Well, this week has been another crazy week in the life of the Scribbler! Wednesday I had to run a Toastmaster Contest that was odd, by all means! The winners were all surprises this time around, but it seems as though much fun was had by all involved...
So here it is, the end of the week review:
What I Saw: This week I watched a couple of movies, yet I only remember one off the top of my head, which was Mr. Magorioum's Wonder Emporium and on all accounts it was such a great movie. Very uplifting and full of magic and wonderment. A great movie for kids of all ages (1-99). I also watched Resident Evil:Extinction, which was a good continuation of the series. Good suspense, good zombie movie!
What I Heard: This week I went back and was listening to the last Jewel album that had come out, Goodbye Alice In Wonderland, which was a great CD, and began her journey into the country genre. Also this week, I had listened to the usual mix of songs on iTunes!
What I Read: I got to finish two books today, The Four Agreements & Beyond The Spiderwick Chronicles. So with that I started another book, Dave Barry's History of the Millennium...So Far! And so far, it is typical hysterical Dave Barry! Reviews on the other two books to follow within the week!
Anyways, tomorrow I am off to the zoo with the cousins, and just a day to relax...much needed if you ask me!
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Saturday, January 26, 2008
Saturday, January 19, 2008
The Week-End Wrap & Review: The I Got Up To Early and Went To Bed Late Now I'm Tired At W I ork Edition
Well everyone, I am back! And ready to fall asleep at 8:45 AM! Last night was a very fun game night with some friends (from both the real world and the blogosphere). We played Apples to Apples, Trivial Pursuit, and of course debated if we needed slidey, or if reachy would be fine! (We chose slidey.) Anyways, I am at work now, where there is nothing going on...at all...so I will be blogging off and on these next two days...completing meme's galore, and so much more!
What I Saw: I didn't really get to watch too much this week, as I was babysitting in Coral Springs. I did watch the new season of American Idol, get to a start with a bang (or rather an off key yelp). I also watched the first episode of Terminator: The Sarah Connor Chronicles, which I thought was fantastic! Lots of action, lots of drama, and just very entertaining! The only movie that I think I saw was Rob Zombie's version of Halloween, which was okay. It was violent and gory, but it was the same story, nothing new added really.
What I Heard: This week was more of a radio week for me. The one song that I heard that I have immediately fallen in love with is the new Jewel song. Now you won't hear this song on Coast 97.3 FM or Lite 101.5 FM, no for this one you have to tune into 99.9 Kiss Country! That's right, Jewel has finally gone country. The song is Stronger Woman, and it is fantastic. Her voice is amazing, and she will be here a week from this Sunday at the Chili Cookoff to host and sing!
What I Read: Well I am currently working on four different books (talk about multi-tasking). As you can see in the little sidebar, I have started Blink, as well as Dispatches From The Edge. So far those are both good books. I have switched for this weekend at work and am half-way through The Four Agreements, which so far is very insightful and fantastical. I am also going to start Beyond The Spiderwick Chronicles, which moves the previous story to here in Florida! I am also anticipating the new Stephen King novel Duma Key, which comes out on Tuesday and also takes place in South Florida and the Florida Keys!
Well, everyone have a very happy weekend! Catch ya on the Monday side!
Sunday, January 13, 2008
New Year...New Resolutions
So I am not the kind of person who makes New Year's Resolutions, but this year I have actually made a few! Most are fairly straight forward, while the other one has many different parts to it!
(1) Learn how to say NO! - For the many of you who know me, I am very easy to get a favor out of, even if I don't necessarily have the time to do it. This is because I cannot say no! Well that will be changing this year! I will learn those two little letters, and I will use them!
(2) Better Myself - At first I felt selfish thinking of this as a resolution, but then this year I do want to focus my energy on myself and taking care of myself. Last year I was ridden with allergies and infections, so this year I want to (a) eat better (b) exercise more (c) learn more (d) have more adventures, etc. I know this sounds like any "common" resolution, but I am not necessarily looking to lose a certain amount of weight or anything, just to become healthier.
(3) Blog on a more regular basis.
As part of #2, I am taking up the goal to read 40 books over the course of 2008! This was partially inspired by a fellow blogger at 50 Books. So, my sidebar will be updating everyone of this! I will of course include my review of these books!
So, wish me luck and NO!
(1) Learn how to say NO! - For the many of you who know me, I am very easy to get a favor out of, even if I don't necessarily have the time to do it. This is because I cannot say no! Well that will be changing this year! I will learn those two little letters, and I will use them!
(2) Better Myself - At first I felt selfish thinking of this as a resolution, but then this year I do want to focus my energy on myself and taking care of myself. Last year I was ridden with allergies and infections, so this year I want to (a) eat better (b) exercise more (c) learn more (d) have more adventures, etc. I know this sounds like any "common" resolution, but I am not necessarily looking to lose a certain amount of weight or anything, just to become healthier.
(3) Blog on a more regular basis.
As part of #2, I am taking up the goal to read 40 books over the course of 2008! This was partially inspired by a fellow blogger at 50 Books. So, my sidebar will be updating everyone of this! I will of course include my review of these books!
So, wish me luck and NO!
Friday, January 4, 2008
The Week-End Wrap Up & Review: The Tallahassee Airport Edition
Well, this week has gone by so fast. I have been on vacation in Tallahassee for the past week. What would anyone do on vacation in Tallahassee you ask? Well, I got to hang out and visit my 22 cousins that live here. It was a fun week with lots of doings which I get to share with you!
What I Saw: This week was eventful when it comes to things I have seen! I watched at home with the cousins, 28 Weeks Later, Flushed Away, a bunch of Law & Order episodes, and the regular television shows. 28 Weeks was a good suspense zombie movie, however it was not as good as the original. I also fully enjoyed Flushed Away, full of references to other movies and just plain fun! At the movies I saw Sweeney Todd and National Treasure: Book of Secrets. Sweeney Todd was fantastic, many critics have lauded the latest pairing of Depp and Burton, and it was again a home run! The story is extremely dark but the movie is full of great songs and voices that give to a great story. National Treasure was a fun movie to watch, not as much action as the original, but more humor, which was good. The sidekick Riley, is absolutely hilarious!
What I Heard: Nothing this week, I have not had the iPod with me, and I have not been listening to much music!
What I Read: Well since I have finished The Book of Lost Things, I have started the Spiderwick Chronicles, so out of the five books in the series, I am halfway into book four, and should finish the books by the time my plane touches down in Orlando!
Besides that I am looking forward to finally get home Saturday night, while I have one week at home before I go to Coral Springs to look after my cousins! Also, my class starts again a week from tomorrow so that will give me something to do!
What I Saw: This week was eventful when it comes to things I have seen! I watched at home with the cousins, 28 Weeks Later, Flushed Away, a bunch of Law & Order episodes, and the regular television shows. 28 Weeks was a good suspense zombie movie, however it was not as good as the original. I also fully enjoyed Flushed Away, full of references to other movies and just plain fun! At the movies I saw Sweeney Todd and National Treasure: Book of Secrets. Sweeney Todd was fantastic, many critics have lauded the latest pairing of Depp and Burton, and it was again a home run! The story is extremely dark but the movie is full of great songs and voices that give to a great story. National Treasure was a fun movie to watch, not as much action as the original, but more humor, which was good. The sidekick Riley, is absolutely hilarious!
What I Heard: Nothing this week, I have not had the iPod with me, and I have not been listening to much music!
What I Read: Well since I have finished The Book of Lost Things, I have started the Spiderwick Chronicles, so out of the five books in the series, I am halfway into book four, and should finish the books by the time my plane touches down in Orlando!
Besides that I am looking forward to finally get home Saturday night, while I have one week at home before I go to Coral Springs to look after my cousins! Also, my class starts again a week from tomorrow so that will give me something to do!
Saturday, December 29, 2007
The Week-End Wrap & Review: I'm Going on Vacation Edition
Well, it's been a while since I have posted, so here it is the Vacation Edition of the Week-End Wrap & Review for Christmas week!
What I Saw: I have actually had the time (in between the hours long baking sessions and cooking sessions) to watch a few things this week! Yay for me! First, I got to watch Waitress, which was plain and simply delightful! Keri Russell is fantastic and it was just a fun movie. I have also been watching Dexter, Season 2, which is just as wickedly delicious as the first season! I also watched Georgia Rule which was not the Gary Marshall movie I was expecting. Instead it is a heavy movie! Lots of drama and difficult situations.
What I Heard: More Alicia Keys, even though the new Josh Groban Christmas CD Noel made it in the CD player quite a bit. Besides that, some Carrie Underwood, but nothing new.
What I Read: So I finally finished The Book of Lost Things. Review to come in a seperate post shortly! All in all, I enjoyed it a lot and will now begin to read other John Connolly works. Does that ever happen to you, you read a book by an author you have never heard of and liked it so much you HAVE to read their other books? I also read the first book in the Spiderwick Chronicles series. It is an easy read and plan to read the other five books while on vacation!
Anyways, I will add links to all these references shortly, but for now, you can google anything that interests you!
I will be on vacation for a week starting tomorrow, so I will try to update, but cannot promise anything.
To everyone out in the blogging world:
What I Saw: I have actually had the time (in between the hours long baking sessions and cooking sessions) to watch a few things this week! Yay for me! First, I got to watch Waitress, which was plain and simply delightful! Keri Russell is fantastic and it was just a fun movie. I have also been watching Dexter, Season 2, which is just as wickedly delicious as the first season! I also watched Georgia Rule which was not the Gary Marshall movie I was expecting. Instead it is a heavy movie! Lots of drama and difficult situations.
What I Heard: More Alicia Keys, even though the new Josh Groban Christmas CD Noel made it in the CD player quite a bit. Besides that, some Carrie Underwood, but nothing new.
What I Read: So I finally finished The Book of Lost Things. Review to come in a seperate post shortly! All in all, I enjoyed it a lot and will now begin to read other John Connolly works. Does that ever happen to you, you read a book by an author you have never heard of and liked it so much you HAVE to read their other books? I also read the first book in the Spiderwick Chronicles series. It is an easy read and plan to read the other five books while on vacation!
Anyways, I will add links to all these references shortly, but for now, you can google anything that interests you!
I will be on vacation for a week starting tomorrow, so I will try to update, but cannot promise anything.
To everyone out in the blogging world:
Happy New Year!
May your 2008 be filled with
good health, good love, and good living.
May your 2008 be filled with
good health, good love, and good living.
Monday, December 3, 2007
The Week-End Wrap & Review : Monday Morning Edition
Well, it has definately been one busy, crazy, displaced week! I am still out of my room (crossing my fingers to move in in the next couple of days!). I worked Friday-Saturday-Sunday, which is why this has become the Monday Edition for this week. Anyways, here's the run down for last week:
What I Saw: Well, not too many movies were played this week over here at the Scribbler's Nook. I did watch Hairspray, which is just a fun and entertaining movie. All of the cast seem to fit their part nicely (even John Travolta). Right now at home I have waiting to be watched: Skin Walkers, Waitress, and Live Free or Die Hard, so look in next weeks Wrap Up to hear about those!
What I Heard: Two words...Alicia Keys! I have been listening to her new album, As I Am, for days now and it is fantastic! She never stops evolving and creating something new and better! This time around she still has her R&B and Soul roots, but adds rock into it, and the result is just amazing! I have also been listening to some Christmas music around the house and in the car, mostly Jo Dee Messina's A Joyful Noise.
What I Read: Well, I am still reading The Book of Lost Things. Being displaced temporarily from room has not given me a good reading area, so it got put on the back burner, but I got to read some of it while I was at work over the weekend! So far, it is a great book.
What I Saw: Well, not too many movies were played this week over here at the Scribbler's Nook. I did watch Hairspray, which is just a fun and entertaining movie. All of the cast seem to fit their part nicely (even John Travolta). Right now at home I have waiting to be watched: Skin Walkers, Waitress, and Live Free or Die Hard, so look in next weeks Wrap Up to hear about those!
What I Heard: Two words...Alicia Keys! I have been listening to her new album, As I Am, for days now and it is fantastic! She never stops evolving and creating something new and better! This time around she still has her R&B and Soul roots, but adds rock into it, and the result is just amazing! I have also been listening to some Christmas music around the house and in the car, mostly Jo Dee Messina's A Joyful Noise.
What I Read: Well, I am still reading The Book of Lost Things. Being displaced temporarily from room has not given me a good reading area, so it got put on the back burner, but I got to read some of it while I was at work over the weekend! So far, it is a great book.
Friday, November 9, 2007
106 Books...Oh My!
These are the top 106 books most often marked as “unread” by LibraryThing’s users, as of I don't know what day -- the original said "today" but I got this a week or so ago. As usual, bold what you have read, italicize that you started but couldn’t finish, and strike through what you couldn’t stand. Add an asterisk* to those you’ve read more than once. Underline those on your to-read list.
Jonathan Strange & Mr Norrell
Anna Karenina
Crime and punishment
Catch-22
One Hundred Years of Solitude
Wuthering Heights
The Silmarillion
Life of Pi: a novel
The name of the rose
Don Quixote
Moby Dick
Ulysses
Madame Bovary
The Odyssey
Pride and Prejudice
Jane Eyre
A Tale of Two Cities
The Brothers Karamazov
War and Peace
Vanity Fair
The Time Traveler's Wife
The Iliad
Emma
The Blind Assassin
The Kite Runner
Mrs. Dalloway
Great Expectations
American Gods
A Heartbreaking Work of Staggering Genius
Atlas Shrugged
Reading Lolita in Tehran: a memoir in books
Memoirs of a Geisha
Middlesex
Quicksilver
Wicked : The Life and Times of the Wicked Witch of the West
The Canterbury Tales
The historian : a novel
A portrait of the artist as a young man
Love in the time of cholera
Brave new world
The Fountainhead
Foucault’s pendulum
Middlemarch
Frankenstein
The Count of Monte Cristo
Dracula
A clockwork orange
The once and future king
The grapes of wrath
The Poisonwood Bible : a novel
1984
Angels & demons
The inferno
The satanic verses
Sense and sensibility
The picture of Dorian Gray
Mansfield Park
One flew over the cuckoo’s nest
To the lighthouse
Tess of the D’Urbervilles
Oliver Twist
Gulliver’s travels
Les misérables
The corrections
The amazing adventures of Kavalier and Clay
The curious incident of the dog in the night-time
Dune
The prince
The sound and the fury
Angela’s ashes : a memoir
The god of small things
A people’s history of the United States : 1492-present
Cryptonomicon
Neverwhere
A confederacy of dunces
A short history of nearly everything
Dubliners
The unbearable lightness of being
Beloved
Slaughterhouse-five
The Scarlet Letter
Eats, Shoots & Leaves
The mists of Avalon
Oryx and Crake : a novel
Collapse : how societies choose to fail or succeed
Cloud Atlas
The Confusion
Lolita
Persuasion
Northanger Abbey
The Catcher in the Rye
On the Road
The Hunchback of Notre Dame
Freakonomics : a Rogue Economist Explores the Hidden Side of Everything
Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance : an Inquiry into Values
The Aeneid
Watership Down
Gravity’s Rainbow
The Hobbit
In cold blood : a true account of a multiple murder and its consequences
White teeth
Treasure Island
David Copperfield
The three musketeers
Jonathan Strange & Mr Norrell
Anna Karenina
Crime and punishment
Catch-22
One Hundred Years of Solitude
Wuthering Heights
The Silmarillion
Life of Pi: a novel
The name of the rose
Don Quixote
Moby Dick
Ulysses
Madame Bovary
The Odyssey
Pride and Prejudice
Jane Eyre
A Tale of Two Cities
The Brothers Karamazov
War and Peace
Vanity Fair
The Time Traveler's Wife
The Iliad
Emma
The Blind Assassin
The Kite Runner
Mrs. Dalloway
Great Expectations
American Gods
A Heartbreaking Work of Staggering Genius
Atlas Shrugged
Reading Lolita in Tehran: a memoir in books
Memoirs of a Geisha
Middlesex
Quicksilver
Wicked : The Life and Times of the Wicked Witch of the West
The Canterbury Tales
The historian : a novel
A portrait of the artist as a young man
Love in the time of cholera
The Fountainhead
Foucault’s pendulum
Middlemarch
Frankenstein
The Count of Monte Cristo
Dracula
A clockwork orange
The once and future king
The Poisonwood Bible : a novel
Angels & demons
The inferno
The satanic verses
Sense and sensibility
The picture of Dorian Gray
Mansfield Park
One flew over the cuckoo’s nest
To the lighthouse
Tess of the D’Urbervilles
Oliver Twist
Gulliver’s travels
Les misérables
The corrections
The amazing adventures of Kavalier and Clay
The curious incident of the dog in the night-time
Dune
The prince
The sound and the fury
Angela’s ashes : a memoir
The god of small things
A people’s history of the United States : 1492-present
Cryptonomicon
Neverwhere
A confederacy of dunces
A short history of nearly everything
The unbearable lightness of being
Beloved
Slaughterhouse-five
The Scarlet Letter
Eats, Shoots & Leaves
The mists of Avalon
Oryx and Crake : a novel
Collapse : how societies choose to fail or succeed
Cloud Atlas
The Confusion
Lolita
Persuasion
Northanger Abbey
The Catcher in the Rye
On the Road
The Hunchback of Notre Dame
Freakonomics : a Rogue Economist Explores the Hidden Side of Everything
Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance : an Inquiry into Values
The Aeneid
Watership Down
Gravity’s Rainbow
The Hobbit
In cold blood : a true account of a multiple murder and its consequences
White teeth
Treasure Island
David Copperfield
The three musketeers
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