Fifty.Fifty.Me/Life Update

I've been a very busy woman as of late with my fifty.fifty.me challenge.  First off, I finally started to watch a few new movies.  I had a boatload of ironing to do so I parked myself in front of the TV and turned on Netflix.  Today I watched Season of the Witch, Tangled, and Carriers.  Tangled was cute, Carriers was a little boring and Season of the Witch was okay but not great.  

On the book front I've read the first two Hunger Games novels by Suzanne Collins- Hunger Games and Catching Fire.  Talk about warped!  They were really good though so I highly recommend reading them.  I've also been reading a few of the paranormal romances that I enjoy.  Here's the list: Alterant by Sherrilyn Kenyon and Dianna Love, Immortal Rider by Larissa Ione, Born of Shadows by Sherrilyn Kenyon, Legacy by Jeanne C. Stern, and Crescent Moon by Lori Handeland.  I'm also starting to read Dark Prince by Christine Feehan- I'll be finished with it by tomorrow so I'm going to count it now as well.

All of this brings my total to 3 movies and 9 books.  I wish I could count all of the books that I've been rereading.  I'd been done if that was the case!

On the food side of things, I spent some time baking peanut butter cookies today- yum!  I also made pork and potato meatloaf, spicy sauteed celery and jeweled rice for dinner tonight.  If you want to know any of the recipes, just let me know!

As for crafting, I'm inching closer and closer to opening up my store online. I've taken pictures of four card sets and two washer necklaces.  I'm almost finished with five felt flower pins.  Then there's the fabric.  I had to wash and iron some black fabric for my three stained glass wall hangings.  I figured that while I was at it, I should go ahead and take care of a bunch of the fabric I had just sitting in a pile.  So between yesterday and today, I ironed around 100 yards of fabric!  My arm and back are quite sore.  I'm hoping to work on the wall hanging tomorrow and will post pictures when I'm finished.  

One last note.  I sent in a picture of my kitten man, Cody to a group I belong to on FB- C.A.A. Cat Addicts Anoy-mouse .  They come up with cute captions in 'cat English' for cat photos and post them to their page.  Cody's picture was selected today!  You can see it by going to their wall photos album.  He's the beautiful orange tabby sitting on his empty bag of food.  I sent them a couple of other pictures of him so maybe they'll pick another one sometime.  That's about it so I'll post again another time!

Book Number 1

Just a quick little post for you.  I just finished up my first book for my Fifty.Fifty.Me challenge.  There's a post explaining the challenge down further on my blog but the general idea is that I need to read 50 new books and watch 50 new movies this year.  So book number one was The 6th Target by James Patterson.  It was kind of interesting but it wasn't too involved at the same time.  Turns out it was actually the sixth book in his 'women's murder club' series.  I might think about getting the other books from the library.  Now I'm trying to debate whether I should start another book, watch a movie, watch a TV show, or craft!  Oh, and can I just say that I really wish I was able to attend CHA out in CA?  The pictures that Paper Crafts magazine keep adding to their FB page are way too exciting.    

Fifty.Fifty.Me

For those of you who don't know me that well, I love to read.  I've been reading since I was a wee one (said of course in an Irish accent).  Seriously though I think I got my first library card when I was around 4 or 5 years old (Mom, you want to chime in on that?).  I've always seen reading a new book (or rereading a favorite book) as a way to see into another world.  My current reading selection is by my all-time favorite author Anne McCaffrey.  She just passed away on November 21, 2011 at the respectable age of 85.  I've been aiming to get my box of books out of storage since then so I could read the "Dragons of Pern" series all over again.  Even if you aren't a fan of fantasy books, I highly recommend that you take the time to pick up a couple of these.  You can start with the first one she wrote "Dragonflight" published back in 1968 or you can start with the chronologically first book "Dragonsdawn" published in 1988.  I'm not including short stories or novellas just the actual full length novels.  

So this brings me to my new challenge.  I've joined up on a site called Fifty.Fifty.Me.  It's a year long challenge to read 50 new books and watch 50 new movies in 2012.  Rereading books and rewatching movies doesn't count towards the final total.  Each time I watch or read something new, I'll write a little blog post about it.  I encourage you to challenge yourself and join in.  You don't have to keep a blog.  Also feel free to comment on my blog posts whether or not you've joined in to read and watch in 2012.