Rambling Thoughts for a Friday Afternoon

Okay, I realize when starting a garden a smart thing to do would be to read a gardening book, which I did buy, by the way. It's true I have a book addiction - I love book anything (it's one of my secret dreams to have a library room in my house someday...you know, one of those fancy pants rooms you see in like Pottery Barn where there are book shelves floor-to-ceiling with a ladder that rolls from one side of the room to the other and big, plush leather chairs scattered around with huge french doors to one side where bright sunlight streams in and the smell of coffee lingers in the air...I know, I know, I'm a dork but I really do dream of this room with shelf after shelf of all my favorite books and a million others I've bought and haven't yet read...) Anyway! So, of course, I bought the book - the all inclusive self-help for (dense) first gardners book...which is sitting prettily on my nightstand right under about five photography books, a romance novel (or two - yup, guilty vice), a notepad with scribbled, non-legible notes and five post-it notes stuck haphazardly on top of that and right next to a bottle of water and chapstick (two things I cannot possibly live without in life). Yes, I love my books and note pads and post-it notes and chapstick...
Where was I?...okay! - so, got the book but failed to read it - yet. In the meantime, the season doesn't stop so I went ahead and planted my garden, following the directions on the seed packs. And lookie, lookie what we have! We have actual produce! Woho! Now, I have no idea how to actually harvest, pick, whatever or when I'm supposed to harvest, pick, whatever but you have to agree, it sure looks pretty, eh? I think I'm good on the tomatoes - pick when red. The corn, pick when you see corn. The carrots - not sure on that and the spinach...totally clueless (I know it seems self-explanatory - when it looks like ripe spinach, pick it, but so far it doesn't look like any kind of spinach I'm familiar with so....?). So obviously I have a LOT to learn about gardening...which I will...right after I hit those five photo books, edit my last session, finish my first newsletter, yadda yadda yadda....
And here's the rambling part (again) - you know what I often wish in cases like this - when there are so many things you want to accomplish and not enough time...remember the movie Short Circuit when the robot could flip through a book and assimilate the entire contents within a matter of seconds?....that! THAT'S what I want! If I'm ever granted special powers - you know, like as in Heros - (and note to God, just in case you're reading and granting special powers today :)) that's what I want to be able to do. :)