Today has been a pretty good day. I managed to clean the house and take care of all money matters before noon. Earlier this morning Jaeger carted Willow off to get spayed. We’ve been planning to get her spayed for a while now. However, I kept forgetting to make the appointment (probably because I was dreading paying for the procedure). In any case, I was suppose to pick up Willow around 4:00 (16:00 according to Jaeger). This left several hours free. I eventually decided to go shopping.
I wandered to a local thrift store and browsed but didn’t find anything intriguing. Then I went next door to the Used Book Emporium. For a while, I’ve been thinking of ordering the Wallflower series by Lisa Kleypas (via my discount at the library). I was shocked to discover the used book store already had a copy of Devil in Winter available. It just came out in March. I snapped it up as soon as I saw it. I continued browsing and was also pleased to find Stardoc by S.L. Viehl. Last night I was browsing my shelves and discovered that I had every book in the Stardoc series except the first one. I’m not quite sure how this happened. I gleefully brought my two new book finds home and opened up Stardoc to remind myself what ocurred in this book. However, nothing I read sounded familar.
I first found Viehl by reading Blade Dancer at the Boulder Public Library. Eventually I found some Stardoc books at the library and enjoyed those so I bought the series. That is, I bought most of the series. Somehow I never bought nor read Stardoc, the first book in the series. I guess the cover became familar enough that when I’d see it in stores I’d think I had already bought and read it.
So, back to my dilemma. I now have 2 brand new books to read, I expect both to be excellent. It’s very rare to have one new book to read that I’m sure will be good. Having two at the same time is a bit overpowering 
BTW, Willow survived her procedure fine. However, she is extremely happy to be home. The vet has told us we should keep her inactive. So far that part isn’t going so well. Ever since she’s gotten home she’s been bouncing up and done. How does one keep a kitten inactive?
Slip a dose of traquilizer into her food.
Then again, you better make sure she doesn’t find out, because if she starts to suspect something’s up, she might turn you into a rat.(Being Willow and all…)
:) I actually briefly considered it (I still have some of Five’s drugs left). However, Willow’s so small I was afraid I’d accidently give her an overdose. Also, I don’t think I’d make a very good rat ;)
For the record, Amy changed herself into a rat, but Willow was able to change her back. Not that Amy was terifically happy when she returned, and Willow wasn’t all that nice to her…