There are things, but they are not thingy things, and some of them are book things.

[sienamystic]

I am in that stage of life where there is stuff going on, you know, work and therapy and exercise and getting way too addicted to Plants vs Zombies in way too short a time, but I don't really have a whole lot to say. I sat in the laundry room while the cats explored (they go downstairs to the basement laundry room with me and walk around meowing

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[antisoppist]

I've just reshelved all my books and did find I was not throwing things away because "one day the children might want to read them" but maybe that's just an excuse. My great-aunt left me and a second cousin "a box of books" each in her will and I was touched that she had thought of me and of me being a reader, even though the books themselves, randomly thrown in a box by the executors, weren't all that appealing to a thirteen year-old. She had taught theology and a lot of them were people's collected sermons.

[sienamystic]

Heh, maybe I should start collecting the most horrible literature I can to leave to whatever descendants I can! My poor little (hypothetical) nieces and nephews. No matter how many books I winnow, I would still have a ton floating around, so it's probably a silly thing to be thinking about.

Also, I need to stop writing entries just as my sleeping pill kicks in.

[dickgloucester]

I love Yeats. And although I have recently winnowed about 200 books out of our collection, I will never be getting rid of WB.

[sienamystic]

I am kinda attached to him. Byzantium is a special poem between me and my sister as well, and I used to know most of it by heart and will have to see if I still do. I think no matter how many books I winnow, there will still be plenty around...and my little, battered copy of his poems will probably still be around!

[anonymous]

Maybe sell the books at a local flea market and put all proceeds into a tattoo fund?

~Kate-h, who wants someone to get a tattoo so she can live vicariously through them, as she cannot commit to a second one 18 years after getting the first. ;)

[sienamystic]

Not likely these would raise much money - most of them are second-hand already!

I'm trying to get my act together so I can get inked already, and it's just...arrgh. So many things end up getting in the way! My tattoo piggy bank (a fuschia, flocked skull, appropriately enough)stalled out at, like...ten bucks.

[anonymous]

I consider this the piggy bank's fault, not yours.

I remember you posting the photo of the skull bank. It was awesome and totally appropriate to the tat fund.

~K