Books

I have hit one of those crazy times when all of my library requests came in at the same time.  I make hold requests through the library all of the time for books, CDs, and DVDs.  It's great!  You just tell them you want such and such, and they deliver it to whatever library branch you want when it becomes available.  Unfortunately, every once in a while, everything becomes available all at the same time.  Or in this case, one DVD and three books all showed up in less than a week!  I'm able to keep the books for three weeks at a time, but if someone else has a hold request, then it can't be renewed and I have to turn it back in.  So I have to start triaging.  So many books and so little time!  I don't suppose I could take a day off of work for the reason of catching up on my reading.  *sigh*  But I have finished a few books, so they have been added to the official list (item #60). 

On another note, I have been looking into the different classes that I wanted to take that are part of the list (foreign language, cooking, and cake decorating).  Cake decorating will be easy, because it's inexpensive and it's offered regularly.  Cooking is the most expensive, depending on what exactly I end up taking.  There's a place that offers a whole cooking basics series with one class per month for eight months.  That's really what I want to do, but it's $480 so I think it will have to wait a little while.  And French classes are offered every semester through IUPUI's continuing education classes, but I'm trying to decide if that's what I want to do.  The other option would be to get a tutor and take private or small group lessons.  It would be more expensive over the long run, but I also imagine that I would learn more that way.  At any rate, I have built the costs into my budget, so I'm thinking cake decorating this year and cooking next year.  French will figure in somewhere along the line; I just don't know where yet.