self help
january 18, 2004
every single one of my plans that was scheduled for this weekend went down the drain. lunch and dinner plans that were supposed to take place, got canceled last minute. errands to run were juggled around to all the wrong time slots. and then i got last minute requests to do other things. last night after running some errands, i stopped in for some japanese food at my local eatery - where i ran into several people i know. i either 1. know too many people and must get plastic surgery to change how i look or 2. live in a too small of a town which means i ought to move my ass say.....3,000 miles to my west.
afterwards, i headed over to barnes and noble to browse around. going to the bookstore seems like a luxury nowadays. i don't ever seem to have time to do that anymore. before i knew it, i spent about 2 hours just standing around leaning against shelves leafing through books. i first went to the magazine section to look at tattoo related literature and knitting ideas. then to the cook books. then to the asian american section. then the travel section. then the foreign languages. then the fiction. then arts and crafts. then i played with a couple of stuffed animals in the children's section. and then finally the self help and women's health section.
can i just say the self help section is the busiest section in the entire freakin store on a saturday night! maybe because the bookstore was flooded with people who don't have dates or what not - but they were all there in the self help section trying to figure out why the hell was wrong with them. ok, it's not just them, it's me as well. :p the amount of self help books out there nowadays is pretty impressive. granted, most of them just write common sense stuff which for someone with common sense, it's absolutely mundane. but for those without common sense, it's probably a lifesaver.
i couldn't help but overhear these two women in their 40's complain about the poor choice of men in their lives. they kept on looking for books entitled something like, "why men love bitches" and "loving men who don't love you" and "how come men don't love you." i wanted to tell them to shut the hell up and go pay for an escort or something.
amazingly enough, i walked out of there only with two books in tow. one was called dojo wisdom and the other was on PCOS.
speaking of which, i really ought to get my blood test done and make an appointment with a specialist. there seems to be so much going on right now in my life. one thing leading into the next. i wish i could post up a stop sign the bring everything to a halt.
stop. NOW.
food photos: my fave vietnamese sandwiches - banh mi dac biet on top and tasty pad thai noodles to whet my appetite on the bottom here. unfortunately as good as the food was and as colorful as it was, i barely made a dent. i'll be having pad thai for a few more meals.
