My Time

I do legitimate things with my time - I have an interview tomorrow - but I have also been getting to that someday list. As you know I have been cranking out and mailing the homemade cards like a madman. I love doing that and it just got put aside for awhile so I am excited to be back at it. I also got around to my Swatch watches. I had a bunch of my own and some I bought a long while back as a dirt cheap fixer up lot off eBay. Here are just some of them and they came out excellent. The one top row center is actually mine. I got it in 1987 and wore it to bits. I even lent it out twice to two different people and hunted them both down to get it back. I was researching and almost had a heart attack as I saw it valued at $2500 but then I noticed they issued two versions of the watch. The one without the date is valued at $2500 and mine, with the date, is $250. I still love it.

The one on the bottom row left was my brother-in-laws. It was beat to hell when he gave it to me - really you should have seen it. I sent him a picture of it now and asked if he wanted it back but he said no because if I put that much work into getting it back into shape then I should wear it. The one in the bottom row middle is my new current favorite that I have been wearing a lot. It is from 1991 and from a junk lot I bought for 5 bucks. It is in awesome condition now and worth about $100.

I probably have about 6 or 8 more not in the picture because they are in the actual swatch boxes. I love my Olympic ones a lot but have not worn them too much lately. They are all running and look great now. My only Swatch regret is my Swatch Memphis. It was my first swatch and I bought it in 1984 at Fanueil Hall. I took so much crap in high school for that watch - serious, a lot of mean and evil crap just because I had a watch that was different. It was before Swatch really broke big in the US. I wore that watch to death - literally. Then even after it was dead I kept it for many, many more years because I loved it so much and it spoke a bit of what I went through. Finally in one of my cleaning sprees I got rid of it. In good condition today it would be valued at $3000 but even if I still had it, I would never have sold it.