Friday, July 6, 2012

Finally Friday...

It is most certainly Friday and boy am I thankful for that. It has been a truly long week and having a holiday in the middle did not make it any better. I'm glad that it was a day off but it just seemed to make it that much longer before it ended. Then again that makes me wish that I worked a job that gave me a real weekend but then again I know better than to complain about having a job. I could have no job right now.

There are so many things going on right that I don't know where to start. I am still working on my 30 before 30 list which has gone by the wayside in favor of other books that I did not put on the list because they came in after I finished the list. I have started reading the Dreamhouse Kings series and I really can't wait to go out and buy the second one because the first one just seems to end all of a sudden. Then I have to go out and find the sequel to Evil Genius because it was pretty awesome and I'm not really sure where the next one is going to go because it just didn't seem wrapped up at the end.

I really shouldn't complain about a story ending and not being wrapped up at the end because I know that there are several things that I've written that just end and I ended them where I did because they just seemed to be perfect where they stood. This was also a bit of a plot device because I wanted the reader to feel the same way the character did just lost, to know the feeling issues being unresolved. 

Back to the 30 before 30, I will be writing about all the books that I read just to make me work more at blogging more instead of schlepping around Facebook playing childish games that have me swamped or on Pinterest looking at things I can't afford, fit into or am too lazy to exercise or cook. Then again anyone who has been on Pinterest knows that it will suck you in and never let you go if you let it.

I am also in the process of having to move everything over from my old laptop to me new one that dear sweet Just a Boy bought me as an early birthday present. I am really loving it even though it doesn't sound like it because I just downloaded antivirus onto my computer and all that good stuff. But I will admit that Google Chrome is the most kick butt awesome thing that you can have as far as internet goes because after downloading it logging in there tonight are all of my favorites and bookmarks are there waiting for me. Passwords though are not and I have successfully locked myself out of my online bank account. So Tuesday morning I will be making a trip to the bank to see what it takes to get it unlocked. It also doesn't help that I think that there has been some kind of change to something that I was not completely aware of because the letter looked like one of those generic we will not sell your information letters you get all the time, soooo I didn't exactly read it. Then I think really by the time that I realized it I had already locked myself out and it obviously has an indefinite lock out period. Which blows and I will have to come up with a new password even though I'm not really sure which one I got wrong. 

Anyway it is getting a little past my bedtime since I do have to go to work and some people have a tendency to call in sick as much as they want. I just hope that doesn't have to because since there was a holiday I don't get overtime pay but I still have 30 minutes overtime already and not really sure how that works since I don't remember being early or any of that good stuff this week. I think though I have been on time more this week because I have been dragging myself out of bed in the morning and being extremely grouchy and sluggish. 

Must exercise more to keep this from happening as often but I do enjoy my sleep much more than when I am exercising. Too much work for so little sweat. It takes a ridiculous amount of anything to make me sweaty. I also sweat in the worst places like under my knees, not the backs but between the knee and the shin that is where I sweat and is really gross. Ankles are pretty sweaty too. Not too many other places sweat but then again I would have to work harder to get that to happen. 

So much to do so little time to do it all.

love ya!



Wednesday, April 25, 2012

So long....

I know that it has been a long time since I just sat down and thought about what I wanted to write. I know that I'm not the best and sticking with anything for long periods of time without there being any reward. There is  no reward for this, I have very few followers and probably won't ever have many.

I am currently struggling with that end of the school year lag. My brother is graduating from high school so I am pulling all kinds of stops out. I am currently working on a t-shirt quilt that is taking up the better portion of my living room. I have silk flowers for prom flowers all over my dining room table. I am exhausted to a point where I really don't know what to do other than cry. I know that I need to take a shower, do laundry, fold clothes, wash dishes, clean the fridge and sleep until my brother graduates from college.

I have been neglecting being on here in favor of reading other blogs just because well it is easier to see what others are writing about instead of actually just sitting here working on something for myself. I guess really I am trying to find out who I am right now in this blogging world. Do I want to blog about my life? Blog my clothes? The very slow and unmotivated weight loss journey that I am on? Crafts? Books? There are just so many options and I don't know what to do.

Really my life has never been about any kind of control, I just wander aimlessly around waiting for the right thing to hit me at the right time. I hate to sit and rush something because it just feels forced and I know that it sounds forced. No one wants to read drivel that could simply be your own life. I'm not here to just sit and complain about what is going on in my life, but it is hard for me to let people into my personal life because there are so many things that just hurt to talk about. I know that this seems like no where but I am racing the battery right now and I see the screen starting to dim and that means that time is limited. I would like to get to bed before midnight tonight because it has been a few weeks since that has happened. My new smart phone is keeping me awake at night because now I have all these games that I can play at night instead of reading because I don't need a light for the phone. I have finished another book on my thirty before thirty and I guess that means I should sit down and right about what I thought. I need to check and see what books are on that list. I guess at night I could read Hard Times instead of playing games since I downloaded it on the books app.

I am going to try and do this a little more often. I would like to have more than a mass of posts at the beginning of the year, a smattering in the summer months and then this mad dash at the end of the year to make it seem like I don't care about it.

love ya!

Wednesday, March 14, 2012

Thinking out loud....

I've been doing a lot of thinking lately about family. There are just so many things that you don't really think about until someone else says something to you about it.

Just_a_boy and I both are quite interested in history which leads you to the road of genealogy. Of course that right now just means using Google and whatever free resources there are on the internet. A recent check on, ancestry.com led me to a startling revelation on my family history, okay really not such a revelation but a realization of the past. I guess if your parents were born here in the states you just assume that your family has been here, that your family has always lived in America. On my dad's side of the family that just isn't true...I happen to be just a third generation American. That really isn't that far removed from the old country if you think about it, less than 100 years.

Monday, March 12, 2012

Trying this out...

I'm not sure how this is going to go. This post is coming from my phone. New phone means a new chance to learn how  everything that is simple and easy on your phone can actually be difficult and annoying. But I do like that this means that I now have more access to this pretty much everywhere. That doesn't mean that I will be blogging more it just means I have more options of when and where.

love ya!

Friday, March 9, 2012

30 before 30...

I keep seeing these kinds of posts and I liked the idea of pushing myself to read. So really here it goes this is my list of thirty books before I turn thirty and I am sure that I will be adding books to this list because well I already have. Actually as I was reading over the list I saw that there was one book that I had accidentally put on there twice which is no big deal because I already read a book since I started this and I have started another, both of which are not on the list. The rules which I promptly broke were that these were books that at some point I had started or where already in my possession. I also didn't want it to be that I read thirty books at random, that I would set a goal and just write down the books as I read them. All of these books I had when I made this list with the exception of Eat Pray Love. It took the place of the duplicate Catch 22 which I had not seen until tonight. 

So here goes...
1. Great Expectations April 29, 2016
2. Emma
3. The Savage Detectives
4. Hard Times
5. Sacred Hunger
6. Brave Men Gentle Heroes
7. Catch 22
8. The Hobbit
9. The Clue in the Diary
10. The Bear
11. Across Five Aprils
12. Confessions of an Ugly Stepsister oops! Not sure.
13. Doctor Zhivago
14. Quarterdeck & Bridge
15. Shiloh in Hell Before Night
16. The Gangs of New York
17. Hello Charlie
18. Tarnished Scalpels
19. Eat Pray Love  April 20, 2012
20. Women in Vietnam
21. Elizabeth the Struggle for the Throne
22. Pigs in Heaven
23. Animal Dreams
24. Debt of Honor
25. The Origin of Species
26. The Screwtape Letters
27. The Unknown Soldier
28. The Concrete Blond
29. Anne of Green Gables
30. Anne of Avonlea

Each of these books probably has a story as to why it is on the list and I will go into that with each post about the book.

love ya!

Sunday, February 26, 2012

Sad news...

I do have sad news. This morning I came downstairs turned on the lights in the fish tank to find my more Dolly swimming upside down. She wasn't quite gone but we had to pull her out. She was doing her best to try and swim and not have us notice that she was swimming upside down. They always seem to float a little crooked but this was just too sad. She kept swimming into the bubbles to get flipped over but she just didn't have the stamina to make it.

love ya!

End of the month...

I really keep meaning to get on here and write something but I just haven't had the time or energy. I still don't even really have anything to say I just hate feeling like I've abandoned this. I'm doing good if I get to read some of the blogs that I follow on a regular basis. I've been spending a lot of time on Pinterest and that takes up way more time than you would think.

I am going to try and work on getting some more stuff up here in the next few weeks. I think I may have found some more chairs for my dining room table which means I have to get on cleaning up my house so that I can get  them in my dining room which is kinda small.

love ya!