Another expensive day
Dec. 4th, 2006 04:18 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
jmc_bksThe Christmas shopping, she is done! All I have to do now is wrap, write cards, and mix up the stuff for my gifts at work: I'm going mason jars of recipes.
But the really obscene expense today: I paid for 50% of the braces that insurance won't cover. Sat with a mouthful of maroon, mint-flavored play-doh in my mouth for an hour this morning. The play-doh hardened into a cast that'll be sent off to California where a computer models it and then a series of trays are made.
When I went to Borders to pick up a copy of Charlie Brown's Christmas I also picked up:
*Jon Stewart's America (50% off!)
*Holly Lisle's Talyn. Wasn't sure I should buy this at Borders, after Lisle's didactic essay about where bookbuyers ought to purchase their books.
*Sunburst's Citadel, an Indian set historical. I picked this up a couple of weeks ago, then put it back. Lovely Salome blogged about it in passing as a book with an unusual setting, and it stuck in my mind. So it came home with me this time.
*Death Calls by Caridad Pineiro, a Silhouette Nocturne. It's a follow up to an earlier Pineiro paranormal SIM, Darkness Calls.
*This is All: The Pillow Book of Cordelia Kenn -- this was an impulse purchase, and the most expensive of the lot. Hope it is as good as it looks.
And I lusted for The Temple Dancer and The Ruby in Her Navel, but managed to resist. Used all of my Borders Rewards, though, so the bill wasn't too bad.
But the really obscene expense today: I paid for 50% of the braces that insurance won't cover. Sat with a mouthful of maroon, mint-flavored play-doh in my mouth for an hour this morning. The play-doh hardened into a cast that'll be sent off to California where a computer models it and then a series of trays are made.
When I went to Borders to pick up a copy of Charlie Brown's Christmas I also picked up:
*Jon Stewart's America (50% off!)
*Holly Lisle's Talyn. Wasn't sure I should buy this at Borders, after Lisle's didactic essay about where bookbuyers ought to purchase their books.
*Sunburst's Citadel, an Indian set historical. I picked this up a couple of weeks ago, then put it back. Lovely Salome blogged about it in passing as a book with an unusual setting, and it stuck in my mind. So it came home with me this time.
*Death Calls by Caridad Pineiro, a Silhouette Nocturne. It's a follow up to an earlier Pineiro paranormal SIM, Darkness Calls.
*This is All: The Pillow Book of Cordelia Kenn -- this was an impulse purchase, and the most expensive of the lot. Hope it is as good as it looks.
And I lusted for The Temple Dancer and The Ruby in Her Navel, but managed to resist. Used all of my Borders Rewards, though, so the bill wasn't too bad.
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Date: 2006-12-04 09:53 pm (UTC)I hate you.
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Date: 2006-12-04 10:03 pm (UTC)But this is the first time EVER that I've been done early.
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Date: 2006-12-05 07:38 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2006-12-05 08:39 pm (UTC)