Sooooo, on the scale from 1 to "Dear Lord woman, you're fucking incorrigible" I'm definitely quite firmly in the incorrigible camp tonight....
On Saturday when we were there for Indie Book Store Day, as we were leaving I noticed the hours on the door for InkCap (in Stoughton) are until 7pm and I told Crissy, "Ooh! If we have time after out 5:30 dinner reservation at Wendigo, we can come back and go book shopping until they close before the show because the concert at Stoughton Opera House doesn't start until 7:30 and it's just a few blocks up the street." She just laughed at me and told me we'll see. But then, tonight, we had about 35 mins or so after we paid the bill so off we went across the street and down the block or so had half an hour for book shopping. And of course being me, I somehow managed to find a small stack of books (about 1 for every five minutes browsing in the store if we're honest) I hadn't even seen or considered on Sat....
Whoops. I'd say I'm sorry, but honestly? I'm not. Not even the littlest bit guilty feeling about a May Day Beltane book haul after such a large Indie Book Store Day book haul -- just giddy happy joy over finding these books. Does this look like the face of a woman who feels any shame that she overspent her book budget and then spent more and so will be living on a lot of dried pasta/rice/beans for the next while to compensate?
I mean, in my defense... I definitely stayed under $100 this trip. And three of the six are ones I've been actively looking for once they were available in paperback and two of the three were on major discount (pink stickers -- like $4.95 and $5.95) both works by authors I've read and like but don't own these books (my Phyllis Wheatley is just a couple poems in the Norton Anthology of Amrican Literature from college) AND the last one is a Sir Walter Scott collection of supernatural stories that I didn't even know he had written!! I mean, so none of them are me taking a chance on unknown authors or anything. I actively did not see any of these on Saturday though -- and I checked for three of them after all...
O!!! AND, tonight I started a history and tea book club that spans time zones from Hawaii to Gettysburg. It started with me mentioning to Erin in a text that she must have heard me thinking of her this afternoon as I was reshelving/organizing nonfiction and saw the Chernow books I own (Hamilton and Washington) and thought, "Man, Erin and Debbie would be so disappointed in me that I haven't read either of these yet.. I'm sure they have read them. But they're SUCH commitments. I miss Erin and Debbie!" and just thinking about me missing them when I unshelved and then reshelved the books. Shortly after that Erin texted me a meme about missing me needing to go on a coffee and book buying day with a bestie. But after I told her about having thought of her and Debbie when I saw the Chernow books, Erin admitted she also had never read either but Debbie had read Hamilton and Grant. So then when she said she was thinking of reading Washington because it had been a while, I suggested we book club them read a chapter a month then zoom/face time about it and to just have tea and chat because that's the only way I was likely to make the commitment to read either of those tomes in the near future. She got super excited about the idea and I asked Crissy since we were in her car driving over to Stoughton at that point and before I even finished explaining she said she wanted in on it and I suggested we include Debbie (Erin's sister who is a history buff and works/volunteers at Gettysburg National Park) if she wanted and she was immediately excited and in. So we decided on Washington first (which neither Crissy nor Debbie owned (I found it in a free little library) and Crissy bought it online tonight) and our first meeting for the Preface/Chapter 1 will be on June 2. (Crissy has to drive to Kansas City and back for a week long of DI Globals later in may (I'll be cat sitting) so we decided to start June but early June for the first one. It is, by far, the easiest I've ever had 4 disparate schedules across a 6 hour span of time zone differentials magically align. We are all super excited for it!!!
Anyway, the Arcadian Wild show was gorgeous and delightful as expected! If you love newgrass (think Nickel Creek and Punch Brothers) and nice harmonies, you will like them -- mandolin, fiddle, acoustic guitar, upright bass. I'm very excited to see them again tomorrow night at Vivarium, totally different vibe space. Their opener (River & Rail) had pretty voices and songs but I ain't never in any life been Christian enough for that level of trad wife and youth pastor duo where she literally said, "This is my husband. Not my brother. I like to make that clear at the start of the show that we're married" Pretty songs, seem like nice people, but I expect they'd pray for my soul try to save me bring me to Jesus if they knew I was a Jewish pagan witch with a lot of spiritual gifts who remembers her past lives and thinks the greatest sins of modern religions all are born from the concept that sins are transferrable....
But it was a lovely super long set and show! Absolutely delightful! And excited to see them in Milwaukee tomorrow! (NOT planning to visit any Milwaukee area bookstores, lol.)
Um, just because you've not seen her recently and you got pictures of Spock yesterday, here is some of the cuteness of my Waffles O'Whoofigans trying to convince me she's way cuter more interesting than my stack of dead trees right now at work with me to get the deposit done now I'm back from the show and work til sunrise to get things done get my hours in.
O, and before I forget, you want this weeks Astro Poets Horoscope for Libra and Pisces? Yes you know you do. And they're lovely ones this week, the both of them!
"Week of 4/27 in Libra: Curving around a night. The roses fill the air
with dreams. You are going somewhere. And yet you are perfectly at home.
The stirrings of violets are everywhere."
"Week of 4/27 in Pisces: Love surrounds you always. That is because love is contained within your green heart. Let it be known what is. You may say so. Let it be known."
Now aren't those just lovely for this week?
[Post title: lyrics to the Taylor Swift song Anti-Hero]
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