Book Update

So I have some birthday money and I went out and bought a couple books this past weekend. I have already finished reading one of them. It's called "The Hunger Games" by Suzanne Collins. It is a young adult (YA) book and is really good! There are 3 so far in this sci-fi series and I plan on going out to get the second one!

The story revolves around a girl named Katniss who live in District 12. It is set in the future and what I find out is that she lives in the area we call Appalachia! The Hunger Games are set up to keep all 12 districts under control of the Capitol by selecting one boy and one girl, between the ages of 12 and 18, from each district in a fight to the death where only one will be the victor.

I recommend you go and check it out cause it has a good story to it and it is an easy read!

The next book I'm going to read is "The Girl With The Dragon Tattoo" by Stieg Larsson. I've given in to the reviews I've heard from fellow blog readers and broke down to buy this book. I know if I ever want to see the movie that will be coming out that it will ultimately ruin my experience, but we shall see!

And I've also gone back to my old standard Charlaine Harris books. I finally found the 1st in the Aurora Teagarden series called "Real Murders" at my closest Books-a-Million store. So now I'm sure I'll be taken in by them and have to by them all, of course.

Have you read any of these books?

Did you like them?

Do you think you are going to go out and get them too?

Week #1

This post marks week one of my 28th year and also the beginning of my pic-a-day that I challenged myself to do here.

Day 1: The day before my birthday and my last day of being 27. Ironically, I am blowing out my candles a day early.

Day 2: Mine and my mom's birthday mug of frosty rootbeer! We went to Frostop at the time she gave birth and celebrated! haha

Day 3: My house seems to have a plethora of toilet paper when there is usually so little!

Day 4: "Y" is for YMCA which is where I went to swim today.

Day 5: You can tell I have a little bit of time on my hands, which is exactly where it turned out to be! Inspired to paint my nails a little creatively like I used to in high school, but not as creative as The Daily Nail.

Day 6: This is what time I woke up at on Friday morning or afternoon or evening... whenever 1, half of a 7, and L7 is... time to get a new alarm clock I guess!

Day 7: Phil and I took his grandma to the store and she treated us to lunch! She's so sweet!

So I suprised myself that I actually took a new picture each day this first week and didn't cheat! Hope I can continue it and I hope you enjoyed!

The Day I Turned My Lucky Number

Back in the day I used to say that my favorite number was how old I was, but after I turned 9 it just stuck. This is what I did on my birthday 19 years ago in good ole 1991...

Well, I don't know what I'm doing in the picture above but I do know what that balloon "animal" that is in my hand looks like! Eek!

We hit on a piñata that looks like a flying fish and everyone is pretty excited about it! Let me point out a couple more things to be excited about:

And here we are sitting on my mom's old car!

Yay #9! What's your favorite number?

Summer Magic

Summer Magic is definately one of my favorite Disney movies! I'll watch anything with Hayley Mills! I remember watching my personal recorded-myself version on an old VHS along with the 1989 version of "The Teddy Bears' Picnic". I loved all the songs in "Summer Magic" especially this one, this one, and this one! I loved the clothes and the hairstyles as well. There was also a woman with the name "Mariah" in it which warmed it to my heart further! I think since they lived in a big yellow house, that is where I got the idea to want that too!

Have you seen this movie?

What's your favorite Disney movie?

I ♥ Shoes

So I took a Yoga class on Tuesday and a Tai Chi class tonight and I like them both quite a bit! The Yoga instructor is one extreme of talking really softly and the Tai Chi instructor likes to talk a little too much, but overall they are both very good classes that I plan on taking again. I am actually going to Yoga in the morning. I am debating whether to go to the "Lite" Workout after or not, but I more than likely will swim. My shoulders and neck have been sore since I started swimming and I hope that will go away when I get used to the movement a little more. For both Yoga and Tai Chi you are in your bare feet and it always feels so good when you put your shoes back on! I'm usually the one to go shoeless but I feel like I am using my feet to grip the floor for balance. Guess I'll just have to work on that.

PPQ: Smile!

Picture: Edenpics.com (retouched)

Buttery Birthday

This past weekend, my parents, Phil, and I celebrated my 28th birthday! They took me out to dinner Saturday night to the new restaurant in Pullman Square called Thai House. I had the Phad Thai and an Iced Thai Tea both of which were delicious! I should of taken a pic!

Sunday night I opened my presents a day early (since Phil was there) and then ate some red velvet cake with buttercream icing that mom and I made both from scratch! The recipe for the red velvet cake is here (I made it in 2-9inch cake pans instead of the cupcakes) and the recipe for the buttercream icing is here. Let me tell warn you that there is A LOT of butter in that icing! And you can tell it too! We made this icing because I am not a fan of the traditional cream cheese icing, but overall I would make some other icing with this cake instead. The cake is also much better kept in the refrigerator and I would want to add more cocoa powder if I made it again.

Phil got me the second season of True Blood and a much needed new computer fan for my laptop (since it gets so hot) and my parents got me the Y membership along with some clothes.

Monday (my birthday), I slept in way too much and then mom and I went to lunch at the Frostop. I was dying for a mug of their rootbeer! The rest of the day was pretty much relaxing and looking at wedding stuff - I am excitedly planning! I also got a ton of birthday wishes from my friends on facebook, my bloggy friends on here (!), on twitter, on the phone and through text! I felt special and I thank you all for your friendship :-)