Unda Press-shha
I hope you have the song in your head LOL.
It took me a quick minute this morning to get myself on here. I am practically done with the cup of coffee for the morning.
What finally got me here?
Welllll.
I have to clean The Mill and do the laundry. Since I believe I mentioned that I am a huge procrastinator, it should be no surprise that I am avoiding do it. It also is partially because I am trying to build a habit with the regular posting. Actually, I am really very tired today. Even though I was mentally ready for sleeping last night—I didn’t actually fade off until after 1 or so in the morning. Animals and plant life who occupy the Mill with me, also don’t care that I’m not feeling good so if I would so kindly feed and provide the facilities. Everything in my neck and shoulders and hips were adamantly against sleep- even after the meds were taken.
This flare really want to get going and I really don’t want it to. So this is the silent Battle at the Bee.
Yesterday, had to ship back faulty front door lock so I’d not be charged for the replacement and decided to stop by the mall because a young lady in my life is having her first double digit birthday, so I wanted to get her a gift different than the toys and whatnot she would usually get. I remember, when I was young (I never needed any ooone….ok I digress) I looked forward to the double digits. I have no idea why. In my little mind, I believed it to be some sort of threshold. That until I passed it I wasn’t truly growing up.
Ahh. To be young and foolish. Adulthood is super over-rated. I also have thoughts on this that I may or may not expand on in the future.
Dang, I should start writing a list.
Back to the mall. I haven’t actually been to a mall in quite some time. Not because of any particular issue, but because I don’t really feel the need to most times. I rarely (though that seems to be changing lately–ahem–body weight–cough cough) buy clothes or other things. I did a bit of window shopping first. Get the lay of the land. See what she might like. Wanting to balance her still being young with the sense that she is moving into a new phase of life.
My default answer: Books.
So that’s where I went. And the bookstore was having a sale too! I spent a number of hours perusing the kids section and was not overly satisfied with what I saw. What has happened to children’s literature?! I know the answer to this question from a previous life within the publishing world some time ago, but I am still astonished at the majority of what is deemed good reading for the age group. Looks like I’ll be sticking with the used bookstores for purchasing tomes.
So I stuck with the classics. Grabbed her the first two books of the Narnia series. She likes animals and adventure. It will ease her into the genre of the fantastical– and move her into more challenging books. Her parents got her a kindle for her birthday–but there’s something about holding a book and flipping the pages. The entire process that just doesn’t happen with an e-reader. Believe me, I have had a kindle since it came on the market (I’ve also been an Amazon member since they only sold books LOL), but I still buy my real books.
Speaking of which, I did not leave without a few for myself. I got a huge book of biblical maps. It is actually really informative, which I found out as I was flipping through it last night. An insight into one of my book buying habit is:
If it is a thick book, and there are maps, I’ll probably buy it. Genre? Doesn’t matter. Author? Doesn’t really matter either. Lol.
A huge disappointment was the philosophy section. Literally it was the last little portion on a row of non-related books. In this small section, I saw a book that caught my eye called Good Thinking. I figured, “hey, we can all use critical thinking in our lives”.
A book like this should be objective. However, the author poisons the well on the second page (the first full page of text), in the added in preface. I don’t know if he thought “No one is going to read this anyway so I’ll just shoot myself in the foot to push my own agenda”
Gads.
It has irritated me. So the book is on the shelf until I can mentally shift gears and categorize it as biased work. It won’t be too long, and it won’t stop me from reading it. I just hate that it presents itself as objective when it isn’t.
Anyway, I should probably go and, you know, actually do something.
Oh so before I go:
Anyone know if I can add a bookshelf widget of some sort to this place?
Contending Existence 