Release the Guinea Pigs!

Yesterday, my Covance health study was completed. They sent us out with nice, fat checks! So what did I do right away?

BOOK-SHOPPING!!!!

I've been really poor for awhile now and have been holding off on adding any additional weight to my heaving bookshelves, but with this newfound money in my account I tore up the bookstores, actual and online, alike! Yay!!!

I hit Frugal Muse on the northside of town, the used bookstore that was closest to my banking establishment. I purchased the new collection of FOUND! Check it out- it's hilarious!

Then I drove by one of my favorite thrift-shops, only to find that it is closed!!! Did you all know that the HOUSE OF THRIFT shut its doors and moved away somewhere???? Well, I didn't!

Then I headed downtown to the library, to return about a million dvd's. I'm not kidding. Ask Pamby! Anyway, the library was having a sale of discarded children's books upstairs- 25 cents each! At one point during my scavenging I almost had to fight some old lady to the ground for some awesome books on architecture. She got there, like, a nano-second before me and I missed out on some cool DK guides, but alas, she didn't get them all!!! I don't know why she was even buying books. Like she's gonna have the time to read them (ouch!). Anyway, I hope she likes them as much as I like the ones I got!

The Inside DK Guidest to Super Structures

The Eyewitness Visual Dictionary of Buildings (super awesome for school, I've been constantly checking this one out from the library), and

Building a House ( a neat book that talks about framing, foundations, siding, etc.)

After the library I thought I'd swim through the massive bins of unwanted books at the St. Vinnies Dig N Save. But today I wasn't having the best of luck! Dig N Save stopped selling books!!!!!!! Where else am I gonna be able to buy books by the pound, twenty-five cents a pound????? BOOOOO!!!!!!! HISSSSSS!!!!!!!!!!

So then I went home and checked my Amazon.com cart to see what I've put on hold during this last year!
I couldn't get everything in there yet but I did get these:

New Architecture in Spain - a guide that was published alongside the installation I attended at the MOMA in NYC.

World's Finest Comics Archives, Volume 3 (DC Archive Editions) :featuring the great Superman/Batman and Robin team-ups of the late 1950's

The Metal Men Archives, Vol. 1 (DC Archive Editions) - The Metal Men was a 1960's product of DC Comics where these robots were somehow invented with responsometers that gave each robot, each made of a different element, emotions and personality. Very fun!

The Complete Peanuts 1959-1960

The Complete Peanuts 1961-1962 - a continuation of the series put out by Fantagraphics that will collect every Peanuts comic strip ever!

and I got some more books devoted to architecture:

A Field Guide to American Houses - a must have for anyone in the world of building!

A Visual Dictionary of Architecture

The New York World's Fair, 1939/1940: in 155 Photographs

1939 New York World's Fair Film 3 DVD Set - 6+ Hours - for some reason I'm a freak about the 1939 New York's World's Fair. Now I can really geek out on it!