A Road Less Travelled

Tuesday was a bad, no good, rotten, horrible day. We hope that very soon we will be moving (more on that later) and so the really hard days are about to begin. So Seth and Crystal gave me yesterday off and the van to gallivant in. It was glorious.

First I tried to go to the Book Nook which was recently bought by someone Seth met at a BlogPeoria event. I can’t remember his name. The man who bought the bookstore not Seth. I can remember Seth’s name. That’s easy- Seth, Seth, Seth. See, no problem. Anyway, he, the guy whose name I can’t remember, is going to try and make the Book Nook into a bookstore that is worth going to. I wanted to go see what he’d done with the place, but it was closed when I got there. Then I went to JoAnn fabrics and bought lots of clearanced crochet thread. I then proceeded down to a Steak and Shake (funny name, great shakes), bought a shake, couldn’t finish it and read a good book. From there I went to the library, got a parking ticket and perused the book sale room. All I could find was a really nifty looking book about lines and an old copy of a Rudyard Kipling book. I got out some books, discovered the aforementioned parking ticket and headed over to the Lansberry’s to pick up Raquel.

Now, you need to know that Raquel and I have been trying to get to the lunch buffet at the Vietnamese restaurant on Main Street ever since they moved into that house. What with one thing or another we have failed at least three times in our endeavor. But not yesterday. Yesterday was special. Yesterday the curse of the lunch buffet was broken and we triumph over evil, egg rolls and crab ragoon. Well, Raquel triumphed over the crab ragoon. I don’t like seafood, but their not-crab-ragoon food was quite good.

I dropped Raquel off at her house and continued to travel hither, thither and yon. But first I went back home to change into cooler clothes. It got hot yesterday.

I went to Peoria Heights and saw for myself the new book store, I Know You Like A Book. I give it a high on ambiance, but a low on selection. And, since I was there, I went to the other bookstore in Peoria Heights, Second Chance books. I give a low on ambiance, but a high on selection.

And then I went to Glen Oak Park and read while a thunderstorm came and went around me. I had left the van window open during the storm so when I got in the van to go home I got wetter than I like to be. I got home, I curled up in my room with my good book until dinner and I finished the shake I had saved. After dinner I beat Seth and Crystal at Seth’s new game and didn’t gloat too bad. It was a good day. Craft supplies, books, milk shake and more books. Lunch with a friend, a storm in the park, more books and beating my brother at his own game. What more could I want?