why not take a peek at what JJ Devine has to say on the subject?
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This made me LOL so hard. I have found the PERFECT pen finally – and I buy it over and over and over now – haven’t changed in about a year – but I still try new ones out every so often, just to make sure something better hasn’t come along. 🙂 Love the post Meggan!
You and Victoria is seems. My husband could join your party too
Ohhhhh Pens. Yes, Yes. Pens. And Mechanical pencils and post it notes. Must go back and fix my hop as I realize this is a big guilty pleasure of mine :-)Really like this guilty pleasure!
I love pens as well. My favorite lately is the Tul pens, with a really fine point. Such a smooth writing tool.
I love pens. Millions of them. I used to tutor math and found the kids learned better when I used lots of colours. Mmmm pens