Marital Status: Engaged!!!
Worst habit: getting angry easily
Last CD you bought: Miley Cyrus :: Breakout
Last DVD you bought: Night at the museum
Last movie you saw on DVD: How to lose friends and alienate people
Last movie you saw in theatres: Harry Potter and the Half Blood Prince
Last movie you saw on the comp: Atonement

Movie: Harry Potter and the half blood Prince
Song: Dolly Rockers :: Gold Digger
CD: Britney Spears :: Circus
Band: Simple Plan
Singer: Britney Spears
TV show: Friends
Music Video: Cobra Starship feat. Leighton Meester :: Good girls go bad
Book: The A list :: Zoey Dean
Clothing article:: My skirt and green top from American Apparel
DVD: Sex and the City the movie
Cartoon: The Simpsons
Disney movie: Enchanted
Group: The Lonely Island
Celebrity: Dolly Rockers

Artist: Various
Title: Dancing in the Street
Label: Starbucks Entertainment
Date: March 31/09
How many times in a row I've played it: This album is on constant play at my work.
Genre: Motown

CD
Tracks:

1. Cleo's Mood - Jr Walker and the All Stars
2. I'll go crazy - James Brown and the Famous Flames
3. Dancing in the street - Martha Reeves and the Vandellas
4. Shop Around - The Miracles
5. You beat me to the punch - Mary Wells
6. Let's get it on - Marvin Gaye
7. Someday we'll be together - Diana Ross and the Supremes
8. Uptight (Everything's alright) - Stevie Wonder
9. Please, Mr. Postman - The Marvelettes
10. Just my imagination (running away from me) - The Temptations
11. I heard it through the grapevine - Gladys Knight and the Pips
12. I want you back - Jackson 5
13. Do you love me? - The Contours
14. I can't help myself (sugar pie, honey bunch) - The Four Tops
15. Prisoner of love - James Brown
16. At last - Etta James

These tunes make me want to: open all the windows in my condo and clean...I don't know why...
Comments: We have this cd on constant rotation at work. Especially since Lauren is in love with that Jackson 5 song. I swear to you I have heard it a total of 5 times alone today! We are always singing and dancing along to it. I had to buy it!


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Now playing: The Four Tops - I can't help myself (Sugar pie, honey bunch)
http://foxytunes.com/artist/the+four+tops/track/i+cant+help+myself+(sugar+pie%2c+honey+bunch)

WHAT THE FLYING FUCK?! Drew just called and told me that Bhurma, the woman who owns this condo that we are supposedly buying, is going to be showing it every weekend from 2pm to 3pm. Um, we signed a year lease and they are trying to sell it from under us while we haven't even been here for a week?! WTF?! I am so beyond pissed right now. What's the point in unpacking? I fucking hate this! I knew it was too good to be true that I had such a pretty place to live. I am beyond livid right now...

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Now playing: Danity Kane - Damaged
http://foxytunes.com/artist/danity+kane/track/damaged

Title: Twilight
Author: Stephenie Meyer
Copyright date: 2005
Publisher: Little, Brown
How many pages: 498 pgs
How long it took me to read: 15 days
Category: Fiction
I learned about this book from: everyone being obsessed with it

This book was purchased at: Coles
This book is: amazing!!!!
Other books by these authors: New Moon, Eclipse, Breaking Dawn, The Host
Favorite characters: Edward, Bella, Alice and Jasper
When and Where the story takes place: Forks, Pheonix
Plot in a nutshell: Bella falls for a very dark and handsome boy in school only to find out he has a dark secret that could put her life at risk...
Main characters: Bella Swan and Edward Cullen
What I liked best: Edward reminded me of my boyfriend and it amuses me to no extent that everyone online wants their "own Edward" and I have one! Mwahahahaha! I am such a Bella. I swear, Drew is always telling me to "Be Safe" and making fun of me when I get hurt or in trouble and he has to bail me out.
What I liked least: How it ended...HOW COULD IT END LIKE THAT?!

Overall rating: Fantastic! I loved it!

Title: Wicked
Author: Gregory Maguire
Copyright date: 1996
Publisher: Headline Review
How many pages: 402 pgs
How long it took me to read: 1 month, 18 days
Category: Fiction
I learned about this book from: people talking about it

This book was purchased at: McNeely and Robinson Books
This book is: for people who like Wizard of Oz
Other books by this author: Confessions of an Ugly Stepsister, What the dickens?,Son of a witch, mirror mirror, Lost, Leaping beauty, The dream stealer
Favorite characters: Elphaba, Fiyero, Glinda, Nanny and Liir.
When and Where the story takes place: Oz, Munchkinland, Gillikan, Shiz, Emerald City, Quadling country, and the Vicken
Plot in a nutshell: This is the story of the wizard of oz from the Wicked Witch's prospective. You are brought through the witch's horrible past and up to the day where Dorothy pours the water on her and melting her.
Main characters: Elphaba, Glinda, Fiyero, Nessarose, and Boq
What I liked best: How everything made more sense after this.
What I liked least: How long it took me to read. I wasn't really into it at the beginning at all.

Overall rating: After reading this, the real story of the Wizard of oz sounds like some silly novel that someone had written of their poor recollections of what really happened. I liked this one much better.

1. I met her by asking the question, "Should I listen to Mandy Moore or Britney Spears" and she didn't harp at me for loving Brit.
2. She's the best friend a girl could ask for.
3. When life gives her lemons, she makes sure the lemon juice gets right in Scoot's eye.
4. She's always there with awesome words of advice for me.
5. She has a celeb "girlfriend", too.
6. She's a teenybopper at heart, too.
7. Understands my love for Gilmore girls because she's just as crazy for it
8. She may disappear for a few days with no word, but when she comes back, she floods my inbox with emails!
9. Our crazy phone calls.
10. She sends me my favorite monkey in the mail!

Thank you, circle_daybreak, for the surprise Curious George package. It completely brightened my day!

Explanation: I got home from my interview at Spherion yesterday and looked in my mailbox to find a post office doorknob hanger summoning me to the post office for a parcel. I was thinking maybe it was from my Dad but then I thought, "He's in jail, what the heck could he be sending me? Hand cuffs?! Sorry, Dad, I already got a pair!" lol. Then, I thought maybe my sister Sam sent me some book that she thought was her gospel.

I got upstairs and for the first time since I met him, Drew was home before 7pm on a Friday night. I told him about the parcel and he said I should wait until the next morning to go get it because it was probably from the collection's agency summoning me to court...I started freaking out and he reluctantly came with me to the post office (after we stopped off at Block Buster...we're having a Steve Carrol weekend. 40 year old virgin, season 1 of the office and because Drew wanted me to open up the floodgates - That way I don't end up crying for no good reason - AI), where I got this manila envelope. Confused, I looked at the address label on the envelope to find Jackie's name.

A huge smile spread across my face as I opened the envelope to find 2 Magnet bookmarks, stamps and stationary - all with Curious George on them! I love that friendship still means the same thing to her that it does to me.

Not saying that receiving gifts from each other makes a good friend, I meant that she walked through a store and that reminded her so much of me that she wanted to share it. That's friendship. Crystal does it all the time, too. She'll call and say, "Hey, I'm standing in front of this and it reminded me of you." It's hard to explain but if you understand, that makes me really happy. :)

As do you, Jackie. Love you, babe!

Being a bad girl isn't about breaking the law. It's about breaking the rules - and respecting yourself in the morning. It's about pushing back, pushing the envelope, and pushing yourself to new limits. It's about not being afraid to use your head, your heart, or your honey pot to get what you want.

A bad girl is you at your uncensored best - whoever you are, whatever your style. Finding your badness requires nothing more than an easy attitude adjustment. To dial it up, just lock and load these power phrases in your mind:

"I rule!"
"I rock!"
"I know what I want and how to get it!" (or at least how to have fun trying!)

Remember: Being a bad girl isn't about getting more stuff, it's about getting satisfaction

Admit it, you want more satisfaction. Now get specific. What makes you feel alive? What makes you thrive? What gets your motor running? Write your immediate responses here (don't think, sweetcakes, just emote onto the page):


( my answers )

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Title: Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows
Author: JK Rowling
Copyright date: 2007
Publisher: Raincoast Books
How many pages: 607 pgs
How long it took me to read: 18 days - I didn't want to finish it too fast because it was the last of my Potter.
Category: Fiction
I learned about this book from: *rolls eyes at ignorance*

This book was purchased at: Chapter's
This book is: for anybody who has loved Harry...they will appreciate it most.
Other books by this author: Harry Potter and the Philosopher's stone, Harry Potter and the Chamber of secrets, Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban, Harry Potter and the Goblet of fire, Harry Potter and the Order of the Pheonix, Harry Potter and the Half blood Prince, Fantastic Beasts and where to find them and Quidditch through the ages
Favorite characters: Harry Potter, Oliver Wood, Sirius Black, Dumbledore, Neville Longbottom, Ginny Weasley, Dobby, Fleur Delacour, Fred and George Weasley, Molly Weasley, Arthur Weasley, Remus Lupin, Nymphodora Tonks, Bill Weasley, Percy Weasley, Charlie Weasley, Luna Lovegood, Ron Weasley, Hermione Granger, James Potter, Lily Potter, Kreacher , Severus Snape and the rest of Dumbledore's army.
Least favorite Characters: Voldemort, Bellatrix Lestrange, Peter Pettigrew, Xenophilius Lovegood, The Malfoys, Any other Death Eaters I haven't named, Griphook...
When and Where the story takes place: Wizarding world (Don't want to give away too much)
Plot in a nutshell: My lips are sealed.
Main characters: Harry Potter, Hermione Granger and Ron Weasley
What I liked best: It wrapped up all the secrets that were emanating during the series.
What I liked least: The ending...it was good but didn't answer all my questions.

Overall rating: YES! OMG YES!!!!

24 / 50 (48.0%)

If anyone wants to discuss it, post a comment...I am DYING to talk Harry!

Title: The Chestnut soldier
Author: Jenny Nimmo
Copyright date: 1989
Publisher: Egmont
How many pages: 199 pgs
How long it took me to read: 5 days - I don't read on the weekends! Too busy being lazy. lol.
Category: Fiction
I learned about this book from: going on a search looking for something to read after Harry Potter.

This book was purchased at: Chapter's
This book is: for anybody who has an imagination
Other books by this author: Snow spider, Emlyn's moon, Midnight for Charlie Bone, The time Twister, The blue boa, The castle of mirrors, The renaldi ring, Milo's wolves, Griffin's castle, Ill will well nell, Hot dog cool cat, Tatty apple, Delilah and the dogspell, Deliliah and the dishwasher dogs, and Delilah alone
Favorite characters: Gwyn, Nain, Nia, Emlyn
Least favorite Characters: Alun, Gwyn's Dad, Emlyn's mother, Evan Llyr
When and Where the story takes place: Wales
Plot in a nutshell: In the last book in the trilogy, the story is closed up and it explains the characters lives afterward.
Main characters: Nia, Emlyn, Gwyn and Alun
What I liked best: Nia and her craziness. She reminds me of a younger version of me...which, since this was written in 1989, would make her older than me now...but you know what I mean!
What I liked least: The author has a problem describing battle scenes.

Overall rating: I was pleased with the ending...now on to Harry Potter's happy ending...or not?

23 / 50 (46.0%)

Title: Emlyn's moon
Author: Jenny Nimmo
Copyright date: 1987
Publisher: Egmont
How many pages: 150 pgs
How long it took me to read: 1 day
Category: Fiction
I learned about this book from: going on a search looking for something to read after Harry Potter.

This book was purchased at: Chapter's
This book is: for anybody who has an imagination
Other books by this author: Snow spider, The chestnut soldier, Midnight for Charlie Bone, The time Twister, The blue boa, The castle of mirrors, The renaldi ring, Milo's wolves, Griffin's castle, Ill will well nell, Hot dog cool cat, Tatty apple, Delilah and the dogspell, Deliliah and the dishwasher dogs, and Delilah alone
Favorite characters: Gwyn, Bethan, Nain, Nia, Emlyn
Least favorite Characters: Alun, Gwyn's Dad, Emlyn's mother, the creepy children who glow in the dark.
When and Where the story takes place: Wales
Plot in a nutshell: In the sequel to Snow Spider, this story follows Nia Llyod, sister to Alun, Gwyn's best friend. It tells how she meets Emlyn, Gwyn's cousin and finds out a secret about their family.
Main characters: Nia, Emlyn, Gwyn and Alun
What I liked best: It captured my attention and kept it before I had time to second think my decision of reading it in the first place.
What I liked least: I think the author has issues beginning a story because everytime I start a book by her, I have to read the first two pages again because I feel like a I missed a chunk. She just rushes right into the story without stopping to realise that we aren't in her brain and can't see what she's thinking.

Overall rating: It's continuing to keep me happy.

22 / 50 (44.0%)

Title: The Snow Spider
Author: Jenny Nimmo
Copyright date: 1986
Publisher: Egmont
How many pages: 122 pgs
How long it took me to read: 2 days
Category: Fiction
I learned about this book from: going on a search looking for something to read after Harry Potter.

This book was purchased at: Chapter's
This book is: for anybody who has an imagination
Other books by this author: Emlyn's moon, The chestnut soldier, Midnight for Charlie Bone, The time Twister, The blue boa, The castle of mirrors, The renaldi ring, Milo's wolves, Griffin's castle, Ill will well nell, Hot dog cool cat, Tatty apple, Delilah and the dogspell, Deliliah and the dishwasher dogs, and Delilah alone
Favorite characters: Gwyn, Bethan, Nain
Least favorite Characters: Alun, Gwyn's Dad
When and Where the story takes place: Wales
Plot in a nutshell: When Gwyn's mother gives him 5 objects for his birthday - a brooch, a piece of seaweed, a yellow scarf, a tin whistle and a small broken horse, she tells him that these 5 objects would tell him if he was a magician or not and these 5 objects would give him his heart's desire if he was.
Main characters: Gwyn, Gwyn's parents, Nain, Alun
What I liked best: It captured my attention and kept it before I had time to second think my decision of reading it in the first place.
What I liked least: I think the author has issues beginning a story because everytime I start a book by her, I have to read the first two pages again because I feel like a I missed a chunk. She just rushes right into the story without stopping to realise that we aren't in her brain and can't see what she's thinking.

Overall rating: It's a pretty cool fantasy book.

21 / 50 (42.0%)

Title: Olivia Joules and the overactive imagination
Author: Helen Fielding
Copyright date: 2003
Publisher: Viking
How many pages: 306 pgs
How long it took me to read: 5 days
Category: Fiction
I learned about this book from: being a big Helen Fielding fan

This book was purchased at: Chapter's
This book is: for anybody who likes cute and witty stories
Other books by this author: Bridget Jones's diary, Bridget Jones: The edge of reason and Cause Celeb
Favorite characters: Olivia, Scott, Kate, Drew and Wickett
Least favorite Characters: Pierre
When and Where the story takes place: London, Miami, Los Angeles, Honduras, and Sudan
Plot in a nutshell: An english journalist gets herself in deep trouble when she becomes the object of affection of the new director in town, Pierre Faramo.
Main characters: Olivia Joules, Scott Rich, Pierre Feramo
What I liked best: How Helen Fielding made a spy novel and kept me interested
What I liked least: Nothing really...she's an amazing writer.

Overall rating: Go get this book!

Title: Think Pink
Author: Lisa Clark
Copyright date: 2007
Publisher: HarperCollins
How many pages: 197 pgs
How long it took me to read: 1 day
Category: Self help
I learned about this book from: searching Chapter's

This book was purchased at: Chapter's
This book is: for preteens 12-15
Other books by this author: n/a
Favorite characters: Lola
Least favorite Characters: n/a
When and Where the story takes place: London, England
Plot in a nutshell: I totally judged a book by it's cover. It's a cute pink book with all these tips and such for preteen girls going through that phase where they are not sure who they are.
Main characters: Lola, Sadie, Angel and Bella
What I liked best: It had some good tips to make mini bad girls and as in seeing that I'm a grown up bad girl, I would allow my daughter to read it. Also, Bella is from America and a lesbian...so kudos.
What I liked least: Some of the things she wrote about my Mother would've yelled at me for doing...so unless you want to be a real brat, don't take this book too seriously.

Overall rating: That is the last time I buy anything because it's pink and sparkly.

I have nothing much to say today because I am tooooo excited to go see Good Charlotte at the Stampede! Woot!

Title: Diary of a mad mother to be
Author: Laura Wolf
Copyright date: 2003
Publisher: Orion
How many pages: 337 pgs
How long it took me to read: 9 days
Category: fiction
I learned about this book from: searching the sales racks at Chapter's

This book was purchased at: Chapter's
This book is: for anyone who likes humorous novels
Other books by this author: Diary of a mad bride
Favorite characters: Amy, Eddie, Lucy
Least favorite Characters: Jon, Mandy, Anita, Tangy and Stephen
When and Where the story takes place: Manhattan, New York
Plot in a nutshell: After being married for a few years, Amy decides to conceive.
Main characters: Amy, Stephen, Anita and Mandy
What I liked best: It was a pretty funny book.
What I liked least: Her husband reminded me of my latest ex, he was so useless.

Overall rating: Awesome! Go get it!

Ah, July already. This is my favorite month. It's because July is the only month that is full summer with no interruptions, that way it's not cold at all and I lurve that. I love summer and the more I have it, the more I like it. Also, other than my Dad's birthday at the end of the month, I don't have to think about presents or anything at all...it's nice...

Yesterday, we went to Heritage Park with my Mom and my sister. Scarlett was loud as usual and causing havoc on my arm. I had red marks all over it because everytime I said something that she didn't like, she smack my arm. It hurt like a bitch. I got her back at one point though. We were in the girl's room and there was this drinking fountain attached to one of the sinks, so I asked her how she used it and when she turned the water tap on, I splashed her in the face with the water. It was so fucking funny!

We had lunch at the Wainwright Hotel, bought candies from the general store, had ice cream at the ice cream shoppe, also went on the whip and the ferris wheel...ooh and the train and the boat! It was so fantastical! I haven't had that much fun at Heritage Park in such a long ass time.

I'm scared to see how many calories I had yesterday...oy! I'm exercising today! :P

Weight: 129 lbs
Marital Status: Dating Drew
Worst habit: Being indecisive
Last cd you bought:: Maroon 5 :: It won't be long before soon
Last DVD you bought: Catch and Release, the Holiday, Caffeine and Because I said so
Last movie you saw on DVD: Ellie Parker
Last movie you saw in theatres: Shrek the third
Last movie you saw on TV: Legally Blonde

March Fads

Movie: Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix
Song: Plain white T's :: Hey there delilah
CD: Avril Lavigne :: Best damned thing
Band: Maroon 5
Singer: Britney Spears
TV Show: Scrubs
Music Video: JC Chasez :: All day long I dream about sex
Book: Diary of a mad mom
Clothing Article: The black capri pants Crystal gave me
DVD: Britney Spears greatest hits
Cartoon: 6teen
Disney Movie: The Little Mermaid
Group: N SYNC
Celebrity: Paris Hilton

♥ Book #16: Chicken Soup for the Couples Soul ♥

Title: Chicken Soup for the Couples soul
Author: various
Copyright date: 1999
Publisher: HCI
How many pages: 350 pgs
How long it took me to read: 8 days
Category: non fiction
I learned about this book from: the others in the series

This book was purchased at: G Books
This book is: for anyone who likes a little awwww in their day
Other books by this author: Other Chicken soup books
Favorite characters: n/a
Least favorite Characters: n/a
When and Where the story takes place: n/a
Plot in a nutshell: This is a collection of real love stories
Main characters: n/a
What I liked best: How the stories always touched my heart
What I liked least: They kept bringing up God.

Overall rating: It was an okay book.