Eliyes

Good thing: Sue is at a local museum and me and the roomie both have the day off!

Bad thing: Turns out the museum is closed on Mondays.

Good thing: However, the Chapters book store across the harbour has The Princeton Field Guide to Dinosaurs in stock, so we make an outing! They also have a bunch of nifty stuff, an art book the roomie wanted, and several novels I've been trying to track down.

Arguably bad thing: Even using the $30 left on the gift card I got for X-mas, I still spent a little over $40 there.

Good thing: We eventually found the wily Toys'R'Us and not only do they stock Transformers toys again, they had them on sale!

Bad thing: ...So of course there was nothing left. Well. Nothing that wasn't for 4 year olds. (I did have fun making Hound's guns pop out, but we didn't buy anything.)

Good thing: The food court has a New York Fries now, and the mediterranean place makes awesome falafels.

Bad thing: I LOST MY BUS PASS. Somewhere. Maybe on the bus to the mall, maybe in the Chapters' ladies room, maybe walking to the mall from the Chapters, maybe in the Toys'R'Us, etc. No clue. Gonna have to buy tickets for the rest of the month.

Good thing: I no longer keep my bank card in with my bus pass, so the pass is all I lost. Phew!

Books purchased by yours truly: F. Scott Fitzgerald's The Great Gatsby (since I have never read it and it was on sale -- I've been on a '20s kick lately), Mike Shepherd's Kris Longknife: Redoubtable (I only find this series sporadically, but I've reread the ones I can find several times, so yay for getting another one), and most of Tanya Huff's "Confederation" series: A Confederation of Valor, which is an omnibus of the first two books, Valor's Choice and The Better Part of Valor; The Heart of Valor, which is the third book and the one that initially hooked me when I borrowed it from a coworker; and the fifth book, The Truth of Valor, now out in hardback. (I already own the 4th book, Valor's Trial. Actually, I own the 2nd book, too, but I can never find the 1st book except as an omnibus.) Space Marines!

Also, I saw Crossover there in paperback, instead of TPB (which is how I got it). I really recommend this book and this author, especially to any of you who want your sci-fi with intense action, moral debates, strong female characters, and people of colour. (Although not Cassandra.)

I'm in a materialistic stupor. Or something. apathocles linked one of those funny little bots for FarScape in plush form over on her LJ and so I went poking through the online store where she found it.

Now, I can't have porcelain statues. I have hyperactive cats. I have SEEN my roommate's cat kick a handmade solid clay (on a wire skeleton) Patamon at least as big as her right off the TV and smash on the floor. Therefore, I cannot have porcelain statues.

*WHIMPER*

That doesn't stop me from wanting them.

( Look! Look! Pretties! )