help! i can't stop!

 
       so i'm excited about the little ups delivery i'll be getting on tuesday, yeah? the only itty bitty detail that i didn't take into account when i decided on this splurge is... i'm a convicted bibliophile. my last book splurge was roughly four years ago, when our local library had it's annual used book sale. they take books that were donated to the library throughout the year and sell them for $0.50 for a paperback and $1.00 for a hardcover to help raise funds for the following year (this library, blessedly, doesn't have late fees--it's quite wonderful). anyway, i don't remember how much i spent, but i purchased somewhere around 80 books. not much of a splurge, put in financial terms, but i did have to bring another bookshelf from home. now i won't have to bring another bookshelf for this latest spree (even though i do need one, i have three here in my apartment--two full-sized, one half-sized--and my books are starting to be stacked on top of each other), but i do need to stop sometime soon before my kindle won't be able to hold them all. in the last, what, two days? i've queued up somewhere around 60 books to be downloaded once i charge up my wonderful device. and that 60 isn't including the complete works of austen, dickens, and shakespeare that i ordered. haha. oy.

       oh... i just had a thought... i don't know where i'm going to start! there are so many... classics, newbies, things in the middle. hmm. yes, i do know. "world without end" by ken follett. the sequel to his wonderful "pillars of the earth." then one of the neil gaiman books (i got three ). then either lois lowry's "gossamer" or gregory maguire's "wicked." hmm. i have an ayn rand that i want to work in there, too. hmm. i still have paper books waiting to be read... "the catcher in the rye" and the fourth musashi and diana wynne jones' "castle in the air," the sequel to "howl's moving castle" (which was awesome). can't forget about those. gah! not enough time!

       i'm addicted, though. i'm not paying for all of them, of course. most of that bunch were free classics. the complete works weren't free. most of the rest were. but i need to stop. mhmm. maybe just a couple more...

       i had a ponder, but i can't think of what it was now... i got too excited. so many books!

       have you read anything good lately? any suggestions? i need to branch out into the more "adult" novels, i think, but i still prefer my young adult fiction. grownups muddle things up too much. nevertheless, any ideas?
 

a thrill of hope...

       i think my emotions are broken. they keep doing their own thing without consulting me first. the good news is that i officially have health insurance through work, so i wonder if a trip to the corner head shrinker would be covered. that'd be nice. i should check that out.

       i love josh groban's christmas cd. it's awesome. except it doesn't have "oh holy night" on it, which is my favorite christmas song, so i had to burn a copy with it on there. all's well now.

       i made an incredible chicken and potato soup tonight. it would have been perfect if there hadn't been a freak heat wave that took us into the 70s today. but we're supposed to have snow on thanksgiving day, so it's all good. yeah, the high tomorrow is 43. that's missouri for you. and in case you were wondering, yes, the weather does directly affect the taste of soup. i made bananas foster last night because i'd never made them before and i wanted to try it. it was insanely fun. and i definitely singed off half the hair on my right hand and set off the fire alarms in the first floor of the house. but it tasted pretty good (the dessert, not the singed hair--definitely didn't taste that, but it smelled funny). i don't really like bananas, though. i should have thought of that first.

       i want to write again.

       i want one of these. anyone want to get me a christmas present? it looks awesome. unfortunately it will have to come down in price by about $349.99 for me to be able to think about splurging on it. but it's still cool.

       i love the title of this post. it has nothing to do with the post itself except i was listening to the aforementioned favorite christmas song when i began typing and those words jumped out at me. they're so perfect. especially for me, right now. i really am crazy. but i get to drive home on wednesday night and i'm really looking forward to having a couple days off. i'm really hoping that it will be nice. anyway, i need sleep. take care all.