I haven't been wanting to post anything of our house because none of our rooms are 100% done...but.....
So this bathroom is not 100% done but I thought I should show it off some. 100% done meaning I need to work on one of the picture frames…and work some some text books ;)
I really wanted to to do something Harry Potter….It really brought back my love of books. Since then I have been on a roll with reading books! I couldn't decide what to do with our bathroom so I decided it was going to be HP!
Come back tomorrow morning to see what I did with it! I have to take pictures first…I haven't yet.
Look forward to:
Harry Potter potion sanitizers
Lumos/Nox
Ministry of Magic
Moaning Myrtle
Spiders
Quidditch
Quotes
Devil's Snare
Candles
Wednesday, April 25, 2012
I am starting an ibs challenge. Let me get through today - I have a paper due and final project presentation - and I will talk to y'all about it. I did add a page at the top for tracking purposes.
Let's just say that I can not have chocolate, carbonation, and fried foods...ughhh
I decided to partake in a digital book club this month! www.pbfingers.com hosts one every month and for April it is The Book Thief.
I am not a huge fan of writing reviews – you can go to Wikipedia and check that out. I really like to talk about it.
What an interesting book! I am not used to reading a book that isn’t dystopian or Harry Potter. This book is fantastic! It is narrated by DEATH. Yeah, death! I actually had to look it up after reading the first chapter to make sure that’s who I thought it was!
This book is great for those who like books that aren’t like others, those who enjoy historical fiction, and those who want to learn some german ;)
It is about a young girl named Liesel who loses her mother and her brother in a small amount of time and goes to live with her new mama and papa. This book is about her life during the Hitler era…and oh….behind the stories of all the books she steals! I recommend this book to anyone and everyone!!
Thursday, April 19, 2012
life has been pretty hectic! I don't have time for much!
Yesterday ----
Up at 4:40am
Left to go to work at 5:30am after walking dogs and getting ready
Worked from 615a-445pm
Drove straight to class
did classwork from 545-730
picked up subway
8pm - finally home
945pm realized I was going to be miserable tomorrow if i didn't go to bed
decided to watch some of Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkiban
Probably didn't go to sleep until 1030
So excited!! I had NO idea that this book was coming out in 19 days!!!
Yup, I pre-ordered a book for the very first time this morning! I had a 10$ gift-card that i got from Groupon, so the book was $.79! I decided to get it in a hardback! You can never have enough books! I read Divergent last summer and wrote about it....Here is what I wrote about Divergent!
In other important news,
This song will NOT get out of my head. DARN YOU, SNL! The one in the red jeans looks like my sisters boyfriend, lol. I don't think he'd be pleased if I told him that. It's just his eyes, lol!
Still trying to organize the house, no pics until parts are done!!
J.K. Rowling has a new book coming out! Hold on to your hats, people: the publisher Little, Brown has just put out a press release giving us the title of JK Rowling’s new book… The Casual Vacancy! The book will be out on the 27th September 2012 (worldwide release date) and Little, Brown also provided a plot summary:
When Barry Fairweather dies unexpectedly in his early forties, the little town of Pagford is left in shock.
Pagford is, seemingly, an English idyll, with a cobbled market square and an ancient abbey, but what lies behind the pretty façade is a town at war.
Rich at war with poor, teenagers at war with their parents, wives at war with their husbands, teachers at war with their pupils…Pagford is not what it first seems.
And the empty seat left by Barry on the parish council soon becomes the catalyst for the biggest war the town has yet seen. Who will triumph in an election fraught with passion, duplicity and unexpected revelations?
Blackly comic, thought-provoking and constantly surprising, The Casual Vacancy is J.K. Rowling’s first novel for adult
Matt says they eat our bugs...fine...but I rather not have 100 spiders hanging out in our backyard. RIP baby spiders...next time go find someone else's house and stop freaking me out.
In other news....
happy meal fries just got more lame. I REALLY enjoy getting 10 fries with my hamburger. Now I get apple slices...with a hamburger? yummy.
So after I decided to start re-reading Harry Potter my other reading came to a screeching halt. I can’t help it – Harry Potter is the best series ever. I was right in the middle of 3 books – The Magicians, Pug Hill, and 1Q84.
I finished the first two last night! 1Q84…yeah….I am on page 600/937 of this long freakin’ book that is great – but is no Harry Potter.
This book was deemed the grown up book for Harry Potter lovers or those who miss reading the HP.
I am not a huge fan of cuss words in a book. This has it.
It was extremely fast paced. It is a story about a kid who gets an invitation to join this Magic College that is hidden from the world. He goes there – has fun – finds a girl – and graduates all in about 200 pages.
The last 100 pages is where they entered this fantasy world that they thought was only in a book (like if we were transported to Hogwarts) and it is not as amazing as they thought – it is hell on earth. He gets through it and gets back to the real world and then the book ends.
I enjoyed the book and wish they wrote more about the college (like they did in HP - always referencing!) Sometimes things got a little too weird for me to follow. But if you want to read an odd book - go for it! I will probably read The Magician King (after all my re-reading of HP) to see what the heck they will talk about in the second book.
Like everyone else, precocious high school senior Quentin Coldwater assumes that magic isn't real, until he finds himself admitted to a very secretive and exclusive college of magic in upstate New York. There he indulges in joys of college-friendship, love, sex, and booze- and receives a rigorous education in modern sorcery. But magic doesn't bring the happiness and adventure Quentin thought it would. After graduation, he and his friends stumble upon a secret that sets them on a remarkable journey that may just fulfill Quentin's yearning. But their journey turns out to be darker and more dangerous than they'd imagined. Psychologically piercing and dazzlingly inventive, The Magicians is an enthralling coming-of-age tale about magic practiced in the real world-where good and evil aren't black and white, and power comes at a terrible price.
There is a second one – I will read it once I am completely done with HP…I have a feeling that reading this book made me go back to HP. Made me miss it.
Pug Hill is a fun and light read. I really enjoyed reading this book. It is about this girl named Hope who works at the MET in NYC. She de-stresses by going to this dog park that is called Pug Hill – a place where pugs roam (She likes the black ones the most!). This is a novel just about her everyday adventures and struggles. I loved it! It wasn’t a dystopian (although I do love) or mystery…just a book to clear my mind!
For Hope McNeill, pugs are love, happiness, freedom-and everything else she finds lacking in her own life. With no time or apartment space for a pug of her own, Pug Hill in Central Park is her one refuge from her mismatched boyfriend, her hopeless coworker crush, and the biggest crisis of all-a speech for her parents' fortieth wedding anniversary that will require her to overcome her huge fear of public speaking.
ON TO reading Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire, and The Book Thief...while working over 40 hours and taking 3 graduate level classes....and moving in a house - I am nuts!
BUSY BUSY BUSY weekend!! I PROMISE everyone that I will have picture tomorrow. I have a lot of work to do, a lot of school work to do, and a lot of unpacking to do.....
but I have to let you know that we got a $340 duvet cover for $71.....blew my mind! Can't wait to show pictures!!
