Wishing everyone a happy holiday season filled with food, family, and of course SNOW!
(how else are you going to build an igloo?)
Sunday, December 25, 2011
Wednesday, December 14, 2011
Christmas Time Is Here!
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| I ♥ my new Christmas tree! |
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| It looks super cool in the dark |
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| I went with a silver and white theme for the ornaments |
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| I wanted to hang the amazing ornaments my Aunt Leslie gave me for christmas last year, but they were too large for my tree... so I hung them on the wall instead! |
Friday, December 9, 2011
Really Amazon? Really?
This is why I don't like Amazon...
Tomorrow, Amazon is going to give people a 5% discount if they use the Amazon Price Check phone app to compare prices for things like toys, electronics, sporting goods, music, and DVDs in stores vs. on Amazon.
The deal doesn't work for books, but is just another way to encourage people to do what they are already doing in bookstores (browsing and finding books to buy in a bricks-and-mortar store, but actually buying them from Amazon, or other online competitor, rather than the physical bookstore).
Amazon is seriously trying to take over the world.
Tomorrow, Amazon is going to give people a 5% discount if they use the Amazon Price Check phone app to compare prices for things like toys, electronics, sporting goods, music, and DVDs in stores vs. on Amazon.
The deal doesn't work for books, but is just another way to encourage people to do what they are already doing in bookstores (browsing and finding books to buy in a bricks-and-mortar store, but actually buying them from Amazon, or other online competitor, rather than the physical bookstore).
Amazon is seriously trying to take over the world.
Sunday, December 4, 2011
Needing Some Encouragement...
I'm seriously lacking the knowledge to finish my final exam and research paper...
Here's hoping those voices start whispering in my ear before 10 p.m. tomorrow night!
Friday, December 2, 2011
I'm Weirdly Excited For This Movie
So the other day I read this statement in one of my shelf awareness issues...
"Ray Bradbury's The Martian Chronicles. I still vividly remember reading this book when I was 11; it cast a spell on me like nothing ever had before. For days afterward, I felt feverish, disoriented, changed. A sense of simply not knowing what to do with myself. Even today, those symptoms follow after I've finished a great book."
That was author Paul Russell's response when asked to name a book that had changed his life.
I mildly embarrassed to say that I've also felt (although way less intensely) the same way after reading a book before. Now, that statement in itself isn't the embarrassing part, rather, it's the fact that The Hunger Games books are the ones that gave me those feverish disoriented feelings.
But it happened.
Last summer, I finally gave in to the Hunger Games craze and read those books. And when I say I read them, I really mean that I devoured them.... like non-stop, can't put it down, dreamed about them kind of devoured. I got so into them (especially the last book) that I got all cold and clammy (I know embarrassing, right?) and had to go outside to read because I was literally shivering in my only moderately air conditioned house.
Geez.
"Ray Bradbury's The Martian Chronicles. I still vividly remember reading this book when I was 11; it cast a spell on me like nothing ever had before. For days afterward, I felt feverish, disoriented, changed. A sense of simply not knowing what to do with myself. Even today, those symptoms follow after I've finished a great book."
That was author Paul Russell's response when asked to name a book that had changed his life.
I mildly embarrassed to say that I've also felt (although way less intensely) the same way after reading a book before. Now, that statement in itself isn't the embarrassing part, rather, it's the fact that The Hunger Games books are the ones that gave me those feverish disoriented feelings.
But it happened.
Last summer, I finally gave in to the Hunger Games craze and read those books. And when I say I read them, I really mean that I devoured them.... like non-stop, can't put it down, dreamed about them kind of devoured. I got so into them (especially the last book) that I got all cold and clammy (I know embarrassing, right?) and had to go outside to read because I was literally shivering in my only moderately air conditioned house.
Geez.
Now, there's a trailer for the movie and I'm kind of excited by it.
Are you?
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