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Elyria, our book fairy, overlooks the reference books and art books (in stacks beyond her feet) on the ledge by the ceiling. I'm dreaming of bookshelves again. I've been looking at a site that posts a bookcase photo daily. The current fad to place books of similar color together to be pleasing to the eye is one that shocks my Dewey Decimal System sensibilities. I couldn't do that to my books; it would drive me mad. I like to know where all my books are and be able to go directly to one and pluck it from the shelf (in theory!) However, I can grudgingly admire the artistic beauty of color-coordinated books.

Lovely, isn't it? It's the creation of chotda.

The kids are all home this week, and I was hoping I could put in a long day at work Monday and take off the rest of the week. Technology refused to cooperate with me. Our large photocopier/printer ate the payroll checks, and that's a bummer because people don't want shredded paper on payday. Imagine that. Thankfully, we have a small printer behind my desk, and I was able to redo payroll on it. Then our billing program didn't want to add mark-up to material or tax to anything. I will have to go back to work and finish up on Wednesday, but today I shop!

We borrowed a dual-cab truck, and the whole family is going shopping in Wichita, Kansas. I've been looking for a new kitchen table and a new dining room table for about thirty years, and today is the day! Unless I don't find anything I like, which is highly possible. The test is to ask myself if I can live with it the rest of my life, because that's exactly how long I'll have it! My brother stopped by over the weekend, and he was laughing that I had just this year gotten rid of my chartreuse sofa I'd had since 1975. Hey, I liked that sofa.

Oh, and while the kids are home, would y'all mind napping through the rest of the week? Or I'd settle for you having a boring time of it. I'm going to be a while catching up to reading my friends' list if you have too much fun and do a lot of posting!