AbielleRose
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Well done, Onion Budgie! I have to go in on Monday for Iron and Magnesium blood tests because my doc thinks I'm low and that's contributing to my leg/foot pain. I gave up red meat about a month ago and just added it back in to my diet. Kind of bummed because my blood pressure this week was FINALLY 120/65 and it seems like cutting out red meat was the big factor in it going down.
Next week my doc wants me to start a 2 protein shakes a day followed by a pimped out salad routine. Have any of you guys had success with weightloss shakes? I'm researching brands right now (since I'm in the US I doubt we'd have the same brands) and it seems like Herbalife is a good one.
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Friends. No matter how many times I've seen it, I never get tired of it.
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I haven't read since Tuesday night (4 hours of HP and the Prisoner of Azkaban) so tonight I really want to just sit down and finish Crown of Wishes. Starting the audio book now while I do some cleaning stuffs.
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I just made up a bottle of iced tea with sugar free raspberry syrup. Soooo good and refreshingly cool for spring! (I had to turn on the air conditioner because my apt was 25c when I woke up this morning!)
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39 minutes ago, Athena said:
It makes sense you're still feeling sad. A loss of a pet is always hard, especially of a cat or dog, who've been with you for so long
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I hope you can enjoy your dinner and have some fun during Easter
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Thanks Athena <3 I hope you have lots of fun, too!
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Happy Easter (or Passover if you're Jewish
) weekend, everybody! Hope you have fun today! I'll probably be cleaning and watching movies with my much anticipated homemade nachos and sugar free pudding with whipped cream and Oreos dinner. Oh, so traditional 
Its my first holiday since my Winny kitty died 3 weeks ago and I am still feeling really sad (I used to be a bit weird with holidays and would spoil him with food and new toys like a mama with a kid, lol) without him so I just want to keep busy and try to have fun.
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I've been on a bit of a Glee kick lately (mainly because I got addicted to Supergirl/The Flash/Arrow and the main guy in The Flash and the main girl in Supergirl were Glee alum.) I wish Glee could have gone on forever! *weeps*
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The weather is pretty nice here. 60, sunny and a little breezy, which is perfect. This morning the fog was so dense you could barely see a creeper in front of you!
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I'm watching the first Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows film right now.
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Yay!! So jealous of you
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On 3/17/2017 at 11:59 AM, Michelle said:
Unfortunately I didn't get on very well with This Savage Song, despite loving everything else I've read of hers! I think it had more of a YA feel to it. I would say that the Darker Shades series has a slight YA feel to it, if you compare it to some other fantasy titles, but for me that works perfectly. Vicious is a much darker book.. and I'm happy that she's writing a sequel for that one.
Looks like something else I need to go look up.....!
Aw, l loved This Savage Song (but as you know, I'm a big mg/ya fan so...)
Did you already go to Laini Taylor's signing?
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I hope you enjoy it when you get it! I love Veronica Roth's writing style, but there was definitely some hesitation after what she did in Allegiant, lol. I wasn't 100% sure if I could trust her again.
Roshani Chokshi is an incredible writer. She's the sort who paints pictures with her words (she's Indian and her books are full of Indian culture that I've had to stop reading and Google. Its a bit hard to start and stop like that, but if you can handle it its soooooo worth it!) She's by far my favorite and most anticipated for future works.
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The first novel I finished this year was Carve the Mark by Veronica Roth. I was a bit hesitant to trust Veronica's writing again after she broke my heart with her Divergent series' ending. One thing is for sure, she is extremely talented at creating worlds. Carve the Mark is a science fiction romance set in a solar system unlike any I've read about before. The characters, especially Cyra, are well written and come to life quickly. Cyra's "gift" is a gift of pain. Not only can she inflict it if she touches another, but she feels pain herself all the time. I think part of why I connected so well with her is because I, too, suffer from a chronic nerve pain disorder. The way the author would describe the worst of Cyra's flares was exactly what I could relate to because its how I have spent much of my life over the last few years feeling. I've never read a novel with a character who shared that part of my own experience in life with before.
Thankfully, it is just one book in a brand new series. I'm already looking forward to the next one.
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(still in progress of building)
TBR Pile of Doom
Already Own
A Crown of Wishes by Roshani Chokshi (currently reading)
The Architect of Song by A.G. Howard
A Monster Calls by Patrick Ness
Heartless by Marissa Meyer
Labyrinth Lost by Zoraida Cordova
Stealing Snow by Danielle Paige
Stalking Jack the Ripper by Kerri Maniscaico
The Glittering Court by Richelle Mead
Lady Midnight by Cassandra Clare
Traitor to the Throne by Alwyn Hamilton
A Shadow Bright and Burning by Jessica Cluess
Wintersong by S. Jae-Jones
Beauty and the Beast Novelization by The Disney Writers
The Shack by W.M. Paul Young
Norse Mythology by Neil Gaiman
Under the Never Sky by Veronica Rossi
An Ember in the Ashes by Sabaa Tahir
The Girl From Everywhere by Heidi Heillig
Dorthy Must Die by Danielle Paige
Mechanica by Betsy Cornwell
The Serpent King by Jeff Zentner
Zodiac by Romina Russell
How To Hang a Witch by Adriana Mathis
Illuminae by Amie Kaufman and Jay Kristoff
Furthermore by Tahereh Mafi
The Shadow Queen by C.J. Redwine
Truthwitch by Susan Dennard
Unrivaled by Alyson Noel
Shadowshaper by Daniel Jose Older
Passenger by Alexandra Bracken
Chocolate Chip Cookie Murder by Joanne Fluke
Outlander by Diana Gabaldon
The Chaos of the Stars by Kiersten White
Wink Poppy Midnight by April Genevieve Tucholke
Rebel Belle by Rachel Hawkins
Special Feminist/Strong Women in History Section
Hidden Figures by Margot Lee Shetterly
I Am Malala by Malala Yousafzai
*Diary of Anne Frank by Anne Frank
This Fight is Our Fight by Elizabeth Warren
A Fighting Chance by Elizabeth Warren
Michelle Obama: A Life by Peter Slevin
Notorious RBG: The Life and Times of Ruth Bader Ginsberg by Irin Camron
Men Explain Things To Me by Rebecca Solnit
Fight Like a Girl: 50 Feminists Who Changed the World by Laura Barcella
Princess Diarist by Carrie Fisher
Make 'Em Laugh by Debbie Reynolds
We Should All Be Feminists by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie
The Female of the Species by Mindy McGinnis
Pre-Ordered
Alex and Eliza: A Love Story by Melissa de la Cruz
A Flame in the Mist by Renee Ahdieh
Now I Rise by Kiersten White
Our Dark Duet by Victoria Schwab
Warcross by Marie Lu
Wishlist
William Shakespeare's Star Wars by Ian Doescher
The Romanov Sisters: The Lost Lives of the Daughters of Nicholas and Alexandra by Helen Rappaport
The 100 by Kass Morgan (looove the TV series)
The Dark Days Club by Allison Goodman
Starflight by Melissa Landers
These Vicious Masks by Tarun Shanker & Kelly Zekas
Strange the Dreamer by Laini Taylor
Scrappy Little Nobody by Anna Kendrick
A Testament of Hope: The Essential Writings and Speeches of Martin Luther King Jr. by Martin Luther King Jr.
Strength to Love by Martin Luther King Jr.
Non-Violent Resistance by M.K. Gandhi
Dreams From My Father: A Story of Race and Inheritance by Barack Obama
Our Revolution: A Future to Believe In by Bernie Sanders
Golden Girls Forever: An Unauthorized Look Behind the Lanai by Jim Colucci
Talking As Fast As I Can by Lauren Graham
Someday, Someday Maybe by Lauren Graham
*reread
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My TBR pile is so big right now I'm not sure if there even *IS* an end to it. I'm only on book #3 for the year, but the last month or so I haven't been able to focus on anything because of a few personal situations going on.
To start with, I'm marking my progress in my Bullet Journal below. My goal right now is to try and get to 25. Hopefully, this is a low enough goal that even I can achieve it before the end of the year!
On my Bullet Journal I'll be coloring in each shelf as I hit the corresponding number of books read.
I'll leave a blank post below this so I can list my TBR pile (and pre-order pile... there are some really good books coming out this year!)
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My latest liquid addiction: Strawberry Pineapple Mio
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That sounds really nice.
I'm very much into the 12 yr old girl version of cutesy so.... SPARKLES ALL THE THINGS!
No, really. I have a set of 98 colored pens with sparkly glitter ink that I use and my 5 rolls of washi tape are all glitter, lol. I do also use colored pencils to color in certain bits (like my writing WIP. Its a bookcase and as my word count goes up, I color in more books on the bookcase.)
I'm struggling a bit with my day/week/month structure for everyday things. I keep changing up what I want my goals to be and the OCD ninja in me is super annoyed that the entire BJ isn't the same format.
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2 hours ago, Athena said:
I found some nice washi tape in a shop I was in yesterday so I bought it. Has anyone else used their washi tape? I'm not entirely sure yet what I'll do with it but it seems a popular thing online so I figured I'll think of some use for it!
I have, but its one of those things that (well, for me) is shinier and prettier in theory than for what I use my BJ for. The washi tape I got isn't sticky enough (more like Post-It sticky rather than tape sticky) so it kept moving and coming off so I just gave up on it. I DID end up decorating the front of mine with it by wrapping it around then gluing it to the back of the cover to keep it in place, lol.
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Its too hot, too humid and now its dark and gloomy because we have thunderstorms rolling in. Today is basically your perfect Saturday no pants reading all day day.
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Gaia, really? I actually really don't care for paperbacks (just because it makes me sad seeing the wear on the covers or seeing the spines get cracky and broken).
Michelle, I have A Darker Shade of Magic but haven't read it yet. its on my list, though (I have it as an audiobook). I'm so jealous you get to meet her and get your books signed! She's such a great writer, I can't wait for more of her books.
I know ADSOM has great reviews so I'm excited. There are just too many good books coming out this summer. I honestly can't keep up.
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Thanks! Yes, and she just announced today that Sony optioned it!!! I'm sure it'll be years before a movie is made, but knowing its possible makes me so happy!
And I Darken is great so far. The MC, Lada, has an incredibly strong voice and is very unique next to other YA MCs. Have you read it yet?
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I haven't yet, but they're on my list! All the things he saw... and he still believed in humanity.
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I'm so lost with this thread that I don't even feel like going back to add the books I've read above, lol. I'm somewhat keeping up with them on Goodreads, but since my mojo has come back I've just sort of been going and going and going.
The last book I finished was This Savage Song by Victoria Schwab and it was absolutely fantastic! I love how she incorporates 3 types of beasts into her novel (you can really see how the dementors from HP inspired parts) and how the monster male MC had more humanity than many humans. I'm really excited for her to write the next book, but sad it'll only be a 2 book series. This world is really interesting and I'd love to hang around in it more than for just 2 books' time.
Today I received my copies of Beth Revis's A World Without You and Neil Gaiman's Coraline (the graphic novel version). I'm in the middle of Kiersten White's And I Darken right now so as soon as I finish that today I'm going to dive right into AWWY.
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Too hot to function! The high is supposed to be 95f (35c) and the humidity is at 90%. I think I could handle the temp if it wasn't so humid! I went to get the mail and that is about as much of the heat as I can take today!
What's Up in April 2017?
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Well done, Virginia!! Seems like the Spring Cleaning Bug has bitten you, too.
I've been on a mission to clean out my apartment of all the little cluttery things I don't need and have been separating them into "sell" and "total crap" piles. I'm hoping I can get a nice chunk for the sell pile and have a charity come pick up the other one next week. The next job is to clean out the car, which I hate with a passion.