366: 1-7

Apparently I only wrote 15 posts in 2011…it’s called life my friends…and I was enjoying it.

So to start anew in 2012 I’ve decided to tackle a little photo project.  One photo each day for 366 days (leap year bonus!).  I’ve been wanting to take this on since I started following Terese’s 365 posts …here’s hoping I stick to it.  I don’t have a fancy smart phone (I know…shocking) so the basic goal of this project is to force myself to use my big girl camera…and hopefully learn more about it in the process.

So here we go…Days 1-7

Jan 1 - Bedside reads...The Midwife’s Confession* and Your Camera Loves You

Jan 2 – Sewing – ruffle apron #2

Jan 3 – Putting away Christmas

Jan 4 – I realize everyone and their dog has been playing Words With Friends for a while now…thanks to my new Kindle I can now join the fun

 

Jan 5 – My 5am BFFs

Jan 6 – It was late…Mini was tired

Jan 7 – After a very dry December…finally some snow.

*Finished this book and really liked it…in case anyone was wondering.

Water for Elephants=good

I finished Water for Elephants…and it was really good.  Maybe its b/c it was only like 330 pages…but I’m pretty sure this is the fastest I’ve ever read a book…even HP #7.  Now without giving too much away…it involves the circus (circa the depression era) and animals…and a love story (duh).  Some parts are hard to read…esp if you are an animal lover…but it is what it is and from what I gather Sara Gruen wrote the book after doing tons and tons of research on the traveling circus life and so its pretty darn accurate as to how things were.  Now I’m not a big circus person..and you don’t have to be to get into this book…its actually quite educational and entertaining at the same time…it gets you right from the beginning with a murder (this really isn’t giving much away…but now you want to read it don’t ya??)…..and the rest of the book you want to find out how/who/what exactly happened.  Anyways…if you’ve seen or heard about this book and have the slightest tiniest interest in it….I say read it!

I saw this series of pics over on Style Me Pretty…and to me this screams Marlena & Jacob….(from the book!)

Up next on my reading list…Wicked.  For some reason going from one book to the next is a weird adjustment for me…this book is completely different and I’m only about 15 pages in and I have NO IDEA what is going on…I seriously hope it gets better as I’m sure it will…I swear i need a dictionary on hand while I’m reading it…

A couple other books on the reading list for this summer are… “The Time Traveler’s Wife”, “The Memory Keeper’s Daugher”…and maybe “Kite Runner”…. oh and I still need to finish “Dewey”…for some reason this book has lost my interest which is weird b/c its about a cute orange tabby cat in Iowa….i love cats!