Ooft. On the scale from 1 to I spent waaaaaay beyond any semblance of budget, I bought a fucking lot of books in Indie Bookstore Day and will be feeling rather poor for a while now.... A lot of them were filling out series I was waiting for the last volume in paperback before reading. But also. Yikes! It's a lot of books I picked up in this book haul... All of them new.... A helluva lot of books.... 

Was able to find one copy of Light Bringer today, and while both Crissy and I were hoping to pickup copies today since all of the Red Rising series reminds us of Penny & Sparrow who introduced us to that book series, we both agreed I should pick it up for my da because he has a narrower bandwidth of authors/books/genres he enjoys and wasn't getting so many other books today and he had a rough end to his week. He was asleep on the couch when I dropped it off when picking up the dog, but I left it for him in front of the tv in the living room by his keys so he will see it tomorrow.  I will still have to pickup a copy for me somewhere in the future, but here we are. 

Also. Penny & Sparrow were fantastic at their show tonight in Madison!!! Always great to see Kyle & Andy, quite genuinely just like them as people. Indie Book Store Day and a Penny & Sparrow show! Delightful! Did not go to Wendigo for lunch because they don't open til 4p, so did Viking Brew Pub instead. Um, lots of other stories from the day, but I will tell them tomorrow at a real keyboard not tapping at my phone screen. I'm gonna go make some tea and read til I get too sleepy and head to bed, I'm actually super tired now, but also books and tea.

😘 Sorry not sorry I'm utterly incorrigible about the things I love. My budget busters are and always will be: books, music, concerts, art, tea, theatre, good whiskey/wine, plants/flowers, and travel for friends/family visits and/or shows. Just know this about me and if you love me enough, you'll go to shows with me share the experience/memory making and help me find my way to a someday house with a dedicated library and gorgeous wood shelves with enough of them that my books don't need to be crowded double/triple stacked. 

But also... 35 new books (36 if you count the one I picked up for my da) means I'm gonna spend most of the next several months on a diet that is variations on a theme of dried beans and rice, pasta, frozen ground beef, potatoes, and frozen tomatoes/peppers from last year's harvest overflow that I threw in the freezer so they wouldn't rot. Too bad eggs are so damn expensive, they're usually among my cheap proteins when I have to extra frugal diet to make up for my lack of shelf control when book shopping....