Friday, May 2, 2014

Of Bookstores and DD's

Blog Challenge Day 6? Maybe....

This Blog Challenge went to hell on an express train. After some consideration it has become abundantly clear that I don’t do things worth blogging about… at the moment. I was going to review a book then I was like but what book? Then I got distracted with writing. I wrote five stellar pages. Then I decided I was tired and went to bed with my puppies.

But tonight I vowed to write something and not totally give up. I’m home alone right now. I get to play designated driver tonight with my parents and brother. Should be fun. Two bars, three people, should be easily managed.

In the mean time I shall bore you with activities of today. I went to a bookstore. I’ve got a birthday party for a 6 year old to go to in like 2 weeks. He’s my brother’s girlfriend’s son and he’s just the cutest thing ever. So I was thinking what to get a little kid. I can’t toy shop for my life for a little boy. I was going to get a star named after him, then surprise surprise you don’t actually name a star you just pay for the fancy paper certificate. Boooo. I settled on a book a month for a whole year.

I could have done it through a website, but 1 that was expensive and 2 the book choices were sucky. So while my mum and I were out today I made us stop Barns and Nobles. I spent about 2 hours in the kids section looking for books. I had to google the authors of a few of my childhood favourites like Mike Mulligan and His Steam Shovel and the Miss. Nelson stories. Then I read through new ones I’d found that looked cool and I wanted to make sure they weren’t shitty or too tough for a kid to understand and/or read. Over all it was 2 hours well spent.

I’m off to the post office tomorrow to grab envelopes. Then I’ll write something cool in the books and warp them up all cool like. Set a reminder in my phone and put the books in a half inconvenient place (like the side table in the dining room) so I don’t lose them or forget about them. After all I’ve got to remember them for a whole year.

Well picking up the parents has thrown off my mojo so it’s good-bye for the night!

Cheers,


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