The strangest note you left for yourself

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You know how sometimes you write something down on a piece of paper and discover it much later, and it doesn't make any sense, and you're wondering what it was supposed to mean originally?

I once found one that said "like a thousand cats being strangled at the same time".

So what was the weirdest note you left to yourself?

― scnnr drkly (scnnr drkly), Friday, 28 April 2006 19:44 (twenty years ago)

"download MONGOLOID by DEVO is best song!"

― -+-+++-+, Friday, 28 April 2006 19:47 (twenty years ago)

i've had a note in my wallet that says "anal beard" for years now and i still don't know why

― uptoeleven (uptoeleven), Friday, 28 April 2006 19:55 (twenty years ago)

"Note to self."

― uptoeleventhirty, Friday, 28 April 2006 20:01 (twenty years ago)

"26th September 1996"

It was a few months before the 26th of September 1996 when I found it and I never did find out what was supposed to happen then.

― Cressida Breem (neruokruokruokne?), Friday, 28 April 2006 20:30 (twenty years ago)

NEVER WRITE ANYTHING DOWN

― sunny successor (katharine), Friday, 28 April 2006 20:53 (twenty years ago)

That's a funny note to leave for yourself.

― Pleasant Plains /// (Pleasant Plains ///), Friday, 28 April 2006 20:55 (twenty years ago)

cupcake of failure

― gear (gear), Friday, 28 April 2006 20:57 (twenty years ago)

http://www.projections-movies.com/images/memento.jpg

― latebloomer (latebloomer), Friday, 28 April 2006 22:23 (twenty years ago)

i save random notes in a file labled "post-it"
some day i'm going to make a book out of them, but probably just for my own nostalgia... i don't think anyone else would be interested.

― tehresa (tehresa), Friday, 28 April 2006 22:58 (twenty years ago)

I once found a postcard with the following quote written (in my hand) across the front and back.

"--such grand and spacious, immortal, cosmogonic reveries, when one
reaches to the stars, when one owns the infinite! Moments divine, ecstatic hours; in which our thought flies from world to world, pierces the great enigma, breathes with a respiration broad, tranquil, and deep as the respiration of the ocean, serene and limitless as the blue firmament; . . ."

It took me three years to find it again: It's from W. James's "Varieties of the Religious Experience"

― remy (x Jeremy), Friday, 28 April 2006 23:08 (twenty years ago)

Coming down from acid one time I found I'd written extensive notes to myself all over my arms and chest.

They were bollocks tho, obviously.

― When I Open Up My Mouth All Bullets Spit Out: Bang! (noodle vague), Saturday, 29 April 2006 02:11 (twenty years ago)

...or were they?

― latebloomer (latebloomer), Saturday, 29 April 2006 02:20 (twenty years ago)

Ah, yes. LSD notes. Legible ones in particular...

― Pleasant Plains /// (Pleasant Plains ///), Saturday, 29 April 2006 03:33 (twenty years ago)

once while drunk i drew a map for a friend, and upon looking at it sober, realized nothing was drawn but two unlabeled, perpendicular lines.

― sublime frequency (sublime frequency), Saturday, 29 April 2006 05:14 (twenty years ago)

haha I have an lsd notebook. most of the sentences written in circles that collapse on each other. surprising number of hitler references, iirc.

― tremendoid (tremendoid), Saturday, 29 April 2006 05:38 (twenty years ago)

A note Jim Carroll (the basketball diaries) finds in his pocket,
that he wrote on acid:

"Little kids shoot marbles
where the branches break the sun

into graceful shafts of light
I just want to be pure"

I found a line in a notebook of mine that I don't remember writing:

"she must be spiritual, as there are spiders in her home"

― nicky lo-fi (nicky lo-fi), Saturday, 29 April 2006 07:42 (twenty years ago)

i still have this note i wrote to myself that says "don't forget!"
i can't bring myself to throw it away, i have to know what it's about.

also, after ketamine. "she'll wait till you really like her, then leave"

― not-goodwin (not-goodwin), Saturday, 29 April 2006 07:55 (twenty years ago)

a pen and paper note i left myself at work last friday night (for monday morning): UPLOAD THESE FILES LOL (followed by list)

i wish i was joking.

― teh_kit has 18 friends (g-kit), Saturday, 29 April 2006 08:11 (twenty years ago)

I can never read the notes I leave for myself; my handwriting is just that bad. (Wait, maybe that is why I keep forgetting appointments...)

― Sara Robinson-Coolidge (Sara R-C), Saturday, 29 April 2006 15:25 (twenty years ago)

i send myself text messages from my phone to my email. found an old one that just says "Ins!"

― Kim (Kim), Saturday, 29 April 2006 15:43 (twenty years ago)

I was looking through my old computer To-Do-List tasks from 2002 and found one that said "Do Potato Thing". It was marked as completed.

― chrisco (chrisco), Saturday, 29 April 2006 15:46 (twenty years ago)

I just leant on a bunch of keys all at once and my hard drive let out a bleep. That was a strange note to leave myself.

― Owen, Saturday, 29 April 2006 15:54 (twenty years ago)

"i'm not crazy, you ALL are!"
i think cough syrup was responsible for this one.

― scnnr drkly (scnnr drkly), Saturday, 29 April 2006 19:20 (twenty years ago)

I can't think of any weird ones I've done, but I still love the one my mum left a few years ago.

"CHICKEN LIES IN THE FRIDGE"

Classic!

― Ronan (Ronan), Saturday, 29 April 2006 19:24 (twenty years ago)

LIVING OUT A PAINKILLER SUITCASE

― cozen (Cozen), Saturday, 29 April 2006 20:00 (twenty years ago)

"New Jack ECW: abort retry fail?"

― Dom Passantino (Dom Passantino), Saturday, 29 April 2006 20:03 (twenty years ago)

"abs buff war crier shrooms before pbaoe"

― Zora (Zora), Sunday, 30 April 2006 15:02 (twenty years ago)

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