Some people eat when emotional; I buy books
I am having a very emotionally challenged day today. It doesn't help that my throat is so swollen I can't talk without choking or gagging. My throat is so bad it's like I was having an allergic reaction to something and it's just closing up! I'll be going to the walk-in clinic tomorrow morning for that. Ugh.So, when some people have one of those days where anything and everything makes them cry many of those people turn to food or ice cream or something of the nibbling sort. I buy books. I swear this is true. Books are my comfort food (but I don't eat them or anything, that's my dog. She eats paper. Not me!)I was heading to the bookstore at lunch anyhow. Only today I had to get out of the office lest I crumple to the floor in a weeping puddle. I asked my friend to leave early and at 11:30 we were out the door and on the way to the bookstore. I picked up my Kim Harrison book first thing (THANK GOD it came out today! What timing! My own little soothing pacifier of a book!) and then a woman I know who works at this store let me know they had just received a ton of new YA bargain books and most of them were 4 for $10!! Rocky Road has nothing on that!So for $10 I got two Jaclyn Moriarty books, A Trixie Beldin book (what! I like her!) and If I Have a Wicked Step-Mother, Where's My Prince?!And I broke down and bought Tantalize in paperback because I was wanting it when it was in hard cover but was trying to be good.My only frustration was the outrageous price of the Kim Harrison book! I thought book prices had been coming down. I know the Canadian dollar isn't as strong, but geez! $25 US vs $33.99 Canadian!?!? That's just stupid! But I bought it anyhow because Kim Harrison is like a drug. And I needed her today. I needed that Rachel Morgan book.And I would be reading it right now if I didn't know I needed something to read while waiting 3 hours tomorrow to see a doctor. I want something that I know will keep me entertained and distracted from the screaming children and ill people who don't know how to cover their face when they sneeze or cough (EW!).