Pictures for Dorian James...

[I meant to post this last week.] Yes, I was one of the many girls who went to see Sex and the City on premiere night with my gal pal, gussied up in our SATC best. But I was NOT one of the gals who bought her tickets a month early hence having to trek out to the Valley to see the movie since all theaters in Hollywood were sold out of SATC tickets.I went with my childhood friend, Danielle - the same one who is expecting her first child. We had some time before the movie so we roamed Border's bookstore at the Northridge Fashion Center (being at a mall on a Friday night = being swarmed by many teenagers. Reminded me of being young and license-less in the Valley growing up...).


Danielle wanted to buy a new copy of The Picture of Dorian Gray by Oscar Wilde - one of her favourites (and mine)...and who her baby boy will be named after) since she lost many of her books in a fire. We get into the store and instantly get sucked in by the bargain books for children! We scoped out all the different books that baby Dorian should have. One book in particular that popped out to Danielle was a pop-up book of King Tut and Egypt by Niki Horin. Growing up Danielle had always talked about Egypt and couldn't stop reading about it! She would draw pictures of pyramids and vowed she'd becoming an Egyptologist one day. Alas, that did not happen but it hasn't stopped Danielle from reading about Egypt and all its wonder!

The two of us flipped through the book before the previews started and it was so nice to hear my friend go on and on about the different images! She felt silly getting excited over a pop-up book and pop-up books in general (she admits she still loves going through them). But I told her it wasn't anything to be embarrassed about. She is reading about what she loves and that's all that matters! Plus, her baby will have a fun book to explore when he is older.

Along with buying this book and The Picture of Dorian Gray Danielle purchased a kid's "horror" book..."Baby's First Horror Book" or something like that, with cartoon pictures and all. Danielle LOVES anything to do with horror, gore and Fangoria! She can't wait to get lil' Dorian into it, too, and with this book she will start him off young! (How fitting that he will be born around Halloween)



When you were a kid, what did you want to be when you grew up? I had a few things in mind: firefighter, doctor/scientist, general store owner/keeper, and teacher.