Spur of the Moment Decisions

I've been on a quest to read some of the books that are in my house. That sounds like an obvious thing to do, but somehow I've been accumulating them for years while not reading many of them; instead I've been reading books people lend me, books from the library, books for school (I graduated from nursing school in December of 2009 at the age of 37). The result is that - with my kids now also accumulating books at a rapid pace - I have no place to go with the excess. Bookshelves are overflowing and, although my house is not small, I don't have room for much more in the way of bookshelves. Thus, the project: read some of these books and clear them out somehow.

I have multiple other projects, of course, which is making the project move along slowly. But today I was reading an old mystery anthology on my shelf and I found tucked within it a health care insurance card from the days when I worked at Barnes and Noble. That was between the years of 1995 and 1997. It is now 2011; I honestly didn't even remember that I had health insurance when I had that job.

So my plan for this blog? Prod me on my way to moving these books out the door, but also keep me motivated to do it by cataloging what the books are, where they came from, and what weird items I find in them along the way. And yes, I did just decide to do this on the spur of the moment, perhaps fifteen minutes ago.