Day Off

I am having my day off today.

I actually PLANED to go to the library after going to the post office to mail Alex's stuff.

HOWEVER, I went to the bookstore instead, which was a BIGGGG mistake. (and I knew it was a mistake before I even go there) I was gonna go to a library instead of the bookstore because I knew I wouldn't be able to control myself not buy anything. I was struggling for SO LONG and I ended up going to the bookstore.

Seeing all these designer periodic, I felt SO bad that I had to cut all the subscription that I used to have. They are such beautiful magazines ... but the are wayyyy too expensive. We are talking about more than $200 dollars per month for 4 magazines here. I mean... though I have other good use of these money now, but my dream of having my endless collections of my fav. INDESIGN, FRAME, and OBJEKT are literally vanished.

I think I was being responsible enough to "struggle" whether to buy the newest subscription of INDESIGN and OBJEKT. Annnnd honestly I've been doing really good at controlling myself from ANY other kinds of shopping. So I decided that I deserve these two books. So I was happy (for 10 min).

BUT O.M.G., not until I get to the 3rd floor, the Architecture and Art section, my short lived happiness was over. Every book that I picked up was literally over $80.00 dollars, but they are so gorgeous, super nice texture, way sexy, smells terrific, with colors that blind your eyes. Initially I was only there to look for books about school architecture, but I spent 2 hours touching every cover of those books and flipping through tons of design hotel related monsters.

I mean ... I was POWERFUL enough to control myself not to buy anything else other than that two magazine, but I am definitely feeling kind of ... I don't know ... weird ... almost upset not being able to buy at least ONE of those beasts.

And my dream of filling this bookshelf with ONLY big-ass = thick heavy design books + lego architecture models, has to be postponed, AGAIN.

It was painful. So I decided to do something happy - to go pick up alex from work! (secretly)

BYE!