May 17, 2012
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magazine
I’m not much of a magazine person. I don’t need to read People except in the dentist’s office. (I get all my gossip from the godfather and that’s more than enough.) I do sometimes succumb to telemarketers and their wiles of getting me to order magazines to support underprivileged basketweavers at the north pole. So there’s some cooking magazine subscription collecting dust somewhere and I get Family Fun for ideas for summer camp stuff. But that will do me just fine. I found myself today wanting to get a magazine (and there’s a wild connection in there which I don’t believe I’ll be sharing today but maybe later) and having a Barnes and Noble gift card. Seemed like a good idea to put the two things together.
Barnes and Noble has one or two magazines in stock and they’re organized, but not alphabetically. So I did a little looking. Under the women’s section we have cooking and fashion and weddings because after all that is what we’re interested in. My favorite though was Lifestyles, because at one end of that category is Penthouse and at the other end is Backyard something or another. Thinking that my magazine was probably in that section, I spent quite a bit of time looking there. Until I realized someone might think I have some special interest in that section. Certainly didn’t want anyone to think I wanted to build a deck, so I gave up and asked at the desk. No luck.
And I also asked about a book someone had recommended. I had the author and a partial title because when I wrote it down, I must have blinked or something because I only wrote part of it. It didn’t matter though, because I had the title of a chapter in the book, not the title of the book. And searching through all the titles of this prolific author with a very patient sales associate yielded nothing. 0 for 2.
So I did the only thing I could do. I headed back to the magazines and said yes to my passion. Ha. I found my favorite crochet magazine. And then I went to the Starbucks and got a yummy green tea lemonade. That took care of my gift certificate and quenched my thirst and made me wish I had time to start yet another project which I don’t.
Got online. Found both magazine and book. Why did I leave the house?
In other news, I have to be conscious and functional and out of the house by 6:45 tomorrow. in the am. This is not going to be pretty. Oh. and LLO has to be with me.
In other other news, I actually finished reading a book yesterday. A miracle.
In other other other news, I started painting the footstool for my wonder chair.
In other other other other news, I think I’ve conquered my melodrama. Another miracle.
By the way, tomorrow I’m going to Gettysburg!!
Comments (49)
Dude, I Hate when I blink in the middle of a thought. Stinking reset button.
Go for Gettysburg!
I was at Gettysburg when I was a kid. I didn’t appreciate it then. Yay for a footstool! Make sure to show us when it’s finished! I love your creative painting! I was just thinking of getting a magazine subscription to Spirituality & Health. It doesn’t come out often, but I always enjoy it when it does.
@songoftheheart - didn’t i tell you about some chick named trebbe a while ago? nature quests or something? turns out she was the guest leader of my chick retreat on sat. and she had an article published in parabola. that’s the mag i’ve ordered. should be interesting. i’ve never been to gettysburg. i’ve lived in pa. almost 3/4 of my life and i’ve never been.
@lanney - thoughts far and few between or is that few and far between. i always get that wrong. especially when i’m thinking. dude.
@promisesunshine - ha! I don’t know why I preface things with “dude.” I think I’ve slipped back into a previous decade.
@lanney - dude, i do it too.
Painting footstools and crocheting, you are the daughter my mother always wanted! I get magazines on Kindle, because I spend way too much going to bookstores.
@BoulderChristina - the only thing i can read online is xanga.
my mother trained me to be a homemaker. fail.
@promisesunshine - Mine tried! And Kindle isn’t online, it’s an e-reader. The best e-reader, actually. It’s sooo much cooler than online.
@BoulderChristina - well, yea. i meant i can’t read on a screen. hurts my eyes. at least that’s what i tell myself.
@promisesunshine - I make my font really big so I don’t have to go get glasses. Once I get glasses I am over the hill.
@BoulderChristina - oh lord. i’ve been over the hill since i was in 4th grade.
you can change the font size? didn’t know that. (i have bifocals, youngun.)
@promisesunshine - My daughter, too. I am still hanging on to my youth!!! Yes, with the Kindle you can change font size and there is no annoying back light such as Nooks and computers.
@BoulderChristina - maybe santa will consider that.
There’s a footstool to go along with the chair? That increases the awesomeness. When I worked retail I used to read all the gossip magazines while I was on break at work. No longer now. I, too, get all my celebrity news from the godfather.
Isn’t it awesome how the trained professionals at the bookstore can’t help you find things that you can easily get on the internet? Maybe you should take that job and just use google….
@leaflesstree - i could be painting all summer. there’s another chair and a little table too. but i’m less motivated to do those other things, since they aren’t for my heiney.
well, they can’t help me find what the store doesn’t have.
@promisesunshine - Cool. I’ll have to check out the magazine!
I make it a point to NEVER ask for help in the book store. I get entirely too infuriated because they never know ANYTHING.
I always said one day I work in a bookstore and actually be knowledgeable….lol.
@wretched_epiphany - on the other hand, i can’t find anything without help because the layout of the store changes every other day and the organization is incomprehensible to me. i can find my way around the kids’ section, though.
Gettysburg. Too much sadness.
@Inciteful - this is true. in this case, it’s a field trip.
Hmm. Field trip + magazine + yarn = new project started. Well, at least on the bus… Hope your early morning works out…
@murisopsis - it would be an easier morning if i was currently sleeping. which i appear not to be. as a matter of fact, i am starting a new project from the magazine on the bus. because i need another useless scarfy/shawly thing and i had the yarn to make it. wonder what movie we’re watching. this just in. i have twizzlers for the bus too. life is good.
@promisesunshine – I never understood why retail stores think that’s a good idea! I think they just enjoy watching us wander around all lost and bewildered.
What was the book you finished??? I haven’t been to Gettyburg since the early 80′s. Am envious of you right now… The only mag I get is Entertainment Weekly…
@Zoz36 - girlie book. lone wolf. jodi picoult. but i did learn a lot about wolf packs.
I love your profile pic. And I enjoyed your B&N adventure.
you sound happy.
@gwennieg - thanks.
@ordinarybutloud - yup
Gettysburg, dogs love American history because we are featured everstep a the way.
I read my magazines I call my “plaid magazines” what that means is they are catalogs from LL BEAN and New Territory where I like to look at stuff I want longingly and for hours.
@NewDog2 - yup. saw many monuments to battle pooches today.
i read all kinds of catalogs.
when I wrote it down, I must have blinked or something because I only wrote part of it.
happens to me all the time
I still like Barnes and Noble and things made of actual paper. When The Mountain Astrologer was going to go paperless, the readers freaked out. It’s different to have something in hand then it is electronically, I still like it.
@DivaJyoti - i don’t think i’m going to go paperless anytime soon. i like turning pages.
The only magazine that I tend to read anymore is Game Informer *is a somewhat game nerd*. I haven’t been to Barns and Noble in ages though! I need to go back soon
I understand much better now about how you might end up painting the footstool in a weird chair, shoes pattern. YOU CROCHET! That explains so much. So, the gift card was really a gift to your readers. I (and I suspect your other readers) had what felt like a chance to walk with you in your randomness at the Barnes & Noble. Of course, I got lost in the backyard section and never found my way home but there are soft chair in the bookstore.
@vexations - feel free to explain to me how crocheting leads to random footstool painting. you say the nicest things.
yes. soft chairs. why was i in such a hurry to leave?
@xdeelynnx - are you off until fall?
@promisesunshine - Yup. I start back up on August 27th
@xdeelynnx - you lucky dog. i see lots of gaming magazines and barnes and noble visits in your immediate future.
@promisesunshine - Once a month for those gaming magazines, thanks to my sister’s GameStop card
woman after my own heart. i am not one for magazines. i subbed to poets and writers for a year. that was it. i hate getting catalogs in the mail. they clutter.
funny story. yours
@bonmots - that sounds like an interesting mag. but i have a xanga subscription for my poetry needs.
thanks.
@xdeelynnx - i’m gonna guess you play some games too.
@promisesunshine - Only a couple
RazielV is trying to get me into it more.
Glad you got lemonade and the magazine for your troubles. Thanks for making the trip
Mostly I’m very glad that the melodrama is better.
@gayXianmom - it’s all good. lemonade, easy magazine in my hands, deep magazine on the way (on the edge of my seat for that), and my girl and i are much better. i wonder if i don’t remember how rough 5th grade was for eldest because 1st grade was no fun for youngest.
5th grade is turning out to be quite a roller coaster. And the hormones are just ramping up…
@gayXianmom - i do have a vague recollection that once 6th grade got started it was good, but definitely the summer between 5th and 6th was bad. i’m smarter this time around though.
@promisesunshine - I’m lucky enough to get summers off the parenting gig. And the fall will be all wedding for the first month, so hopefully that’ll distract us all
Maybe your smarterness will rub off onto me some.
@gayXianmom - i think you have more smarterness than i do to begin with. she’s gone the whole summer. wow. (yay, wedding!!)
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