what are you doing new year's, new year's eve?
i think of these words
sung byElla Fitzgerald...

to answer that question myself... ab-so-freakin-lutely nothing.
by choice...could have gone out with Patti and Nolan...
but would rather stay home and read and watch movies...
see...that is something...i guess i'm
not doing nothingafter all...

ahhhh...the excitement of my life

{please contain yourself}

finished Veil of Roses

it has been a while since
i finished a book so
quickly. it was a very good read.
now i will be starting And Only to Deceive
by Tasha Alexander. she is a "local"
author here in TN.
i need to pick up French Women
Don't Get Fat and read it for
a while. otherwise i won't have
it finished in time.

i also just finished watching the movie "If Only."
it has Jennifer Love Hewitt and Paul Nicholls.
very romantic, but not the ending i was expecting
nor wanting. and of course the romantic
part left me with a feeling of longing for love. wondering
if love {real, true love} will happen to me.

ditto...too many books, too little time

{inspired} by the foxhole diaries...
i too have been compelled
to read,
read,
read.
i am currently reading
~Veil of Roses
it's about a girl that is from Iran that comes to
America in hopes to find a husband
in order to stay in America...very interesting to see
how she adjusts
and reacts to the VERY different culture
she has found in America

Also ready for the reading:
~Love, Rosie
~A Bride Most Begrudging
~And Only to Deceive
~The Time Travler's Wife (maybe a book club read???)

Also, in preparation for book club
i purchased:
~To Kill a Mockingbird
~The Girls Guide to Fishing and Hunting

i am only a little into French Women Don't Get Fat. i
should be focusing on that before reading the
others, but i'm on vacation...so i say i
can read whatever i want...

bad, bad blogger

i am a bad blogger...
but i will try to do more in the new
year...
lots
and
lots
of things i need to "try" to do in
the new year.

to name a few:

1. pray more
2. read the Bible more
3. find a new church
4.change of lifestyle
a. eat better
b. exercise
~which will lead to weight loss and a healthy
new me...for life~
5.read for fun more
6.read for knowledge
7.scrapbook more
8.take more pictures...which in turn will
give me something to scrap
9.blog more
10. laugh more

the list could go on...most of these things simply must be done.
i have to
do them, but
i will need God's help...
otherwise it will be impossible.

homesick...

i am a bit homesick...

plus a case of pms...not only pre, but post too

probably too much info, but i'm
the hormonal one here, so
i can say whatever i want to say!

i guess it's a good think my
parents are coming out for
Christmas...

although i think i need a
little
trip to NM. surely after about
a week i'll be ready to back here

just feeling blue...

a good book

i just got finished reading a really good book
called Before I Wake by
Dee Henderson.
very
good
read.
however, as i read the last page
i was left with a sense of
uncompletiness.
{is that a word? it is now...}
they didn't completely solve the
case..the bad guys were still
devising a plan...and i still
don't know who the girl ends up
with. aarrrgghhh.
i have not been
able to find if
another book will be
written to finish
the story or not.
if not...why did it end so
unanswered?

time flies...

i can't believe it
is almost Thanksgiving...
only 2 more weeks
left
in November.

Christmas will be
here
before we
know it.

i kinda want to get my
Christmas stuff out
& start
{decorating}

not really fair
for Thanksgiving...
but i never
got around
to getting
my
fall decor out.
plus...i'm not
even celebrating
Thanksgiving at my
place anyways.

do you think
Thanksgiving will
mind if i jump ahead to
the Christmas scene?

and ssshhhhh...don't tell
anyone, but i'm
already drinking
from one of my
snowmen mugs...shhhh!!!

funny...

i thought this was funny. this thing would be mult-functional if you could carry

a portable potty in you purse. nice...

Vote

Yeah! I voted today!!! Did you?

Church

it's Sunday again and i didn't go to church. it becomes so easy not to go when i don't go every Sunday. i started missing my old church last night...it may have been for just a little while...i'll have to see how i feel in the next day or so to see if i am still missing it. i may be missing it cause the easiest thing to do would be to go back. start attending there regularly again. easy. it would be hard the first few times....with all the "where have you beens" and stuff. but eventually it would get comfy again...easy. the hard thing to do would be to start attending this new church regularly. start going to Sunday School...hard...cause i won't know anyone. but that's where i'll meet people. start going the Wednesday night classes and worship...again...not knowing anyone. i'd like to try it i think. why am i so scared to go alone. when i moved to nashville i went alone to this huge church. maybe cause i was so on fire for God. i want that fire back. only i want it to just pop back into me...easy. but i will have to take the time and effort to get in the Word and pray more...

i think i always want the easy way...for things to be handed to me on a platter...it doesn't even have to be a silver platter...plastic is fine...a plate...anything so that i don't have to work for it. this goes for losing weight, exercising, laundry, keeping my place clean and tidy...i want the drive and motivation and determination and the get 'r dun to just pop inside of me. it would be wonderful to just wake up one day with all of this in me...part of me. no more slacking off, putting things off. I ABSOLUTELY KNOW THAT THINGS JUST DON'T WORK THAT WAY...UNLESS GOD DOES A MIRACLE AND I KNOW HE DOES DO MIRACLES. i just think in my case that would be too easy and i need to start putting effort into these things. then i think God would probably start doing some things to help me out...maybe i'd even get a miracle in another area.

I guess that's what I get....

so i tried to fix my blog all by myself. my side bar was at the bottom of all my entries, so i was trying to get it back at the top. totally screwed it up...so bad that i had to delete my blog and start over. so i will try this again, and the side bar better stay put!