Which caused me to give her a confused and odd look.

The first thing that popped into my head was I’d choose the dog over the diamonds. I was never a fan of diamonds, they’re too plain, in my opinion. And it actually irritates me that my birthstone is a diamond. Why couldn’t I have something cooler, like opal (I’m a sucker for things that reflect different colors) or emerald? Something with much more colorful? As much as I love my wedding band set, I hate that it’s diamond. Which yes, my husband is well aware of (I do love my engagement ring because he picked it and if I had it my way, my wedding band would had been a simple band but for some odd reason a simple band cost a few hundred more than one lined with diamonds).

I thought about this slogan a little more.

You say that diamonds a woman’s best friend. I get that visual of a lady staring at her hand in excitement in a jewelry store. Then you say a dog is a man’s best friend and I get a visual of a man sitting on the couch watching TV with his dog. Material versus companionship.

A diamond won’t be at home waiting for you after work. You can’t talk to a diamond, well you can, if you’re loony. A diamond can’t sense your feelings on bad days and it can’t protect you. A diamond isn’t loyal and you can’t cuddle with it. It’s just there. To stare at. And show off. A dog is capable of being your best friend. It’s protective of you and will put itself in danger for your safety.

I adore my dog, he means the world to me. He gives me hugs and kisses and when I cry, he sits with me and licks the tears off my face. When my mom is sick, he’ll lay with her in bed and let no one near her. When my cat comes home bloody from another cat fight, he licks her cuts and lets no one near her.

I’d rather have a man’s best friend over a woman’s any day!

Anyway, my fourth class at UoP ended last Monday. I’m starting a new class this Monday and I haven’t even met the teacher yet. In fact, our discussion page isn’t even set up yet so she took the time to email everyone the syllabus. Why? Because we have an essay due, the first day of class. About three chapters we’re suppose to read.

Why, nice to meet you too!

Ugh. Sometimes I think college isn’t for me. But I do love this school and I am excited for my career, so I just have to shut up and suck it up.

My Amazon order isn’t coming in this week, which means I get no new books this week. Well that’s not completely true. I got 3 books this week so far for review, one of which I’m really excited to read (Siren by Tricia Rayburn). I also got an email back from Penguin Publishing finally and they approved my request for the two ARC’s I wanted. So I’m excited about that as well! Now if only I could get an email back from HarperTeen…

I’ve realized that I spore up and my brain turns into mush in the summer. It’s just too freakin hot to think or do anything. I can’t wait until Fall, that’s when I wake up and start getting creative. I love cool and cold weather!

I wish I had asked my dad to get me a chocolate parfait… darn.

I’ve had a headache all weekend, it’s driving me nuts. I took NyQuil last night which eased it until well, now. I absolutely hate headaches, and I get them frequently. They stopped for awhile when I started drinking water, but I’ve been slacking on drinking water… so they’re back. I know I should start again, especially since it’s been really really hot lately, sometimes I doubt I think.

A bit off subject, my brother threw away a bunch of things that reminded me of him, or the him he use to be. His turn tables, his xbox and the Pwawa doll I gave him when we were kids. Shouldn’t hurt my feelings right? Yeah, it shouldn’t.

Another thing off subject… my reading week has been slow. I only finished one book this week and I finished it last night (which was cute cause as soon as I turned the last page, my husband goes “did you like your book?” and I was laying behind him and he was playing a game… how did he know I finished it?!)… I’m still struggling through “Sea Change” and I have to start “Butterfly” soon. I started “Other” last night awhile after I finished “The Swan Kingdom” (which didn’t have anything to do with a “swan kingdom”). It’s funny because I requested a review copy of “Other” and when they took too long to respond (I assumed the publishing company skipped my request), I bought a copy and the next day the publishing company responded. Don’t you hate when things like that happen? I love that I’m getting ARC’s and review copies, it makes reading and blogger so much more fun. I know everyone says you shouldn’t blog for the ARC’s, but it’s a nice feeling knowing that publishing companies think you’re worthy of it. Does that make sense?

I need to get my “to review” book pile out of the way, I’m a bit behind on two books. I have a few more ARC’s coming in this week… and I hate how impossible it is to reach Penguin…. argh. I’ll keep trying until I finally reach them (or until the books I want are relased)!

You’d think, after 6 years together, it would change right? That’s not really true. I’m still selfish. I still put myself before anyone else (most of the time). I still prefer days alone over days with my husband (thank God he understands this). I would think by now, after being with someone for 6 years and at 25 years old, I woulda matured a little. And I have, but not in the area’s where it would oh I don’t know… help my marriage?

Maybe it was the idea that I never intended to get married. But life never works out the way you want to and the military can cause a great deal of pressure. So of course, being married when I never planned on ever being married… is a struggle for me most days. I don’t get this marriage thing! I don’t get this “we” shit. I don’t understand why “we” have to make decisions “together”. I mean shit, can’t we just pull the solution out of a hat or something? I don’t get what “we’re a family” means. It just doesn’t click in my head.

We had our first misunderstanding as a married couple the other day and I think this is worth documenting. It didn’t involve screaming, tears or me breaking glass (or windshields). He sat me down, forced me to look at him while he explained his side followed by “do you understand?” except it was much more of a statement than a question. I tried to argue my point but it always went back to “do you understand?” yes I understand but me, being selfish and stubborn, I’m going to say no!

At the end of it all, I got a big hug a kiss and an “I love you”.

Maybe I should not understand more often kidding.

I’m working on this being married thing. Just don’t hold your breath love, this may take a few… decades. Just sayin’.

The next day (yes, I couldn’t wait!) I went back and picked out some books but my husband reminded me that I had already gotten too many books that week (and he was right, I did — I got my order from mkzbooks.com and one from Amazon), so I didn’t walk out with anything. But we walked around the cute little plaza that it was in. It had a bunch of sushi places so we went out to go look for one to have dinner at. We also bumped into a cute cupcake/gelato/fro-yo place. I should had taken a picture! Maybe next time .

We settled for a place called Happy Roll. The atmosphere was relaxing. I had the Seafood Udon and my husband had his usual… California Rolls.

My adorable sushi partner!

The Udon was delicious! It was a little spicy, but in my opinion… it gave the Udon a nice little kick. It also had Shrimp, baby Octopus, Muscles, Salmon and Scallops in it! For a nice price too. I would definitely come back here, especially during lunch when everything is cheaper… we were there for dinner and dinner for both of us was already under $19! And the California Rolls? Best I’ve ever had! The crab tasted fresh and sweet!

As much as I wanted Gelato after, we didn’t really have the money so we went to Baskin Robbins in hopes that they had the $1 scoop Tuesdays… but I guess they didn’t… the girl told us it was $1.50 scoop every day! She sounded excited when she said it lol. I had hubby pick out a flavor for me since my new found favorite (Icing on the Cake) was out of season . He picked Strawberry, since I he noticed I haven’t had it in awhile. And he made her put it on a cone too lol. It’s been years since I had an ice cream cone. He got his soft serve with the color changing powder that he likes so much.

He’s such a kid when it comes to ice cream!

The side of the street that Half Priced Books is on. Next to it is a spaghetti restaurant (never been there but sounds interesting), a Thai restaurant and a Peets Coffee.

The park across the street from Half Priced Books and my ice cream! This looked so much more clear on my camera lol.

Now I want another ice cream cone!

Well, I was having a crappy night last night. You know… bills, debt, the usual. And my phone broke! The clicky thing on the charger broke or something and now it won’t hold the charger so I had to rubber band the charger on. Ugh. I hate when something’s wrong with my phone, it makes me grumpy! Hopefully I can replace it… unless Sprint doesn’t let me, then I’ll be REALLY grumpy!

Then I realized that Amazon gift cards are only one time use things… so the $10 I saved from my birthday Amazon gift card is now invalid. Great.

I got an email this morning from the open casting call for the Wicked fan commercial… I applied for it a few days ago along with a musical reporter job and they emailed me asking me some questions about myself, so I responded to it last night and they emailed me this morning ask me to come in for the casting call on Sunday!

I. Am. So. Excited!

If they ask me to come back again to film my story for it the commercial I get tickets to the Beauty & the Beast musical that’s coming up (which I reallyyyy wanna see)! And of course, I star in a commercial lol. But yeah, whoohoo! Hella excited!

Now if only my bills would disappear…

I made an order on Amazon last night, I couldn’t resist! And I was tired of waiting for my Wizard of Oz comic book to be listed. They ship separate anyway! I was mostly excited because I got the second Wicked Lovely book (Ink Exchange) for $3.90! It was on sale, whoohoo! I’m so excited to read it, even if Ash and Seth aren’t the main characters in this one, they will be in the next book. But I won’t jump books because of that. I also got “Eyes Like Stars” which I’m also excited about and of course “Bound To Please“. Even though Ash and Joy aren’t main characters in this one either.

I’m surfing Amazon adding erotica and faerie books to my wish list. I know, two totally different genre’s right? My genre’s switch all the time. Sometimes it’s fantasy, sometimes its memoirs, sometimes its self help… I like to throw in a memoir every few books, it keeps me refreshed. If that makes sense.

I’m reading Sweep: Seeker just to finish the story between Hunter and Morgan. Not that I’m tired of them, but because in the next one, Origins the story changes. And it sounds pretty exciting. I’m excited that Seeker is from Hunter’s point of view. I mean, duh why wouldn’t it be… it is called seeker right?

I’m also going to start reading The Clearing this week, as much as I love time travel stories, they kinda… creep me out. But this one sounds incredibly interesting! Trying to build my Amazon review (and blog) count… I might re-read some books for review. I probably should!

I’m having a case of the Monday’s today. I don’t feel like doing homework or going to school today… I just wanna relax. I’ve never had “a case of the Monday’s” before, but man, this feeling sucks!

When I was little, I was obsessed with reading and when I got a little bit older, writing. I have always been a pretty fast reader and I’ve always enjoyed reading books (I always thought I got it from my mom, she’s as much of a bookworm as I am… or rather, I’m as much as she is… whatever), so much in fact that at a few points of my life, reading books for pleasure has gotten in the way of my studies.

To be honest, the only school issued book you can stick in front of me that may tempt me to read it over a book of my choice is a History book. As much as I love reading, I absolutely love History as well. Historical Fiction? My idea of heaven!

In high school, when I got kicked out and started going to Peoples, I started reading books again. So as soon as I was done with my work, I’d pull out a book or my notebook and write if I wasn’t reading. In fact, most of them when I pulled out either a book or my journal, was the time that Martin was most likely to bother me. He knew I was concentrating on something and would constantly bother me! It drove me crazy! But honestly, I think I did it more often than I normally would because I liked his attention

Over the last few years, I haven’t had much time to read. And I regretted it. I missed reading. Between summer of 2008 (when I left Six Flags) and recently, the only books I read were the Twilight series. I seriously didn’t have time to read, but I bought a lot of books within that time.

Up until recently, I started reading again. I don’t have a lot of time to play video games (or patience) and I wanted to get my To-Be-Read pile down and I discovered Sweep. So, I started reading again and I stumbled on a whole blogger community FULL of book bloggers! Imagine my excitement!

Which brings me to the point of this entry… I hate to admit this but, reading books has once again gotten in the way of my studies. Instead of doing homework, I sit here reading my books, browsing blogger book blogs, on goodreads.com… now that I’m older, it’s up to me to focus on what’s more important. My mom can’t yell at me for not doing my homework anymore, I’m on my own. And that’s what makes this so much more harder! I suck at making the right decisions!

Side note: I think it’s funny that still to this day, Martin usually bothers me when I pull out a book. But instead of poking and asking me random questions, he’s hugging and kissing me and trying to catch my attention lol!

Admitting these problems to Martin is going to force me to make some changes I won’t like. My mom may not be able to yell at me anymore, but my husband is much harder to defy than my mother was!

I’ll do a week recap soon… hopefully tonight.

But they treated you like crap, walked all over you, assumed you would do this for them and the whole time, you’re thinking to yourself no, I am a good friend. Even though this “friend” walks all over you? Abuses you because they’re abused as well? Oh and it get’s better.

They always tell you they’ll talk to the boy you like for you, you know, just to see what he’s thinking. But in some messed up twisted way they end up telling you they like him too and somehow you find yourself on 3-way with the two of them on Christmas Eve and she’s asking him out right in front of your face (or rather, in your ear)? Come on! I know I’m not the only one!! You find boys she can’t possibly know about because every single boy you’ve liked that’s within her reach, she finds a way to grab and now you’re bound by this stupid unwritten rule where she swears you never said you liked him before she grabbed him. EXCUSE ME, how the HELL do you think you met him? Oh and when you do finally find a boy you like, she goes off making all sorts of nasty rumors about how he and his friends are bad people and let’s not forget she’s just “looking out for you”. Gee, were you looking out for me when you stuck your tongue down…. never mind.

Anyway!

Yeah, The Unwritten Rule by Elizabeth Scott is kinda like that. Which is probably why I find myself suddenly glued to this book! I finished Stealing Heaven by her recently and I’m addicted to her writing style. It makes you feel like you’re there. And there’s always bits and pieces of the story that you can totally relate to.

This isn’t a review, I just had to get the first part out because it was bugging me to be written out. Is that what authors mean when they say their characters bug them to have their stories written? I guess I can relate to that, but instead of characters (I can make up a person and their entire lives, but I can’t place it in a story) I have thoughts and entries and past life events.

Okay, I think I feel better now .

And just for the record, I’m not friends with the psycho, abusive, manipulative “best friend” anymore and I. COULD. NOT. BE. HAPPIER!