Too many books, not enough hours

Always seems to be my problem. Too many books I want to read. I would like to figure out a way that I could get paid to listen to NPR all day and read books. I don't want to comment on them or write reviews...I just want to listen. How can I get paid to do that?

This evening, my Big Human and I did something together that we've never done. We went to the library together. It was one of the most fun things we have done together in a long time! We go to Barnes and Noble together a lot. We usually look at books and that is fun but there was something so much more enjoyable about going to the public library. We go a lot as a family. But we've never gone as a couple. And we went to my favorite branch. The downtown branch. It's housed in an old bank building so it is this grand old structure in the middle of downtown (which is fabulous and charming all on it's own). I picked out a number of books that I can't wait to sit down and read and in fact, I had a hard time choosing which one I would start with. But I've decided (I think) to start with This I Believe II. I haven't read This I Believe I, but I don't think it will stop be from enjoying this one.

In totally unrelated happenings, my Big Human and I stumbled upon an interesting conversation last night that has continued throughout today. We were discussing the naming choice of a soon-to-be-born baby in our peripheral world and my Big Human started talking about how IF we were to have a baby and IF it happened to be a boy, he would not want to name it a junior because he felt that it would be offensive to the two boy small humans that already exist. I agreed with him in part but mainly because I don't like the idea of a junior anyway. Then we started discussing names. I told him some of my favorite boy names, Elijah, Judah, Nicholas, and he thought they were a joke...except for Nicholas. This continued for most of the evening and has kept going today and this evening. I am personally loving it. I'm not sure where it will end up but it started with a bunch of IFs and has gotten to "Patrick...yeah I can handle Patrick..." which is a big step. So maybe my prayers are working? Late August/Early September is right around the corner!