Then from my list before, I have 36 items (since the yearbooks don't count). I looked around yesterday, and I also found:
- 1 whitepaper written by a mentor (Mark Kramarczyk)
- 1 huge stack of team brochures
- 2 team "paper plate award" certificates
- 2 additional orbit balls (the ones cut up for jewelery)
- 1 pair of Converse (the ones that Jane and I did, which I almost forgot about! Those are totally FIRST-related)
- 2 UL safety pins
- 1 safety captain badge
- 1 Dean's List pin
- 1 Sheared axle from 2008
- 1 team shirt that I forgot to list earlier, because it's in the wash
- 4 newspaper clippings about our team (I'll count those as one)
- 2 lanyards (201 and 217)
- 1 team pit crew badge from 2009
- 1 intake roller from 2009
I also have some team-related jewelery (we got "gear necklaces" as rewards for various things last year, so I have two of those, plus a tetris piece which was given to me by a mentor for "being awesome", and some hair clips that have gear-shaped metal glued onto them), but that probably doesn't count...
I'll stop being OCD about everything that I have now. I didn't even include all of the pictures that I have on my wall, or the measuring tape and file that I need to return to the team, or the giveaways-that-aren't-buttons-or-lanyards-that-are-taking-up-space, or the shoes that I bought because they were black and yellow/ThunderChicken green, or the cordurra from the 2009 trailer bumpers.
So unless I forgot something really obvious and important, I believe that my total is 54 (57 if you count the newspaper clippings separately).
I think there's something seriously wrong with me.