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Wednesday, March 15, 2006
growing up and other exciting things
C lost her first tooth yesterday. In a kind of reverse of the usual first child/second child dichotomy, while I don't remember LT's first tooth, I have very distinct memories of the morning we found C's. Incidentally, this is probably mostly because that was also the first morning we had our video camera. That first tooth, which made nursing an occasionally extremely painful event (C had this way, you see, of involuntarily clenching her gums together when she fell asleep...) came out yesterday, after a couple of weeks of increasing wiggliness. I'll spare you the gory details; consider yourself lucky that C isn't writing this, because she certainly wouldn't, and they really are remarkably gory. Needless to say, she's quite excited. If you don't like the sight of a newly-bare section of juvenile gum, for heaven's sake stay clear away from C for a while.
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Meanwhile I have another new Internet addiction. I can't even count how many this makes. I don't know exactly how to describe Librarything in a way that will adequately convey the feeling of joy and even glee that it gives me, so here are the bare facts: You create an online record of the books you own, and you can compare them with others' libraries, and give them little descriptive tags, and all kinds of fun things. Here is my profile, complete with goofy-looking photo. I'm not done entering my books yet; I still have two shelves of the schoolroom shelves to go, and that's if I completely ignore all the picture books (two shelves) and curriculum-oriented schoolbooks (about three shelves' worth). And that's not even bringing up the four wall-to-wall shelves in our bedroom full of T's religion section. Maybe someday, or more specifically, some night -- since I was up till nearly 1:00 doing my bedroom shelves last night. It all seems almost pointless when I tell about it, and I don't think T will ever understand the pleasure of it, but oh goodness is it fun.
Comments
Ah, Librarything. I love it as well. I'm craftylibrarian on there.
Posted by: Kat with a K at March 15, 2006 06:58 PM
That librarything looks fun!
Did you have to pay to list your books there?
I can't even imagine how long that must have taken you to list so many books!
Posted by: Cami at March 15, 2006 06:59 PM
Librarything sounds like a LOT of fun! I may just have to sign up myself :)
Posted by: Maria at March 15, 2006 10:59 PM
Oh dear, I've been eyeing that thing for some time. I may have to start doing it; it appeals to the cockles of my little anal-retentive heart. When I was a kid, I kept lists of my books; this just makes it much much easier. I need a laptop to do this, though, so I can drag it around the house to the various book-locations. Luckily my husband has one for work!
Posted by: mary at March 16, 2006 05:25 AM
Oh dear, I can tell that I am going to be spending a few hours on that site sometime soon. Do you chose the ones you've read from a list they have or what? I like your picture on that page, you look like such a sweet heart.
Posted by: jenn at March 16, 2006 01:36 PM
This is very interesting. I wonder...can you put a tag for locating your book, or will that be on the tag for everyone for that book? In other words, if I say, "upstairs, master bedroom" will that come up in someone else's tags?
Posted by: thicket dweller at March 17, 2006 12:02 PM
TD -- you can put whatever tags you want. They'll show up in the site-wide "tag cloud" or tag list for that book (a listing of all tags used to describe a given book), but they won't be in other people's personal libraries.
I have a tag for "schoolroom shelves", one for "hated it", one for "library", one for "in my wish list"... and a lot of others, including the standard juvenile, classic, etc.
Posted by: Rachel at March 17, 2006 12:30 PM
Rachel, I'm very much getting into this. I've almost completed entering the books in my bedroom and started on some of the shelves in my computer room. I have tags for "favorites" and "to be read" and "read aloud," the latter so that I can remember which books I want to read aloud to my kids. Thanks for sharing this tip!
Posted by: thicket dweller at March 20, 2006 11:10 AM
Rachel--
Thanks for the news about Librarything, although this might be as ironic as a neophyte thanking a pusher for that first snort of cocaine. We'll see. You know, I have so many books, and SO much free time (HAH!) I need a way to meld the two together.
Posted by: Muley at March 22, 2006 02:08 PM
