Hi Everyone,
Not that I won’t ever blog here because I probably will on occasion but I have my own personal blog over here. It’s pretty much a mix of things and I probably will update it pretty regularly right now. I just wanted something that was completely my own and so there it is. I’ve added most everyone to my blogroll.
Thanks,
Christa
I know I’ve been missing but the truth is for awhile there I wasn’t doing much of anything. A lot of changes happened both in my personal life and in my work life. I’ve also only read a total of 9 books this year which is drastic drop in how much I usually read. I haven’t wanted to read until recently. I had started What Happened to Goodbye by Sarah Dessen and then it sat there for weeks before I finally picked up again and then I finished it in a few days. Now I’m reading The Peach Keeper by Sarah Addison Allen which honestly I think came to me just when I needed it.
Other things I’ve been doing..utilizing Netflix instant streaming by watching seasons 4 and 5 of Bones which was where I had left off and now I have to wait. for 6 to come to the instant streaming. (I’m keeping fingers crossed that it will!). Then Zack and I watched all 13 episodes of Harper’s Island which was so ridiculously bad but I couldn’t stop watching it. I had my own running commentary of it and at the end it got a little creepy and I don’t mean that in a scary way. Then I discovered Ghost Adventures on the Travel Channel which now I can’t stop watching. It’s like an addiction. It probably helps that Zak Bagans is cute…well I think so. I also finally registered for an online short story writing class which I’m excited about.
I have seen a few movies that I like so here is a list of those.
Super 8 – I really liked this movie and I pretty much think J.J. Abrams is a genius. I loved the cast and to me it had a Goonies feel even though they were completely different stories. Actually I don’t like the movie Goonies (I had to watch it one too many times when I was little due to my brothers) so this was ten times better to me.
Transformers 3: Dark of the Moon - We saw this one in 3D and generally I don’t like 3D but it was the only time that really worked for us since we were having friends over for dinner later on in the evening. I liked it in 3D though and it was funny in parts. I still think the first one is the best one though and also one of my favorite movies.
Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows: Part 2 – OMG! yes OMG! I loved this movie on so many levels. I cried and I laughed and it was all bittersweet. To this day I am still jealous of people who get to read Harry Potter for the first time. I wish I could experience that again. Harry Potter means so much to me and has gotten me through some rough times and again it helped me when I was in a bad place! Usually at least once during a movie when I see it in the theater I think I wonder how much longer is left. I didn’t do that with this movie. I was that entranced in it. Ahhh I want to see it again.
Crazy, Stupid, Love - I just went and saw this yesterday with my mom and my Aunt. I think I liked it because of the company I had to see it. It was fun though and I want to touch Ryan Gosling’s abs.
So that’s it with the movies…well not it. I’ve watched a lot on DVD since we get them through Blockbuster.
Lastly I’ve been shopping too much. Mostly clothes but also snack food on my lunch break because I keep going to Target. My co-worker makes fun of me and every time I walk back in with something to eat she shakes her head at me. I think even more amusing is that I rarely eat it. It’s just a growing pile in my drawer but I guess it comforts me.
Guys I’m watching Friends…all the seasons out of order. I have watched it many times but usually when I can’t stop it, it’s a sign that I’m struggling. I am struggling. (On a side note after Zack and I were married we walked down the isle together to the theme song of Friends which was very fitting for us. I really loved how my wedding turned out, the colors were beautiful and it was generally fun) So yes I did indeed have a wonderful wedding and the honeymoon was awesome. It has all been good and so far married life is wonderful! To know you have someone to count on no matter what and takes you as you are is the best thing I could ever ask for. I wish this on everyone. I don’t know what I would do if I didn’t have someone support me through all this. Someone that knows when I’m watching Friends like the way I am it means something.
I can’t sleep at night either. I don’t go to bed until 11 or 11:30. I know that doesn’t seem late but for me on a work day it is. I stay up watching Friends. Friends gets me through things much like reading Harry Potter does. I’ve been too tired to read at night though so I have books piling up on me.
To go with my wedding something very sad happened to a friend in my life and I can’t talk about it on the blog but it affected me very deeply. She has been a wonderful and supportive friend and she’s always positive and always happy. So for something terrible to happen to her makes me really question life and the things that happen to good people. I also know that God has his reasons for the things that happen and I have to put faith in to that. Except some times it is just so hard to understand.
With that all said I think my life is about to change drastically well I know it is. I know what you’re thinking “you just got married how much more change could it be?”. But it is…I am about to do something that I don’t think I ever thought I would do which is chase my dreams. Well chase them a little bit. I am just lucky to have someone to help me with this. I am not going to go in to detail about it just yet until it’s all said and done but I am looking forward to it. Although I am a little scared about it.
I don’t think I meant this post to turn out this way! It’s funny I actually think I started it to say that I am going to start reading more in the near future and so I will have more activity on this blog. However I think this blog is starting to be more of my personal blog plus me ranting and raving about books and movies rather then our blog but that’s OK. I need the outlet.
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So I was a bachelorette in a silly banner and silly light up buttons. We had happy hour at Sakura. Yum Yum
Then there was more wine later and we watched Easy A.
Then I got married.
I’m not sure I would have survived without this girl.
Then we went to the Wizarding World of Harry Potter for our Honeymoon.
We got to try Butterbeer!!! It was so good! I had to have it twice.
We did the rest of Universal to. I got to see the Delorean from Back to the Future. This was pretty exciting for me.
We also went to Disney World.
We saw Epcot and walked the whole darn park looking for Churros only to find them and be disappointed in them. I also road the Finding Nemo ride.
We ate at Friendly’s! I was so excited about this because I think I thought I would never eat at a Friendly’s again! But we did and I had a Fribble!
We went to the Magic Kingdom and Disney Hollywood Studios. We saw Muppets 3D and I took a picture of myself in front of the house from the Hannah Montana Movie. I also took pictures of props from the Pirates of the Caribbean sets. Then we were very very tired. So we saw The Hangover Part 2 where we cooled off because it was hot. So very hot! I discovered that Orlando Theaters have alcohol in them. Orlando whole different breed from Tucson.
And now we’re home and unpacking and happy. Content.
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My (our?) poor blog. I think maybe it’s gathering dust and cobwebs. I have a good excuse though as planning a wedding takes up a lot of your time. Add little girls birthdays as well my own (my 30th which honestly being 30 has been great. I don’t know why I was so afraid of it.), anniversaries, other weddings and holidays and I just don’t have much time. Not to mention that I’ve had a lot of family coming down on the weekends helping me out in a big way and so I spend a lot of time visiting with them.
I have to be honest as well and say that I have been going through a sort of emotional time. Things haven’t been very easy for me and there are changes that I wasn’t expecting but I also know they are necessary for right now. I’ve had some depression and some terrible anxiety the past couple of weeks to go along with all this. I’ve been watching a lot of things like watching Harry Potter 7 Part 1 a million times ,Veronica Mars on DVD and DVR’d Royal Wedding* coverage to help cope. I also have been writing in my paper journal again which I haven’t really done in over a year probably.
On a lighter note do you want to know how I spent my 30th Birthday week? Well I’m going to tell you any way. The Wednesday before my birthday I made Salmon with my mom which was a first for me. Not trying salmon but cooking it. I’ve been having fun cooking actually (I’m slowly learning and Zack helps me out which makes it easier. I may or may not write about my cooking adventures once the wedding is over. I want to start taking pictures of everything I make though).
Thursday the girls at work decorated my desk and took me to lunch at one of my favorite restaurants and got me cupcakes as well as a giftcard to Forever 21. Then Zack’s sister made me dinner and some (questionable?) cupcakes. They weren’t really questionable but she seemed to think so. They were heathbar cupcakes and the center of them were extremely delicious. She also made a chicken cordon bleu wrap which is one of my favorite things she makes. She had her daughter sing happy birthday to me which was very cute. I should have videoed it honestly.
Friday I took off work and woke up to some yellow roses that Zack bought me and the offer of some Fancy Pants (designer jeans). Then I went to the mall to do some wedding stuff. (I.E. I bought makeup from the M.A.C store for my the wedding day which hurt to pay for, it really did about as much as it does to put gas in my car. But now I’m sort of addicted to it and I’m not sure how I can live without it. )My mom took me to a late lunch to Chilis and bought me a Mango Margarita and then we went home and had some “happy hour”** because the only way to enter your 30s is by having some drinks(not really). For dinner we met all my wonderful friends and some of my family at the Cheesecake Factory where I had more drinks and a delicious club sandwich and a red velvet cheese cake(red velvet is my favorite kind of cake) which I finished for breakfast the next morning.
Saturday it was raining and cold which didn’t make sense since it was 90 two days before. That’s Tucson for you though. I had my bridal shower that day so I got to spend even more time with my friends. My maid of honor Summer and my sister in law threw it for me and they did an excellent job. Summer made lots of yummy food and I just had a nice time. I have to be honest though I was very anxious about the whole thing since I’m not really good with huge social interactions but I turned out to be alright. I also got a lot of really nice things for the kitchen and the house.
Finally on Sunday my mom made me a home made birthday dinner(Chicken Parmesan) and cake(yellow with chocolate frosting) which was pretty much how I ended up birthday week. Well that and I watched the Narnia movie. It was all really lovely and that’s the best word I could use to describe it. I also believe I had a lot of cake.
* – Fact Prince William was my first celebrity crush (well sort of I also had a bit of a crush on Johnathan Taylor Thomas or JTT. Ok I admit it I had JTT wallpaper and bough Tiger Beat) BUT I was actually going to marry Prince William. I know along with a million other females in the world. It was even a family joke that I was going to marry him. In fact when I got engaged my Aunt e-mailed me and asked me if either she or I had to let Prince William down?
** – this would be a family tradition where we have drinks and snacks and basically just sit and talk with each other. That or we watch a movie.
Sweet Valley Confidential - Francine Pascal
Honestly the best way I could describe this book was that it was like going home much like when I read the Harry Potter books. I read the Sweet Valley books all through my kid years and my teen years. This includes Sweet Valley Kids, Sweet Valley Twins, Sweet Valley High and Sweet Valley University. Out of all of them the Sweet Valley High books were my favorite. Each series came out monthly and I remember I would make monthly bookstore trips to get them and then devour them in two days. This didn’t always work out so well for me because it meant I had to wait another whole month to get the next one. When I look back Sweet Valley and the twins were a comfort to me and an escape.
I think this book came out just in time for me and it was the comfort I needed. I really enjoyed this book but I think that to really enjoy it you need to be a fan like me or to have some sort of an idea of what happened in the other books. Otherwise the story line and the characters might get lost on you. The writing was some what choppy and not that great but I still really loved it. I also am pretty sure if I were to read some of the old books that the writing and ridiculous story lines(evil twin anyone?) would compare pretty easily to it.
It was so much fun to read that I am sad that I am done with it and I kind of am wishing/praying that there will be another one or maybe more! Now I want to pull all my Sweet Valley books out of the shed because I still have them. I got rid of quite bit of them but kept my favorite ones. I’m still kind of mad at myself for getting rid of them back in the day.
Other books I have read that I haven’t really talked about are The Mockingbirds by Daisy Whitney which was the last book I read that I couldn’t put down. It is a wonderful book and I think everyone should read it. I read it back in January so I can’t really give it a proper review sadly as too much is going on right now and my brain is muddled. The next book I read was The Lace Reader by Brunonia Barry. I actually really liked this book although I had the twist at the end of the book completely figured out. I think a lot of that has to do with my major and minor in college. I know a lot about people and can figure them out. It took me awhile to get through this book though because it’s been crunch time for planning the wedding and I moved in with Zack so there was adjusting going on. The last book I read was Halo by Alexandra Adornetto which I have to be honest I don’t really know how I even finished the book. I really struggled through it. The writing wasn’t so bad but the story was and well I take that back on the writing. I think she sort of fell in to the “Stephanie Meyer syndrome”* where it takes pages to get the point. Not much even happened through this massive book until the end and the “villain” didn’t even show up until the book was almost finished. I am also getting really sick of these main female characters who let their lives go to hell because a guy left them. I get that they are teenagers and that everything is polarized when you’re that age or over dramatized is more of the word I am looking for. BUT seriously grow a back bone. I want to read more about strong female characters who don’t define themselves by the person they are with. If you have any suggestions let me know! I think the main reason I picked this book up was because of the cover. It is absolutely gorgeous cover. Ok end rant.
I got all these books from the bookstore or were gifts given to me by Zack.
* – I had a professor in college who loved the Twilight books and so do I so I’m not going to lie. But she gave us essay exams and she always told us do not to fall in to the Stephanie Meyer syndrome when writing our essays. Which was to say keep it short and sweet and not do a dump all.
I’ve been sick for the past week…again. I had a temperature and now I have a terrible cough. I’ve been coughing so much that it gives me a headache and it wakes me up in the night. I stayed home from work Thursday in hopes that I could sleep it off. I spent the morning sleeping and watching Rainbow Brite and the Star Stealer. It did not work but I didn’t want to call in again so I went to work Friday. Then I was stupid and dragged myself to theater to see Sucker Punch because I wanted to see it sooooo badly. It was worth it though because I loved the movie. I want to go see it again OR I want it on Blu-Ray quickly! It is visually pretty and just…I loved it. I always want to warn people to not take my word on things though since I have an interesting taste in movies. I do have to say that I am glad that I am marrying someone that I can drag to see these kinds of movies with.
I think I related to Baby Doll and not because of what happened to her. Nothing like that has happened to me but I understood her. Also the soundtrack is completely awesome. I am hoping to get it soonish. Sorry it is all I can think about right now.
The rest of the weekend will be spent doing wedding stuff and hopefully getting my health back. I’m so tired of being sick. I started reading Little Women on my Kindle since I’ve never read it before so I may read some of that.
