Being Bookish

It's really nice out. Perfect weather. Warm, sunny, cloudless, no humidity, not too hot. I wish this were the weather all the time.

Mom came over for a visit this afternoon and we decided to go over to the Chapters bookstore. Yes. I added to my stack of books. I bought:
A Breath of Snow and Ashes - Diana Gabaldon (the next installment of her series of books about Jamie and Claire Fraser)
Passion - Jude Morgan
Bedlam - Greg Hollingshead

This isn't counting the ones that i ordered from Amazon last week that will arrive later this week!
Time and Chance - Sharon Kay Penman
The Virgin's Lover - Philippa Gregory
Coronation Street Snippets from the Street

I've also got Samuel Pepys Diary on the go, another book Mom lent me that i started and didn't get into too far, I had started to reread the Biography of London because i started it so long ago that i lost the plot so to speak. I had started rereading the last book in the Gabaldon series but i discovered that on the end of the ironing board when i made my way through the pile the other week on an ironing binge. I'll leave that off now that i have the new one. I don't read as much as i used to and i really must get back to it again. I always have a paperback for the bus commute and these days that's pretty much most of where my reading time comes from.

I love to read though with the onset of the computer, i don't seem to make it as much of a priority. Well this afternoon is a reading afternoon. I'm going to dive into the world of Revolutionary America and rediscover Jamie and Claire and their family, trials and tribulations.

The other thing that's on my mind today is a Travel Photography Seminar that seems to be given by or sponsored by National Geographic Traveler Magazine. I saw it on their site while looking for something else and there's a one day seminar on Travel Photography being offered in Toronto on March 12. The cost is $195 US for the day with lunch included. I think i would really enjoy that but you gotta add the cost of a flight, about $450 to $500 at the moment, and a hotel for a couple of nights, food etc. So probably close to $1000 for the weekend. I could swing it but it's a lot for two days. I've emailed them to find out the location of it so that if i do take the plunge, i can get a hotel close. Doesn't seem to be any info on locations on the site and i don't want to register until i know. Yeah, i'm probably just making excuses and delaying the possible inevitable but give me a few days to mull it over. No sense looking at downtown hotels if the course is out in Mississauga or North York or some other place not handy to downtown Toronto.

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And just under the wire, Happy Birthday i8myfish

almost forgot because we were out celebrating it on Thursday :)