i have book anxiety. there's a bookcase in my front room, and more often than not, that bookcase goes through a thorough inspection whenever someone new comes over to my apartment. i always feel a little anxious about it, because in all honesty, i don't have a very large collection of books that i own. the same goes for movies. most of the books that i own were given to me or were given as gifts or were purchased because they were my absolute favorites and i borrowed them so many times that it was stupid that i didn't have them.
a book is a Very Important thing to me. a book on a bookcase says something about the person who put it there. it says "this is me, this is what i do, this is what i like, this is something important to me." and, in some strange way, they're like pets to me. you bought it, you have to take it off the shelf and exercise it every once in a while.
and i have commitment issues.
i'm a borrower. i'm a very frequent patron of my local library and read quite a lot, but my home library is... sad. small. however, i received $60 of gift certificates to various booksellers for my birthday this year and am now faced with the task of overcoming my fear of commitments and expanding my library a little. i purchased four books yesterday-- two classics that i know i love, one book i know i'll love based on previous books i have from that author, and a cook book that i have been lusting after for a month. (links go to the books) only $25 left to agonize over.
30.4.10
29.4.10
top fiveish: top five most awesomest shows ever (when i was eight)
for today's top fiveish, we're going to take a look at my favorite tv shows from when i was a kid. (it was remarkably hard to narrow it down to five. well... six. okay, seven. i may revisit this list later.) read on! you know you want to.
28.4.10
in the kitchen: sloppy joes
i decided that the picture post counted as news day. (IT'S IMPORTANT. IT COUNTS.) so, moving on to wednesday in the kitchen. today's recipe: sloppy joes. i made these for myself on my birthday because there are few foods i love more than sloppy joes.
26.4.10
update: birthweek
last week was my birth...week. i know it's generally constrained to a birthday, but the festivities for my birth were kind of spread out throughout the week. and it was awesome.
25.4.10
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