Happy Halloween + Giveaway!

Happy Halloween to all of you! This is one of my favorite holidays for a number of reasons all of which make me seem like a legit 5-year old.

-First up is the costumes. I LOVE dressing up so very much! Even though my friends and I are completely lame and do not get invited to any parties (Sidenote: What is up with this? I know we are obnoxious, annoying, and slightly loud sometimes but we attempt to be amusing sometimes…), we still love to dress up in crazy/silly/funny costumes and go trick-or-treating in them (Sidenote: Since we are past the acceptable age of trick-or-treating, we like to hand out the candy now using the following philosophy: one for them, two for me.)

-Second is the candy! I was born with not one but ten sweet teeth. I am a picky eater but sugar is the one food group I eat with practically no complaints.

-Next is the classic Halloween movies like Hocus Pocus, Casper, The Adams Family, and The Goonies. Even though I’ve seen each of these movies more times than I can count, I still get all giddy every time ABC Family plays them on their 13 Nights of Halloween!

-And last but not least, there are the spooky stories! I am a HUGE baby so I make sure the books I read aren’t that freaky but I still manage to come across a few that remind me of Halloween. Over the past couple of years, this blog has led me to a number of great books. There have been books about demons, witches, werewolves, ghosts, vampires, and everything in between!

So in honor of my favorite holiday I am giving away one of my favorite spook-tastic books! Below you will find a list of books that while they may not be super scary, they help put me in the mood for Halloween time!

     

     

   

Giveaway Details:

-This giveaway is open internationally as long as The Book Depository ships to you

-Giveaway ends on 11/7

-Winner will receive their choice of one of the books listed above

Click this link to enter the Rafflecopter giveaway!

In My Mailbox (29)

IMM is a weekly meme hosted by The Story Siren. It is a way for book bloggers to post what they have received for review, borrowed from a friend, bought at the bookstore, or picked up at the library!

The last IMM I posted was all the way back in November! Yeah, it is safe to say the holidays definitely got in the way but I am hoping to keep up with the weekly IMMs from now on. Since I missed almost two full months, this IMM is going to be a lot of craziness! Let’s take a look at what I got!!!

For Review:

Unbreakable Love by Angela Carling

Loving Emily by Anne Pfeffer

Dark Days by C.A. Kunz

Trade Secrets by Yvonne Collins & Sandy Rideout (e-book)

The Knife and the Butterfly by Ashley Hope Perez (e-book)

Settling by Shelley Workinger (e-book)

Bought:

Books

Don’t Expect Magic by Kathy McCullough

Winter’s Kiss: The Ex Games by Jennifer Echols and The Twelve Dates of Christmas by Catherine Hapka

Demonglass by Rachel Hawkins

The DUFF by Kody Keplinger

Supernaturally by Kiersten White

Beautiful Chaos by Kami Garcia & Margaret Stohl

Queen of the Dead by Stacey Kade

The Extraordinary Secrets of April, May & June by Robin Benway

The Statistical Probability of Love at First Sight by Jennifer E. Smith

Switched by Amanda Hocking

A Touch Mortal by Leah Clifford

Hush Money by Susan Bischoff (e-book)

Impulse Control by Susan Bischoff (e-book)

Indigo Blues by Danielle Joseph (e-book)

Jessica’s Guide to Dating on the Dark Side by Beth Fantaskey (e-book)

Then Came You by Jennifer Weiner (e-book)

My Thoughts: I got some great deals over some awesome books the past couple months however I am now on a book buying ban! There are just too many things I am saving up for plus I now have enough books to last me a lifetime!

Music

Dashboard Confessional

Anberlin

Thriving Ivory

Ryan Adams

Fitz and the Tantrums

Foster The People

The Summer Set

My Thoughts: Can you tell that I ran into some deals at the CD store? All of their used CDs were super cheap plus if you bought 3, you got the 4th one free!

Gifted/Won:

From Alexa @ AlexaLovesBooks

Moonglass by Jessi Kirby

The Iron Daughter by Julie Kagawa

Chocolates & a card!

My Thoughts: Alexa is one freaking awesome book blogger (and not just because she sent me a super sweet gift!) She never fails to make my days brighter and the day I got this lovely package in the mail was no different. My brother managed to eat both chocolate bars she sent me but I am sure they were delicious! The card was so dang sweet and I cannot wait to read these books!

From Laci @ LovePassionBooks

Pandemonium by Lauren Oliver

Fever by Lauren DeStefano

A Taylor Swift card!

My Thoughts: Laci completely surprised me for my birthday! She saw it was my birthday on Twitter and offered to send me two books. I was stunned and so thankful when I got these two in the mail. Plus, she just knows me so well, she got a TAYLOR SWIFT birthday card!!! This made me smile big time :)

From Cyndi @ Dog-Eared and Bookmarked

Water for Elephants by Sara Gruen

Twilight Saga journal set

A Winter Song CD

Water For Elephants Soundtrack

A Christmas Song CD

The Twilight Saga: Breaking Dawn Soundtrack

A hand-made scarf & a card!!!

My Thoughts: Cyndi is so full of amazing, I wish I could just hug her! She had been teasing me on Twitter for FOREVER about the gift she was sending me and when it finally got here I cried. Seriously. She was so extremely generous and thoughtful with her gift, it totally made my day!

From Jamie Manning @ Writers Write, Right?

A singed Eternal Starling bookmark from Angela Corbett

My Thoughts: I am not entirely sure how I got this or even why, but hey it is a gorgeous, signed bookmark; I am NOT complaining!

From my Dad and Stepmom:

Books

A New Bookshelf

Babe in Boyland by Jody Gehrman

Ten Things We Did (And Probably Shouldn’t Have) by Sarah Mlynowski

New stationary so I can write letters to all of my blogging friends!

Music

Grace Potter & The Nocturnals

Tenth Avenue North

The Fray

The Cab

My Thoughts: I love my dad and stepmom so much! They spoiled me on my birthday and Christmas and I couldn’t be happier :)

From my Mom:

City of Fallen Angels by Cassandra Clare

My Thoughts: It may have taken a while to convince my mom that it was actually okay to buy me books for Christmas but once she finally understood, she made an excellent decision! I can’t wait to continue on with this series.

From my Grandma:

Books

Clockwork Prince by Cassandra Clare

$25 gift card to Barnes & Noble

My Thoughts: My grandma also did good with the book choice this year! I haven’t read the first of The Infernal Devices but when I do, I now have the second to immediately follow-up with!

Music

Plain White T’s

The All-American Rejects

My Thoughts: Last time I asked for an All-American Rejects CD from my grandma, she got me an Alter Bridge CD. They are COMPLETELY different! I was so happy she could find the right ones this time around!

From my Aunts & Uncles:

Overprotected by Jennifer Laurens

Bookmark pens

The Nook!

My Thoughts: I am thrilled I got an awesome book and bookmarks but I am even more thrilled that I now have my very own Nook! I was very adamant that I would hate an e-reader, but I now love having one! Go figure!

So that’s a ton of great books that I got the past couple of months! Since it is going to take a lot of time to read those, I am officially putting myself under a book buying ban. It should be interesting to say the least. Don’t forget to leave a link to your IMM post in the comment section and I will be sure to check it out!

TGIF (22)

There once was an awesome blogger named Ginger and she decided to create a super fun feature where fellow bloggers would answer fabulous questions via blog posts every Friday. TGIF was born and we all have Miss Ginger at GReads! to thank for that! This week’s question is:

Spooktacular Reads:

Which books do you consider festive Halloween reads? Which stories have chilled you to the bone?

I would like to think that I am a tough person who can handle scary books but in reality I am a big, big baby. However, I have managed to sneak in a few creepy books and by somewhat of a shock, I actually enjoyed them. The first couple are books that just really freaked me out. The rest are ones that have Halloween-ish elements in them (a.k.a. Paranormal books that I find to be totally, freaking awesome!!!)

Lockdown by Alexander Gordon Smith

I just read this one. HOLY FREAKING CREEPY!

The Dead of Summer by Camilla Way

I read this one over a year ago and I STILL think of how twisted that story is!

Angelfire by Courtney Allison Moulton

Of course fighting off demons with swords can be considered a great Halloween read!

The Body Finder by Kimberly Derting

This is a book about a girl who can sense dead bodies, FREAKY!

Bone Dressing by Michelle Brooks

This book is more of a love story but the main characters do spend quite a bit of time in the cemetary which is ALWAYS good for freaking people out.

Beautiful Creatures + Beautiful Darkness by Kami Garcia and Margaret Stohl

Both of these books a million times YES! Everything about them shouts great Halloween read! Plus Ethan and Lena…I <3 those two!

The Childe by C.A. Kunz

This is the PERFECT book for this time of year. It definitely makes me think of one of those cool made for TV movies that ABC Family always has this time of year. It could totally be right up there with Hocus Pocus!

The Ghost and the Goth by Stacey Kade

I love me some Stacey Kade! You can’t have Halloween without a friendly little ghost (or in this case, a spoiled little ghost who wants things to go her way!)

Nevermore by Kelly Creagh

I was so surprised by how much I loved this book that is based so heavily on Edgar Allen Poe. This story is dark, creepy, and twisted, what more could you want?!?

Nightshade by Andrea Cremer

I don’t think this one has anything to do with this time of year but I think it is a phenomenal paranormal book!

Paranormalcy by Kiersten White

Oh yes, definitely a great paranormal book that is perfect for reading this time of year!

Released by Megan Duncan

Demon slaying people on the run? YES please!

Unearthly by Cynthia Hand

Oh how I love this book! Another great paranormal book that has NOTHING to do with Halloween but you should read anyway!

So what do you think? Are any of these on your list of books to read during Halloween time?

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TGIF (11)

TGIF is a fun little feature hosted at GReads! Every week we re-cap what has happened on the blog plus Ginger asks a question for us to answer. This week’s question is:

Author Block Party:

If you could gather a handful of authors to hang out with, who would you choose? 

This is the post in which authors will (if they haven’t already) start thinking I am Creep Mc.Creepster. There are a TON of authors who I think are made of awesomesauce. I have read books by most of them, I have chatted with a few (very few! I am still uber shy) on Twitter, and the rest I stalk whether it be on their vlog, blog, or through Twitter. So if I were to have the most awesome of awesome parties I would send out invites to… (Keep in mind that my version of handful is A LOT. I am just greedy like that)

Sarah Dessen & Melina Marchetta are Y.A. Contemporary Goddesses! I am 99.999% sure that books don’t get much better than theirs do. Sarah has been a favorite of mine since I first started reading Y.A. I will always love her books for the simple fact that they got me so completely hooked on reading. I have only read one by Melina Marchetta but I can say with confidence that I will absorb, adore, love, and cherish every book that she writes. I would probably burst with happiness if I were in the same room as them!

Yvonne Collins, Sandy Rideout, Simone Elkeles, and Jennifer Echols have all created some of the best books. Yvonne and Sandy have these light, easy reads that can make you laugh and cry within the span of a few pages. Simone is a genius when it comes to creating hot, Latino boys that I want to keep for myself (the books themselves aren’t too bad either ;) you should probably read them if you haven’t already!). Jennifer Echols is the author I probably fan-girl the most. She makes some seriously HOT scenes in her books! I could die a happy person if I were able to meet all of them!

Elizabeth Eulberg, Antony John, and Robin Benway all put my two favorite things together, books and music. For Elizabeth, she took the rock stars known as The Beatles and mixed them with a wonderful main character to create a book I love, The Lonely Hearts Club. Antony John’s Five Flavors of Dumb was such a wonderfully unique story about a deaf girl managing a rock band. Perhaps my favorite of all of them is Audrey, Wait by Robin Benway. This  is a book in which there are no words to describe the musical goodness that comes from it. I imagine myself, along with these three authors, would have lots to talk about between books and music!

Diana Peterfreund is another favorite of mine, of course! I would probably interrogate her on her Secret Society Girl series. The story is just so incredibly well-written and full of mystery & romance. I am dying to know if any of the stories are true!

Kiersten White is hilarious. I could just watch her stream of Tweets day & night and be completely entertained.

 Stephanie Perkins created Etienne St. Clair. That should be enough to convince ANYONE to invite her to their party.

Stacey Kade. I talked to her once on Twitter….about pizza. It was the greatest fan-girl moment of all time. I love, love, love her book The Ghost and the Goth! She was able to do the whole character switch-er-roo thing so well and I love how her characters play so well off of each other. I can guess that Stacey and I would have a wonderful conversation about ghosts and if that doesn’t work out, there is always pizza!

 Gae Polisner, author of The Pull of Gravity, a book I have NOT read, would be a definite invite to my author block party. Not only is Gae super nice and generous but she is funny, like REALLY funny! I will sometimes just read through her Facebook updates for fun. And trust me on this one, it is lots of fun!

Karsten Knight is another author of a book that I have not read before. I would invite Karsten for the simple fact that he will have the whole party laughing; there is no doubt about it. I even subscribed to his Youtube channel because I find him so freaking hilarious! 

 Carrie Harris, yet again, have not read her book but I think we could have a good conversation about zombies and book bloggers who stick plungers in their head.

 Charlotte Bennardo and Natalie Zaman, co-authors of Sirenz are two more goofballs I’d love to meet. Charlotte is always dropping sweet, funny, random tweets and I love her for it. She has even convinced me to purchase a red pair of shoes to wear while reading her book!

I would also like to add one more to this list. LK Gardner-Griffie is such a sweetheart! I have yet to read her book, Misfit McCabe but trust me, I hope to make that very soon!

There are all the authors I would invite to my bookish party of awesome. I am sure there are many, many more but that is all I could think of off the top of my head. Don’t forget to let me know what you think of my guest list and of course, leave a link to your TGIF post and I’ll be sure to check it out!

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TGIF (6)

TGIF is a fun little feature hosted at GReads! Every week we re-cap what has happened on the blog plus Ginger asks a question for us to answer. This week’s question is: 

Mr & Mrs:

Who are your favorite book couples?

It is official now, Ginger @ GReads! is trying to stump me with her questions of awesomness! I have read a lot of books. I have read a lot of books that include romance. I have read AND loved a lot of books that include romance and super awesome couples. To narrow down the list is impossible so I say, why not name them all? Here it goes!

Ashlyn & Kai from Rising Shadow by Jacquelyn Wheeler

Abby & Max from Released by Megan Duncan

Amy and Roger from Amy & Roger’s Epic Detour by Morgan Matson

Amy and Avi from The Ruined series by Simone Elkeles

Clara and Tucker from Unearthly by Cynthia Hand

Anna and Ettienne St. Clair from Anna and the French Kiss by Stephanie Perkins

Calla and REN from Nightshade by Andrea Cremer

Ethan and Lena from The Caster Chronicles series by Kami Garcia and Margaret Stohl

Lori and Adam from Endless Summer by Jennifer Echols

Meg and John from Going Too Far by Jennifer Echols

Zoey and Doug from Forget You by Jennifer Echols

Amy and Poe from The Secret Society Girl series by Diana Peterfreund

Janie and Cable from The Dream Catcher series by Lisa McMann

Isobel and Varen from Nevermore by Kelly Creagh

Evie and Lend from Paranormalcy by Kiersten White

Luce and Daniel from Fallen by Lauren Kate

Clary and Jace from The Mortal Instruments series by Cassandra Clare

Brittany and Alex from Perfect Chemistry by Simone Elkeles

Kiara and Carlos from Rules of Attraction by Simone Elkeles

ALL major relationships from these following Sarah Dessen Books:

Along for the Ride

Lock and Key

This Lullaby

The Truth About Forever

Just Listen

Okay, there are all of my favorite relationships! These relationships stick out the most for me because they have chemistry. The characters aren’t perfect, the situations they face aren’t ideal, yet they still find an understanding with someone and from that, their love grows for each other.

This week on Katelyn’s Blog (6/24-7/1):

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The Best of Twenty-Ten

Wow! I can’t believe this year is coming to an end. So many exciting, terrible, magnificent, and strange things have happened this year. Influenced by my friends Caroline and Mrs. Andersen (It is still strange to call a former teacher by her first name. It is Sarah by the way), I compiled a list of all of my favorites of the past year. Enjoy!:

1. Best vacation: Spring Break with my best friend, Kati. We went all the way to California. It exceeded all of my expectations on what I thought would be the perfect spring break.

Kati and I posing on a beach in Cali!!

2. Best concert: This is a tie between Warped Tour and The Travelin Show. Both of which featured some amazing bands (We The Kings, The Summer Set, Artist Vs. Poet, etc.) The Travelin Show even featured the man I will one day marry. Ok I am joking but hey, a girl can dream can’t she? (Just look at his dimples; they get me every time!)

Artist vs. Poet threw that monster can at me! I was so excited.

Ohh goodness! He doesn’t realize it yet, but this guy is going to be my husband one day. Just look at those dimples!

3. Best CD: This was an easy decision since Taylor Swift’s third CD, Speak Now, is still on constant replay. It is full of awesomeness.

4. Best new activity: Joining book club has been awesome. It has only added more fuel to the fire. I just can’t seem to stop reading…ever! Ohh, and making this blog has also been pretty fantastic; I am addicted!

5. Best birthday present: My new bedroom of course! Here are the pictures that I promised a few weeks ago:

6. Best movies: There really has been some great movies this past year. The ones that stuck with me the most were Eclipse, Harry Potter, Due Date, Life As We Know It, and The Other Guys.

7. Best books: I can’t choose just a few! Here are all of my favorite 2010 books. (Note: Not all were released this year, just read by me in 2010)

Beautiful Creatures By Kami Garcia & Margaret Stohl

Beautiful Darkness By Kami Garcia & Margaret Stohl

 

City of Bones by Cassandra Clare

City if Ashes by Cassandra Clare

 City of Glass by Cassandra Clare

Fallen by Lauren Kate

Forget You by Jennifer Echols

Going Too Far by Jennifer Echols

Freefall by Mindi Scott

Hush, Hush by Becca Fitzpatrick

It’s Kind of a Funny Story by Ned Vizzini

Leaving Paradise by Simone Elkeles

Return to Paradise by Simone Elkeles

Nevermore by Kelly Creagh

Nightshade by Andrea Cremer

Paranormalcy by Kiersten White

Perfect Chemistry by Simone Elkeles

Rules of Attraction by Simone Elkeles

Ruined (How to Ruin 1-3) by Simone Elkeles

The Ghost and the Goth by Stacey Kade

Twenty Boy Summer by Sarah Ockler

Wake by Lisa McMann

8. Best shinning moment: Hmm… this is a tough one. There was graduation, honors night, or placing at states for BPA (Business Professionals of America, it’s really cool, you should be jealous!). Ohh, what the heck, I guess they all win.

9. Best friend: Of course this award goes to Kati. Even though we are going to separate schools now and both have extremely busy schedules, we still find time to be there for each other. I don’t know what I’d do without her!

10. Best family: Well mine of course! They are loud, annoying, and extremely obnoxious but I wouldn’t have it any other way!

Here it goes.

 

Since I made not one but two promises to blog more often, I am pulling out all of my extra energy to write this so here it goes (now the title makes sense!)

In the lovely world of books:

1) I have been an absolute reading machine the past couple weeks. This can mean a few different things. It is either one) I have so much free time and I just don’t know what to do with myself or two) I read to block out the constant cries from my schoolbooks that just keep shouting “Katelyn, you have a ton of homework to do!” Yeah I’m going with the latter.

2) Some awesome must read books that you really should check out if you had any common sense at all would be one)Forget You by Jennifer Echols. It was a really great story of a girl named Zoey, whose life happens to be falling apart. Her dad left her mom for a girl only 24 (that’s only 7 years older than the main character), her mom attempts suicide, and to top it off Zoey gets in a terrible car accident. Now this crazy trifecta wouldn’t be complete with a case of amnesia, two hot guys, and her twin best friends. Again I stress, YOU MUST READ IT! Two) I feel the need to stress yet again that Paranormalcy by Kiersten White is a must read. See previous posts for more details. Three) It’s Kind of a Funny Story by Ned Vizzini. I know I have already talked about this book before, but I am bringing it up again for a very important reason. The movie came out last weekend. If you are a BTM cop (Book Turned to Movie) than you most likely won’t like it. The movie keeps a few main details of the book, but it adds in a lot of little extra things. I like the movie. I like the book. I am not so sure how I like the movie and book together though. Nevertheless, don’t let this stray you away from either seeing or reading Its Kind of a Funny Story. Like I said they are both very good.  Four) Beautiful Creatures by Kami Garcia & Margaret Stohl is absolutely amazing! This book is about witches and thank god for it! I love fantasy books just as much as any normal teenage girl, but I am getting a little tired of vamps and werewolves. It is very nice to have a change of pace. I am not done with the book yet but I am sure it will be a new favorite. I’m reading it for our book club that way our next book we read together can be Beautiful Darkness, the second installment. Woo hoo can’t wait!

In the not so lovely world of life:

Well there is not a whole lot to put right now. A lot of irritating things have happened in the past couple days but I am still at the angry stage; I’m not able to write it in a funny/ amusing way yet. But soon enough there will be some funny/crazy/only-happens-to-me-moments to come. I promise!

Now off to my school books. They are practically screaming at me now!

Keeping Promises

 

Ok so I am sorry to say that I have not kept my promise of trying to blog more often. Since I have had zero views since my last post, I assume no one is too upset about this. I really am trying though. From now on I plan on blogging at least every other day…. no excuses.

To start off last week has been super crazy. Power outages, homecoming, family time, homework, college, work, chores, more homework, more college, and more work, and reading an unbelievable book, made for quite an interesting week.

My sister’s homecoming was last weekend. That meant being in the parade (4 bags of candy that only lasted about half of the parade cost me $20! how ridiculous is that), going to the football game, and catching up with friends I haven’t seen in a while. For like the first time in Clio history, it did not rain on homecoming night. It may have sprinkled a bit, but it did not rain. Also for the first time in Clio history, we scored the first two touchdowns. Clio is notoriously known for being the worst football team ever. Our victory was short-lived however; the final score being 42-14. The next morning I awoke to no power. This confused me to no end, especially since there was no rain! Nevertheless, my sister and I still needed to get ready for the night. I took her all the way to my grandmas, did her hair, do her makeup, take her pictures, take her back home, take more pictures, go pick up Kati (I don’t go very far without her), go to Kari’s friends for more pictures, go out to flint for dinner. It took us three tries to finally find a restaurant to eat. Dang Bob Evans in hopping on a Saturday night. I then took her to the dance, went home and waited, and finally picked her up.

My extremely busy weekend was just a glimpse of how my week would be. I feel like a chicken running around with its head cut off. I am literally going from one thing to another all day every day. I am finally getting used to my busy schedule though.

In between night classes and long days of work, I still found time to read Paranormalcy. It was absolutely amazing! It was such a refreshing fantasy book. It was so different than the normal “my boyfriend is a vampire. I love him but he wants to eat me. How could we ever be together blah blah blah?” This book put a whole new spin on fairies, werewolves, and vamps. I cannot wait for a sequel.

As for best news I’ve heard in a long time…. Cassandra Clare’s series The Mortal Instruments is being turned into a movie. There has been a lot of heresy circulating around but just recently Cassandra confirmed it herself. She wrote on her blog saying that the movie will be produced by Sony and directed by the same author as Easy A. She also hinted that Emma Stone (star of Easy A), would make a great Clary. As much as I like Emma as an actress, I am a little unsure of how she could portray a teenage (especially since Clary is only 15 and Emma is…well not exactly that young). Regardless of who will be playing who, I cannot wait for this movie.

So that is about it for today. I’m off to read yet another new book called Forget You by Jennifer Echols.

My 12th Blog Ever!

 My creative juices really weren’t working all too well tonight to think of a better title. Tonight was our first in-person book club meeting. It was such a blast! It was great to actually be able to meet in person and talk about some fantastic books. The website http://www.goodreads.com was recommended to me, so I am attempting to create an account (the key word there was attempting!) I am very excited to say that we will all be reading the book called It’s Kind of a Funny Story by Ned Vizzini. Not only does the story seem extremely funny and interesting, it is also being made into a movie. We will now be able to read a fantastic book and hopefully go see a fantastic movie! The one downside to meeting in person tonight was that we met at borders (a.k.a. my weakness) and since we were at borders I of course had to purchase more than one book. On top of the book I purchased for our book club, I also bought The Ghost and The Goth by Stacey Kade and Paranormalcy by Kiersten White (both of which were on my wish list!) Now before anyone starts thinking ‘why the heck would this girl buy three more books when she still has an ever-growing pile of to-be-read books, I need to say no worries! I have decided tonight that the Pretty Little Liars series is now finished for me. As much as I loved the first couple books, I just cannot make myself read the last two. I know they are probably great books but unfortunately I have the stupid personality flaw of never finishing something I start.

 Now on to the music scene. I have recently discovered that one of my favorite bands, The Summer Set, will be doing a tour with some other bands this fall/winter. I looked at their shows and sure enough there is one in Michigan. Just about the same time I realized this I also realized I have class that day. Now someone with a somewhat normal class schedule would not have an issue with this. Go to class in the a.m. and then hit up the concert in the p.m. (no big problem there). However, my schedule is not a normal person’s schedule. I just happen to have a 6-9 class that day. To say the least, I am quite upset that I cannot attend that concert. in other music news (which in reality is nothing important at all) I have had this dang Taylor Swift song stuck in my head all week. It is called ‘Superstar,’ and I listen to it at least five times a day. I am not too sure what it is that I find so entertaining with that song. Now Taylor Swift is one of my favorite artists but Superstar is definitely not her best written song but there is just something about it. It kind of reminds of wonderful times when NSYNC was on repeat in my CD player and I was going to one day marry Justin Timberlake and Aaron Carter. Another song that I just can’t get out of my head is a song by a band called The Secret Handshake and the song is called TGIF.  Here are the catchy lyrics (the whole chorus of the song is one great show after another!)

 The year was 1995
and I was too young to drive.
I felt so stuck on the inside
of my life. Whoa Whoa

Just living´ out my life through my TV
with all my favorite shows.
Wanted my life to work out so easy
Don’t care if anybody knows. Yeah

But now I’m old enough to drive.
No one can keep me inside.
Now I’ve got the day on my mind.
It’s my life. Whoa Whoa

Step By Step, these are Family Matters
and why Boy Meets World, I’ll never ever know
Who’s the Boss here? It’s a Fresh Prince.
We got a Full House; let’s get the show on the road.

Just living´ out my life through my TV
with all my favorite shows.
Wanted my life to work out so easy
Don’t care if anybody knows. Yeah

But now I’m old enough to drive.
No one can keep me inside.
Now I got the day on my mind.
It’s my life. Whoa Whoa

But now I’m old enough to drive.
No one can keep me inside.
Now I got the day on my mind.
It’s my life. Whoa Whoa

I just wanna live my life like it’s the 90’s
Like it’s a TV show
there could be problems but we would solve them
on next week’s episode

I just wanna live my life like it’s the 90’s
Like it’s a TV show
there could be problems but we would solve them
on next week’s episode

But now I’m old enough to drive.
No one can keep me inside.
Now I got the day on my mind.
It’s my life. Whoa Whoa

But now I’m old enough to drive.
No one can keep me inside.
Now I got the day on my mind.
It’s my life. Whoa Whoa

Well that’s my blog for tonight. Tomorrow should be an interesting day as I tackle my first real challenge as a college student: attending a tailgate and game. Wish me luck!