Well, I thought I might do something with my stimulus check to make my apartment a little more home-like than it is, but then I decided to buy books instead. Go figure. :) The bookwork struck again, and I picked up books instead of the curtains I'd originally considered getting. I picked up a few titles like "The Secret", "The Dirt" (Motley Crue), "The Heroin Diaries" (Nikki Sixx), "Tommyland" (Tommy Lee), "The Encyclopedia of Crystal, Gem, and Metal Magic", and "Ghost Hunters: William James and the Scientific Hunt for Life after Death."
Ok, I'm Wiccan, which explains the magic book and to a degree "The Secret" as it's been suggested to me more than once as a good book to look at for the Wiccan. "The Dirt", "The Heroin Diaries", and "Tommyland" are because I am a HUGE Motley Crue fan! :) "Ghost Hunters" is because I adore ghosts and hauntings. I'm a weirdo, I'm telling you. :)
I mixed up how I got the books though. I got a couple at our local Barnes & Noble store, 3 of the books I got at Barnes & Noble's website, and the other book I got a Amazon.com. LOL I was all over the place, wasn't I?
I've started "The Dirt" and it's a good one if you ask me. Of course, you have to be into rock band autobiographies to want to read it. "Tommyland" I've already read twice. Now I'm getting a copy to own. And "The Heroin Diaries" I've wanted to read since I heard about it. Woohoo. :)
Any books you're looking forward to reading?
I am NOT an American Idol fan. Never have been. Frankly, I can't get into it, most likely due to Simon. I understand that they need someone to provide criticism, but someone who acts in general like he has a cactus firmly stuck up his backside is not the kind of person I want providing criticism. It should be constructive, not the crap that spews from Simon's mouth. In any case, they sent the one person my best friend and her mom, who do watch the show home. I'm not going to say who in case there are readers who haven't seen it yet, but let me just say that one of the two that my friend and her mom wanted gone is gone, and there's one to go. Myself, if I had to choose, I want Syesha to win. I never have cared for the guys on Idol, except for Daughtry. I like him. Not a Taylor Hick, Bo Bice, or Clay Aiken fan. Sorry.
I have a beef with my kitchen. It needs new cabinets desperately. I'm not even kidding. My cabinets are small, the doors won't stay closed, and frankly, they just don't fit my needs. So for curiosity, I started to check out places like American Home Craft Inc, looking for options as to what I could get for my kitchen. Personally, I liked American Home Craft Inc the best, as they really seemed to know what they were talking about. Made me wish that I actually owned my own place so they could come in, give me an estimate, and fix up my kitchen. One of these days, I'll own my own place and I'll have my kitchen redone to reflect the way I want it to be.
For crying out loud! I know there's a joke here about if you don't like the weather here, wait 5 minutes, it'll change, but sheesh! Yesterday started out sunny, dark clouds rolled in, storm watches until 7PM, and then at 8PM the storms roll in and thunder crashes, lightning flashes, and rain pours out of the sky. What the heck? I'm beginning to think that we really do need to start focusing on green living and trying to help out the environment. Maybe we can fix some of the crazy weather patterns that have arisen since we started screwing up our planet so badly.
Another place I'd like them to make up their minds is my job. They're practically shoving us out the door for voluntary time off just so they can cut costs. Why don't they just start the new project already and get rid of the one I'm on now? Makes more sense than shoving us out the door when we honestly need the money! *shakes head* Granted it's "voluntary" time off, but really, who isn't going to take it, even if it is unpaid? Everyone wants extra days off. Myself, I needed them.
My apartment has curtains but I don't like them. They're green, which is fine, but they make the whole apartment look green when the sun shines through the windows. I'd much rather replace them with something else. I'm not sure what though. I know when I get a house, it's going to actually be more along the lines of window blinds because I prefer tied back priscilla style curtains. I'm not sure why, but I do. So I'll get the priscillas and then get the blinds to go under them. :) I've got ideas, just no house to use them on. LOL
I really can! Of course, the only reason I can see fine is that I wore several different pairs of prescription eyeglasses over the years that finally "corrected" my vision. Actually I probably should still have glasses, but frankly, at the prices they charge for them, I'll deal with it. I have the option for vision insurance at work, but paying monthly for something I can only use once a year, and only to pay for part of my glasses and eye exam isn't worth it, considering last time I had my eyes checked and got glasses, the premiums for 12 months of vision insurance cost more than my exam, frames, and lenses combined! Not worth it. :)
Now I know I'm fat. I've known this for years. It isn't anything that is new to me. I didn't wake up this morning and say "Oh my gosh, I'm huge!" But you know, it really gets irritating getting emails offering the top diet pills for the cheapest price if you get them from website X. Ok, that's all well and good, but truthfully, I'd rather make sure I was getting them from the most reputable source, if I was interested in taking them at all. Which, frankly, I am not. If I'm losing weight, for my own personal preference, it's going to be by diet and exercise, although neither of those has really worked for me in the past. I'll figure it out though.
Well, I'm not sure if I've mentioned it before on this blog, but I finally have a relatively steady internet connection at home. It drops a lot since it's a wireless connection, but it's pretty steady as long as I don't try to access web pages. Instant messengers are fine, but for some reason loading actual pages causes my connection to have issues. Oh well. At least I have a laptop computer and can take it with me to LaShawn's house or to the library and hook up to the internet there for the purpose of getting on the internet to do more than chat. So yeah, I'm having fun. :) I'm just glad to be on the internet again.
Ok, so if you head over to my blog (yes, I know, I have a zillion blogs) at Charity-Lynn.com, you'll find a contest over there for a $20 gift card. I've been reviewing all of my blogs, and some of them have distinct niches that would allow me to giveaway prizes related to that niche. Gadgets on my geek blog, books on my book review blog, etc. So I'll have some fun thinking up cool prizes to give away. Now, I don't have a fashion related blog, so things like luxury watches aren't going to be a part of the prizes, but pretty much anything else would.
I might even hold a giveaway of a tarot deck or a pentacle necklace or something like that on my Wicca blog. Hmmmm, that sounds like it might be a winner. ;)
I'm telling you, this town has a serious lack of places to rent movies. We used to have several, now it's down to a tiny handful. Blockbuster is now the main place to go for movies, and frankly, off line, their selection isn't the greatest. At least not here. We have 2 locations and neither is very good for selection. I mean, honestly, I find more movies to rent from their website. But I do still go to the regular Blockbuster store on occasion, so some Blockbuster coupons might come in handy one of these days. One never knows. :)
