A Real Post

Alright, I was hoping to be able to update this blog on Sunday talking about how much fun I had Saturday night as part of my new years resolution. Have I mentioned what my New Years Resolution is? If I have, jump down a couple lines. If not, keep reading. My resolution is to try one new thing or step outside my comfort zone at least once a month. I already have a few very cool things planned. In August I'm visiting Tracy in Alaska (soooo excited!) in April, Oliver and I are going skydiving for my birthday (yes, I know. I'm crazy. I've heard this before.... but I'm still VERY excited). Saturday night was supposed to be my something new for January. I was supposed to go to a gay bar with Baybhee and Ally. Only, Ally text messaged me around three Saturday afternoon saying she had a headache. There was no way I was going by myself to a gay bar with Baybhee. My something new for January was NOT going to be to be ditched at a gay bar while Baybhee goes and hits on other girls, leaving me to fend for myself (this would definitely be out of my comfort zone, which is the second clause to my resolution, but I was hoping to ease myself into this by like...eating alone or something). So January's "something new" is still in the works.

So instead of going into DC Saturday night, I hung out close to home with Oliver. We went to our favorite Bar to have drinks and watch the game. And oh yeah, it was kind of his birthday. LOL. Got very drunk. I only had three Captain and Cokes, but I think it was mostly Captain Morgan with some Coke coloring. Joe had to drive me home, and then I had to drive back out with Dad and Helene to get my car. Come to think of it, my "something new" for January could be sitting in a car with Helene for twenty minutes without killing her.... haha. Woke up Sunday morning feeling a little dazed, but not hungover. So go me.

Everyone at work seems to be on a diet. I get yelled at anytime I snack in front of them, which is semi-annoying since I'm NOT on a diet... but it's working out in my favor anyway. I've lost ten pounds in the last month. I'm starting to go to Zumba class two times a week. I'm trying to step onto my Wii Fit at least every other day, just to do the fitness test, and when I can't make it to Zumba class or I feel guilty, I bought Zumba for the Wii. The Zumba Wii is broken into twenty minute classes, which is about 25-40 minutes shorter than the actual Zumba classes, but by the end of that twenty minutes I'm sweating and out of breath, so it's no less intense.

Something I'm going to try to get back into the habit of doing on here is to post what books I'm reading. It feel through last year I think around the time I went back to school because everything I read was school related and not always interesting... but I was reading Sara's blog the other day and she said she read 125 books last year, which is pretty remarkable. I want to keep track, because I bet I read just as many (because according to people around me, I'm "strange" for liking to read so much). I'm also going to post books that I've started and not been able to finish because I couldn't get into them. There's been two already this year (that itself should be a record).

Also, just finished my "last" final draft my Collide. One of the months this year, my something new is going to be writing a query letter and trying to get published. Stay tuned for that one. Well, I've gotta get going... I've got to be at work in an hour and my hair is still wet and I'm laying in bed... haha

 

This is the book I've actually read this year. I LOVE LOVE LOVE Sarah Dessen. Although, my argument to her would be to try to solve her main character's problems without revolving them around a boy. I understand people don't always like reading unhappy endings, but in real life the girl doesn't always end up with the boy. 

Could not for the life of me get through this book. I noticed this made Sara's "honorable mention" list for her top ten favorite books of 2010, but I couldn't get past page 75...and it was a fight to make it that far. I just couldn't subscribe to the ideas Condie was trying to introduce. None of the characters seemed real. (I was going to say none of the characters seemed likable, but Bob would argue with me that characters don't have to be likable in order for a book a to sell). None of the conversation seemed real. I had more questions to ask after each page than were being answered. If you're going to write about a fictional society, you need to be damn sure you explain everything. Like what the hell is a dream tab??? 

Another one I couldn't finish. I should have been discouraged by the fact Stephenie Meyer praised it, since I'm sure we all know how much I simply ADORE her.... but I couldn't read it. I might have been able to struggle through it if it were categorized as a Young Adult book... but then, maybe not. I found this book in the Fiction section of Borders and had high hopes for it as someone who is starting to swear off boys and their stupidity. But there is only so much dialogue I can take of characters saying "What to the evs" before I lose respect for them. I understand these characters are in high school. But I believe not everyone in high school is petty and speaks like they're five. Even when they weren't talking in slang the conversation wasn't believable. (And yes, the title is in reference to the Beatles' song. The main character's name is Penny Lane. Gag.)

I have one more week of reading before school starts again. I have one book I'm going to take into work with me today, and I think when I return "Lonely Hearts Club" I'm going to pick up "Excellent Women" which I'd never heard of before yesterday....there's a back story to this but now I'm really running late and I'll explain it later...