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Sweetest Day & Butt Heaven!!

Heidi — Sun, 19 Oct 2008 02:51:00 +0000

Today is Sweeties day here in the states…or here in Michigan anyway, I don’t know if it’s a nationwide holiday or not. For sweeties day, the hubbs got me a new computer chair…and let me tell you…it’s butt heaven!!

He got it at Office Depot and he really went shopping for it with my list of “needs”. We bought one at Target last night and I put it together and really didn’t like it…so we returned it and he went on the hunt for the perfect chair…and he found it too!! It’s really lovely…butt heaven! lol

I finished New Moon and will start Eclipse on Monday. I could easily start it today, but I can’t do anything else while I listen at home so I need to wait if I want to get things done LOL Funny, I have little problem listening at work…but my job is repetitious and I could do it in my sleep.

I listened a little last night and ended up falling asleep with it on…I woke up at like 3am and turned it off. Then I had to turn it back to when I remembered it last and lost like a whole hour. It’s ok though, I needed to go back to get the gist of the story.

I have about 5 gazillion scrappy kits to sort through and move to their proper home on my external drive. I’ve been putting it off because it’s time consuming and annoying lol But in a minute I’ll have to start unzipping them elsewhere!! LOL

I finally go around to making a scrappy page with some of the pictures from my sister’s wedding earlier this month.

Credits:
*will add later*

This page took me a long time…I was so undecided as to what to put on there. My sister is not traditional in the least and as you can see, neither was the wedding! It was a good time though and they are really happy and I’m happy for them both!

The journaling was part of their vows. I will make other pages using other parts of their vows as well as more/different pictures. I have a few pages in mind.

Anyways…it took me WAY too long to make the page, way too long to get photoshop to cooperate and let me shrink the jpg and I’m about to go watch a moovie with the hubs. Hopefully we can agree on something…we never do with movies though! LOL

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I Am Giving In…New Moon

Heidi — Sat, 18 Oct 2008 03:15:00 +0000

Well, I got to the 2nd half of New Moon at work today…still excellent.

I am sitting here with my earbuds in my ears, iPod at the ready to go lay in my room and listen to some more of this book before I go to bed tonight.

I swear, if I had the paper version, I’d be finished by now….well maybe not, but I wouldn’t sleep until I was.

I have 5 1/2 hours left of this audiobook and then it’s on to the next. I know I won’t finish it tonight…but maybe tomorrow and this weekend?? LOL

Then you know what will happen, I’ll be done with the books and be mad because I miss the story and be waiting patiently for the next one to come out. Just like with Harry Potter…each book left me feeling empty with no closure and longing for the next book to continue the story.

*sigh* I can’t help but want to rush though it…but I know the faster I listen, the sooner it will be over. I guess I could listen to them all over again…ask me how many times I’ve listened to Harry Potter books on audio. LOL A few of them I never actually “read”.

Ok…off to medicate the pup and then back to Jacob and Bella…oh and this mysterious voice of Edward. I wish he’d show his face in this book again already!!!

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New Moon…pass the kleenix plz!

Heidi — Fri, 17 Oct 2008 02:08:00 +0000

This may contain some spoilers, so if you haven’t read the 2nd book in the Twilight series…don’t read on.

I finished Twilight today…it was great. Of course I was right into the 2nd book, New Moon, as soon as I was done. I am not sure how far I got into the book (I am listening, mind you) but I know if I was reading I wouldn’t have put it down till I was done.

Something was happening today while I was listening to the book…*spoiler alert*…when Edward was saying goodbye to Bella, I was devastated. I was this close to tears from that point on…omg when Bella was in the woods…I almost had to leave my desk because I just needed to go to the bathroom to cry. I didn’t want to leave my iPod and stop listening to do so though!! LOL

To me, this is silly and crazy. I am not generally emotional when reading/listening. Sure, I read Marley and Me and cried at the end…and I’ve listened to other books and cried…and omg when Dumbledore died…forget it!! I was completely bawling then!!!

But I never thought this would effect me quite like it has. I said though, that I get into books when I listen to too many all at once with the same characters/story line. I mean even now if I really sit here and think about everything….I still get kind of weepy. How pathetic is that??

I have no clue how I’ll get through tomorrow…omg and the weekend…without listening??? I may have to sneak a few hours in this weekend.

I’ll try to be strong for tomorrow’s listening.

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Almost Finished with Twilight!!

Heidi — Thu, 16 Oct 2008 00:48:00 +0000

Well I am almost finished with listening to Twilight. I have about an hour left in it…and then I move on to the next one! I am so glad that I got that book. It’s really great!

I bought the 2nd and 3rd book in the series and will buy the 4th as well as her adult novel, The Host once I finish the other two books…so probably next week.

One thing is for sure, it definitely helps me keep my butt in my seat at work when I have something good to listen to!

I can’t wait for the movie in November. I sure hope I can find someone willing to go with me!! Maybe I’ll drag the hubbs along. I’ve seen plenty of horror movies that have warped my brain…he owes me a movie! LOL

Only bad thing with listening to many books in a row with the same characters is that after a while I am thinking they’re real. LOL totally crazy, I know…but I kind of get sucked in. I did that with the Stephanie Plum books by Janet Evanovich…I listened to like 5 or 6 of those books one after another and after a while I expected to see Ranger or Joe Morelli on the street LOL Crazy.

Oh well the first book is great and I can’t wait to get more into the series.

Other random stuffs….

I have a very hurty cold sore on my lip. I hate it when I get those!!! First they are all puffy and then when the top falls off they get really hurty for a few days. Dumb herpe!!!! And my dh keeps making fun of me too!! *pout!* I cannot wait for this dumb thing to be gone!!

The fall colors around here are beautiful!! i really want to take the new camera out for a spin and take some pictures of the trees around. There’s this HUGE cemetary by work that has some of the most lovely trees in it! I wish it wasn’t so far away from the house or I’d go there and take the camera. maybe Friday I’ll take it to work with me. I need a smaller bag for it so it’s more portable. Right now I have this HUGE bag. I’ll have to check out amazon or something for a new bag.

GH is on in a few…I am excited for the halloween show! I can actually stay up and watch it this year. I wasn’t as into the show last year so I didn’t really care, but I’m all in this year.

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Jumped on the "Twilight" Bandwagon

Heidi — Tue, 14 Oct 2008 01:44:00 +0000

I finally ordered Twilight by Stephanie Meyer on audio. I mainly wanted to see what all the hype is about I guess. I’m about 4 chapters in and it’s really pretty good. I’m glad I made the purchase. I’ll have to see the movie when it comes out in November if I like the book and will definitely be getting the rest of them on audio.

I find it really interesting that the author is Mormon and she’s writing about Vampires and everything. Kind of weird…but in a cool way. Even Christians can find that stuff interesting without falling into some dark whatever.

I don’t have much to say besides that…and I have some HUGE herpe on my lip!! I HATE cold sores!! YUCK!

Of course I also didn’t have anything to put on it, so I went out and had to buy a cold sore arsenol. Hopefully it won’t last too long. It’s huge and hurty though.

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If No One Is Home To Listen Will A Man Still Yell At The TV?

Heidi — Tue, 02 Sep 2008 23:34:00 +0000

Kind of like…if no one’s in the woods to hear, does a falling tree make a noise?

My husband was watching the news…yes, the NEWS and was screaming at the television like it was sports or something. I understand why though. Detroit’s mayor, Kwame Kilpatrick, has been in a lot of trouble. Lots of scandals…a party and a dead stripper at the Manoogian Mansion (I LOVE that word!)…text message scandals…cheating on his wife…assaulting an officer…the list goes on and on and on. He went to jail at one point and had a tether on for the most part of the last month and has had numerous court dates! Personally, I’m tired of it all…but the hubbs…oh he LOVES it! He’s all in and gets really riled up. It’s funny to see.

So I was just curious if men also yell at the tv when no one is home to listen to them…I almost think he yells for my benefit. LOL

I finished Amazing Grace today at work and my supervisor surprised me with by loading her old ipod with a ton of books!! So, now I’m listening to Sisters by Danielle Steele. With all of those books at my fingertips, I didn’t know which one to start with!!! lol I almost needed someone to tell me which is good and what to listen to. I started a couple others before settling on Sisters. I spent way too much time sitting there flipping through the books. I wish I could read a little synopsis or else look them up on Amazon before hand to see what they’re about. The title tells me very little. I still need to finish Dark Destiny which is on my iPod….oooh and the new Carpatheian book comes out today! I almost forgot…

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