When I was younger I could sit and read a good book all day and be completely happy. As you can guess, life has gotten in the way of that little hobby. In fact, now I pretty much only read on car rides or on the airplane between Colorado and here.
Because of the lack of reading lately, it had been quite awhile since I had been at a library. Boy, oh boy did I rediscover it yesterday. Not only can I take my laptop down there to use the internet (I’m back in Portage now, so not at the library), but I can check out the books I’ve been meaning to read and maybe even read a little. The Allen County Library also has an awesome collection of DVD’s and CD’s, and even a few Wii games. Mitch and I have been wanting to rent or buy the seasons of Lost, since we keep hearing how awesome of a show it is. Well, they had it at the library. The best part, it is all free! I mean, I knew that it was, but since it had been so long, I forgot how great that little tid-bit of info was.
The best part of my library trip yesterday, they had a set of 8 DVD’s from Strobist (a lighting blog that I love). I had been wanting to check these DVD’s out for quite some time now, with moving though, the money just wasn’t there. So, you can imagine how excited I was to find them on the shelf yesterday to rent for 3 weeks! Yes, I am happy.
Oh, and a true shocker for anyone that knows Mitch. He willingly came into the library, that alone is big news. I do think that my excitement over the multimedia section had a lot to do with that though. You can imagine my complete amazement though, when at the checkout counter he had a stack of books (they weren’t even picture books, I checked). They were all about grass, but I was impressed nonetheless.
Nothing like a little free fun!
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