I don’t understand why people would throw away books?  

Okay I understand the fact that books tend to gather dust in many modern homes, since not many people read as much as they used to. But there are always antique stores where you can sell or donate old books.

Even so, in some cases I’m happy that people throw away old stuff. I was going to throw the garbage this morning and oh what a great day to house chores.

There it was: a 1971 cinematographic almanac (in Romanian). How can someone throw away something like that? And the book itself is in good condition, with just a few pages missing. I can’t wait to get home and study it more, but I managed to scan some pages that really caught my attention.

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And, what’s more interesting are the advertisements at the end of the almanac (which I will scan tomorrow).

There’s nothing better than a good vacation, no matter how many free days you have.

In my case, it was just one week of vacation, but that did the trick. Me and Johnny went to the beach, got tanned, had lots of fun and we had time to just hang around together.

I know that it may not sound like much, but in our case it was. The weather was great, it was sunny and the water was warm. It wasn’t crowded on the beach and we ate a lot of good food, including ice cream (I’ve found a new ice cream name “Spirulo” which rocks my socks).

Oh, and the funny part is that after a year or so, I’ve finally lost weight (3 kg) and Johnny gained weight (5 kg). And we weren’t even trying. I guess reducing or increasing the food you eat really does the trick. I’m actually going to keep it up and maybe lose another kg or so, and maybe it will come off from my belly, and maybe my room will clean itself…

Oh, I realized something on this short vacation: audio books are really great!

Having so many hobbies isn’t healthy, and as for many people out there, free time is a luxury these days. Plus, I’m enjoying working on my gobelins that I don’t have time for anything else.

But, yesterday I downloaded “The curious case of Benjamin Button”, and I was listening to it while I was stitching. It was so good. I might become addicted to it, but I don’t think it will be such a bad thing since I am still in love with reading.

Now, if I can only find the rest of “The southern vampire stories” books in mp3 format, that will be awesome. Until then, I’m going to start slowly with my normal stuff, like working.

But that doesn’t mean movies suck.

You know, at the beginning of the year I went crazy (like most girls) and bought the first volume of Twilight (I got the second and third volume as presents).  I finished reading the first volume in a week or so, but I just couldn’t get myself to start reading the other two. I just lost interest in them. I know, shame on me.

But yesterday, something happened: I started reading Charlaine Harris “The Southern Vampire Mysteries” series, well just the first book anyway, “Dead Until Dark“. Around 10 PM, I was still in the kitchen with the book in my hands, laughing like an idiot when the book got to the “interesting” part.

*Cough* Anyway, after deciding to put the book down and to go to sleep, I found myself feeling very lively and in good spirits. It was really hard for me to go sleep.

I know, that if I stayed up late I could even watch “True Blood” on HBO, which is the television series that is based on The Southern Vampire Mysteries. But, I’m just lazy like that and I enjoy sleeping more than watching TV. 

Even so, I’m happy that I’ve found something interesting to do, now that the days are shorter and the nights are longer (plus being bloody cold outside).

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I don’t watch much TV nowadays, since they took out Nickelodeon so I can’t watch Sponge Bob anymore (and they were airing new episodes too T_T).

There’s just nothing interesting to watch, except the occasional weekend episodes of Midsomer Murders. But even so, I won’t cry if I miss an episode cause I already bought all the series on DVD and I can watch them whenever I want. The local library is also closed till October so I can’t borrow any books (and I can’t afford buying new books).

But yesterday I made quite a find that I just couldn’t miss out on. I found, on sale, The Complete Sherlock Holmes book. I only read the Sign of the four (twice) and I was looking around for more books with Sherlock Holmes, but either I couldn’t find them, the books were to expensive or I had no money. But, this time the book was on sale, I had money and I bought it.

I started reading it last night, but because I was tired from cleaning my room (and throwing away old clothes) I barely made it to page 25. But I am sure that not even the Sims 3 will get me away from it this weekend, and that means Johnny and his father will have access to the computer. So it’s a win-win situation.

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Since last week was very stressful because of work, this week I decided it’s time to take it slow.

So what better way to relax than reading a book. The only hard part is choosing what book to read. Since all the public libraries are closed till October, my only options are my own books, and I don’t have that many books. 

I just picked randomly and I started reading The Complete Illustrated Lewis Carroll. It was a present from my brother and his wife for my birthday this year. I don’t think I ever read Alice in Wonderland in English.

But what caught my attention were the illustrations, which were rather freaky, well some of them.

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And I also remebered reading about the new ”twisted” version of  ”Alice in Wonderland” by Tim Burton. Well after seeing the illustrations and re-reading the story again, I think it will be a spot on remake.

Actually I can’t wait to hear Helena Bonham Carter scream her lungs out “OFF WITH HIS HEAD!”.