I have chosen to technically describe my waterbottle. This is an object I’ve brought with me everywhere for the past 4 years. Despite the lack of any historical significance, this bottle has witnessed both large and small intimate parts of my personal life. 

The bottle measures at 10 ¾ inches in height, with a 1 ⅝ inch radius. The body of the waterbottle is a stainless steel metal, a silver color. The outside metal body is thinly covered by a navy blue paint. On the body, there is a silver geometric line design. The geometric design is the result of the navy paint color being removed, to reveal the contrasting silver steel color of the bottle underneath. This is possibly the result of a laser removal process. At the bottom of the bottle, the silver letters S and M (the bottle company’s logo) are revealed in the same manner, sizing at about the size of a thumb print. When running your fingertips along the side of the bottle, you can feel the fine ridges where the paint layer has been removed for the design. The bottle has a few notches, scratches, and dents, mostly at the bottom of the bottle where the edge of the bottom and side surfaces meet. At the bottom end of the bottle, there are three circle ridges centered inside one another. The text, “Hand Wash Only, simplemodern.com, 22oz Summit” follows the circular circumference shape of the bottle bottom. The body of the waterbottle itself has no curves. It is a long cylinder shape, sized to fit inside the palm of a hand perfectly. There is one ridge at the top of the metal bottle, created for the edge of the body to meet the screw-on plastic cap. 

The cap of the waterbottle is thick black plastic. The cap has a cylinder base, with a handle extending outwards at a 90 degree angle. The handle does not move or rotate in any capacity. Rather, it is a full extension of the main cap base without any seams. The cap can be unscrewed to access the bottle, for filling and emptying. To drink, the cap has a small spout at the top, where the user can unscrew a small ridged cap to access. The spout can be measured to the size similar of a quarter. The cap has scratches and dents everywhere, hinting towards it’s age and use. 

There is one singular sticker on the waterbottle, placed at the top half of the bottle. The sticker is rectangle shaped, with curved corners. Centered on the sticker, a brown and white dog smiles. The dog is framed by a thin purple circle outline. The background behind the dog’s circle frame is a red and white diagonal striped pattern. The sticker clearly has wear, inferring the sticker has existed on the water bottle for quite some time. The top right corner of the sticker is completely worn off. The colors of the sticker are faded, possibly from water damage or sun damage. To the touch, the sticker has lost any glossiness it might have had, and has worn down to a paper texture.

The bottle is empty, resulting in a deep hollow echo as it knocks against anything. However, these hollow sounds are temporary- lasting until I thirst again.