No, I still haven't gotten over letting those boots get past me, even though I know It Was All For The Best.
My reading binge of late insists that I must read big, thick books. I finally finished Return of the King and now I'm a little more than half way through A Game of Thrones by George R. R. Martin. I just bought the one book some time ago, thinking I would wait until I read the first one before diving into the whole series.
Well, now I want the whole series. In trade paperback so the print will be large enough to see. Plus when I'm reading the trade paper book, I feel like I'm reading a real book. Oh, I found it today at Barnes & Noble - for $100.00. I also found the Harry Potter series for $86.00.
I can scarcely believe that I walked out of B&N with only my car keys in my hand.
I think my attempt at a new routine is serving me well. On Saturdays, I get up very early and by 9:30 a.m., I have finished my rounds to Target and to the grocery store. I come home and check how much I have left in my checking account and factor in the weekly house payments and realize that I have enough for gasoline for the week and the water bill.
I try to tell myself that I'm being good, that this doesn't mean a dip into the HELOC or savings and that after all, my HELOC is not an ATM.
The library, I try to tell myself. Get stuff out of the library. But I know I have an outrageous fine racked up and need to go settle that before I can check out anything else.
There are times when I consider creating an alias for myself, but everybody at the library knows me. Everybody.
I just can't run from the law. After all, I don't have my boots on.
1 comment:
You can get a boxed set of the Thrones series on Amazon for less than $28 (new with Prime) or even less if you don't mind used.
Note: some of the sets have four volumes, some five, some six. The six-book set is a lot more expensive than $28, so I suspect the sixth volume is relatively new. On the other hand, you can get single volumes for $5 each with Prime, or used.
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