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!

This book goes more into Hunter and Sky. It revels more about Cal and Selene as well. Morgan has a hard time through out the book as far as figuring out who she is, what she is and who she believes. You cant help but scream at the book because she does make some stupid choices when the answer is right there, in front of her. She’s obviously too caught up in Cal that she doesnt chose to see them.

She finally confronts Bree and it doesnt turn out for the better, sadly. There isnt much going on with the coven, they have one circle the entire book and that’s about it. I found it funny how this book was timed around Thanksgiving and Thanksgiving just passed. I think I started reading these books around the right time lol.

The ending will leave you angry, anxious, nervous and eager to read the next book! Of all the books in the series so far, this has got to be my favorite one.

You dont know what’s happening with Cal or Selene or Hunter… you dont know who’s lying and who’s telling the truth and you dont know what Morgan will do next. Or who she’ll believe or who she’ll listen to!

I have to admit, Selene freaked me out in this book. She was way too pushy and sketchy. Cal was acting a bit sketchy in this one as well, half way through the book you couldnt help but just turn Team Hunter from how odd they were acting.

Maybe I wont review the books, maybe I’ll just write down how I feel about them. It seems much easier and I dont have to spoil anything lol.

*if you’re interested in more book reviews, check out me & my sister in laws book review blog here.

I have to pick up my dress this week (ahh, finally!) and Martin has to pick up his wedding band, mine isnt done yet :( I hope it gets done soon! Gotta finish up the favors, mail in the payment for the reception, order the cake and I think that might be it. Am I really all done?!

The cold is making me lazy, I’ve been getting out of bed passed noon! I hate that, I feel like I just slept away half my day. Goodness. I’ve been trying to squeeze in as much time as I can reading Sweep, I’m on the 6th book: Awakening. I love this series, I’m sad I’m almost half way done with it. I read the back of the last book and now I’m itching to get through the rest of the books, but not at the same time. Darn.

I need to do a little more Christmas shopping, though I have no idea what I’m looking for. At least its just for my parents and I also have to pick up a gift for Mae too!

I’m thinking of baking some Christmas cupcakes today! But we’ll see how that goes. I got some Red Velvet Cookies from Lucky’s yesterday. I wonder how those will be. I wish I had more time to get into the holiday spirit this year, poop! I totally will next year though! I have so much to do to prep for the new year. New Years is probably one of my top favorite holidays even though its not a really epic celebration. But new beginnings is something that Aries are attracted to :)

My mom added me on Facebook, how odd lol.

Gonna go read some more of Sweep before I go pick up Martin :)

Unfortunately Martin isnt home yet, he did call me this morning to say Happy Thanksgiving and that he’s thankful for me. We spent a huge chunk of the phone call talking about Religion, which was… weird. Weird because his views on religion are opposite from when he enlisted. He told me to be good and he was thankful for me again before we hung up and I just broke down. No idea why, he sounded concerned and assured me he’d be home soon. Then he tried to get me to sing “For Good” to cheer me up :)

I was suppose to clean my room today but my closet just looks so… hopeless. Seriously. There’s random crap stacked up on random crap in there, I dont know how I’m ever going to see my closet floor. It wasnt that bad last year, I somehow made it work… I’m sure if I tried hard enough I could make it work this year… lets hope, yeah?

I finished Sweep: Blood Witch. I’m having mixed feelings about Cal and Hunter especially after I read that dang spoiler yesterday on accident. And the Runes that Sky & Hunter put on Morgan’s house didnt seem to be anything of harm, the girl is just not listening. Total Bella/Edward-ish (besides that this book came out wayyy before Twilight). I’m excited to read the fourth book. I’m starting to run out of books lol. The only thing I keep thinking is “where am I going to store all 15 books?!” seriously.

Took advantage of some of the Thanksgiving only sales today. Oh shopping online! I didnt do that much damage though, I was on the search for a hoodie like my Aero one but they dont have that type anymore. Darn.

THiNGS i’M THANKFUL FOR:

• My amazing fiance who’s never given up on me no matter how off the wall, extreme, psycho or stubborn I get. For always being there to support me on my next crazy idea or my newest obsession. For jumping up and down with me when I’m excited. For always trying to understand me even when its hard to. And for loving me as unconditional as he does.
• My parents for being so supportive since Martin left. For understanding how much this wedding means to me. For offering their help, constantly. For caring even though sometimes they have a weird way of showing it.
• My wonderful friends who are always there no matter what time of day/night it is to listen to me babble until I feel better. For my bro for always being there, srsly dont know where I’d be without him!
• My Meez & Jay for brightening my days and being my sunshine!
• Boq, the hamster my mama got me :)
• Blogging. I’d probably go nuts without it!
• All I’ve accomplished in the last year without even knowing it. It’s nice to know that I’m getting somewhere :)
• The Air Force for this crazy adventure that we both hate lol
• Wicked for being awesome enough to inspire me to create and try new things and take changes I normally would never take.
• Everything life has to offer :)
• Finding Nemo gummy multivitamins cause man, they’re delicious!
• Books! I’ve re-discovered my love for reading in the last 2 months.
• The new camera I got myself last week. Love! Love! Love!
• GLEE!
• For the ability to stay positive no matter the situation.
• My wedding! I’m so excited and nervous!
• Baskin Robbins Fudge Crunch Cake (makes everything better, no lie)
• The holiday spirit (my favorite time of the year)!
• Finding the perfect Sugar Cookie soaps for my wedding favors. Love!
• KOHLS for the amazing boots, hoodie and shirts I recently got. LOVE! Haha.

Happy Thanksgiving everyone!

Anyway, about an hour or two before I was suppose to go to sleep, I find a break down of CSS which looks helpful and promising. I mean, html is html you can assume what goes here easily but it was nice to see what abbreviation meant and why there were there! I need to refresh my memory of basic html as well, this stuff use to be a second language to me now its just… foreign. Then someone suggested to YouTube it and I actually tried that and hello new world! Oh YouTube, the answer to all of life’s problems! Swear it is. And I found site collective after site collective and before I knew it, 12AM turned to 330AM whoops.

I’ve always liked to challenge myself. I grew up with people always telling me I couldnt do something. And I’m glad it was like that, I would had never discovered my love for graphic and web design. I need to learn CSS (considering I’m not working with WordPress) because my newest and probably biggest project requires me to use CSS, and I’ve been avoiding it for about a year now… but I really want to get this project up and I think it would be great if I did so I’m going to just deal with it. I’m pretty much the type of person who likes to start projects they know absolutely nothing about! Not only that, but I get excited about this haha.

I was suppose to go to the bank today but considering I went to sleep at 430AM I didnt wake up in time to go since its Saturday and they close early. Darn. But I do have to pick up my invitations (yay they’re done early!) and I feel like splurging at Target. Or at least, mentally splurging lol. Darn this wedding making me broke! I need to print out the wedding paper work too and have it done by Monday. Next week is going to be the semi start of my crazy busy til the end of the year thing.

Oh how I wish I could just pop in Serendipity and relax in bed!

Sweep: Book of Shadows
By: Cate Tiernan

Book of Shadows is the first book in the Sweep series. I came across this book a few months ago at Barns & Nobles but I was on my way out so I didnt really get to scroll through and I had forgotten about it until I was going through the pictures on my phone. I looked it up on Amazon and read a few reviews, all of which were good. So I picked it up (along with The Siren by Kiera Cass and The Wonderful Welcome to Oz).

The book is about a girl named Morgan, her best friend Bree and the new guy, Cal. Cal invites everyone to a party which turns out to be some Wicca type of party out in the middle of nowhere. A few people leave and a few people stay, including Morgan and Bree.

The beginning of the book gave me a Twilight-Edward-and-Bella feel to it, just the way she described Cal, but that quickly faded once it got more into the Wicca aspects of it. Morgan, for some reason has this intense need and feeling to keep reading and learning more about Wicca, something she cant really describe since her family is raised either Catholic or Christian (sorry I dont remember!). Where are Bree, is just doing it to impress Cal.

I could easily relate to Morgan while reading this book, raised a Catholic and recently telling my mom I was Pagan… well my mom reacted the same way Morgan’s mom did when she found her Wicca books. Also that strange need to just learn more about it, was something we had in common. The best friend deal hit a spot as well that week.

I would strongly suggest this book, it can be very addicting and it includes history and facts about a religion that I think is commonly misunderstood.

So I was listening to Stay With Me by Danity Kane (which always reminds me of that Twilight fan video someone made last year) and how I wanted to make a banner with me and Martin (since you know, he left and all) and I thought… why not with Elphaba and Fiyero? But I didnt have the screen shots I wanted for that (and its a live musical, pictures are hard to find) so I thought why not with Glinda and Elphaba since you know, the musical is basically about the friendship between Glinda and Elphaha, not so much Fiyero and anyone lol. But last minute I changed my mind and just made it For Good which I think came out pretty decent.

Now I just have to figure out how, where and what kind of content I want on the site. Its not hard finding content, just where and how. You know? I feel super accomplished because I didnt get ANY headaches making the banner for the site (which is surprising, cause I always get headaches every time I graphic design which is why I dont do it that often anymore) yay! It kinda just flowed, which is so rare when it comes to me cause I’m a total perfectionist. I plan on touching up my Photoshopping and make more complex banners and layouts.

I managed to add Nicolas (who plays Fiyero for the SF production) on MySpace, subbed to his YouTube and emailed him for an autograph the next time I see Wicked! I hope he emails me back, that would be awesome haha. I’m completely smitten with Nicolas! Heheheh *insert Glinda giggle here* haha!

Yesterday I received two letters from Martin. Both three pages long (at first I was convinced this couldnt be my finace! He hates writing, but there it was. In his sloppy handwriting) and a letter about his graduation. I swear, I cried the whole time I was reading his letters. He was telling me how challenging everything was and just like the strong person he is, he was writing down plans to do better on his runs, his push ups, his crunches. I wish I was half as determined as he is when it comes to things that he fails at. I simply just give up. He never gives up, he never even thinks about giving up. And I admire that about him. He was telling me that he thinks of me when things get hard. And it makes me want to run over there (yes the whole how many states over) and just give him a huge hug and kiss. And let him know I believe in him. He also mentioned he wanted Olive Garden (OG is my favorite restaurant but he hates it there!) and he goes “its funny how when I leave I miss everything, or maybe I just want to be with you” and I just broke down. He would follow me no matter where I went, to the ends of the Earth if that’s where I wanted to go. And not in a lost puppy type of way, but in a I-want-to-be-where-you-are-always type of way.

I had just got done texting his mom the graduation details and my phone starts to ring, and its him!! Imagine my surprise. I picked up and he was on the other end, cheerful “Hi baby! What are you doing?” I missed his cheerful “Hi baby!” and so many things just flew out of my mouth. And suddenly, I just went blank. I know there was more I wanted to say and nothing was coming to mind! I hate that we’re on a time limit, it makes me forget things. Then he had to go, and I wish our phone calls werent bittersweet. We dont get enough of them and I dont want us to be sad when he hangs up. I’m determined to not let it end that way next time. I’m determined to have him laugh and smile when he hangs up the next time.

We’ll see each other again. Just a few more weeks, we’re strong enough to get through this. I’m so proud of him. I cant wait to spend a weekend with him and listen to all the stories he has to tell.

The wedding planning is… going. Not as fast and as final as I’d like it to, but… its getting there. I figured out the table decor. My main stress is finding a dress. Cause I’m not going anywhere unless I find a dress! My mind is just… everywhere right now.

Wedding planning, graduation planning, jewelry making planning, just… everywhere. Lots of planning.

I was calling a bunch of buffet’s in Las Vegas today and it looks like I’ll be sticking with the original plan. Everything else just… doesnt make sense and I dont know how good their food is. I dont want to risk it. Favors are slowly coming together… filling up my planning journal, rather quickly lol.

I started reading Sweep: Book of Shadows today, a few hours ago. And I’m down to having 1/4 of the book left! This book is so good. I’ve always been interested in Wicca and Greek Mythology and stuff. So, yeah, this book is great. My family is catholic so, I kinda know how Morgan feels. Its just… insane lol. I wish Martin was here so I could tell him about it, hes always interested to know what I’m reading about.

Goodness, how did I get so lucky? :)

[edit @ 7:40PM]
I finished the book. Darn! Now I want to read the rest of them!
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