Another Birthday!

So, it was my birthday yesterday, and a few of the most exciting gifts I got were:

-A $30 gift card to BORDERS from my friend! I've spent $13 of that already!

-A $35 gift card to BORDERS from my grandparents! Awesome!

-A $10 gift card to BARNES & NOBLE from my fourth-grade teacher. Yea!!

(You see all of those are bookstores, and I am very excited)

-I also got this boxed set of "Classics for LDS Homes" from Deseret Book. I had seen it in the catalog a long time ago and thought it was awesome, so I was excited that my parents had bought it for me. It has in it:

Jane Eyre
Emma
Pride and Prejudice
Sense and Sensibility
The Scarlet Pimpernel
The Secret Garden
Anne of Green Gables

and...

Little Women

They are all in hardback, and have a little ribbon marker. They have sort of the same format, but then every book has a different color spine and a different design on the cover. They're so cool! The main thing I was excited about was that they are MINE. Before, when I read Pride and Prejudice or whatever, it was Mom's book. Those books that I end up loving a lot, I like to have for myself. It's just kinda cool, because you can read them again and again without worrying the other person wants to read it, and you can leave bookmarks in it or whatever...you can just make it your own. I love owning books! Nothing against libraries, (I love libraries in fact,) but the books I really like, I don't want to have checked out from a library. Books I kind of like, I'm okay with getting from a library. That's the beauty of libraries. But ones that I love, I want to own for myself. Is that selfish?

Anyway, I had a pretty awesome birthday.