reading.

this weekend i had my first weekend off in about a month, and it was great. julianne and i went to st. louis and did some shopping. nothing too frivolous - a little time at old navy, a while at barnes & noble, cold stone, target, and trader joes. i was pleased with myself that i didn't actually purcase anything at old navy or target. at barnes & noble i got 2 books (which are the real topic of this blog), at cold stone ice cream, and trader joes some amazing frozen food (yum).

my primary reason for purchasing the books was to read them duing my greatly anticipated spring break (for which i leave here friday). after reading the backs of at least 20 books, picking up and carying around about 8 books, i decided on two: true love (and other lies), and return of jonah gray. in order to make sure that i liked at least one of them i began to read true love (and other lies) monday night. i like reading it, and am looking forward now to finding out what happens next. the only problem with it is that it's a sort of modern romance novel. not like those cheesy ones that you can get with fabio on the cover, but ones that are a little more inteligent that that. i guess the fact that it's a romance novel isn't even the real issue. the real issue is that it fuels my imagination. it's something that i used to enjoy, dreaming certain dreams, but now i don't enjoy them so much, and i've been successful in steering clear of them. so now, no matter how much i try i keep thinking of situations that i want to happen, but i also want to avoid thinking about those things. the more i read the books the more seceptible i am to those dreams/thoughts, but i still want to find out what happens next in the books. sheeze. i'm stuck in a cycle. i guess i'll get out of it when i finish my book.

to reading and traveling. woohoo!
- corrie