The Post that Ends with Books

I spent all day today at home, except for a few minutes picking up some groceries at Walmart.
I continued my Blissfully Domestic streak and cleaned more of my house (no pictures, sorry, you'll just have to believe me when I say my toilets ARE clean!).

Even my meal plan was uninspiring today. I had a coupon for Gorton's shrimp scampi which I added to some linguine. I scored a day-old, reduced-price baguette at Walmart and a bag of Lite Caesar salad mix. Not quite Olive Garden, but it was pretty good.


The kids and I had a nice, quiet evening while Dan went to help the "Friends of the Library" organize their book sale items for this weekend. I think he figured if he was there to help, he could get a jump on looking for books he'd like to buy! And in fact, they let him take home a few books that he can pay for tomorrow when the sale officially opens. When paperbacks are a quarter and hard bound books are a dollar, I'm ok with that.


If you don't know Dan, let me tell you, he has a MAJOR book addiction. Major. At this point, we don't have room for many more books, but occasionally, he donates some to Goodwill or the library sale (and then buys MORE from the Goodwill or library sale). His claim to fame is that he never pays full price for a book. Even when he was in the Army (ie. we had more discretionary spending money), he got his books on ebay, from book clubs, and the bargain section of major chain book stores like Barnes & Noble. He mostly likes books on theology and history and some classic literature too; and yes, I do have a book case or two for my own books, I will admit.
These pictures were not taken at our local library, this is my house. If Dan ever doubts my love, I will tell him that he just needs to look at these bookcases in the living room. When we first moved in to our house, we bought them - unfinished & not assembled because that the most cost efficient. Over the course of about 9 months, I stained, sanded, stained and sanded again, and polyurethaned all of these bookcases (that's 7 bookcases & 2 end pieces)!! And I say to you: never again will I stain anything. That is tedious, time-consuming, BORING, slow work!!! My attention span just isn't long enough. I admire wood-workers and carpenters so much more now! :)
Not only do we have bookcases in the living room, they are also in every bedroom (no pics of those), AND in our garage. Dan would rather not park his car in the garage so that he can have MORE BOOKS:



And yes, there is room to park MY vehicle in the garage, if I choose to (which I don't right now because the automatic door opener is broken!) - but maybe I should park in there more often or else Dan might fill up MY space with books too!??!! :)