A Season for Everything

I had to take the car into Greensburg today to get it inspected. Actually, we took it to Sears yesterday and got the tires rotated, the cooling system flushed, the oil changed and the emissions checked. And why didn’t it get inspected you ask? Because even though I posess a valid registration, I somehow don’t have a nice little 2006 sticker on my license plate. How on Earth can that be, when the stupid things come in the same envelope? The short answer…I HAVE NO IDEA!

So, the new plan was for me to rush to AAA after work this morning, pick up a new sticker and take the car back to Sears. Nothing is ever that easy. I’m standing at the AAA counter, the woman has checked my license, asked me tons of questions and filled out most of a page-long form, then she looks at the registration, which is in Tim’s name, not mine. Oops! The nice AAA lady is sorry, but she can’t help me since the car isn’t in my name. She gave me the form. If I bring it back tomorrow with Tim’s license number and signature on it I may finally have my sticker and then I can get the car inspected. I really thought about taking it out to the car, signing Tim’s name myself and calling him for his license number, but that would be another one of those rules of life I don’t break.

Since I had the morning unexpectedly free and I was in Greensburg anyway, I stopped by Office Max to pick up some file folders for Tim and then treated myself to some uninterupted time at Barnes & Noble. The latter was probably a really bad idea (and this is where the “Somebody Slap Me” comes in). I bought not one, but FIVE books! Yes, it’s sad, but true…..I am a bookaholic. I am dying to start reading all of them. Right now. Today. Patience is not one of my virtues. Here are the books I got. You’ll notice a bit of a theme that honors my little journey to discover myself.

A Trip to the Beach: Living on Island Time in the Caribbean is the true story of Melinda and Robert Blanchard’s neverending trip to the beach. It’s about escaping civilization and following your dreams.

Live What You Love: notes from an unusual life is the Blanchard’s follow-up book. The first words on the inside of the dust cover are “Have you ever dreamed of turning life upside down and inside out, and really living as your heart would have you? Do you push your dreams out to ’someday’ conditioned by ‘if only’? Are you stuck between the life you have and a life you would really love?” Geez…..how could I not want to read this???

French Women Don’t Get Fat: The Secret of Eating for Pleasure is yet another diet book, but it seems different from all the rest and seems like an interesting read whether it works or not. The recipes look pretty yummy, too.

Misquoting Jesus: The Story Behind Who Changed the Bible and Why is going to be controversial, I’m sure, but I love reading about this kind of stuff. I also have to admit that while I was taught to believe that the Bible is the unerring Word of God, I’m not so sure I still believe that it is 100% accurate. It has been in the hands of men for millenium and while God is unerring, mankind is not. Given our propensity for sin, it seems feasible that scripture has been corrupted over the centuries to promote man’s political and religeous agendas.

The LIFE Strategies Workbook: Exercises and Self-Tests to Help You Change Your Life has some interesting exercises and questions to help a person (me, hopefully) take stock of their life.