Spastic Spazzing

[Tobi Kaito]

Queen Spazzy

Tobi Kaito

I read FAR too much and too fast to even consider paying cover price for more than a book or two in a year. But paying a dollar for four novels at the local charity shop? I can afford that.
If you're willing to extend your hunt, just slowly collecting the whole set one or two books at a time might be easier than finding a full set in a single place. Unless you have a big shop like a Half Price Books nearby; if I still lived near one, Half Price would probably be my starting point if I wanted to find all of them at once. House illustrated covers WOULD be really cool, though.

Aye, being honest I'd like to collect them all used and in cases of houses in order of importance, like first year Gryffindor cause Harry's first year, Second Slytherin for Chamber of secrets is going off them, prisoner I'd do Gryffindor again for Sirius and Lupin, 4th Hufflepuff for Cedric, OOTP I'd do Ravenclaw, Half blood I'd do Slytherin for Snape, and Last book I'd if they offered it get just a cover that's just the school logo for the school is most important then.

But I'd just be happy with the books normal too as I just want them for rereading purposes, as for pawn shops of books we're in Emmett Idaho so we got to find places here and around Nampa, Boise, Caldwell areas, which it's been awhile since I been out to one cause of the virus I've forgotten what all we had. sweatdrop  

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[Tobi Kaito]

Queen Spazzy

Aye, out west & in my town's case we have some foods like the south from what I heard from random people whom tour our town. Which may be cause some families here had family members whom were born & raised in the more southern states. (I'm one of those families.) Sadly we're also the case our elderly whom did live in them don't share the south recipes so easily so only so much been learnt from us all, and not all keep living here/want to open a restaurant that offers them up.

As for book places thankfully we got a good few, sadly finding the books in a fair to read condition is the big challenge, mostly cause people here in town are too nice and let people donate any kind of book in any condition.
Being honest most my books I had in life as my own were from pawn shops if not kind teachers gifting me their older copies.
Fact my only brand new at the time books I ever got were the HP series, and one was in a bonus giving stickers which was the first book out ever, idk why we also got stickers but I loved it, being a tidy-ish child (cause bedroom said otherwise.) I only used a few on the inner cover of my old book where you put your name to show it's your book.
As for the other random stickers they went between family members, friends, and me placing them on toys sorting my toys into houses for the few house badge ones.

Honest now I'd love to find a old pawn shop that magically has the books and hopefully some of the old stickers about for the memories of it all.

 

[Tobi Kaito]

I been playing two games lately the HL my nephew got himself on the mule account for me on his PS5, but also Persona 4 Golden on my PC Game Pass as it came out for a free to play game on there.
(And of course I got all the other games I own that I play still even now.)

 

[Tobi Kaito]

Homeward Bound is beloved.

 

[Tobi Kaito]

Queen Spazzy

We share the same behavior on old book ownership then as it seems we both love a book that looks like it can fall into dust looking at it wrong & we'd be quite livid if there is pages missing and nothing was told to us. Course for me I'm also mad if someone marked out whole pages I couldn't read a page in the book too.

And for the HP book & stickers both thing I believe it was promotional for the stickers myself, but I can't really say 100% for it was either promotional or our shop keeper was an American friend that got some early merch things & so being nice they gave kids the stickers when they got the new books.
This was around late 90s in 98 or 99 when I got my copy so the most vivid memory was being sad of the lost of my mother most; Though I do recall the place we bought the book was my older niece's favorite Boise book store, couldn't say name for idk it but can say it was her favorite & she wanted HP herself and cause I wanted a new book and saved up lots of pocket change to pick one up I also picked up the first book as I was a bookworm of a child reading at a senior student level by kindergarten. (shocking to most my friends I'm Slytherin and not a Ravenclaw due to that & how my home life was "You study hard now, and always seek to learn." which I'll admit is still in me, hence why my top two highest likely sorted homes at Hogwarts is Slytherin and Ravenlaw.)

As for going deeper as I grew up I can say my thirst of knowledge leaned when older that around 12 when my father's health started to worsen him more I went from a thirst to learn to a ambition to learn all I can in medicines, medical field, science, & even (probably not the smartest or safest for a small 12 yr old child.) the Occult if it led to anything to help my father. {being honest there was also a slight drive of fear losing him too that kicked that into gear.) So in a Hogwarts was real and we got sorted there I feel the hat would have looked deep and seen that ambition to learn for the sake of that I'd have got my house I am, cause once a ambition hits you that kind of thing sticks, as now my father is gone but there's the side of me all "I must still find all I can that helps others like my father recover, and become the best in medical history as (now that I know what he had.) I found an actual cure for Alzheimer's disease that was relatively safe, cause we all know medicinal cures have their flaws.
And Pottermore also sorted me into Slytherin when it was still Pottermore and not Wizarding world as it is now, so you know I'm a Slytherin over here, same as my year older nephew, same as our older friend & GM Nathan & so my home here we all live in is basically the Slytherin house. {Which makes me want to go buy gothic furniture & the house emblem as a painting from my friend Amanda whom is an artist in her own style to have around. Heck my plan B of life is if I don't move to the sciences of medicine craft I'll make a gaming channel on a platform not YouTube as they changed too much now that newer creators have rough times growing, I feel like hiring her to do the art for the still image of videos, the icon for the channel, & a dumb little logo icon I'll change each year to keep her in work of art since I want her to grow and become renown more as an artist.
And given Amanda's a creative Ravenclaw her works going to be eye catching for all her art I feel, plus being honest & blunt on my view if I can have myself & all the people that I like, and that I know, become more if not become overly successful in life I would die happier then most people with high ambitions, even if my life was filled suffering and struggling a lot I was never fully overly powerfully successful as I wished, I'd die happy if I could get at least one or two friends to become famous on their own.

I been around in life too much whom suffer, and can't do things they loved even with their ambition that I honestly want all to achieve theirs while I achieve my own.


Man, when I get talking sometimes I just really go off don't I?
Hope I at least made some sense, but I wont lie English wasn't the grandest for me cause idk when to do some things in our own blasted messed up language we stole from England and made our own English, yet according to studies we Americans kept the ancient accent of the UK Englishmen and the Englishmen made a newer Englishmen accent they all use now.
({Wont lie like an arse when my friends joking around ask me to do an English accent wanting me to do a UK English I like to just look over and tell them "I'm always doing an English accent mate."}

Any way it's good I'm talking more believe it or not, for most times mainly when shy I don't say much, but I should stop and send this before I make a whole page of a book.

 

[Tobi Kaito]

Lovely chamomile are a nice flower to look at, and they are able to become delicious once dead if you boil water up as you can set the dried up flowers in a teapot to steep for about 5 minutes then strain the pot to have made some of chamomile tea.
(And depending the number of dried chamomile you have the stronger the tea brews.)
Being honest I know it makes better with fresh, but idk why you would have to/want to use the fresher flower unless you run some restaurant or brewing place that demands you to use fresh chamomile instead.

 

[Tobi Kaito]

Queen Spazzy

I googled this out of curiosity; So according to a search on there apparently snapdragon petals are edible, but it's an acquired taste for most people.
However in a medical field they serve a good few of purposes to help with diseases and symptoms such as watery eyes, gum scurvy, hemorrhoids, ulcers, liver disorder, and tumors.

As for the appearances of having a nice flower on chamomile tea I guess you're correct there for tbh if I was to make some and want it to look pretty and presentable to the world, then honestly I would also want a fresher petal compared to a dead dried up one; Unless I was presenting it to gothic people or some normal people that preferred the dead flower look.