I need to do better

I got married. I should update more often but I've been a little crazy lately. Life is good and promises to get better. I've been able to cook and bake and knit like mad and have a very supportive hubby. I just love my husband and our cute apartment that feels more like a home every day.

bleh

Well for one I'm engaged to be married on June 12th. A month and two days away. We'll be living in Henry County in a cute apartment while we get some debt paid off and then start to save a good down payment for a house. We met not long after my last post. Yeah it happened fast but I knew very early in our relationship that Curtis is the one for me. So ready for the wedding to be here and I'm sure I'll have more pictures to post later.

Back after being gone too long.

Wow..... I didn't realize I had been gone so long. Over a year. How negligent am I. Well, I guess it's time for a short update. I'm teaching at NCC this year, teaching World Geography. I have about 30 students all in high school. It's been a great learning opportunity. I am still working at Barnes and Noble and while I still enjoy that job I'm looking to move on to something different.

Still reading too much. Some things never change. Still watch too many movies. I got a Kindle 2 to hopefully keep me from having to line my entire room in bookshelves. So far I love it very much. It's a cool device and let's me take my own personal library everywhere with me.

I don't have a whole lot to say on here right now.... maybe I will later. I don't think I'll use this for kitting as much as I have in the past. Some knitting but not all knitting.

We'll see if I can commit this time. Most likely not.

Book Recommendations

I've been working in a bookstore too long. I'm always recommending books to customers. So today for a blog post I'm listing a bunch of books that I recommend. They aren't linked but you'll be able to find them at BN.com.

-The Twilight Series by Stephanie Meyer. (all three books)
-A Great and Terrible Beauty by Libba Bray
-All of Jane Austen's works (most especially Pride and Prejudice)
-The Chronicles of Narnia by C.S. Lewis
-Something Wicked This Way Comes by Ray Bradbury
-The Anne of Green Gables series by L.M. Montgomery
-Little Women by Louisa May Alcott
-The Luxe by Anna Godbersen
-Escape by Carolyn Jessop
-Shattered Dreams by Irene Spencer
-The Death of Vishnu by Manil Suri
-Devil in the White City Erik Larson
-Guns Germs and Steel by Jared Diamond
-Confessions of a Recovering Slut by Hollis Gillespie
-The Complete Persepolis by Marjane Satrapi
-Truman by David McCullough
-The Jesus of Suburbia by Mike Erre
-Everything Must Change by Brian D. McLaren
-Velvet Elvis by Rob Bell
-Kabul Beauty School by Deborah Rodriguez
-Well Behaved Women Seldom Make History by Laurel Thatcher Ulrich
-Through Women's Eyes by Ellen Carol DuBois
-Midnight in the Garden of Good and Evil by John Berendt
-Jane Eyre by Charlotte Bronte (I STRONGLY recommend finding the illustrated edition)
-The Second Sex by Simone de Beauvoir
-Nightwatch series by Sergel Lukianeko
-The Beauty Myth by Naomi Wolf
-Gangs of New York by Herbert Asbury
-The Life of Elizabeth I by Allison Weir
-Eleanor of Aquitaine by Allison Weir
-The Dexter Books by Jeff Lindsay
-World War Z by Max Brooks
-Sex, Drugs, and Cocoa Puffs by Chuck Klosterman
-Catherine the Great: Love, Sex, and Power by Virginia Rounding
-Revolution of their Own by Barbara Alpern Engel
-Skippyjon Jones books by Judy Schachner
-The Uglies Series by Scott Westerfeld
-Smashed by Koren Zailckas


Well that's all I have for now. It's a somewhat random collection of books. Some biographies, feminism, fiction, history, spirituality. Fun Stuff. Not everything but just some of what I can think of right now.

Why?

...beause I'm lame. That's why. I've gotten quite lazy and haven't been keep up with this like I should be. What can I say. I have commitment issues. I haven't been totally idle though.

This is finished a whole lot more than it looks. I'll put the finished project up soon. Can anyone guess where I'm going with this?


Also, I am working on this for my grandmother. It's kind of 1/4 of the way through.


This is my lace shawl that I got the pattern from Vogue Knitting. It's not very far along because it's VERY tedious. Very pretty though.


To end this short blog. A picture of my dog. I love my dog. He's awesome even when he pouts.