“Next to acquiring good friends, the best acquisition is that of good books.”

 

-Charles Caleb Colton

 
Welcome new friends! Here’s to hoping we can build a friendship (:

Now that classes are over for the summer, I find myself perusing books over at Amazon more and more. Not that I don’t have a billion waiting for me to read or anything… ha! I am just always on the lookout for new authors to fall in love with. I don’t know why I can’t read ‘fun’ books while I’m in school, but I never manage to, even when I want to. So, I am hoping I can get in a bit of reading this summer to make up for my slacker ass during the semester.

I’m pretty excited for tomorrow’s PaintBar. I was going to take my Nikon with me but Trisha made a good point –what if I got paint all over it? Apparently the tables they give us to paint at aren’t overly roomy and easily get paint droppings on them ha-ha … so I am hoping that the lighting in the room is good enough to take decent cell phone pics … HA!

Yesterday my mom busted out all of our “Portugal” t-shirts for Friday’s soccer game, lol. I just checked out their website to see if I could bring my Nikon to the stadium, and it says that it’s actually acceptable (because it has a removable lens). They don’t allow other ‘recording’ devices though—and most (if not all) those small point-and-shoot ones have the recording capabilities. Also, it’s exciting to scratch one thing off my “Bucket List”. I’ve never been to a stadium to watch any sporting event, so this will be my first time… which is exciting.

I am TRYING to plan a summer vacation—really a short ‘get-away’ … probably 4-5 day weekend.

With Dad going for chemo every other week, there are only a select few weeks we can actually get away … but as with every single summer, my brothers are dragging their feet. Then, the week before our vacation everyone asks me, “So where we going?” Really?! RaWr! I would actually like to get away this summer. The last few we’ve just hung out around home and while that is relaxing, I feel like I’m not using the time wisely to see new parts of the US I’ve never seen before. So, yes … trying to get my brother’s butts into gear. If I don’t hear from them by the end of next week I’ll just plan something for myself! RaWr!

In other random news, one of my favorite shows may be ending after this next season (BONES)—it’s not yet confirmed, but most are pretty much saying it will be the last season. I know that all shows must come to an end at some point, but the cast on this show have all been together since season two! It’s going on season ten. That’s pretty amazing, if you ask me. They’re all so great together, and if you were to remove one, it would completely destroy the dynamic, that’s how good they all are together. It’s rare to find a show like that …usually if you take one of the main characters away, the show won’t necessarily bleed out to death. For this show? It totally would (at least in my eyes, everyone has a right to their own opinions of course :D).


Some don’t like the lead character because they can’t put themselves in her shoes, and see why she is the way she is. Some say she’s cold, uncaring, and a big “B”…but if you’ve followed the show all along, I think she’s perhaps the one that feels the most, and detaching herself the way she does, is the only way she can survive the emotional drowning (if anyone watched the episode where Michael Vincent dies, I don’t know how they could ever believe that gibberish). People who catch an episode here or there, and don’t really follow the show, don’t get the depth of the character development that has gone into her, and the type of character she really is, so all they see is this rigid woman who has a huge/inflated ego… which frustrates me, because usually that’s who “others” listen to and just take their point-of-view at face value.

Anyway … the point of all that rambling is that I’m really going to miss this show if this is the last season – but I guess 10 seasons is a good round number for a show these days (most don’t make it that far). It’s just so hard to believe it’s been ten years with these characters :D

The other shocking “TV Show” news I read is that Damon may be leaving Vampire Diaries. aldro , can you believe that?! I am thinking it might be a hoax, but I dunno… That show would die if Damon left though, so that would pretty much ensure the end of that show. Honestly, they started killing off way too many awesome characters that I kind of started to lose interest in the show … but I did still find this (possible) news a tad shocking.

Wow, okay … shutting up about TV now, ha! This got too long.