July Update

Gosh, I suck at life right now..at least blog wise. I've been working my ass off on my graduate research paper and I finally finished. I'm turning it in this weekend, the draft anyways. I will OFFICIALLY be DONE July 28. Say a prayer for me. I am praying that I do well on this paper. I have worked so hard on this for the last 4 or 5 months. I've put in sooo many hours and lost a lot of sleep for this. I passed my comprehensive exam which is half of what I need to graduate. The other half, well more than half, is this research paper. I've never been so stressed out in my life. I would work on it during my daughter's nap time and late late at night. I think the average I stayed up is until 3am. I plan on reading a few books the next few days too. I have missed reading sooo sooo much. I feel like my brain is goo.
My daughter will turn 2 in a couple weeks. I cannot believe this! I feel like she should still be that little baby I brought home from the hospital. It's amazing how much she's grown. She has A LOT of personality too. She loves to take walks, anything with fish, splashing around in water, and taking laundry basket rides. She's so funny. I told her she was my best friend the other day and she looked at me and said, 'Yes Mama'. I gave her a big hug and kiss and she then said, "NO!". She's a character. I'm enjoying my moments with her now because she is growing up wayyy to fast.
I'm excited for the next chapter in my life once this grad school chapter is officially closed. I plan on really buckling down and losing weight. I'm too embarrassed to admit how much I weigh but trust me, I can stand to lose a ton of weight. I would love to blame it on the pregnancy, which was now 2 years ago, but that's just a lame excuse. It's really because I'm lazy and hate hate hate to workout. I hate getting up in the morning. I hate sweating. I just hate it all. The thing is though, I know I need to. My husband knows, my friends know- but they are so kind and don't say anything, even if I think they're embarrassed by my fat ass. It's time. I'm doing the old fashioned way- hard work and eating healthy. Diets have never worked for me. And I know that once I lose the weight on a diet I'll just go back to my old ways once I'm done. So transitioning to a healthier lifestyle is what I plan on doing. It'll be hard, VERY hard, but I'm passed ready. It's important that I'm around for a long time because 1. I plan on seeing my daughter grow up, and 2. no other hussy is taking my man, I'll cut you.
So that's pretty much where I am in life. Waiting for this grad school stuff to finally be done. Transitioning into a healthier lifestyle for the better of me and my family, and watching, with a few tears in my eyes, my daughter grow up. Hopefully soon I'll have a few book reviews and a couple interviews for you to read too. Have a great week and weekend.
Grab a book and READ.
M

Books

Hi! So I need some suggestions on what to read next. I also went back through my Kindle and found a couple books I overlooked and haven't reviewed so I'll be reviewing those soon. I currently am borrowing the book The Monuments Men from the local library via their new online system for Kindles and the like.

Please leave a comment suggesting a couple good books to read! I would greatly appreciate it. Also, if you come across any interesting library news please feel free to share it with me as I love reading about library-esque type things.

Thanks! Now, Go Read!

Happy New Year (Belated) and Update

Wowzers it's been forever since I've posted...oops.

I have read a lot of books in the last few months and I'm in the middle of one right now :) I will post my reviews of these books over the next few days!

I have read the first 2 books in a teen series which will be my first 2 posts tomorrow. Then I will post my review of the first book in the series I'm currently reading. I have 3 more after those that I will review. All of them are really good and are 3.5 stars or more.

After I finish reading the Guardian series I'm reading, I want to branch out and read something that I don't normally read. I think I'll hit up my local library and see what's out there.
If you have any recommendations please comment and let me know! I'm always looking for something to good to read. I love suggestions and I'll pretty much read anything if you can talk me into it. I've never been a big fan of nonfiction or biographies or the like but hey, if you thinks it's awesome- then recommend it and I'll read it too.


Hope you're having a great new year so far. I've started classes back up so if I start to slack off again I apologize in advance.


Hugs!

M.

Update on My Life and Reading Adventures

Allie, July 30, 2012

I had my beautiful baby girl after 27 hours of labor on July 30 at 12:12pm. She's doing great and is such a joy! I love being a mommy to her :) I'm still sleep deprived but I wouldn't have it any other way.

Reading..I haven't had time at all to read lately. I'm hoping as we get into a schedule that I will be able to start back up on my reading though. I miss it so much. I had started reading 'The Joy Luck Club' before Allie was born but I wasn't able to finish it or any of the other books I had checked out from the library. I'm hoping this coming week I can go back and get a couple of books to read and to finish 'TJLC' book.

Hope all is well with y'all. Take care!

July

July has been a pretty crazy and fast paced world wind for us. I haven't had time to read :( I'm due any day now with our first little girl and have been going crazy trying to get everything in order for her :)

Posts will continue once things settle down...I'm hoping to read some today actually..maybe hit the library up one last time tomorrow! Oh the little joys lol

Have a good day!