How do you know when you have too many and what to do with them all??
We have two electronic readers - books, so to speak. One we don't use that much anymore because downloading onto the other one - a Blackberry with U.S.A Kobo connection, - is so much easier. It just gets paid directly from our U.S. bank account with one click - how easy is that? Sometimes I LOVE technology.
We also have enough books, in various locations, to exclaim "Holy Dewey Decimal System ....." as soon as you walk in the door. So much so that a girlfriend, who exchanges books with me, asked me if I had read the latest Ken Follett book - Fall of Giants. I told her, no I hadn't. She then proceeded to tell me the plot line.....no, I assured her, I hadn't read it but I would love to borrow it.
Next time we get together she hands me three books - one is the Follett doorstop. It goes out to the lake, but never gets opened and then brought back home. One night I decide to curl up with a good book and after all settled and cosy....open Fall of Giants. ONLY TO SEE a name written, in my handwriting, on the inside cover!!
"Colleen"
Yes - this is actually MY BOOK and I HAVE read it and loaned it TO HER to read!
I have taken to writing my name or initials in books so that when I pick them up I know I have already read them - see .....way too many books and obviously too little memory!!! I don't remember titles or sometimes main characters, or even the cover of the book. That is one reason I like my electronic reader - it tells me, at a glance, that I have read this book because it has a little green bookmark hanging on it. So - maybe, because the electronic reader people thought of this idea, I am not the only one who doesn't remember oh.....titles, characters, covers. Or am I just grasping?
We can't seem to pass a bookstore, thrift shelf or gas station table without stopping and picking up "a few books for the house/lake." We have actually bought the same book several times. "Oh well," my husband will remark upon this discovery "we can always take this one to the states." And so the collection grows, and grows and......
HHHHMMMM now that I think of it we do the SAME THING with movies. I know - we are probably the only people who actually still buy movies. We have three copes of Galaxy Quest, two entire Harry Potter series and I know we have purchased the Star Wars packages several times.
Okay - we are not as bad as the local guy who bought two Tiki mugs at a garage sale a few years back....and has now turned his entire garage into a replica Hawaiian Tiki Lounge. I kid you not! Even his wife waxes on...... "Somebody had to travel there, buy it, bring it back and then hold onto it for years. To us, its like finding lost treasure." Brings a tear to the eye.
NO!!!!! - obviously they haven't been to Hawaii. You get roped into going to a Luau where you eat Poi.....aka wallpaper paste, plain steamed pork - yum, some crap - overcooked carrots, an old bun and wilted salad. You watch a show of people with flaming torches hollering to the Gods and blowing conch shells, and then before you can get out the door you get hit up to each buy a souvenir Tiki mug, some pooka beads and an 8 x 10 picture of yourself taken with a "local" Hawaiian girl or guy in traditional dress. You walk to the parking lot, look at each other loaded up with all this crap and exclaim "Jesus Christ! What just happened?" Upon returning home, your "treasures" go into the garage or basement for about twenty years, you die, your kids hold a garage sale and these people come by and, for only a dollar, have two MATCHING Tiki mugs which end up in their "collection" which soon encompasses their garage and perhaps their lives! And THAT my friends is what is commonly known as....The Circle of Life.
What I have learned this week:
You can never take too many pictures of your children....you can, however, take way too many pictures of your cat.
Listen to your husband: I say - "I found a wasp nest by the hot tub".
He says "I'll get the wasp nest killer."
I say - "Never mind I'll use the fly swatter" (as in FLY swatter you idiot!).
CRAP that hurt!!!
Early mornings, before anyone else is up, are just delicious
Sometimes just getting your nails done a different colour makes the world that much brighter!
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