Fang..

I just finished reading Fang by James Patterson. Again, it's another book in the Maximum Ride series. I've lost track of what book it is (number 6, I had to check). This won't be an official book review, but I can sum up how I feel about the book. LOVED IT! There. Now go read. ALL of them. I promise, it won't take you long.

So the reason I'm writing this is because, well, at the end of the book there was an ad for a contest. You enter a chapter for a Maximum Ride book. Problem. You have to be 15 to 18. LAME. I'm almost 20! This is really upsetting. I don't care if you're 13 and reading these books, I'm 20 and I LOVE them. I've never read anything like them. Whether it be Young Adult or Adult. They are just fabulous.

But with that little disappointment I felt the need to go through my OLD writing on this OLD laptop of mine. While it's behaving #thingsthatdonthappenoften.

I'll be off then...and I'm sure I'll let ya'll know what I choose to do with the old writing.

New Haircut (more official post)

I talked briefly about my new haircut. It might be an odd topic, but it's a blog that doesn't cover a specific topic. I cover random life things as well as book reviews. I have now have a blog for food related stuff.

I wanted to share a picture of my new haircut. So I'll make this the more "official" post.

I love this hairstyle too. I curled it with my hair straightener. I let my hair air dry after washing it, and re-dampened my bangs, ran the straightener over them so they didn't stick straight out and the layers show. Then I just curled my hair. You can find tutorials on YouTube if you really want to know how. Try the one by JLovesMac1, she's not only hilarious but her tutorials are great quality!

Well, I hope ya'll had a great Thanksgiving! Mine was wonderful. Well, it's almost pizza time. Just waiting for my baby to get home from work :)

It's early, like 2:30 am, but HAPPY TURKEY DAY!

Ok, so I haven't been to sleep because I've been baking cookies and reading Fang by James Patterson. His books keep me up. It's another book in the Maximum Ride series. Love it.
I wanted to write a blog saying how quickly I can get through these books. Yeah, the chapters are written shorter, which makes it a quick read. But they're really good books. He's such a great writer, just from reading this series alone. I haven't ventured into any of his other series just yet, but I bought 1st to Die for a dollar a few months ago.

Oh and I wanted to add a picture with my last post, but my computer was acting up. I'm sure I'll get to it this weekend. I'll have my shortbread cookie recipe up with pictures then and how today (Thanksgiving) goes. I'll write it here as well, minus the recipe.

Remember my new blog eat-freak.blogspot.com

New Hair!

Just a short post about me getting my hair cut. It was long overdue. I got the blonde ends cut off and now I'm all natural redhead!! Woot!! It's been YEARS since I've had my natural hair color! And bangs.

Saturday was pretty eventful. Andy came over in the afternoon and spent a majority of the day with me. We ran a few errands and walked around the mall a bit. We never have a reason to go in there, but we always find stuff to talk about and look at. This time I made him go with me to sniff some of the perfumes. And I gotta say, some of those celebrities need to get their noses checked! That new fragrance by Britney Spears, gag-city! Bleh.
Although the one by Kim Kardashian smells really unique and was growing on me.
Personally, my favorite perfume is Intimately Beckham For Her. My boyfriend got me a full size bottle of perfume and the lotion a year ago. He loves it too, reminds him of me. And I first smelled it a couple years ago in Target, and my mom found these sample bottles, just these tiny things, for a dollar at Walgreens or maybe on sale for fifty cents. And that's when Andy and I were hooked. Y'all can keep your DKNY too. The one for men is a gag-fest.
I am curious about some sample stuff I found at Big Lots. I wonder what Tim McGraws fragrance smells like, so I might buy a little thing to see if Andy likes it.
Oh and if you ever plan on getting a fragrance for your special someone, make sure YOU like it too. Some people don't think about it too much, some sniff and think they might like it. But if you like it and they like it, go for it. You'll be the one smelling them all the time.

We also ordered a pizza and rented a couple of movies. District 9 sucked. The new Nightmare on Elm Street was pretty good. Even though I'm a Robert Englund - Freddy Krueger fan all the way.
That was pretty much my Saturday. My Sunday was just filled with going to CVS, Drugmart, Rite Aid, Walmart, Dollar General, Big Lots, and Family Dollar. Found some nail polish. Painted my nails in a trial-error plaid design.

I made a new blog, in the post before this I put the link. It's called Eat Freak. I'll be posting recipes and food related stuff. I've been feeling creative in the culinary department.
Well that's all for now. Should be sleeping, but I've got so much on my mind.

Holiday Treats - The Beginning (Eat Freak)

You will almost always find me in the kitchen, but I don't do as much baking or cooking as you might think or that I would like to be doing. I've never been big on making holiday treats, but I have helped out in the kitchen for the holiday meals. I've always liked to experiment with different dishes and play around with spices. I'll usually think of different variations of a certain dish or come up with several dishes for one main ingredient. Now that the holidays are closing in, it's time I step out of the box I'm afraid of leaving and cook up something new.

One of my many habits when it comes to "inventing" recipes is I won't always test out the recipe to see if it works. I just figure things up like "this and this go well together, why not add this". And maybe that's where stepping out of the box might help me. I will be able to successfully pass on my tweaked recipes with confidence.

And it's not that I don't enjoy trying new things, it's the lack of confidence I have in myself and my ability to cook. I'm no "chef to be discovered", just someone who hopes to bring good dishes to the table. I don't want a cooking show, but shelves lined with spiral notebooks filled with my recipes and others I've found or that have been shared.

My first holiday themed treat I will share (un-tested, un-tasted) will be my idea of shortbread cookies.
With a simple, buttery shortbread recipe, I plan on dipping some of the baked good-ness into milk chocolate AND white chocolate. Sprinkle some with peppermint candies, and some with red and green sugar sprinkles. I will use almond extract in place of vanilla because almond extract gives an amazing flavor!

I can't wait to test it out and let you know how it goes. I will then share pictures and the recipe I used.

Here's to the holiday treats. Cheers!

{Eat Freak} Check out my second blog: eat-freak.blogspot.com

I finally got my bag of writing from my car yesterday. I found my book of quotes I started. I've decided to get that going again. I've always enjoyed quotes. I even made up a few of my own.
So I've been meaning to write a book of some sort, but I've run into a few problems. First I figured I would finish the many I've started, but my style of writing has changed over the years.
Lately I've been stressed and have had heartburn something fierce. I've been wondering what to do with my life and when I ask what I'm good at, I'm told writing. Ok, that's fine and well, but I can't seem to figure out what I'm good at writing. What genre am I best at? It's a matter of preference I suppose, and I've never really gone in one direction with my writing. All I know is that I enjoy writing my own made up stuff. But I'm scared to make things up, aside from just the characters. And the characters are another issue altogether. I can never get the names right. But back to my fear of make-believe. For some reason I feel like my setting needs to take place somewhere real, when I know it doesn't. I am not one to travel. And I fear that I'm horrible at research. I don't know what I like writing the most. I've read more romance than any other genre in my life, I can write a story out, but is that what I'm best at? Am I stuck with romance? I know I can venture out of that box, and I can make up places and things. Just look at Douglas Adams. And of course you have the ever popular: Lord of the Rings, Hogwarts and Harry Potter, and The Chronicles of Narnia.
I have no idea what to do, or what to write but I know once I get something written, I can submit it to Barnes and Noble as an ebook. Which I'm excited to learn more about.

So if anyone I know reads this, PLEASE give me some feedback here!

November already

One more month left in the year after this. And next Sunday is daylight savings time, woot. I love going back an hour.
Life has been slow and boring. I'm not over a lot of things but I'm getting there. I really should stop caring about certain stuff, but I let it run my life and mind. It is getting the best of me. I want to give up on so much. I get no feedback. I don't hear from anyone. I deleted a ton of people I don't talk to in my phone and on Facebook. I did a dramatic friend decrease on Facebook recently. They won't miss me.
No one really misses me. I wish I heard from people more often, but I'll just talk to myself instead. I'm annoyed with my own company and I can't stay positive.
I don't have many options with what to do with my life right now.
My life sucks and it's boring and quiet. Nothing entertains me and I even get bored and annoyed with my iPad.