bookmarks

On Sunday, Robert and I went to my favorite bookstore ever (aside from Powell’s, of course, but that’s on the other side of the country), The Reader's Corner, and I discovered, for the very first time, this little collection of bookmarks from used bookstores around the country!  It was very awesome, especially since I have been meaning to start such a collection for myself.  The problem is, I end up actually using the bookmarks, and then they get worn and tattered and finally bio-degrade and don’t exist anymore except in my heart.  

Which means only one thing: get TWO bookmarks whenever I make purchases at used bookstores.  How do I do this?  Why, make two separate purchases of course!  And wear a mustache while making one of the purchases so the cashier, if it is the same person, doesn’t recognize me and think to his or herself, “Why, that person already bought something.  I don’t need to give her another bookmark.”  Which is really not very nice, considering… I mean, if I buy two books, naturally I would be needing two bookmarks, wouldn’t I?

That cashier is very silly.

What surprised me is that the Reader’s Corner did not have a bookmark from Powell’s!  Powell’s Books, for anybody who doesn’t know, is located in Portland, Oregon, and is the biggest bookstore in the world.  

It is now my mission to go to Powell’s the next time I am in Oregon and get a bookmark for the Reader’s Corner there.  And a couple more for me.  =D

Dog-sitting...

...for a perfectly beautiful husky who lets me take pictures of her.

mysterious bush flower

After laying around in the sunshine at Covenant waiting for the board meeting to be over so we could all go get food… nobody really went out for food after all.  Still hungry, I was determined to get some noms regardless (and some coffee for Barb).  On the way out to the car, I saw this pretty flower.

The Letter Writing Desk

My official letter-writing area!  I have been wanting to do this for some time now.

Of course, it was much cleaner when I took this picture than it is now, though it is still fairly tidy, with a few additions.  On the far left you will see a small magazine collection which I steal appealing scraps from and then wastefully throw away… the little basket in front of it is full of said scraps from magazines past.  Or is it “passed”?  Whatever.  Anyway, you will also see a little thingy of gluesticks, which are to adhere said scraps to objects which I send through the mail.  

On the direct right of the magazines is another container of more scraps, specifically non-magazine scraps.  And stickers.  Moving from the right of that, there is a pile of envelopes, a pile of cards, and a pile of stationary; then there are artistic utensils (the collection has grown to include many more mediums since I took this picture), and writing implements.  In the center is a letter I am writing to my friend Lizzie, as well as her letter to me I was responding to, and in the left corner of that, are two unanswered letters from Joanna and Ellie.  

It’s really the simple things in life that I love, you can tell…

Libraries with chandeliers!

At the Maritime Museum in Beaufort, they had an entire nautical library, complete with a loft and chandelier.  I’ve decided it is one of the many reasons, aside from the pirate store and the ocean, why I want to live in Beaufort for a while.  Bed & Breakfast work-trade, perhaps?  

Beach Books

The beach!  The beach!

Every year I pick a book to read while at the beach.  I can only remember a few… in ‘07 I read the last Harry Potter book; in ‘08 I (regrettably) read Twilight; in ‘09 I read The Kite Runner and some of The Thirteenth Tale; and this year, I am reading as much as I can of my Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy, as seen in the foreground.  In the background is my little brother Robert and the sand castle that he made.   

Like a boss

This is my brother Marck, being generally epic as usual.

When I was in Boston, I happened to reach inside a lamp shade in the hotel for no actual reason, and pulled out this pair of what I like to call “Lady Gaga Sunglasses.”  I brought them home and gave them to Marck, and then he had an idea for a profile picture he wanted me to help him with. 

Hence, this picture.