What? No books!?

Went to the Westfield shopping centre in Tuggerah today.  I have to say, despite buying a new sweater and a nice long sleeve shirt for the winter, I was quite disappointed.

Why?

Because they got rid of the book stores.

No joke. Both of the book stores in the mall are gone.  I am beyond disappointed.  I know that Borders went out of business (or was bought out or something), but the book store underneath Borders is gone now, as well.  What is it now?

A Telstra shop.  Yes, phones are apparently cooler than books.

It's like having 10 or so other stores that have to do with phones and technology in the mall is so much more important than reading something on paper (Ugh, seriously, who uses PAPER anymore!?).

I'm so disappointed in humankind right now. :[

My Writing Bone is Rusty

I've been (attempting to) write in this blog fairly often... So far it's working (kinda!).  As a result of it, I've been typing a tad more often, and that's been making me miss the days when I would spend hours and hours a day just writing writing writing in MS Word.

Granted, most of my writing was about Sailor Moon and stuff of that sort, but hey, I was young!

Now that I'm older (kinda....!), I'd like to give a whack at writing again.  I've been thinking a lot about stories I liked to read when I was younger. I recall one author that really stood out to me, Roald Dahl.  He was the author of such gems as The BFG, James and the Giant Peach, and a few others you may remember.

Anyway, just thinking about those books I read back when I was younger made me (perhaps foolishly) begin to believe I'd do at least okay at writing something.

One nearly-all-nighter later, I've come up with an idea. And I'd like for you to read it and comment below with your suggestions. I will post what I have after the break.

Woot! A Quick Update

Our immigration agent sent our visa application this week, and when I last checked, it was on its way to its destination. Yay! I'm so happy to have all the paperwork and stress of that off my chest. Now the most we've got to worry about is the approval of the visa application and repaying the loan we had to take out to pay for all of it while staying afloat with other stuff.

We discovered a book store in Sydney by Central when we went to pay off our application fee. It's called "Basement Books" or something to that effect. It's under the street, in a pedestrian tunnel thing that go to the trams I think. I don't know for sure. But the prices there on books were AMAZING. I bought a new book, The Complete Illustrated Encyclopedia of Witchcraft and Practical Magic by Susan Greenwood and Raje Airey. I found it laying amongst books about dream interpretation, and figured that it would be a good read.