What I'm Loving Wednesday!

I know I already posted today, but.....

Yaaaay, linkup! Happy Wednesday, lovelies!

I'm loving my momma's homemade banana pudding. Oh, yeah. Be jealous. It's wonderful.

I'm loving Bonk: The Curious Coupling of Science and Sex by Mary Roach. She's hilarious and informative.

I'm loving True Blood. Because let's be honest, who doesn't love Sookie Stackhouse and the studly Eric Northman [heart throb, please]!

 

I'm loving Excel. I'm not even kidding, I'm the crazy planning lady who makes spread sheets for everything. I'm planning my summer vacation now for next year so no blow out tires will prevent me from going! For real.

I'm loving today! It's been a lovely day and I'm so grateful. 

Book Challenge: To See You Again

Book: To See You Again: A True Story of Love and War by Betty Schimmel

Challenge: Free Choice

This may be cheating, if it is, oh, well! It's just a freebie. I read this book for the first time when I was in jr. high. My mom and I found it at the Dollar Tree and decided to give it a shot. I recently reread it, and fell in love with it all over again. Basically, it's the true story of a Jewish girl who was a teenager during the Nazi occupation of Europe. She is separated from the one person who saves her from the horrible war, and spends months searching for him after the liberation. However, she doesn't succeed. Giving him up for dead, she reluctantly began a new life with a husband who adored her. Never forgetting her one true love, she always remained distant. Thirty years later, by chance, they meet again. They realized they never stopped loving each other, and she must decide if she wants to go with him, or stay with her new life.

Don't worry, there are no spoilers there that you couldn't read from the back of the book. I won't lie, this book is incredibly depressing. Heartbreaking as it was, it was still phenomenal.

If I wanted someone to vacuum while I was eating, I'd go home and let Momma do it. For free.

Irritating things that occurred today:

1] Technically, this happened yesterday, but I had to fix it today. My tire blew up. I had to buy a new tire and what not, which cut into Florida funds. Verdict: I can't go to Florida now! I'm so upset. I was supposed to get to go to Florida, then Georgia to see my friend who moved a few months ago.

2] My friend Katie and I went shopping today (she's an extreme couponer), and afterwards we decided to go eat at this new steakhouse in town. I'm still so angry. We get seated, and our waiters asks what we'd like to drink/eat/brings us bread. We're all fine and good. Then, he starts vacuuming his section. Look, I understand if it's thirty minutes to close, and you're rushing, but he still had an hour and a half or more before closing time. After he finishing vacuuming by our table, I go to the bathroom. When I come back, he has a table pulled out of a booth, blocking my way to my table. Not to  mention, he's vacuuming this booth area. Right. Behind. Our. Booth. So, I have to squeeze my way to my table between the table he pulled out and a table that's in it's right place. Katie needs a refill, and we're out of bread. We stay out of bread until our food comes. He doesn't even stay to ask if everything looks alright. She ordered a medium-well steak. Her plate was covered in blood. He didn't even come back to check. We had to tell the manager who brought us refills, bread, and her properly cooked steak. THEN, we are finished eating, for a good ten or fifteen minutes before he comes back by to ask if we're done. He took some of our plates before she had a chance to put all her food in her to-go box and before we could even put our money in the envelope. Needless to say, I didn't tip him. Katie and I almost wrote a note on our receipts, but didn't. She was going to write, "If I wanted someone to vacuum while I was trying to eat, I'd go home and let my momma do it. For free."

On the good notes of today, I got my first set of knitting needles! They were on clearance at Hobby Lobby. Also, thanks to Katie's coupons, we each got a box of twelve sharpies for a dollar. That's right, twelve sharpies. For a dollar.

Yay for discounted items! :D

I'm also considering starting another blog titled, "Things I'm Not Supposed to Know About My Friends." It'd be a hoot, I just know it!

Book Challenge: Paranormalcy

Book: Paranormalcy by Kiersten White

Challenge: A novel by a first time author.

Paranormalcy is the first book in the trilogy about a girl, Evie, who can see past the "glamours" of the paranormals. Basically, she can tell who is a paranormal creature and who isn't. She works for the IPCA (International Paranormal Containment Agency), and is discovering she may be part of an epic faerie prophecy.

I'm probably biased because I have a deep love and fascination for fantasy books, but I loved every minute reading this book. I can't wait for the second installment, Supernaturally.

A much needed break

One of my biggest flaws:

I am too content with a fleece blanket, a pair of sweat pants, and a good book in a big comfy chair. I have no qualms with staying home, in fact, I usually prefer it. I found myself giving a pep talk in my mind the other day. I had to talk myself in to going out for the night. It's not that I don't have a good time when I finally get out with the girls and what have you, I just...would be perfectly okay staying home. With a book. And Dr. Pepper. 

So, this has been my life since calculus III ended on Friday. When I'm not working or out with friends(less often), I'm reading a book. And this is okay. I've been in kind of a weird place lately, wondering about my future plans and whether or not I'm living enough, but when I sit down with my book, my blanket, and a Dr. Pepper, I don't care. My life becomes nonexistent, and I plunge into the lives of fiction characters, glad to have a break from mine. 

Book Challenge: Dead Reckoning

Book: Dead Reckoning (Sookie Stackhouse Series) by Charlaine Harris

Challenge: A book written by an author from your home country, region, or with your ancestral background who lives in a foreign country.

I chose Dead Reckoning for this challenge because the author, Charlaine Harris is from my home state. The is the eleventh book in the series True Blood is based on. I absolutely love these books. If you don't already know, the main character is Sookie Stackhouse, a telepathic barmaid from Bon Temps, Louisiana, who is always tangled up in a mess of vampires, werewolves, and other mystical creatures.

In this installment of the series, Sookie is roped into a seemingly perilous vampire plot(per usual) while trying to save herself from someone driven to madness with the want to take Sookie's life. I really enjoyed this book, which, to be honest, I was afraid I wouldn't. The previous book just wasn't as spectacular as I'd hoped, and I feared the same for this book. Unfortunately, I'm already ready to be reading book twelve, but alas, I'll have to wait.

Chubby Bunny: Jumbo Marshmallow Edition

Friday we went to Cait's to do our second chubby bunny challenge and our chocolate facemasks! This one is probably not quite as funny due to the fact it's much, much shorter and we couldn't talk as easily, but here it is! You can find it on Cait's youtube channel, or below. Enjoy!