Mike has been learning Spanish on his own for quite some time. (since even before I met him, I think). It's rather slow going compared to taking a class... but he's made a lot of progress. A few months ago he started watching Spanish kids' shows. Then he found some kind of flash card app for his iPod that helps him learn words. Most recently he's started reading a Spanish book and he's recording a Yoga workout show that airs in Spanish...
...all of this is very cool, but I've discovered that Spanish Mike is quite different than Regular Mike. Regular Mike doesn't watch much tv (Spanish Mike watches a lot of tv). Regular Mike refuses to go to yoga with me (Spanish Mike goes to the effort of recording a yoga workout show so he can do it whenever he feels like it!). Regular Mike never ever reads for pleasure (but Spanish Mike sure does!).
In light of all of this strange stuff that Spanish Mike does, I find myself sitting in my living room alone wondering which Mike is putting strange things in strange places lately. Two days ago I found a POT HOLDER in the freezer. Yesterday I found an orange in the upstairs bathroom. (I don't even want to know why you would need an orange in the bathroom). This morning I found Mike's cell phone left in the downstairs bathroom, and the cable remote is missing (again)... I have a feeling it will turn up in a bizarre location - i've already checked the freezer. not there.
Regular Mike does lose stuff on a regular basis... but these latest strangely placed items are just a little too weird for Regular Mike... I think Spanish Mike might hide things with a flair for the weird.
Friday, June 25, 2010
Monday, February 1, 2010
recycle it
i have made it my unofficial new year's resolution to recycle more. i've been checking pretty much all packaging that goes through my kitchen to see if it's recyclable, and tossing more stuff into my recycle bin than in the trash bin (from the kitchen anyway). it's been really fun to cook and see if i can make a whole mean without throwing anything into the trash can. Surprisingly, that happens more often than not... and when I do throw things into the trash can, they're very small, and very few. that's pretty cool!
I've even put this cute little bucket on the counter (which i found at Target for the low price of $1) in the kitchen for things that can go into the yard waste bin. We got this little magnet booklet sometime last year that i stuck on the fridge, and it shows what you should do with each kind of waste (it's surprisingly comprehensive). i've been filling that little bucket up almost as quickly as I can empty it into the yard waste bin. the cut off ends of veggies go in there, egg shells go in there, I'm trying very hard to get Mike to put the coffee grounds in there (rather than down the garbage disposal, which i've always found to be kind of strange to begin with)... a couple of weeks ago i discovered that bread can go in there, so the ends of the loaf that nobody wants to eat, and then they go bad... well, those go in there now!
And today I discovered one more thing i can throw in the yard waste bin! you can throw meat in there!... so now every time i trim the fat off of my meat... guess where that's going?
i like to imagine that the city of Kent has a nice, beautiful compost pile somewhere, and I'm enriching it every time i put something in that little bucket instead of in the trash. I'm scared to research it to find out for sure, in case i'm wrong. i like thinking i'm making compost. I have the stuff sitting in my side yard to build my own compost bin... and some day i swear i will get around to actually putting it together and make my own black gold and put it all right back into my own garden! but until then, at least i'm not contributing as much to the city dump! gross!
between our own obnoxious amount of actual yard waste, and the stuff coming out of the kitchen, our yard waste bin never stays empty long. I've considered calling them up to see if they'd give me a 2nd one. Sometimes we actually have to "store" our yard waste in the side yard until the yard waste bin is empty again, so it will all fit. I suppose I could have worse problems. (and at least that's not the case with our garbage can!)... maybe if I can get Mike on board w/ my recycling habit, we could call them up and see if we could get a smaller trash can? that would be nice! i love that shrinking carbon footprint!
that's not to say that i have this recycling thing perfected. I'm just talking about the kitchen, but you've got to start somewhere, right? next up i want to put an extra "trash" can in the bathrooms, so i can recycle those cardboard toilet paper rolls when they're empty too.
Morpheus is a good helper. he likes to shred up the cardboard for me, so it fits better in the recycling bin. he thinks that task is better than stuffed toys!
I've even put this cute little bucket on the counter (which i found at Target for the low price of $1) in the kitchen for things that can go into the yard waste bin. We got this little magnet booklet sometime last year that i stuck on the fridge, and it shows what you should do with each kind of waste (it's surprisingly comprehensive). i've been filling that little bucket up almost as quickly as I can empty it into the yard waste bin. the cut off ends of veggies go in there, egg shells go in there, I'm trying very hard to get Mike to put the coffee grounds in there (rather than down the garbage disposal, which i've always found to be kind of strange to begin with)... a couple of weeks ago i discovered that bread can go in there, so the ends of the loaf that nobody wants to eat, and then they go bad... well, those go in there now!
And today I discovered one more thing i can throw in the yard waste bin! you can throw meat in there!... so now every time i trim the fat off of my meat... guess where that's going?
i like to imagine that the city of Kent has a nice, beautiful compost pile somewhere, and I'm enriching it every time i put something in that little bucket instead of in the trash. I'm scared to research it to find out for sure, in case i'm wrong. i like thinking i'm making compost. I have the stuff sitting in my side yard to build my own compost bin... and some day i swear i will get around to actually putting it together and make my own black gold and put it all right back into my own garden! but until then, at least i'm not contributing as much to the city dump! gross!
between our own obnoxious amount of actual yard waste, and the stuff coming out of the kitchen, our yard waste bin never stays empty long. I've considered calling them up to see if they'd give me a 2nd one. Sometimes we actually have to "store" our yard waste in the side yard until the yard waste bin is empty again, so it will all fit. I suppose I could have worse problems. (and at least that's not the case with our garbage can!)... maybe if I can get Mike on board w/ my recycling habit, we could call them up and see if we could get a smaller trash can? that would be nice! i love that shrinking carbon footprint!
that's not to say that i have this recycling thing perfected. I'm just talking about the kitchen, but you've got to start somewhere, right? next up i want to put an extra "trash" can in the bathrooms, so i can recycle those cardboard toilet paper rolls when they're empty too.
Morpheus is a good helper. he likes to shred up the cardboard for me, so it fits better in the recycling bin. he thinks that task is better than stuffed toys!
Sunday, January 10, 2010
a day in the life of my dog
Morpheus must have had so much fun today! First he got to go outside with Mike and help pull out a few tree stumps and the roots that went with them. Mike said he was a really good helper. he helped dig in the dirt around the trees, helped pull on the roots, and then did victory loops around the yard whenever they got a big chunk of roots out. Mike said he was even digging and pulling at the right times and in the right places. how cute is that?
Considering digging and tug are Morpheus's 2 favorite activities, I'm betting he thought digging up tree stumps and roots was the coolest game Mike has ever played with him. :)
Then he got to go with Mike to the pet store to get cat food for his feline buddies, and then to Home Depot with Mike! (i stayed home in favor of not putting on bulky warm clothes, and thus letting my fresh tattoo breathe). Mike said Morpheus met a bunch of people and had a blast. He loves it when he gets to come along any time either of us leaves the house. He especially loves meeting other people.
i, on the other hand, have had a very sleepy day. i'm not sure if it's me recovering from getting up so early for work all week and trying to get back into the swing of it... or maybe my body's focusing on healing my skin after yesterday's big tattoo session... who knows, but i slept in, and then took a big nap this afternoon. i don't feel sick (knock on wood) so that's not it. otherwise i've spent my day watching tv & reading the Scarlet Letter. I've got to get Mike to show me how to log into my online classes too, because they start tomorrow! i'm about to get a whole lot busier!
this week should be a fun one too. i started yoga last Tuesday, and am looking forward to going back this week. i bought a 10 session pass - not that i'd need it to stay motivated to go, but it does save me money in the long run. i love yoga! Friday i'm doing my Film Noir & Pinot Noir night - and i'm so excited about it! and then next weekend Morpheus is showing in Puyallup (which will be his 2nd show - wish him luck!), and I've got a neat drawing session next Sunday... and a 3 day weekend even! and a totally fun one for me and Morpheus both! :)
Considering digging and tug are Morpheus's 2 favorite activities, I'm betting he thought digging up tree stumps and roots was the coolest game Mike has ever played with him. :)
Then he got to go with Mike to the pet store to get cat food for his feline buddies, and then to Home Depot with Mike! (i stayed home in favor of not putting on bulky warm clothes, and thus letting my fresh tattoo breathe). Mike said Morpheus met a bunch of people and had a blast. He loves it when he gets to come along any time either of us leaves the house. He especially loves meeting other people.
i, on the other hand, have had a very sleepy day. i'm not sure if it's me recovering from getting up so early for work all week and trying to get back into the swing of it... or maybe my body's focusing on healing my skin after yesterday's big tattoo session... who knows, but i slept in, and then took a big nap this afternoon. i don't feel sick (knock on wood) so that's not it. otherwise i've spent my day watching tv & reading the Scarlet Letter. I've got to get Mike to show me how to log into my online classes too, because they start tomorrow! i'm about to get a whole lot busier!
this week should be a fun one too. i started yoga last Tuesday, and am looking forward to going back this week. i bought a 10 session pass - not that i'd need it to stay motivated to go, but it does save me money in the long run. i love yoga! Friday i'm doing my Film Noir & Pinot Noir night - and i'm so excited about it! and then next weekend Morpheus is showing in Puyallup (which will be his 2nd show - wish him luck!), and I've got a neat drawing session next Sunday... and a 3 day weekend even! and a totally fun one for me and Morpheus both! :)
Tuesday, January 5, 2010
muscle memory
i went to a new yoga studio in federal way tonight and did yoga for the first time in a little over a year. i have really missed it! i've been doing yoga on and off for about a decade now, i guess! crazy how time flies! i have always said that yoga is the one form of exercise that i don't need to be forced to go and do. i hate working out, and will try to avoid it by doing just about anything else - but it's different with yoga... with yoga, i'm motivated enough to put it on the calendar and schedule around it. the act of yoga is reward enough to motivate me to go. considering my attitude about working out, that's all pretty amazing!
there are tons of things i love about yoga. what drew me to the practice in the first place was a desire to become more flexible. as it turns out i'm naturally fairly flexible - it's just my hamstrings that are not flexible. they never have been. but when other people are trying to asses how flexible you are, they tend to focus on whether or not you can touch your toes... i can't. if i work really hard on stretching out my hamstrings over the course of a month or so, then i can (kind of), but it's never been easy - and therefore people assume that i'm not flexible. well guess what? turns out i'm flexible everywhere else, and good at it. my hips are open and crazy flexible, as are my thighs, and i can do twist poses like nobody's business... it's just those friggin' hamstrings!
yoga also builds strength. that's the one that i wasn't expecting 10 years ago when i first started doing yoga. i started to develop new muscles in places i didn't even know i had them. that was pretty cool!
my hands-down favorite thing about yoga, though, is that relaxed feeling immediately afterward... as if all of the tension, that i wasn't even aware of beforehand, has just drained from my body, leaving everything nice and relaxed and happy. My body feels like it's giving me one big huge relaxed thank-you after every yoga session i've ever had. yoga is one of my favorite ways to relax. body and mind both love it.
as i said, today was my first day back after about a year without yoga, and i've really missed it. this was a new (to me) studio about 20 minutes away from my house, and (obviously) a new instructor - i really liked her. i loved the practice, and i really liked her personality. she was very friendly and welcoming, and then she came and checked in with me afterward. I had not told her beforehand that I had done yoga before, but as I was gathering my things to leave, she came and asked if I had done yoga before. I told her that I had, and she told me that she thought so, because I seemed to know the poses pretty well and had nice form. that was pretty awesome! i've never had an instructor check in with me like that after a first session, and I really appreciated it! and even better, it was nice to know that after a year without yoga, my body still knows what its doing.
i've always found that interesting. once i've trained my muscles to do something, they don't forget. they haven't forgotten how to ride a bike (and i know because i tried it once a few years ago, after god knows how many years without bothering, and i didn't fall down. i could still do it)... it doesn't matter how long i go without drawing or painting - my hands still know how to do it with skill... and now i have a professional opinion on the yoga front: after a year without yoga, my body still knows the proper way to do a down dog. the human body is pretty cool isn't it?
there are tons of things i love about yoga. what drew me to the practice in the first place was a desire to become more flexible. as it turns out i'm naturally fairly flexible - it's just my hamstrings that are not flexible. they never have been. but when other people are trying to asses how flexible you are, they tend to focus on whether or not you can touch your toes... i can't. if i work really hard on stretching out my hamstrings over the course of a month or so, then i can (kind of), but it's never been easy - and therefore people assume that i'm not flexible. well guess what? turns out i'm flexible everywhere else, and good at it. my hips are open and crazy flexible, as are my thighs, and i can do twist poses like nobody's business... it's just those friggin' hamstrings!
yoga also builds strength. that's the one that i wasn't expecting 10 years ago when i first started doing yoga. i started to develop new muscles in places i didn't even know i had them. that was pretty cool!
my hands-down favorite thing about yoga, though, is that relaxed feeling immediately afterward... as if all of the tension, that i wasn't even aware of beforehand, has just drained from my body, leaving everything nice and relaxed and happy. My body feels like it's giving me one big huge relaxed thank-you after every yoga session i've ever had. yoga is one of my favorite ways to relax. body and mind both love it.
as i said, today was my first day back after about a year without yoga, and i've really missed it. this was a new (to me) studio about 20 minutes away from my house, and (obviously) a new instructor - i really liked her. i loved the practice, and i really liked her personality. she was very friendly and welcoming, and then she came and checked in with me afterward. I had not told her beforehand that I had done yoga before, but as I was gathering my things to leave, she came and asked if I had done yoga before. I told her that I had, and she told me that she thought so, because I seemed to know the poses pretty well and had nice form. that was pretty awesome! i've never had an instructor check in with me like that after a first session, and I really appreciated it! and even better, it was nice to know that after a year without yoga, my body still knows what its doing.
i've always found that interesting. once i've trained my muscles to do something, they don't forget. they haven't forgotten how to ride a bike (and i know because i tried it once a few years ago, after god knows how many years without bothering, and i didn't fall down. i could still do it)... it doesn't matter how long i go without drawing or painting - my hands still know how to do it with skill... and now i have a professional opinion on the yoga front: after a year without yoga, my body still knows the proper way to do a down dog. the human body is pretty cool isn't it?
Wednesday, December 30, 2009
Number 9
ok, before i force myself to go to sleep (lest i become completely unable to wake up extra extra early for work next week with my night owl vacation habit), i have another New Year's resolution to add to the list!
i may just go to another one even earlier in the new year, on the 6th. we'll see. I don't want to over extend myself during my first week back at work... i'm already going to need extra coffee to drag myself out of bed so friggin early. have i mentioned that one of the fantastic benefits of moving onto a Project Management position will be getting to "sleep in" a couple of hours, since those jobs will likely allow me to begin my work day at a reasonable and normal hour? :)
- I want to draw and paint more! now, i realize that's going to be a bit of a challenge since I'll be busy with school... but i doubt that it will be impossible... especially since I just signed myself up for an extra cool Cabaret Life Drawing session in Seattle, featuring burlesque models ~ including Kittie LaRue of the Burlesque Nutcracker! how cool!... i think i'll aim for at least one model session every 2 months. i think i can manage attending 6 of them in 2010. it can't possibly be completely unreasonable to expect that i can find one date that i can attend every 60 days. (right?)
i may just go to another one even earlier in the new year, on the 6th. we'll see. I don't want to over extend myself during my first week back at work... i'm already going to need extra coffee to drag myself out of bed so friggin early. have i mentioned that one of the fantastic benefits of moving onto a Project Management position will be getting to "sleep in" a couple of hours, since those jobs will likely allow me to begin my work day at a reasonable and normal hour? :)
Tuesday, December 29, 2009
big plans
i spent a good part of the day today filling in important dates and reminders in my new 2010 planner. i don't think i've ever bothered to put this much effort into planning out a new year... but i'm feeling very excited about this one. (probably in large part because a significant portion of this current year just pisses me off... so it's exciting to kick it goodbye and start fresh - finally!)
on one hand it's bizarre to think that a decade is going to be finished and over with on Thursday night - not just a year, but a whole decade - the first decade of the millennium in fact! it's even weirder to think about what was happening in my life a decade ago. On the verge of the end of 1999, i was working a low paying, substitute page job at the local library - which was nice and low key, and always interesting... but i recall thinking often that i did NOT want to be stuck doing that job for the rest of my life (like a lot of the older ladies i saw there, who had been there for AGES, and still had practically the same job I had, and i had only just recently turned 21... i was SUPPOSED to have a crappy job)... i finished my first post-high school degree in June of 2000, which was an associates degree in arts and sciences (mostly arts... and just the bare minimum of sciences because they required it)...
In the past decade, i've had 3 graduations! the associates degree, a double bachelors degree in fine art: painting, and another in art history from the UW... and finally a masters degree in teaching from UPS. it's funny to think that 10 years later, i'm still finding a way to become a student. it doesn't feel like 10 years of education... but i suppose mostly it was. nearly half of that time was spent at the UW (and i loved it. i loved devoting most of my waking time to painting and learning about historical artists... what a fantastic time in my life!)... just over a year of it was spent at UPS... and the past 3 i've spent teaching art. not too shabby for the professional portion of my last decade huh?
And what about travel? the Double 0's have really been a decade for travel for me! i took my first (and longest) international trip in 2003, when i spent a quarter studying art history abroad in Rome! Having learned my lesson about travel by this time, i didn't just go to Rome and come straight back home. I spent as much time as possible traveling all over the place, seeing the things that I MOST wanted to see while in Europe. I even spent a couple of years preparing for the language. I did 4 quarters of Italian before even bothering to apply (though it was not a requirement). During that trip, I went to 7 countries, including Spain, France, Italy, Austria, Hungary, German, and England. Having acquired a taste for travel, I spent the following spring break in Mexico enjoying the beaches of Cancun... and then that was it for a while. The next big international trip was to Jamaica for my honeymoon a couple of years ago. Then for spring break this past year Mike and I went to Korea and Japan to visit a couple of friends of mine. I've wanted to visit Japan for ages, and I have to say it was every bit as cool as I had hoped it would be. Counting several trips I've taken to Canada over the past decade, that makes 13 countries I've visited outside of the US in the last decade! I doubt I'll beat that in the 2010's, but it would sure be fun to try to come close! I would love to go to Egypt. Mike has promised me that when we get rid of our last bit of credit card debt, we can go to Egypt. Hopefully that will be sooner rather than later - I'm dying to go see the pyramids!
Back to my plans so far for 2010, I've got all of the birthdays and anniversaries plugged in, upcoming show dates for Morpheus, my Film Noir & Pinot Noir nite on the 15th... and (my favorite of the moment), 6 weeks of yoga all planned out! That together with my regular weight watchers meetings on Tuesday nights, and I've just made real plans to make like 3 of my resolutions a big success right off the bat in 2010! I'm also dragging the new planner with me over to Hillary's house tomorrow night for wine & a movie night - but just as importantly, we're going to plan some art happenings for the new year... and i think right this second i'm going to log off and go check out that Drawing meetup, so i can plan a few dates in the new year to go draw w/ a live model. it'll be good to make regular dates to use my cool new sketchbook.
on one hand it's bizarre to think that a decade is going to be finished and over with on Thursday night - not just a year, but a whole decade - the first decade of the millennium in fact! it's even weirder to think about what was happening in my life a decade ago. On the verge of the end of 1999, i was working a low paying, substitute page job at the local library - which was nice and low key, and always interesting... but i recall thinking often that i did NOT want to be stuck doing that job for the rest of my life (like a lot of the older ladies i saw there, who had been there for AGES, and still had practically the same job I had, and i had only just recently turned 21... i was SUPPOSED to have a crappy job)... i finished my first post-high school degree in June of 2000, which was an associates degree in arts and sciences (mostly arts... and just the bare minimum of sciences because they required it)...
In the past decade, i've had 3 graduations! the associates degree, a double bachelors degree in fine art: painting, and another in art history from the UW... and finally a masters degree in teaching from UPS. it's funny to think that 10 years later, i'm still finding a way to become a student. it doesn't feel like 10 years of education... but i suppose mostly it was. nearly half of that time was spent at the UW (and i loved it. i loved devoting most of my waking time to painting and learning about historical artists... what a fantastic time in my life!)... just over a year of it was spent at UPS... and the past 3 i've spent teaching art. not too shabby for the professional portion of my last decade huh?
And what about travel? the Double 0's have really been a decade for travel for me! i took my first (and longest) international trip in 2003, when i spent a quarter studying art history abroad in Rome! Having learned my lesson about travel by this time, i didn't just go to Rome and come straight back home. I spent as much time as possible traveling all over the place, seeing the things that I MOST wanted to see while in Europe. I even spent a couple of years preparing for the language. I did 4 quarters of Italian before even bothering to apply (though it was not a requirement). During that trip, I went to 7 countries, including Spain, France, Italy, Austria, Hungary, German, and England. Having acquired a taste for travel, I spent the following spring break in Mexico enjoying the beaches of Cancun... and then that was it for a while. The next big international trip was to Jamaica for my honeymoon a couple of years ago. Then for spring break this past year Mike and I went to Korea and Japan to visit a couple of friends of mine. I've wanted to visit Japan for ages, and I have to say it was every bit as cool as I had hoped it would be. Counting several trips I've taken to Canada over the past decade, that makes 13 countries I've visited outside of the US in the last decade! I doubt I'll beat that in the 2010's, but it would sure be fun to try to come close! I would love to go to Egypt. Mike has promised me that when we get rid of our last bit of credit card debt, we can go to Egypt. Hopefully that will be sooner rather than later - I'm dying to go see the pyramids!
Back to my plans so far for 2010, I've got all of the birthdays and anniversaries plugged in, upcoming show dates for Morpheus, my Film Noir & Pinot Noir nite on the 15th... and (my favorite of the moment), 6 weeks of yoga all planned out! That together with my regular weight watchers meetings on Tuesday nights, and I've just made real plans to make like 3 of my resolutions a big success right off the bat in 2010! I'm also dragging the new planner with me over to Hillary's house tomorrow night for wine & a movie night - but just as importantly, we're going to plan some art happenings for the new year... and i think right this second i'm going to log off and go check out that Drawing meetup, so i can plan a few dates in the new year to go draw w/ a live model. it'll be good to make regular dates to use my cool new sketchbook.
Monday, December 28, 2009
books and books and books!
this afternoon i ventured down to Tacoma for a bookstore shopping trip. i was hoping to find some of my textbooks locally (and hopefully used) to see if i could slash the price, compared to ordering them online through the school's bookstore. I know that the UW Tacoma campus does have a Project Management program, so I was hoping that some of the same books would be available in their bookstore. No such luck!
Then i went across the street to the Tacoma Art Museum, merrily hoping I would find a fabulous art-based new planner for 2010... and BIG DUH, they were closed. Art museums being closed on a Monday is not a new concept for me... but being on vacation and forgetting what day it is explains my problem! :) While I was waiting for the crosswalk signal to tell me it was safe to cross the street to get back to my car, i found myself thinking how WICKED cool it must be to be a UW-T student, with the art museum, and Tacoma's best art supply store literally right next door! (Hillary, i'm jealous!)
So then I drove up the hill to King's Books, wanting to find a decent bargain on a gently used copy of a classic novel for my 2010 resolution to read at least one. I have almost positively settled on The Scarlet Letter (but Ulysses keeps sneaking its way back into my mind)... I found a good copy of The Scarlet Letter, and also came out with a somewhat old looking copy of A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man - which i've learned depicts the early years of a character in Ulysses... so why not? No luck on finding a good copy of Ulysses though.
So then I went to Half Price Books, hoping to score Ulysses, and crossed my fingers that they would have cheap copies of my textbooks too.... no luck on either of them, but I did come out with discount copies of the Golden Compass trilogy!... Then Borders was practically next door, so I went in and found a National Gallery Planner (for 50% off), and bought a copy of Ulysses. I used my teacher discount too. (what are they going to do, track me down and find out that I don't actually teach literature?) hehehe
but it doesn't end there! I went online and found my textbooks AND Mike's textbooks for cheap and decent prices on half.com! Assuming that mine comes with the promised CD and Mike's comes with the promised DVD, I think we're in good shape! (we saved loads of $$ from the list price on the school's bookstore website, too ~ even after shipping!)
I think for a follow up book based day, tomorrow I should see what I can do about finishing the two books that I'm currently in the middle of, to make space on my "now reading" mental bookshelf... I think I'm right about in the middle of Friday Night Knitting Club, and am somewhere near the beginning of the 3rd Harry Potter book. Unless I go buy the 4th one, I'll have to stop there for a while (and I looked at King's and Half Price Books today too, and they didn't have what I wanted... they had them in hardcover, but I've always preferred paperbacks. that' weird isn't it?)
Then i went across the street to the Tacoma Art Museum, merrily hoping I would find a fabulous art-based new planner for 2010... and BIG DUH, they were closed. Art museums being closed on a Monday is not a new concept for me... but being on vacation and forgetting what day it is explains my problem! :) While I was waiting for the crosswalk signal to tell me it was safe to cross the street to get back to my car, i found myself thinking how WICKED cool it must be to be a UW-T student, with the art museum, and Tacoma's best art supply store literally right next door! (Hillary, i'm jealous!)
So then I drove up the hill to King's Books, wanting to find a decent bargain on a gently used copy of a classic novel for my 2010 resolution to read at least one. I have almost positively settled on The Scarlet Letter (but Ulysses keeps sneaking its way back into my mind)... I found a good copy of The Scarlet Letter, and also came out with a somewhat old looking copy of A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man - which i've learned depicts the early years of a character in Ulysses... so why not? No luck on finding a good copy of Ulysses though.
So then I went to Half Price Books, hoping to score Ulysses, and crossed my fingers that they would have cheap copies of my textbooks too.... no luck on either of them, but I did come out with discount copies of the Golden Compass trilogy!... Then Borders was practically next door, so I went in and found a National Gallery Planner (for 50% off), and bought a copy of Ulysses. I used my teacher discount too. (what are they going to do, track me down and find out that I don't actually teach literature?) hehehe
but it doesn't end there! I went online and found my textbooks AND Mike's textbooks for cheap and decent prices on half.com! Assuming that mine comes with the promised CD and Mike's comes with the promised DVD, I think we're in good shape! (we saved loads of $$ from the list price on the school's bookstore website, too ~ even after shipping!)
I think for a follow up book based day, tomorrow I should see what I can do about finishing the two books that I'm currently in the middle of, to make space on my "now reading" mental bookshelf... I think I'm right about in the middle of Friday Night Knitting Club, and am somewhere near the beginning of the 3rd Harry Potter book. Unless I go buy the 4th one, I'll have to stop there for a while (and I looked at King's and Half Price Books today too, and they didn't have what I wanted... they had them in hardcover, but I've always preferred paperbacks. that' weird isn't it?)
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