Dave's been out of town for the last week or so, on a roadtrip with his mother. He got home just today. And this picture represents a chunk of my life when Dave is out of town:
This is a receipt from Lotaburger, where I eat about three times a week when Dave, the vegetarian, is gone. That's one of my typical orders, a Lotaburger combo with cheese (and usually green chile, but not that day), large seasoned fries and a large Diet Pepsi. Fatty, salty, greasy, yummy.
Aside from eating meat, I've also been reading. I finally finished a book this month! Two books even! Of course they were both Hollywood biographical trash-y type books, but they still count! One was an autobiography by Tab Hunter, the fifties teen (closeted a la Rock Hudson) heartthrob. It was sadly meh-ish. The other was John Waters's book Role Models. I enjoyed it more than the Tab Hunter one.
Oh! And today I set foot into an actual bookstore! Two bookstores even! Dave and I went down to two NM used bookstore institutions, BookStop and Birdsong Books. We've shopped at both over the years, but haven't been to either in a few years. (Damned Amazon, bringing cheap books right to my front door.) I walked out of each shop with three books from each. One, Cheaper By the Dozen is one I read back in middle school and which I wanted to pick up again, just to see if it's still as interesting as it was when I was ten. I also picked up a book about relationship and sexual mores in modern Japan, a nonfiction travelogue by a woman who traveled solo through Europe, a travel book by Daniel Defoe. I read A Journal of the Plague Year a long time ago and loved it, but aside from that and Moll Flanders (which I also really liked) I've never read anything else by Defoe. (Of course I'll sum up the books at the end of the month, just to keep track of my year of reading.)
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