Oh Nuts

Just from going to the library on a regular basis I have saved $4,279.26. Living right across the street from the local library helps with that because in the two years since we have lived by the library I have gone there more than when we lived several minutes away and didn't go as often. Anyhow, I didn't come to bore you all with talking about books and what I've read recently. This is more of a random talk about what's been going on in my life sort of post. Originally I was going to write this post last week but the words weren't wanting to come out the way that I wanted them too, so I am trying again. And since I haven't written a general, sometimes rambling, post on what has been happening lately I thought that I would include it all in one post. Last week was finals week and it was also the last week of my second to last semester of college, which feels like I have been doing forever. This semester I ended up taking four classes instead of three lik...

Over the past month I have slowly been making my way through a biography entitled "Elizabeth the Queen: The Life of a Modern Monarch" by Sally Bedell Smith. I came across this book back in January while I was wandering around a small bookstore called "Books a Million," the acronym is BAM which I think is cute. Since I was just looking and not planning on buying anything I wrote down the title and the authors name in the memo app on my phone and placed a hold on the book at the library. Speaking of libraries, when I checked out this book, when it came in, I noticed on the receipt that it told me how much money I had saved in the past year by checking books out at the library. Since I had checked out another book besides this book it said that I saved $70.00 just by checking the two books out. Over the past year I saved a total of $784.68, just by using the library instead of buying them. One of my favorite stories, that I read in the book, is about when the quee...

For me the answer to this question is the easiest thing to say and explain why I would do it as a date with someone. (Just in case anyone was wondering, I am not dating at the moment.) My ideal date, whether it is the first, fifth, or twenty-fifth date, would be to go to a library or a bookstore and we would each pick out one of our favorite books. Once we had the books we would go to a cafe/coffee shop and take turns reading out of the books we picked out. Reading your favorite book over a cup of hot chocolate/tea/coffee, to me, seems more romantic than going to the movies or out for a fancy dinner. While there is nothing wrong with going to the movies or out for a fancy dinner, I enjoy read a good book more. Reading a good book in front of a fire with a big blanket and a mug of hot chocolate/tea/coffee would be a date that I woukd love to go on if going to a cafe doesn't work out.

--- 1 --- As you probably saw from my post on Tuesday I had a nice Easter with my family. So I won't be talking about that really here :) --- 2 --- Found this on Pinterest.   Jane Austen  Disney princesses. --- 3 --- Even though I know that it will never happen I want a library like this in my house. It is the State Hall of the Austrian National Library, Vienna.  --- 4 --- I was going to write something here but I forgot what it was of course. It is so annoying when that happens. And this would probably be about the time that I complain about not knowing what to write about for my 7 Quick Takes this week. It seems like I go in spurts of knowing what to write for each quick take and then there are the weeks where I don't know what to write. This weeks is one of the not knowing weeks. Maybe next week I will be feeling inspired again on what to write about. Unless I decide to write a separate post about it before Friday comes around. --- 5 --- I...