Stacking the Shelves--The Happy & Sad Report

 

Stacking the Shelves is all about sharing the books you are adding to your shelves, may it be physical or virtual. This means you can include books you buy in physical store or online, books you borrow from friends or the library, review books, gifts, and of course ebooks! The meme is now hosted by Reading Reality.

Well, I write this in sort of a down mood...even though nothing has been confirmed, I just have a bad feeling. The week was the usual, a little mundane but we are ramping into our busy season at work so things will be hectic for awhile. But anyway, Friday I went to view another house, another condo. It was PERFECT! Absolutely perfect for me! It was small, but still sizeable. It had a basement, a garage...it basically had the 4 items that made my MUST HAVES! Bonus: BUILT IN BOOKSHELVES!! Granted, it was only two but still a HUGE PLUS! It was in a good area, close to my parents so they could still help me if I needed it. Not much further for my sister and her family for when they visit my parents, lol. Really, I was closer! The price was at my high end, but I figure, I could swing it. It's freaking perfect! I put in my offer that day but the owner has 48 hours to review before accepting...but then last evening I was informed they were out of town, so they've been given an extra 24 hours. There's a lot of interest in this condo. And I could only offer list price as it was already almost too expensive for me. So I'm worried. Very, very worried. I just know someone is going to offer more and I can't match that. I told myself Friday not to get too excited...but I did. I was already dreaming of setups and layouts. When my realtor told me the owner was getting an extra day, I just had this immediate gut feeling that I was already out. Which put me in a very bad spiral last night. Let's just say cookie dough was involved. Lol. So yeah, I'll be spiraling again all day today and pretty much all day tomorrow until I get the news. I was trying to be positive and optimistic but after my realtor texted me the update, I was just hit with this gut feeling...I was already outbid. But if anyone cares to throw some good vibes and good luck, crossed fingers, spare 4-leaf clovers my way, I'd appreciate it!

To further add to my feelings of impending doom, my missing book is still missing. A replacement was ordered but that's going to take another week to get to me...on the very same route the missing book went, so yeah.

Here's what I got this week:

Alchemy of Secrets by Stephanie Garber--The Bookish Box edition! Sadly, I am not subscribed to this book box, but people are always reselling and I managed to snag a good one! Less than the cost TBB sells them for in their shop AND it was still sealed!! It's positively beautiful!! And what's bonkers is that I got this one BEFORE my replacement of last week's book and it shipped AFTER that one did!

Then the slap in the face was this week I received my preorder gift for Habits of the Sea...the very book that went missing and is being reshipped on the same doomed flight path.

These are short little journal entries from the FMC and they give you a place to put them in the book to read them. So whenever that book comes and I get a chance to read it, this will be a fun activity! Eventually...someday! 

THANK YOU Simon & Schuster!

And then prior to my going to look at this dream house of mine, I saw this Vera Bradley tote on sale online and even though I already have the "other" Belle and books pattern...I couldn't resist this deal!

I mean...if it wasn't a light purple (that's insanely hard to see on this screen I feel like) I could've talked myself out of it...but it was purple and it was Belle...reading a book! A purple book!

And that was it for me this week. What all did you get?