ladykatza

Yup, its true. I don’t have enough bookshelves. What’s more, I don’t really have enough places to put them. Heck, I need to add an entire room on to my house just for a library. Really.

When I lived with my parents in North Carolina we had a very large two story house. The main living area was on the top floor, and then there was a walk out basement. Every inch of the basement that was not window or furniture had floor to ceiling bookshelves and they were crammed full. We had to get rid of about half of those books when we moved to Georgia, since the house was much smaller. The books got donated to the school library, who had to direct them to the public library. Science Fiction, it seems, was “inappropriate” for high school students.

Can you imagine? Mom felt sick when she heard that.

So the other week, while staying with Mom, we were commenting on some of those design-on-a-dime shows. One of the designers said “You should never have just books on your bookshelves, you need to break it up with something.” WHAT?! Oh, right. Yeah, come over to MY house and try that fer cryin’ out loud. While your at it, give me the money for that extra wing. sheesh. When I first got a job, one of my very first big purchases was a nice set of bookshelves. They cost me 70 dollars, in 1993. I still have them.

So anyway, I’m sure many of you that actually read this can sympathize with my plight of space and my reluctance to give up books.

And on that note, its time to shower and dress for work. Ta tA!

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