30 Days of Books-Day 2

A book that you've read more than 3 times

I've read two or three books more than three times, but the one that I've read the most is Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone by JK Rowling. This book I've read about seven times. The second time I read it was because I wanted to read the series in succession. I read 1 and 2, then 1 through 3, and so on, but I have yet to read straight through the series. I also read Philosopher's Stone in college and noted the differences between the UK and US versions. Then when the 10th anniversary edition came out I got that and read it as well. I look forward to reading it again when the time comes for me to read the whole series, but that won't be for a while because I have a lot of other books on my to read list.

30 Days of Books-Day 1

The Best Book I Read Last Year

Well, I have to think back to last year and sift through all of the books I read. I read a lot of books last year, but I think the one I enjoyed the most was Steamed: A Steampunk Romance by Katie MacAlister. I've been into romance books for a while, but this was the first one I read about steampunk. I enjoyed the world that was created and look forward to finding another steampunk novel that catches my interest like this one.

Goal 3

Okay, so I failed at my March goal. I was supposed to read five books, but I only read three. I got distracted by the new Pokemon games(I chose Black and my husband chose White). I blame myself, but I blame my husband more because he's the one who really wanted to get the games. :) I agreed because they sounded fun, but I thought I would be able to ignore my game. It turns out I was wrong. I shouldn't have even started playing because once I did I got into the game and didn't want to stop. I read two books before we got the games, but the third was a struggle. I did have some days where I didn't want to play Pokemon, but there were other days when I would get distracted. Of course I did get distracted by other things such as Facebook and Smallville(I'm watching every episode so I can fill in any details I missed from earlier seasons when I didn't catch an episode), but I mostly blame Pokemon because I feel that I could have accomplished my goal if I had not started playing that game. I should have learned by now that I get too distracted by something new that other things fall by the wayside, but I guess it hasn't stuck yet.
April is going to be puzzle month. I already started the puzzle I'm going to be working on a few years ago, but I figure now is the best time to work on it. And since I'm going to be working on a puzzle I think I'll be able to keep on playing Pokemon at the same time, so April might be more of a game month than just a puzzle month.

Goal 2

It's the first day of March and February became a month of many goals. I thought my goal for February was going to be working on a story, but I ended up working on a few other goals as well. I started out working on a story, but then the urge to work on fleece creatures overtook my wanting to write a story. So as of now I have eight creatures drawn and have one or two more to plan: actually working on them will come at a later time when I have money I can use to buy fleece and cotton batting. I also cleaned up the house a little bit more before my parents came to visit.
Now on to March's goal...March is reading month. I will be trying to read five books, that are each between 300 and 330 pages, by the end of the month. Wish me luck. :P

Goal 1

It's the first day of February and my goal for January is complete. We didn't get all of the boxes and unpacked and everything put away, but we got enough done that I consider the goal for January accomplished. Now on to February's goal...

New Years Resolutions

I don't normally make resolutions for the new year, but this year I decided I would. This year I have decided that I will do something new each month and that I must work on it every day of the month. For example, this month I am working on unpacking boxes and organizing the new house. Next month I might work on knitting a scarf, or learning HTML4. I won't decided what I want to work on until a few days before the new month starts. But I suppose I could list all my ideas in this post, then mark in a new post what I'm working on that month, but I will also edit this post to keep it current. This way I'll have just one spot I can refer to for what I want to get accomplished this year instead of trying to think about it at the end of every month.

List:
organize/unpack-January
work on a story-February(partially)
knit a scarf
learn HTML4
relearn the guitar
scrapbook
plan fleece animals/objects and make some-February(drawings almost done)
read 5 books-March(failed)
exercise
plan for NaNoWriMo
take part in and win NaNoWriMo
put together puzzles-April

House Ownership

Today my husband and I bought our first house! We've been married for a little over a year and have been doing our best to save our money, but it hasn't been easy since my husband lost his job earlier in the year and has just recently gotten another one that doesn't pay as well but he's at least getting decent hours, unlike me.
I have a job right now, but it's part-time and I'm not getting as many hours as I thought I would be. We're doing alright now, but it will be tight for a while so I'm looking for a second job.
But back to the buying the house part. After we got the keys to the house we went looking for furniture and found a nice dining room table and chairs set at the Habitat for Humanity ReStore for $100. I also found a nice computer desk at Salvation Army. We took the furniture to the house and since there's actually furniture in the house it feels more like ours. We are going to start packing soon and hope to have most of our stuff moved in by the end of next week.