There is news in the World of Red! (That's right, I live in my own world and it's important enough to warrant capitalization.) Boyfriend got a new job
(Yay!) in Long Island
(Ya- wait, what?...well I guess that's kind of like NYC). To answer your thoughts: Yes yay!, I know, and no, it isn't but I'm learning to get over that. (Yup, those italicized parenthetical comments are your thoughts. Bet you didn't realize I'm psychic too.) Boyfriend will be heading down there very soon, but I have one of those job thingys up here in Boston so I'll be hanging around Beantown for awhile longer. Which means Boyfriend and I need to split our stuff up and figure out who gets what.
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Seeing how this is my book blog I will be keeping the post mostly about books. In this case, how am I supposed to decide what to bring with me? I get one lil half bookshelf thing to bring with me. How can I decide what gets shipped down to LI and what will stay with me? Splitting up all of the other possessions was easy. Boyfriend is taking all of the important things, like furniture and kitchen equipment, and I'm taking the toys like the various Nintendo systems (oh yes, I have from regular NES through Wii), the Back to the Future trilogy on DVD and martini glasses (which count as toys in World of Red). But my limited amount of space means a limited amount of books. I re-read a lot of books because I'm cheap and lazy. I tend to just stare at my bookshelf while I make my next selection. Oh, to the untrained eye it may look like staring off into space, but I assure you I'm deep in thought figuring out what I recently have read, what I'm in the mood for and what will help me forget I'm on the subway (most of my reading is done during my commute). I'm no good at keeping TBR lists. I go with the "in the moment" method of choosing a book. This is how
Eclectic Indulgence describes the process and this sounds far better than the ADD method as I've previously described it. You know, like I'm seizing the day instead of being too lazy to walk outside to a bookstore.
So how would you choose what books to keep? Obviously this isn't as dire as desert island reads, although I've been fretting over this decision like it is. I also need to keep in mind I should save some shelf space for the new books I'm sure to acquire.
While I'm on the topic of this move Boyfriend is making happen, I want to include this Calvin & Hobbes panel, which pretty much sums up me and Boyfriend. I wish I could say I was Hobbes in this relationship but I'm most definitely Calvin.
If you didn't notice, I'm super into parenthetical comments in this post. Probably because my mind keeps jumping to lots of different points and I know you don't want to miss a thing. And now that I've typed that I have the Aerosmith song stuck in my head.
