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| - #Vegas Trying to be "positive" is something I battled with. I don't think you can be too happy, people question or challenge you when you are. The terms "perky" or "hippy" or "morning zoo" come to mind. I take your mental sigh as agreeing.
At times when I am happy, I try not to "jinx it" bring attention to it. I have had many (more than 5) bicycles stolen/ vandalized in my youth after I bragged about how I tricked it out, when I lived in East San Jose.
Believe me, if I ever won Megabucks or the lottery, I plan on telling a handful of people about it, the rest will find out after I've switched the major numbers/ addresses/ accounts I can be contacted before I am gone to wherever I see paradise.
Books have always been the answer to me. I've written before about having a dozen books on the table that I'm in the middle of at any given day.
But I haven't written much about Amazon. I have read a lot of reviews on that site, including books I think about checking out at the library. I tend to stay away from fictional novels. I'm interested in a lot of non fiction, I like chapters I can skip around to my remote control attention span.
I have many books saved on several categorized lists. I haven't posted the link like so many women of unspoken means of sustaining an extravagant lifestyle with an open schedule. But I saved a lot of books on the list to find them at the library so I could at least skim thru, to make sure I wouldn't purchase one of those books that shows up at my door as one of those booklets you find at the supermarket checkouts. $13 down the shitter.
Spring Valley Library I discovered when I lived a couple blocks away. I continued to go here even when I moved far away to the Eastern/ 215 area of town and when I lived at the East Trop/ Pecos area. It became a backup place when the main Flamingo library computers were booked up.
I had cheap ass dial up, and even the couple of years I bought broadband for me & my g/f, I would go back to this library when the system was down, or I'd still get books there.
Also, they have a good selection of audio Cd's that I, too checked out to burn as just about everyone does. Also, they have a good selection of DVD's I never took advantage of. I should have. I do now at my local library, even with my rotation of Netflix at home. Netflix is good for getting tv series in order, whereas you kinda take what you browse and see at the library.
Even in my mind now, I know where each of my favorite shelves are.
As far as library bathrooms go, if I really needed to, it was probably the only clean (smelling) one I have ever been to. I know, in Vegas, we're used to having a ton of well lit, cleans stalls to choose from in casinos and cleaning crews that check more than once a quarter. Outside of Vegas, I realized I became something of a public bathroom snob with the 1 stall selection, let alone finding one.
Most importantly, the library is where I go to find answers. I get so sick of follow your dreams and passions and other no meaning affirmations, it says nothing about actual steps to increase (have) income or how to deal with all the a-holes that butt in, or threaten to tell- wah wah- pot and kettle crap, when we're finally having a good time. Books in the library DO help.
One of my favorite tv shows was Buffy, just because a lot of finding the answers was done in the library, pounding the books. The library keeps me from watching idiot tv. It keeps me out of bars, since I don't have money or my drinking buddies anymore. It keeps me out of stores when I shouldn't look at things I don't need.
And, it's one of the places I can be happy, when I can find a quiet place and a comfy chair to read.
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