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WELCOME TO MY JOURNAL! [Feb. 9th, 2030|03:13 pm]

WELCOME!



All Personal Entries in my journal are Friends-Only. However, there will be posts that are open to the public, including but not limited to beauty-related posts and book reviews. Feel free to look around. If you have a LiveJournal, please comment to be added. If you don't, feel free to bookmark and check back every so often.

Thanks for checking out my little corner of the internet. Glad to have you.
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Writer's Block: Once Upon a Time [Feb. 26th, 2012|12:13 am]
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What is your favorite fairytale, and why?

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I think I've mentioned this in here before (maybe in a similar Writer's Block?), but my favorite fairytale is One-Eye, Two-Eyes and Three-Eyes.

I love the message, but most of all, I love that it reminds me of my maternal Great Grandmother. Her and I used to sit and read the Brothers Grimm, and that was one of her favorites to read to me.
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Writer's Block: Happily ever after [Oct. 23rd, 2011|12:41 pm]
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What is your favorite childhood fairytale?

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One Eye, Two Eyes, Three Eyes is my favorite fairytale.

It has a lot to do with the fact that my Great Grandmother Rowland (her first name is Lora, she was my mom's mom's mom) read it to me all the time when I would come over to her house.
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October 2011 - September 2012 Booklist [Oct. 11th, 2011|07:41 pm]
Hello Everyone! I was considering not doing a booklist this year, but realized that I do look back at it, and maybe some others do as well, so I decided to just keep it.

Last year I read 20,998 pages!!! HOLY CRAP, my goal was only 13,000 pages. But when I was working at the law firm, I was able to read A LOT. So that definitely upped the ante!

My goal this year is going to be, once again, 13,000 pages. With the wedding and everything coming up in the next year, I highly doubt I will touch close to 13,000, but I have high hopes.
As always, I will be updating this post as the year goes on with the books I have read. I won't post re-reads, or magazines, or graphic novels.
I received a Kindle this year, and any book I read on it will be marked with a "K" next to the page number (ex. 222K). The page count will be taken off of the amazon page, where it lists Print Length.

If you have any suggestions for books for me to read, leave them here!


OCTOBER


The Summer Hideaway by Susan Wiggs (421)
Girls in White Dresses by Jennifer Close (292K)
Here Comes Trouble: Stories from my Life by Michael Moore (427)
Battle Hymn of the Tiger Mother by Amy Chua (256)
Marrying Daisy Bellamy by Susan Wiggs (428)
=1824

NOVEMBER


The Next Always: Book One of the Inn BoonsBoro Trilogy by Nora Roberts (352K)
Crossed by Ally Condie (367)
=719

DECEMBER


Explosive Eighteen by Janet Evanovich (352)
The Marriage Plot by Jeffrey Eugenides (406)
=758

JANUARY


=0

FEBRUARY


The Best of Me by Nicholas Sparks (292)
=292

MARCH


Celebrity in Death by J.D. Robb (389)
Bunheads by Sophie Flack (294)
One True Love by Barbara Freethy (384)
=1067

APRIL


Pandemonium by Lauren Oliver (375)
I've Got Your Number: A Novel by Sophie Kinsella (433)
=808

MAY


The Last Boyfriend by Nora Roberts (336)
Lover Reborn: A Novel of the Black Dagger Brotherhood by J.R. Ward (572)
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Writer's Block: Shhh… Don’t tell [Oct. 2nd, 2011|11:03 am]
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Do you keep your LiveJournal a secret from someone?

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No, but a lot of my entries are Friends-Only.
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Writer's Block: Paging Al Gore [Sep. 3rd, 2011|06:09 pm]
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Would you give up the Internet for $10 million? (this is for the rest of your life.)

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No.
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Writer's Block: A literary masterpiece [Aug. 20th, 2011|01:57 pm]
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Which books will you certainly read to your children, nieces, nephews or godchildren?

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Anything and Everything they will let me read to them.
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Writer's Block: True love waits [Aug. 13th, 2011|01:08 am]
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If you are dating someone who says they aren’t ready to commit, would you wait? How long?

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As long as you feel like you need, but if they're not ready to commit to you, and you want a commitment, move on.
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Wedding update: Photographer booked & Guest List Hell [Jul. 8th, 2011|08:55 pm]
We booked our photographer yesterday!

We're using Albina Campos Photography.

We're not planning on doing our engagement pictures until late November/early December, because we want to do them as close to our 7 year (yep, we'll have been together 7 years this November 30th!) anniversary as possible. So don't be expecting to see those any time soon.

Joe and I are thinking about where we want to do those, as well as where we want to do our actual wedding photos. For engagement, we're either going to do Woodward Park or maybe go up to Shaver for a few hours. It would be SO PRETTY in November/December. For actual wedding pictures, we're still scouting areas, and so is our photographer, but we're considering going to Old Town Clovis, which could make for some very interesting, beautiful pictures.

She wants us to think about what poses and different things we want to do for pictures, and I have NO CLUE what to do. I'm going to really be looking at wedding pictures online, bridal magazines, and asking around for ideas. But I told her I want a lot of organic pictures- I love pictures that aren't too posey. Pretty much our whole wedding party is full of personality, so I want that to shine through.


We also finished the guest list, and it was every bit as hellish as most people have told me. I admit, I went a little crazy (okay, a lot crazy), but we're at 186 now and completely comfortable with the people we are, and aren't, inviting. We unfortunately cannot invite everyone, which sucks but it is what it is.


Now I need to start working on a time line for the day of, find a caterer, get a DJ, and a ton of other things. Thankfully, I still have a little over 10 months, and a lot of help!
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Writer's Block: Eeny, meeny, miny, moe [Apr. 25th, 2011|02:25 pm]
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If you had to give up swimming, skiing, hiking, or biking for the rest of your life, which would you choose, and why?

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Skiing.

But only because I have never done it, so I wouldn't know what I am missing.
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