Reading, knitting, drinking coffee and writing = heaven!

It just came to me! So last night I went to sleep thinking about two things....IF I could go to college, what for? And knitting. I don't know if I've mentioned it blog but I'm obsessed with knitting. I have an obsessive personality by nature...I manage to suppress it cuz it annoys people when I latch on to something with bared teeth and won't let go but ....I really don't care if my knitting obsession pisses anyone off...fuck off if it does.

Anyways, and I've said for years that my retirement plan was to own and run a used bookstore. I own a Nook now and was just reading the other day about how the book business is in trouble but I cant help it. I really love books. Books you can hold in your hand. That smell....good sometimes and too much like the previous owner other times...books that have stains, notes, highlighted sections...books with stories to tell that aren't written in ink but in ownership. Yesterday I went to Starbucks and then Hastings and that's my epitome of a good day. Two of my happy places. Coffee, books around me...it gives me such a sense of adventure. There at my fingertips...any place in the world I wanna go! I can be anyone!

So what came to me was maybe there is a way to combine all my obsessions. Id love to own a used bookstore that sold coffee, knitting supplies and lessons in said knitting. A place to come together and feel welcome. Before I went to bed last night...the last thing I had decided was that what I REALLY wanted to do was be a writer. I can do it. And the best thing about being a writer is that really there is no formal education required...just life lessons. So theoretically (stay with me here), the older I get the more qualified I become....not the sooner I get a formal education. Of course, I'd love to take some classes related to being a writer. Anyways, who knows. Even when I went to college as a late teen I had just a liberal arts major because even then I couldn't pin point a career. I feel a little like the bee on the bee movie...I'm suppose to do this til I die!? I mean, that's a big commitment. Several thousand dollars for an education to do something that I HOPE I will enjoy doing the rest of my life...I don't know. But I could own my used bookstore (I have the perfect house in mind. Oh yes, a house with nooks, crany's, fluffy pillows, antique furniture, coffee mug stains, the scent of books crammed together and overflowing and the perfect little fire lite space for knitting..) and sell coffee and try to spread my knitting obsession and write while enjoying my kids/grandkids...

Porn or Erotica, Both?

So I got my Nook in the mail and on a recommendation from a friend (well, actually a couple of friends) I decided to buy some paranormal romance/erotica/supernatural..whatever you wanna call it by Joey Hill called "The Vampire Queens Servant" (the first in the series). Whoa, man...it's some smokin' hot gettin' it on STUFF! I am a little ashamed to say that I finished the whole book yesterday (in one day!!) and I can't wait to get the next one. On a related note, Foy visited today and I can't say for sure if the heart grows fonder with absence but I do know some other parts missed him. ;) (Yes, it's my blog and I can be inappropriate.)

And I am in the adult reading program at the library and if I write a blog about the book I read then I get my name in the pot an extra time for the prize but I'm embarrassed to write a blog about this one! I usually don't read romance cuz to me it feels like filler....like idle reading..I mean don't get me wrong, I don't read historical non-fiction stuff or anything but I do read things that I feel like have a storyline or take some thinking or have 'meat' ya know ...but in my defense this book DOES have a pretty good plot but I'd be lying if I told you I was gonna buy the second book for the story line...that would be like someone reading Playboy for the articles. And also on the similar topic, I think it's SO funny that women will read this stuff and admit it but won't admit to watching a porno or WEIRDER...have ethical or moral problems with porno but not with this erotica. Having read/watched both I'm here to tell you that this erotica I'm reading is WAY worse than any porn I've seen lately...I'm just saying. I mean I guess the erotica is all imagination but porn is ACTUAL ppl.

My Old Love...My First Love..

So I bought two books tonight...it's been too long. I do SO love to read and it seems lately with LIFE getting in the way I've had little time for my long lost love ....my fav pastime, reading. I sat on the aisle at Kmart and thought long and hard about my book selection. Since I haven't done it in so long I don't want to waste my time with drivel. I almost selected "Tuesdays with Morrie". I know I'm a little late on this gravy train. I guess I've resisted reading it because EVERYONE was. I try so hard to make up my own mind, live my life according to my rules...and defy the general public that sometimes (out of stubbornness mostly) I rebel against something (like reading a novel that everyone is raving about) when if I'd care more about making up my own mind instead of just being stubborn I might actually like it. I regress. So there I stood in the aisle and I read a couple of pages of "Tuesdays with Morrie" and was spellbound. I didn't want to put it down even to buy it but I closed it and found a couple of other books that sounded good "Water for Elephants" and "Sarah's Key" and ultimately I put "Tuesdays with Morrie" down and selected the other two. I WILL read it though...the next chance I get. Who knows when that will be?! Well, if the weather stays as rainy and dreary as this weekend has been I shall have lots of time for staying inside and reading.

The girls have dance class tomorrow...for the month of June so far anyways. I'm going to look into getting them with a different dance studio because this one is SO expensive. I've had two in town recommended to me. But they are excited, so of course, so am I.