Post Number 20!!!

Book: My Life Undecided by Jessica Brody
Feeling: Like I have a cold

POST NUMBER 20!!! Wow, I have twenty posts on  this blog! And I posted at the beginning of the month instead of the end!!! Who knew a 20ith post could have so much hoopla? Aren't you wondering what I will do for my 100 Blog Post? Well, to celebrate post #20 I am unveiling the AuthorStop logo on this blog! If you actually go on AuthorStop you would know that this logo has been up for about a week and isn't anything new but with out further ado, the AuthorStop logo:

Isn't it beautiful? *wipes a tear from eye* AuthorStop is in a series of change right now including some upgrades to hopefully make it a cooler site to go on. But even with the coolest new things some people are just too stubborn to look at a creative writing website. Cure you stubborn people! *shakes fist in the air* Also I have ranted in at least two blog posts about how I can't knit on double pointed needles. Yay! I am now able to finish the hat for my BFF. And make hats for other people too! Whoope! Well I feel sick so I think I'm going to take a nap.

Grandmotherly Habits

Book: Iron Queen by Julie Kagawa
Feeling: wet

Wow, I haven't posted in a really long time... tomorrow it would be s month since I posted last. Wow. What is with  me and posting at the end of the month? I don't know. Well I am again going to talk about my apparently Grandmotherly habit of knitting. As I said last month I knit really, really, painstakingly slow. Like, well my Grandmother can knit faster than I can and she is like three times my age, I find that really embarrassing. A friend of mine pointed out that knitting is something only 80 year old Grandmothers do. Which most of my other friends agree with. But I know there are some young knitters out there! Young Knitters of the World Unite!!! So, I am going to bore you to death and probably loose any chance i had at getting a follower by listing all the projects I am working on at once.

• My best friends Christmas gift, consisting of, a hat, a scarf and arm warmers that I call Wristies because she wanted them short so as to only cover her wrist which I promised for last x-mas so I am going to give them to her the next time I see her. And just to make you even more out of your mind bored, they are black and off white, off white trim on everything (garter stitch) and black everything else (stockinet stitch). They are really cute but i didn't realize the hat pattern called for double pointed needles to finish the decreasing which irks me because I can't use them yet and the hat will have to be put on hold which puts everything on hold. 
• My other best friends Christmas gift, also consisting of hat, scarf, and Wristies. This one is in a variegated green, teal, lilac, and navy yarn all in stockinet stitch. This is a lot shorter than my first bullet point so I am going to babble a little bit. Done!
• A purple sweater for moi. Not very far along with that, I started in January and its August and all I have done is  20 in of the back... humm a testament to my short attention span and slow knitting skills.... SQUIRREL! Sorry, what was I saying.
• And squares for my giant patch work knit quilt. I still have 154 4in x 4in squares left to knit. A LONG way to go.

So now that I have bored my readers to death, I am very sorry for you loss, not I cannot come to your funeral. I  will kill you again with the list of my summer reads. I have added about 10 more, but with three days... well I guess only two i am far, far away from my goal of 60.

1. The Espressologist by Kristina Springer
2. Beauty Shop for Rent by Laura Bowers
3. Sweets, Treats, and Secret Crushes by Lisa Greenwald
4. Zombie Queen of Newbury High by Amanda Ashby
5. How My Personal, Private Journal Became a Bestseller by Julia DeVillers
6. Ruby Red by Kerstin Gier
7. Mates, Dates, and Inflatable Bras by Cathy Hopkins
8. Pride and Prejudice by Jane Austen
9. Fins are Forever by Tera Lynn Childs
10. The Melting of Maggie Bean by Tricia Rayburn
11. Queen of the Dead by Stacy Kade
12. Iron King by Julie Kagawa
13. Princess Ben by Catherine Gilbert Murdock
14. Doomed Queen Anne by Carolyn Meyer
15. Uncommon Criminals by Ally Carter
16. Forever by Maggie Stiefvater
17. Mates, Dates and Cosmic Kisses by Cathy Hopkins
18. Mates, Dates and Designer Divas by Cathy Hopkins
19. Mates, Dates and Sleepover Secrets by Cathy Hopkins
20. Ten Things We Did (And Probably Shouldn't Have) by Sarah Mlynowski
21. Audrey, Wait! by Robin Benway
22. Maggie Bean Stays Afloat by Tricia Rayburn
23. Iron Daughter by Julie Kagawa
24. Mates, Dates, and Sole Survivors by Cathy Hopkins
25. Mates, Dates, and Mad Mistakes by Cathy Hopkins
26. Mates, Dates, and Sequin Smiles by Cathy Hopkins
27. Maggie Bean in Love by Tricia Rayburn
28. The Royal Treatment by Lindsey Leavitt
29. A Tale of Two Castles by Gail Carson Levine
30. Mates, Dates, and Tempting Trouble by Cathy Hopkins
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So, only 31 by the thirty-first which is when my goal ends it will probably be 32 which is some what depressing because I only made it half way through my goal. But it is kinda cool to see how I read at about a pace of 10 books a month. So that's all folks! ( I <3 Bugs Bunny)

Christmas Knitting ..... in July!

Book: Iron Daughter by Julie Kagawa

(Sorry the word of the day was starting to bother me.)

Feeling: annoyed by the word of the day and double pointed needles

So I am a knitting freak among other freaky hobbies I have ( like smelling taxidermy and licking stamps. Not really.) And I knit really slowly. I was making my sister a hat last Christmas and I didn't finish it in time so it was going to be for her Birthday and I didn't have it done by then, so now it is for this Christmas along with a matching scarf. So I have learned that I have to start Christmas presents really early. So, I want to make my Dad a pair of socks, seems easy enough, right? Wrong. I have to use double pointed needles which are really hard to use. I am just really bad at it so, I think everyone will just get scarves. Yup nice long, really long and... I don't have a long enough attention span to make a scarf. This is going to be a lot harder than I thought. Well then, I would like to update my summer reading log:

1. The Espressologist by Kristina Springer
2. Beauty Shop for Rent by Laura Bowers
3. Sweets, Treats, and Secret Crushes by Lisa Greenwald
4. Zombie Queen of Newbury High by Amanda Ashby
5. How My Personal, Private Journal Became a Bestseller by Julia DeVillers
6. Ruby Red by Kerstin Gier
7. Mates, Dates, and Inflatable Bras by Cathy Hopkins
8. Pride and Prejudice by Jane Austen
9. Fins are Forever by Tera Lynn Childs
10. The Melting of Maggie Bean by Tricia Rayburn
11. Queen of the Dead by Stacy Kade
12. Iron King by Julie Kagawa
13. Princess Ben by Catherine Gilbert Murdock
14. Doomed Queen Anne by Carolyn Meyer
15. Uncommon Criminals by Ally Carter
16. Forever by Maggie Stiefvater
17. Mates, Dates and Cosmic Kisses by Cathy Hopkins
18. Mates, Dates and Designer Divas by Cathy Hopkins
19. Mates, Dates and Sleepover Secrets by Cathy Hopkins
20. Ten Things We Did (And Probably Shouldn't Have) by Sarah Mlynowski
21. Audrey, Wait! by Robin Benway
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As you can see I changed my goal from 70 to a more attainable 60 I have also read 10 more books since the last time I posted. Let's see if I can make it by the end of summer!               

Summer Reading

Book: Queen of the Dead by Stacy Kade

Word 'o' the Day: askew- slightly off kilter

Feeling: Very tired (time difference stinks)

So I have set myself a very high goal of reading 70 books this summer. It may seem rediculous and unattainable but I plan on making it. So far I have read 10 books. If I read 10 books a week for the next 6 weeks I will have reached my goal with a few days to spare. These are the books I have read so far:

1. The Espressologist by Kristina Springer
2. Beauty Shop for Rent by Laura Bowers
3. Sweets, Treats, and Secret Crushes by Lisa Greenwald
4. Zombie Queen of Newbury High by Amanda Ashby
5. How My Personal, Private Journal Became a Bestseller by Julia DeVillers
6. Ruby Red by Kerstin Gier
7. Mates, Dates, and Inflatable Bras by Cathy Hopkins
8. Pride and Prejudice by Jane Austen
9. Fins are Forever by Tera Lynn Childs
10. The Melting of Maggie Bean by Tricia Rayburn
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As you can see I still am a long way off. There will be constant updates of my summer reading progress for anyone who cares. If any of those people who care happen to have a suggestion on what to read next I would love to hear about it in a comment. Also, for the people who care, www.authorstop.com has a new contest hint, hint, wink, wink. Adventure/ Romance genre if you care...

Escalators and Moving Sidewalks Amoung Other Things

Book: Mates, Dates, and Inflatable Bras by Cathy Hopkins
Word 'o' the Day: irked-a fancy way to say annoyed
Feeling: SO ready for a vacation

Going on vacation! And I have found something I hate about rushed people in an airport. They always walk on the escalators. Seriously, they are so you can relax and let the stairs do the walking for you. Walking down them defeats the purpose of an escalator. And I checked, it DOES NOT make you walk down any faster. Also, walking on moving sidewalks. WHY? They move so you don't have to! But again I did check and it does make you faster. That is no reason for you moving sidewalk walkers to walk on them though (unless you are trying to have super speed, walk on future super heroes of the world). Supposedly "free" WiFi is also really annoying. The airports make you jump through hoops to get your one hour of WiFi. I had to watch a really loud ad to bring you internet people this post. You better appreciate it. Well, because of stinky airport WiFi I bring you this post four days late. Apparently you can't save things online when using airport WiFi so I saved this post on a sticky note until I had/have better WiFi at a hotel I am staying at. I really hate having to look for free WiFi hot spots,why can't every public place have wireless internet? 
actual date this should have been sent on: 7/8/11

Ity Bity Site!

Book: Darke by Angie Sage
Word 'O' the Day: audacious - bold, daring, fearless
Feeling: electrifying

My ity-bity  website about writing is actually getting site traffic! I am thrilled. I have had to moderate at least 10 comments a day which is huge. The website is www.authorstop.com it is just a little writing website with mostly teen writers on it. It is totally free to join and post. We are having another contest and it is themed as summer romance. Per a poll about 3 people are entering. And the most exciting news is that I have one user who has been coming on daily! Naw128 rocks! I do have another user who has been a dedicated follower, krazylady2247. So come one come all to my ity bity tiny weeny website.

The End of the World.... Or Not.

Book: Romeo and Juliet by William Shakespeare 
Word 'o' the Day: gobble - to eat really quickly (also what preschoolers are told a turkey sounds like)
Feeling: I hate allergies...

I've been tired and feeling downright disgusting all week. I really hate having allergies. So, there are all those billboards saying tomorrow is Judgment Day. Coming from a family of religious nuts I want to say that it IS NOT the end of the world. It just means Jesus will come down from heaven and take a select few back to heaven the let the rest of us stay on earth to die and then rot in h-e-double-hockey-sticks. I am yet another skeptic of this idea, but you never know, it could happen. I am a little annoyed by this priest though. I went to a friend's church and the gospel was basically about how all the other religions will eventually get you to heaven but Catholicism is the only direct route. He sounded like he belonged in the Middle Ages during the Protestant Reformation advocating Catholicism. But religion is a dry topic for me.
I am really annoyed with the amount of authors who are taking a REALLY long time to publish another book. I do get that the writing process and the publishing process is a long span of time. But I gobble books up in a matter of days. It's a really nice day... I think I'm going to go outside...