Aside from Ikea, and the yarn store, Barnes & Nobel is my favorite store ever. Because I love it so much, it’s not uncommon for me to go there more than once a week. Here’s this week’s acquisitions, to give you and idea of the diversity of my reading materials.
- Cast On Magazine – I’m not really sure why I get this one, since I never, ever want to make any of the patterns. But, there is usually an article or two worth reading. (Knitting)
- Ellery Queen Magazine – More for my Mom, as she was going on a mid-week vacation by train. But, I’ll read it cover-to-cover when she gets back. (Mystery)
- Analog: Science Fiction and Fact - Who doesn’t love a little science fiction?
- Simple Knits for Little Cherubs by Erica Knight. I didn’t have any patterns for children, and this was finally 30% off. (knitting)
- Metamorphoses by Ovid – I’ve been meaning to get this book for awhile, but today was the first time I’d seen the translation I’d been recommended, so I snapped it up (myth)
The oddest thing about these recent book trips isn’t that there are three magazines. It’s that I didn’t pick up any fiction books. I did see some I wanted (anything by Philipa Greggory), and some I’d been meaning to pick up (Catch 22, Brave New World, Dune), but it’s so hard to buy a novel without You there to egg me on.
Besides, my current reading pile is nine novels, four compilations nine anthologies and five text books, and four library books thick. I’m sure I can find something to read until next payday.
Today is the day I’ve been waiting for all my life.
Okay. Maybe not all my life. But definitely for the last two and a half years. Today, the Ikea in West Sacramento opened.
Ikea is my mecca. Ikea is to furnature what words are to music. I love Ikea. I have a huge Ikea corner desk (which I’m sitting at, at the moment I write this) and I had to travel all the way to Emeryville (outside of San Francisco) just to get it. And now that I’m running out of bookshelves, I’ll only have to travel across a river or two to pick some up.
While I didn’t go today because of work—and because it would have been packed (news reports at 7am talked about traffic jams at I-5 around the offramp to get to Ikea)—I do plan on going later in the month, or April at the most. I need to get a desk chair that I wished I had picked up last time I was there. All the chairs in this house are too short, and to sit comfortably and type with good posture, I have to sit on phone books.
Thank you Ikea, for bringing your lovely, affordable, modern Swedish furniture to Sacramento.
But I’m not eating in the food court. I don’t love you that much. But I do love you enough to get an Ikea credit card and put myself massivly into debt. At least then my home will look good, since I’ll have to spend so much time there.
—”Today,” Siamese Dream: Smashing Pumpkins
