Having fun isn't hard when you've got a library card

It wasn't an overly exciting week, so I'm going to talk about frivolous things.

Perhaps the most interesting thing this week was that I got a library card, which I haven't had since I was a kid in the '90s (unless you count my BYU/U of U student cards). For my BYU contract job, I have been doing a lot of research to write footnotes about different sites and events in Asian history. I have gotten good at finding things on Google Books, Internet Archive, and JSTOR, but it can still be a struggle. I thought it might be helpful to have the library's resources (Libby, etc.). Alas, I think their online resources won't be better than what I already have. But it will be good to have anyway. I don't use the library that often, since I don't really read for fun. But I think it's great they exist! If I'm looking for a specific book, Worldcat shows me what libraries have it, but the local library usually doesn't have what I'm looking for.

I'm glad the folks at the Davis County Library, unlike MAGA and Dallin H. Oaks, don't think "diversity" is a bad word

Last fall, something reminded me of Amelia Bedelia, and I was amused by the images I remember from my sister's Amelia Bedelia books when I was a kid. So I went down to the children's section of the library to look at Amelia Bedelia books. Alas, they only had newer books that portray her as a child. I was hoping for the silly maid outfit and the bizarre, slightly horrifying images, such as iced fish. 

Thank you, Google Images!

Thanks to the warm, springlike weather, I was able to get back on the Wild Rose Trail again, because the snow melted rapidly.

Wednesday

. . . and Thursday

On Thursday and Friday, I was in our yard, and our neighbors' cat was its usual friendly self. I adore this sweet cat, even though I don't know its sex or its name. On Friday, it was swatting at me through our neighbors' fence.

Despite some problems with thread and bobbins, I finally finished my six new pillowcases. When I went to Joann at Christmastime, they had a Christmas ghost fabric, but I didn't get it because I had enough Christmas pillowcases. Now I regret it, and I can't find it again. Also, I am so disappointed the firework, hot dog, and candy fabrics have glitter on them. Do I want glitter on my pillowcases?!

I'm obsessed with the Addams Family pillowcase. There was a Munsters fabric, but it had a dumb design, even though The Munsters was a better show

And yesterday I made a special trip to Target so I could get this deviled-egg-and-salt decoration, since deviled egg decorations are rare.

And here are this week's dreams.

the female history professor shows Mark the fossil displays of alligators and mammoths on the second floor of a hotel

Ann picks up a rattlesnake in the kitchen

In Ireland, tarantula-like creatures wash up on the shore and jump on people and snap them

at the Catholic funeral, the dead woman in the casket removes trash from her pockets

Mark walks several blocks in his socks to get a cranberry cookie

Mark finds a stinging anemone in a plastic bag in the lake

the fish in a lake have labels on them

Mark changes the garbage bags at This Is the Place Heritage Park