Whore for Books!

I'm a nutter for books! Spending time at Barnes and Noble is one of my fav things to do, however, I have this problem. I am trying to save money and a long time ago I noticed I was spending money on books and not reading them. I have since then started visiting the library.

D loves the library, they have toys, puzzles, doll houses, and lots of fun stuff for kids. My favorite things are the free books, and the friends of the library section where you can buy paperback books for either one to three dollars, old magazines are twenty-five cents, kids books are also twenty-five cents! So really I can have a book/magazine/children book shopping spree!

These are the books that I snagged for under $20 with the magazines and children books~

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  Farm Fatale by Wendy Holden

• Size 14 is not fat either

 

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  Queen of Babble by Meg Cabot

 

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  Queen of Babble Gets Hitched by Meg Cabot 

 

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  Little Earthquakes by Jennifer Weiner

 

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  Size 12 is Not Fat by Meg Cabot

 

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  Swapping Lives by Jane Green

 

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  Every Boy's Got One by Meg Cabot

 

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  The Lovely Bones by Alice Sebold

• Personal Finance by Jack R Kapoor, Les R Dlabay, Robert J Hughes

Books to me are like an unexplored territory and act as medals won for conquering the pages that are shown off under my tv. I like chick lit. Lately I have read other genre's like Dan Brown novels and Dean Koontz.


My boyfriend doesn't understand my love of books. I think it comes from spending time with my cousin Anna when I first moved to Florida. She was older, had a part time job at a book store, had a cute boyfriend, and was happy, everything I wanted to have. I thought she was so cool!

In her bed room she had this beautiful wood bookcase with glass doors which showed off all her novels. She is an Anne Rice fan, an auther I have never attempted to read but at least I can find a good book amongst many because all of the books I read are usually pink, purple, have a cool cover.

I really recommend calling your local library to see if they have a section for selling books and magazines. It is definently better than spending $13 to $18 on a novel. The magazines I love! I also noticed a while ago that I was spending way too much on magazines every month. I'm a magazine whore! Especially about health or gossip, like People and Self.

Elementary School Dilemma

Today was a good day! I picked up my D from school and we went straight to the library. That is usually what's on our list of things to do for after school. It's either that, or go to the playground, bookstore, ice cream. I have half the week with my D and I want to make sure I build lasting memories with her which can be hard with work, school, studying, and my boo.

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The reason I wanted to go to the library was because I wanted to print out the school of choice form that is due soon. Since D's dad lives in the next city over, we gravitated toward a school in the middle so it would be convenient for everyone...which sucks. But, anyway, while we were at the library one of D's classmates was there, so she got to play with him and was busy while I completed the application. Turns out the application was electronic which was both great and scary at the same time.

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The reason filling out the application was scary was because I was hoping to put D in a closer school to my house. D's dad has other people, such as, his mom and grandmother that drive and pick her up from school. When she is at my house, I either have to do the driving, or my parents do. I don't mind driving for school at all, it's just my parents have one car. So in order for them to pick up D, they would first have to drive my dad to work, which is 13 miles one way, and then drive back home because its in the middle of the pre-k D goes to and then drive the 13 miles to her school there and back, and then pick up my dad from work!!! It's flipping insane!!!

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When I was typing in the school we chose I was really lingering at the thought of just writing in another school that is just a little bit closer to me but is still out of the school boundary... I don't know what to do. No matter where D goes, she will not be eligible to take the school bus, which sucks. Blah! I'm still trying to rationalize whether or not I should try to find a way to change the school on the form and just tell D's dad that the school was full. But I don't want to lie, and he isn't stupid either.

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Another thing that we did at the library was buy 25 cent magazines and children books! What is better than buying a magazine for a quarter? It's an old magazine, but that is something that I don't mind because I stopped buying magazines when I noticed it just made the bill go higher, and magazines are almost more expensive than most of the food I buy.

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I am worried a little about tomorrow, or I guess later today. I start work at 2 and haven't been able to find the right scrub color. After the library, me and D went to Walmart for the scrubs and found indigo which looked like it could pass for navy, because the human resources office really emphasized navy, when telling me what color to buy the scrubs in. I buy the scrubs and call this girl that I know who has worked at the medical center for a while, and she tells me that it has to be navy! Crap! So after I drive D to school tomorrow, I am going to have to return the scrubs to Walmart and find another place that has navy scrubs. I really thought Walmart would have them.. oh well.