Books (x 50)

Well I have now completed my 50 book challenge.  Well technically I finished the challenge on 9-9-09 but I just haven't gotten on here yet to share my news.  I'm very proud of myself for finishing my goal so quickly.  Acutally, I really suprised myself by not only following through and finishing it, but finishing it well before my deadline.  I started this goal around the middle of June I think and gave myself till the end of the year to read 50 books.  Well for lack of other news, I'm going to give my list of books that I read (not in any particular order) I will try to at least list the series in order in case anyone wants to know.  

1. Redemption-Karen Kingsbury- #1
2. Remember-"-#2
3. Return-"-#3
4. Rejoice-"-#4
5. Reunion-"-#5
6. Cape Refuge-Terri Blackstock #1
7. Southern Storm-"-#2
8. River's Edge-"-#3
9. Breaker's Reef-"-#4
10. Firefly Lane-Kristin Hannah
11. The Secret Life of Bees-Sue Monk Kidd
12. Apocalypse Dawn-Mel Odom-#1
13. Jane Eyre-Charlotte Bronte
14. Brink of Death-Brandilyn Collins-#1
15. Stain of Guilt-"-#2
16. Dead of Night-"-#3
17. Web of Lies-"-#4
18. Whispers of the Bayou-Mindy Starns Clark
19. sTORI telling-Tori Spelling
20. Journey to the Center of the Earth-Jules Verne
21. Fame-Karen Kingsbury-#1
22. Forgiven-"-#2
23. Found-"-#3
24. Family-"-#4
25. Forever-"-#5
26. Alaska-Tracie Peterson (4 novellas-A Light in the Window, Destiny's Road, Iditerod Dream, and Christmas Dream)
27. Sunrise-Karen Kingsbury-#1
28. Summer-"-#2
29. Someday-"-#3
30. Sunset-"-#4
31. Last Light-Terri Blackstock-#1
32. Night Light-"-#2
33. True Light-"-#3
34. Dawn's Light-"-#4
35. Land of my Heart-Tracie Peterson-#1
36. The Coming Storm-"-#2
37. The Dream Anew-"-#3
38. The Hope Within-"-#4
39. Violet Dawn-Brandilyn Collins-#1
40. Coral Moon-"-#2
41. Crimson Eve-"-#3
42. Amber Morn-"-#4
43. Love Comes Softly/Love's Enduring Promise-Janette Oaks #1 and #2 (in same book)
44. Monster-Frank Peretti
45. Double Minds-Terri Blackstock
46. BoneMan's Daughters-Ted Dekker
47. Redeeming Love-Francine Rivers
48. The Guardian-Nicholas Sparks
49. Dark Pursuit-Brandilyn Collins
50. Message in a Bottle-Nicholas Sparks

I have also finished Before I Wake by Dee Henderson so that makes me at 51 currently.  I will probably keep track of how many more I finished before the end of the year but no guarentees!  For the goal of 50 books, I made sure I read things that I haven't previously read in a book.  (Although I have seen some of them as movies lol) Most of them are Christian Fiction books with a few others mixed in there.  If you wanna know about any of them, just ask me and I'll see if I can remember! LOL

It's been awhile....

So it's been awhile since I've posted on here so I thought I would update a lil....well I guess everything's been going good lately...I had my vacation that ended Monday...it was fun! Last Friday night (the first night) Terry and I went shopping at Lawton and ate at El Chico. It was good and we had fun! Then I went and stayed with my parents and my mom and I watched Season 6 of One Tree Hill. It was good but I'm ready for season 7 to start...it begins sept. 14th....but I'm really sad that 2 of the main characters left the show...I just wonder what it will be like this season without them. I will miss them. Oh well....I'm sure it will be good anyways...oh and I also got some new clothes, new SHOES! YAY! lol, and some new books too!!

okay on my book goal (which is to read 50 books between the middle of like June-December) is going really good. Actually it's going better that I would have ever imagined it would. I am now only 4 (or technically 3 1/2) books away from my goal and it's still the beginning of Sept. I am really proud of myself. When I set this goal, I had no idea that I could accomplish it so soon! I figured that the last fews days of December I might be reading non-stop so I could finish it...if I even lasted that long lol...but now being so close and having SOOO long to finish it, I know that it can be done! I'm thinking that I may try to read 100 books next year and start in January. But part of that depends on if I go to school. I'm totally debating whether or not I should try to go. A big part of me wants to and the other part is terrified of it. I don't know if it's the teaching part or the school part or just the change of it all that scares me but I guess I just don't know what I should do. I mean this feels like a huge decision and I don't wanna try to go and then change my mind or finish and have no desire to go out and try it. I mean I love my job and it's a good one so part of me wonders if it's worth the risk and part of me thinks that if I don't go that I'll always regret it in some ways. UGH! Help please! LOL

Anyways...so today at work was Shanna's last day. It makes me sad that she's leaving but I'm happy for her and hope that she likes her new job. It will definately be different up there without her around (and quieter lol jk! we're all pretty loud most of the time! LOL)

Oh on a happy note...yesterday my wonderful hubby let me order these awesome Hello Kitty rings I've wanted FOREVER!! YAY!! I really would like it to be my new wedding ring but he doesn't much like the idea...I mean it's really pretty and it's in diamonds and has two eternity bands that go on both sides of Hello Kitty! I mean it's fancier than my wedding ring even though I love it! lol....for some weird reason he doesn't think that I should lol...oh well...lol at least I got it! Maybe I can slowly start doing it and see if he even notices lol...oh and I got a Hello Kitty Pez dispenser too lol hehehe.....I'll try to post pics of the ring when it arrives!! I guess that's all my news for now. Happy reading!!

When I Grow Up....

T-minus 4 days till my vacation starts!! WOO HOO!! So I'm super excited for it to be here! I'm going to stay at my mom's for most of it. One Tree Hill Season 6 comes out on Tuesday of next week so we're going to have a marathon during my vacation! LOL...we both are totally addicted to the show and can't wait to see what has happened. (we both missed season 6 on tv so we're really on a cliff hanger here! LOL) I think on Friday of next week Terry and I are going to OKC to shop and hopefully both get some new shoes! LOL I'm totally excited!! Honestly I don't have tons of news lately. My life has been rather boring...which isn't a bad thing...much better than drama! LOL...I got to see my bestie last night! It's been like a month since we've seen each other and I know she's starting school again soon so I was very glad to get a day with her before the busyness starts again! LOL...Ok I don't know if I've talked on here yet about my thinking of going to college. Well I am (thinking that is). I really want to go to be a elementary school teacher. It's something I've wanted to do for a long time. I'm wanting to start going to school in the spring semester hopefully. Although the closer that gets, the more scared I am of what if I actually do it....I mean do I really have what it takes to be a teacher? I'm really freaking myself out about it and I haven't even applied yet..but it's something I've wanted to do forever....like tonight I looked at my friend Angel's pics of her new classroom and I thought to myself wow...that could be me in a few years....I don't know if I have it in me....I'm not all that creative and honestly I'm not that good with kids...I mean they like me and all and I like them I just don't know how to talk to them or be around them very good lol....I think it's kinda ironic since i would be around kids all the time as a teacher....maybe it's just because I'm never around kids anymore so I don't know what to do with them...I think part of it is my shyness around new people but I think it gets worse around kids lol....it's totally something I would have to get over if I wanna do this! But I really want to go to school and that's really the only thing I wanna do when I grow up....so I guess I'm gonna have to start figuring out what I want and go for it....oh and by the way Angel...I'm so excited you got a teaching job!! I hope you have a great year with the kiddos (and the other teachers lol)!!!! But I guess that's all I have to say for today....oh and I'm now done with 40 of my 50 books before the end of the year! I've read them all in like 2 or 2 1/2 months! So proud of myself! WOO HOO!

Vacation is just around the corner!!

I haven't had too much going on lately but I'm bored and Terry's sleeping so I thought I would update a lil....well Terry's working at a new job...Chisholm Corner here in Marlow. I think he really likes it a lot...he's working graveyard shift but he normally stays up that late anyways so it's not a huge adjustment for him. I have officially passed the halfway mark (and then some) on my book goal....I'm currently done with 26 books! YAY! I can't believe that I've read that many books in like less than 2 months! Craziness!! Um....I'm still feeling sad without a pool for my yard...but it's been too rainy and cloudy this week to swim so that's helping and i went swimming this weekend at the lake and got my tan on! lol....I'm at least back to my color I was a few weeks ago....I was fading and fast! lol....I'm so excited for my vacation....it's 4 weeks from Monday! I'm going to my mom's that week to hang out with her and i think me and Terry might go to the city one night and hang out....I'm super excited!!!!! So tomorrow is Mandy's last day at work before her week and a couple days of vacation starts...it's not going to be the same without her! (for one, now I'll have to do her work lol....and two it will be a lot quieter on our side of the bank...) but it's fine cause she'll be back a week from this coming tuesday....and then 2 weeks later (minus one day) my vacation starts!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! If you can't tell, I'm looking forward to my much needed week!! Well that's about all I can think of other than I started my blog about my feet pics if anyone wants to check it out! It's travel-gena.blogspot.com! Add me to your list!!

Forever....and a day

So it feels to me like I haven't been on this thing in a really long time and it's about time for an update....so I mentioned in my last blog that I had a few goals I had decided to work on...here's an update on those...

• Exercise-well I have still yet to restart my program...just been feeling lazy and well basically I'm not ready for the commitment yet...lol
• Library-I mentioned that I was going to try to get books from the library soon...well I have twice now...and I am now officially a card carrying member!! I'm totally excited...(and I think that makes me a nerd! lol but I don't care!!)
• My 50 book goal-I feel like I'm doing great with this goal..as you may or may not know, I just started this goal around the middle of June...and I am currently finished with 15 books and I'm halfway through another and a quarter of the way through with one more lol and these are real books too....not little kid ones lol...although I may read some I'm not going to count them for the goal
• My hair-I'm learning to live with it...and it kinda goes into a ponytail now...it will stay most of the day but sometimes the front pieces are too short n it falls out...
• So this one isn't really a goal but I like using the bullet points...makes me feel important so I think for the rest of this blog I will use them! (plus it makes me look like I have a lot of goals if you don't read this far! LOL)
  
• My pool-oh so sad...it's days are numbered I'm afraid....it has now sprung leak #2 (and possibly more) I can't find the new leaks but it's on the bottom ring so the pool deflates and now it's probably about 3 or MAYBE 4 inches deep basically I can lay on the bottom of the pool and tan since most of my body isn't in the water and my head can't go under anymore...oh and yes it's a kiddie pool but it was past the knees when it wasn't leaky...sniffle sniffle

• my tan--despite the set back of my pool which I realized yesterday..I'm still working on my tan....for those of you who know me...you realize that when I say I'm tan...you may not can tell and think I'm still as white as can be...well let me tell you...lol....I am now darker this summer than I have been in probably more than 7-10 years...if not longer than that...actually...this may be the tannest I have ever been! lol so I'm really proud of me for that! YAY ME!
• There is another goal that I have been working on that I will say (for my own records) that I have been doing very well with lately...it's a personal goal that I am actually not sharing but I feel like it's been going pretty good and I've been proud of myself for that! go me!
• I am now going to set a new goal...or hobby maybe....so I've decided I want to start scrapbooking! I have no stuff to do it with yet and I'm trying to decide what all I want to buy for it....I think I wanna make 3 wedding ones...one for me, one for my parents, and one for Terry's mom....then I wanna make some fun ones and finish the one I started in high school from when I was a kid and stuff...so hopefully i will have enough funds to start this new thing...wish me luck with it..I'm not the most creative grape in the bunch! LOL
• I almost forgot...my cupcakes for the 4th of July were amazing if I do say so myself....They were red, white, n blue with chocolate frosting and blue sprinkles for a lil flair! LOL
• Terry and I also have bought a new set of silicone bake ware and have been baking with them a lot recently...love em...I made a marble fudge cake with chocolate frosting the other day...it was delish...I was a lil off center when I stacked them but it's me so what do you expect? lol
• The 4th of July was fun too....well part of it was really lonely since I was by myself all evening....the fireworks got cancelled here because we got rained out..and when I say rain I mean torrential downpour! Our street flooded up over the curbs in probably less that five minutes...I could've swam in the street...lol...hey it was deeper than my pool is now! LOL but they rescheduled them for Sunday (which was the next night) and my parents came and watched them with me! It was actually the worst one I 've seen in a long time...it was supposed to be bigger n better and like douple the fireworks (and our town always does a ton anyways!) but the rain ruined part of them since it didn't start raining unitl like 2 hours before the fireworks should've started that night lol...but it was still fun none the less....here's a pic of them!
  

Well this is about all I can come up with today other than I'm feeling lonely lately since my bestie hasn't had much time for me....lol...I know you're busy or I'm busy and we haven't been free the same weekends lately! lol Just know I love ya and miss ya and hopefully this not seeing each other stuff will stop soon or I'm gonna go crazy!

Blah, blah, and more blah! LOL

So I know I know...I talked about my hair yesterday but I'm not going to keep it long today (about the hair anyways lol) I just wanna post a pic of it....
Hmm...well what else...well I'm doing good on my book goal....I finished another one last night and I"m half way through the next. Right now I'm reading "The Secret Life of Bees". A girl I used to work with brought us a big stack of books a couple weeks ago and that's basically where this challenge sprung from. I've read all but this one of the stack she gave us. I'm gonna try to go to the library tomorrow and get some more books so I can keep on reading! I'm almost out of stuff. I'll probably finish this book before I go to bed tonight. I'm feeling pretty miserable right now cause Terry talked me into eating Golden Corral a little bit ago and now I'm STUFFED!!! UGH! And I was going to start exercising again today but I'm too full right now so looks like I'll have to try again tomorrow more than likely! lol....I doubt I get to wanting to tonight now! LOL plus we just got another movie in from netflix in the mail today so we'll probably watch it tonight. I guess this is basically all my ramblings for the day today....and until next time....happy reading!

Haircuts, books, and goals

So it's been forever since i've posted...but today felt like a good day for it. I got my hair cut today...well I think it's cute but I hate it all at the same time. It's my own fault...I'm an idiot! lol....k I'll start at the beginning...So my hair is getting really long and almost impossible to brush because it's getting so tangley....so i thought I would cut it off to shoulder length. I got in the chair and she asked me if i wanted it at the shoulders or right above...i said why not...let's go above....but then she gave me a mirror to hold and ran the comb through the back of my hair and asked me to tell here where i wanted it at. When I thought it was where I wanted, i waited a second to make sure it was a little longer....since my hair was wet and it's shorter when it's dry...lol....duh...neways....so I'm thinking all is going goood...when she gets done and hands me the mirror I'm like good...cause it was shorter but i didn't think it was that much shorter at first. and well let's face it, when it's already too short what can you do but live with it? lol....i'm totally not getting extensions..i'll just have to deal. So I get to the car and run my hands through it and OMG!!! It's like as short as my jaw line! So it's like totally 2 inches or so shorter than I was hoping for!! If you know me, you know I LIVE for the ponytail! I hate fixing my hair and I'm always running late for everything....well I'm going to have to fix it every morning before work now...I'm usually late putting it in a ponytail!! How in the heck am I going to be able to fix it and make it there????? Very nuts!!! But it's not her fault...it's mine....I'm the one that said to cut it there....they shouldn't let me make decisions! LOL...I totally suck at them!! However, I did make one decision this week about a goal I have for myself for this year. Or at least the remainder of it.....here goes.....I have decided to read 50 books before the end of this year. I recently started reading a lot lately and the idea came to me last night.....so I've started myself a list and so far I'm almost done with book #10...and these have all been read in the last 2 or 3 weeks.....so far so good...I just hope i don't slow down too much so I can get to my goal....I'm going to have to join the library so I can get some more books....
I find this revelation funny since I just read my friend Angel's blog and she said just posted 2 blogs about reading...one is about her goal to read...you guessed it....50 books this year!...(I'm totally taking this as a sign since I stumbled across this today of all days!!) so wish me luck and hope for the best...with my hair and my books! lol....happy reading!