A New Adventure

I've been following my favorite arthur, Eloisa James, on a blog tour. I now have an even more passion for reading and respect for the arthors that write the books I love. What I love even more is the personal response I received from Eloisa on her blog tour. It was sooooo cool! A personal response from the comments I left. Reading all the different sorts of things from her personal life to how she writes the books to everything and anything else, she has inspired me to try a new adventure: writing a novel. Now I am no literature major nor close to it but it would be neat to try. I'm not too sure what time I will use to do this adventure but I know if I want to do it bad enough I'll find it. (Here I'm finished with school I'd figured I'd have tons of time on my hands! Where does it all go?) Last night I was thinking of a subject I can write my novel about. I need something that I have knowledge on so it won't come out stupid-sounding. Sooooo...with my Twilight obsession I thought of writing about a girl who loves to read and falls in love with one of the characters from a book she reads. Of course there will be much more to the story once I think about it more and actually start writing it. I know that this adventure will be a long term adventure but wouldn't it be cool to do?

I'm not a big TV watcher as Joe needs the TV on at all times even if he's not paying attention to it which drives me insane! So I guess between my reading, graphic design work, day job work and family time, I will squeeze in becoming an arthur. No high hopes of making it big like Stephenie Meyer but just another little accomplishment I can do in life for myself. What are your thoughts on this?

Twilight

It's 110% official. I am obsessed with the Twilight book series. I'm in love with the characters. All I want to do is read. I'm averaging 1 book a week. I just started reading Breaking Dawn (book 4) last night. This all started when Sara wouldn't let me watch the movie until I read the book. So on the flight home from Paris I started reading. I couldn't stop. I read almost the entire book! I was eager to start reading New Moon afterwards. Everyone laughs at me at how I've jumped on the Twilight bandwagon and I am so taken by them. But who cares! I'm enjoying myself! I LOVE this fantasy world with Edward and Bella. All I can think about is Edward; how he sparkles in the sunlight; his body rock solid and ice cold; his awesome shiny silver Volvo and how he drives so fast; his fast running speed; his "old-fashion" gentleman personality. OMG I even dream of the stories at night! There's also werewolves involved in the stories and their body heat is like 108 degrees. Well Joe gives off a lot of body heat so I'm dreaming more of the werewolves than I am of the vampires! LOL.





Crazy, crazy what a fictional story will do to you. I did watch the movie and can't wait for New Moon to come out in November. I'm so addicted it's almost not funny...

Happy St. Patty's Day

I have said that I am Polish. I am. 50% Polish. In my other half I hold 1/8 Irish. YES! I have true reason to celebrate today! So in honor of St. Patty's Day, here is Flogging Molly for your viewing/listening entertainment.

Ppffffftt...Excuse Me!

My family is quite open about our natural gases. We have one rule: at dinnertime we do not discuss our natural body wastes (poop) or anything related to it (farts). Any other time it's open discussion. And if the opportunity arises to put your behind up against a loved one and let one rip, do it! (This really pertains to me and Joe. Sara's more secretive.) Well tonight we were sitting at the dinner table eating and all of a sudden out of nowhere I let one go. It was a soft one but of course it happened as soon as we quit talking so it was quiet enough to hear it. I didn't mean to. It just slipped out. Sara and I both had a mouth full of food and we were cracking up laughing. Joe was going on about how I broke the one dinnertime rule and I was laughing too hard with food in my mouth to hear what else he said. We all got tummy aches from laughing so hard. I've been a little gassy tonight so my goal it to give one directly to Joe tonight. heeheehee <---evil laugh.

Today's Update

I'm home sick today. The past week I've been battling a sore throat and cough. I figured over the weekend I'd get better. Nope. I woke up with even a worse sore throat and a dang cough that won't go away. So I called in sick to work, although I am virtually working from home. Gotta love today's technology. I went to the doctor and I have an upper respiratory infection. Lovely. But hopefully the meds will kick in tonight and I'll be able to get some sleep without the cough.

I was hoping to work on schoolwork and also my graphic design stuff but that has yet to happen. It's almost 3pm and in about 45 min I must go pick up Sara from her Nana's (she's been there all weekend) and bring her to the orthodontist. Let's hope he has better news of a date when those babies come off!

I know yesterday I kinda complained about my V-day weekend. Well after I posted I did have a great evening last night. It was just me, Joe, thick-n-juicy grilled steaks and steamed veggies. Then followed with chocolate covered strawberries. It was actually quite nice since no one else was around and that makes up for the driving 30 minutes to Buddy Freddy's. lol.

OH! I have exciting news! I don't know why it's taken me 2 weeks to blog this but Joey has moved out of the house!! No more stress and less drama! Woohooie! He's living with his mom so he can be her problem now. Even Joe admitted it's nice because it's less stress for him too. Joey got the rest of his stuff yesterday but did leave a mess for us. (What's new right?) We are going to de-joey-tize the bedroom and turn it into our exercise room. I'm sooooo excited!

Ok, going to try to be productive...

Socks!

With all the political talk going on I decided to stay away from it on my blog. So today I'm focused on my socks! But before that I will say I haven't forgotten about my blog or my dear followers. Work has been busy which is cutting into my blog time. So here are today's socks. Just some colorful stripes and dots. Happy Wednesday!

Socks

What a great day it is! Who am I kidding? It's frickin cold!! I'd much rather be at home in my nice warm bed. Since I had to get up and come to work, I decided today was a great sock day. Here's today's socks. Have a wonderful day!

Socks

I like socks. Well, not all the time but mainly about 3 months out of the year. Being in FL I wear flip-flops most the time. If I had my way I'd go barefoot everywhere but then that wouldn't be too safe either. The weather here has finally started to cool off. The past few days it's been mid 60's when I leave for work. High's are mid 80's. It's great! Being a true Floridian (born & raised!) anything below 70 is cold to me. So that means it's hibernation time for my flip-flops and time for socks and closed toe shoes. I've started my sock season with a taste of Halloween. See:



I bought a new pair for Halloween that were ankle socks and they had a little bat attached to the back that dangles off but unfortunately my shoes were too tall in the back and the bats didn't fit. :-( So Sara took them. I have many Christmas socks that I am looking forward in wearing. I think I will make a series of sock posts just so I can display my cool-looking socks. So here's to a happy sock season!

The New Me...Kinda

Today I colored my sister's hair. It's always fun playing hair salon. LOL. We went to the store and picked out her color. She wanted something different, something silly, something out there. So we decided on candy apple red. Her hair color is similar to mine, light brown, so we knew this red wouldn't be that red but enough to give her that look she wanted. I started off pulling small bits of hair thru the highlighting cap (or whatever that thing is called.) That task took forever! Then on went the color! While the color was setting we decided to do mine too. But not too out there as hers. She just put a streak on each side. She ended up giving Sara a few small streaks and even my mom! So now we all have red in our hair! Here is my new do:



Whatcha think? It looks better in person. ;-) Sara's is cute, Jenn's came out good, she has red streaks all over her head. I think Mom's looks the best though! Her hair is a lighter color so it just looks awesome.

Now looking at this picture, I never realized how oval my face is. Hhmmmm I really don't have any comments on that especially since it's something I cannot change. But I love me and all that I am!

Well, time to hit my schoolbooks.