When things are going haywire, or things are just stressful, or new, or different, I make sure I have two things: a book and a project. If I have those two things, I feel somewhat normal in the midst of what I'm going through.
Whenever I've moved, the second place I find is the library. (The first place I look for is a grocery store! Food is slightly more important than a good book!)
When something is up, I find something I can crochet, or more recently, something I can knit. It keeps my hands busy during my spare time (however little of it I may happen to have at the time).
When we had just moved to a new church in California, I was way in over my head with things to do. I didn't find the library for three weeks--after the dust from moving had finally settled. I found a good book, and I got started on a doily.
Some people turn to food--they have to have their chocolate, for instance. Now, I like chocolate, don't get me wrong! But it doesn't do for me what a good book will do! :-)
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I love the library too. I always have a book in progress. Our small library can't keep up with me. But they recently went online. So I can now sit at my desk and order books throughout the library system. Now here is the best part, they pull them for me!
yeah...I do that too, Sandi. I like that!
every time I hear that...reading with a flashlight...I think of that song by Steve Taylor Hero. The first part of the song starts like this:
When the house fell asleep there was always a light
And it fell from the page to the eyes of an American boy
Oh Lisa, I got in trouble for reading too! Mostly it was when I was supposed to be cleaning my room.
This is making me laugh! I remember one time my brother "went missing" and they were looking everywhere for him. He was behind the couch--reading. Totally oblivious to the world. Another brother of mine would grab a loaf of bread and sit there for hours at a time, munching and reading till the loaf was gone. We were always getting into trouble for reading too much. Even today, if I have a good book, I had better not have anything importent to do...
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