After lunch at Cronies Cafe yesterday my mom asked me, as we stepped out into the street, Did you want to visit the book store?
Oh, heck yes! I answered, because, you know, books!
She was referring to Book Cellar, a book store on main street. I stop by every time I visit because it brings a smile to my face to walk into an independent book store and I just don’t get to smile like that often enough any more.
While mom poked through the books I wandered down to their extensive selection of CDs, found the section where they kept the Leo Kottke recordings and somehow, using every fiber of self-control I possessed, kept myself from buying every single one I could find. There were six or seven, but I settled for just two, the armadillo album – the cover says 6- and 12-String Guitar, kind of a mundane name – and Standing In My Shoes.
Felt pretty good about how restrained I was until I got to the checkout counter and my eyes fell on a couple of Nora Jones CDs in the rack right under the register. Dammit! I love Nora Jones! Every time Pandora plays one of her tunes I tell myself I’m going to order one of her albums one of these days. Well, the two I wanted to start with were only six and eight dollars, so I added them to the Kottke disks. So much for self-control.
And I got a book, three bucks.
self control | 1:27 pm CDTCategory: books, daily drivel, entertainment, food & drink, Mom, O'Folks, play, restaurants | Tags: Book Cellar, Cronies Cafe, Leo Kottke, Nora Jones
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