A few weeks ago, my Facebook feed was a-clutter with news that the high school I attended in Alabama was closing its doors for good. I have quite a few FB friends from high school so the majority of the posts were all about how sad everyone was, how grateful they were to have gone to school there, their love for the teachers, what great memories ( Read more... )

You guys, it's been TWO YEARS since I've seen a movie in a theater.  Holy cow.
Anyways, these are the trailers that I saw.

• Pixels. Can't stand half the guys in this movie (except Dinklage; he's cool), so I'm sort of rooting for the video games to win.
• Jurassic World. Looks cool, but I'm sure I'll wait until it's online.
• The Transporter: Refueled. ( Read more... )

I was having a conversation the other day with a friend and we got onto the topic of books. I had rated a book on Goodreads recently and she was curious as to why I did so now even though I had read the book in my youth. I wasn’t sure what she was getting at so she explained. She didn’t think I should rate a book now that I’d read a while ago ( Read more... )

I thought I'd do a quick update on all the books I've been reading, using the PopSugar Book Challenge as a guideline. I'm finding books to read and then seeing if they fit into any of the categories. If I can't find a book that fits a category or vice versa, no big deal.
Enjoy
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I know, it's not Wednesday. I forgot about it so I'm doing this today. I mean, technically, I could've retroactively posted this, but I didn't feel like it.

Devious, adjective: showing a skillful use of underhanded tactics to achieve goals; (of a route or journey) longer and less direct than the most straightforward way.

Frown, verb [no object] ( Read more... )

Back when my family first moved to Huntsville in 1988, there was only one Chinese food restaurant in town (that I knew of; there might have been more but I only knew of the one because we ate there when we first moved to town and didn't have housing yet). During my subsequent years in town, a few more Asian places opened up but they were few and ( Read more... )

Desire, noun: a strong feeling of wanting to have something or wishing for something to happen: [with infinitive]; strong sexual feeling or appetite; verb [with object]: strongly wish for or want (something); want (someone) sexually.

Shiver, verb [no object] (of a person or animal) shake slightly and uncontrollably as a result of being cold, ( Read more... )

I recently read a book called Velva Jeans Learns To Drive by Jennifer Niven. It's the first book in a four-part series about a girl named --wait for it-- Velva Jean. In the events of this first book, it takes us from Velva Jean at age 10 to age 18 (*spoiler alert* She doesn't learn to drive until almost the end of the book) and her life living in ( Read more... )

This post isn't going to have any sort of form to it. It's really more just me putting down some thoughts about this book challenge thing.

I'm only using the list as a guideline because there's no way that I'm going to hit every item. A few because I don't want to, a few because it might not be possible.

• Memoir and Nonfiction. I dislike both ( Read more... )

At some point in January, the PopSugar website put up a reading challenge for 2015 ( Read more... )