Janet Evanovich: Stephanie Plum Series

I have been reading the witty Stephanie Plum series for the past 3 months now.  I finished reading them this weekend.  There are a total of 18 books and the 19th book comes out in November.  I will definitely pre-order it!!

The books are about a girl named Stephanie who is a bounty hunter with lots of attitude.  She is quite possibly the worst bouny hunter in the Trenton area.  She makes captures off of luck and just the simple fact that all of her FTA's are caught by suprise by whatever crazy thing Stephanie ends up doing.  Her cars are always getting blown up, wrecked, or stolen. 

She is in the middle of the longest lasting love triangle ever.  Either guy would be a great pick.  Morelli, her on-again, off again boyfriend is more husband material.  Ranger, her mentor and sometimes lover, is very mysterious but lots of fun! (I'm definitely leaning towards team Ranger, especially after Smokin Seventeen!!)  Her partner in crime is a previous ho named Lula.  Lula is quite the character and you will literally laugh out loud at the things that come out of her mouth!

These books are great!  If you haven't read them then you need to go out there and purchase the first book, but beware.... They are addicting!!





Three Things Thursday

1.  I know I haven't blogged in over a month!  I just get soooo busy and tend to put things on the back burner for later.  I have been working on our house and the more I work on it, the more I feel like that I am not getting anything done!  Very annoying and frustrating.  BUT when I step back and think about what the house looked like just 4 weeks ago, I notice how far we have actually come.  My mom bought this beautiful potted plant/flower for our front porch.  Let's just say that I am the opposite of a green thumb.  I did everything that I was told to do to take care of it AND I followed the directions that came with it, but somehow still ended up killing it.  Maybe one day I will be good at taking care of plants....


2.  It seems like everyone around me is having a baby or getting preggo!! I for one am not ready for that and am staying away from new borns for the time being.... I know you can't really get baby cuties, but I just don't want to take the chance! haha People keep asking me if I have baby fever and no, no I don't. I'm not sure if I will actually ever have "baby fever" I get PUPPY fever! :) This past weekend Tanner and I added to our family, a baby laboykin. He is a lab and boykin mix and just has the cutest personality! We made a decision that Max would be our last animal addition to the family. Living in the city has its limits and we just don't have enough room for any more animals! Well....maybe a bird or fish...? I'm just kidding!



3.  Is it really June?? Man has this year gone by fast!  I guess with all the excitement of being a newly wed, being promoted and purchasing a new home has just made this year fly by.  Next month will be a year that Tanner and I have been married! CRAZY!  People always say that the first year of marriage is the hardest.  Well I'll tell you what I have learned... Yes it is hard, BUT you just have to learn to ignore things.  Like the fact that that your significant other throws his clothes on the floor.... not even a foot from the laundry basket.  I mean come on, just sneeze and your clothes will make it into the basket.  But instead of starting an unnecessary argument over nothing, just let it roll.  Save your energy to argue about the more important things! haha!!  I'm just kidding.  Try your best not to argue but instead have a conversation.


I hope everyone has a marvelous Thursday!!

Bucket List

I MARKED ONE OFF THE LIST!

Get busy living or get busy dying!

Here's my list! I will continue to add things!
Items that are scratched out have already been done.



Go to Australia
Ride in a hot air balloon
See the northern lights
Ice skate at the Rockefeller Center
Go whale-watching
Visit Alaska
Marry my best friend
Be a spectator at a Cirque du Soleil
Go on a safari
Run a marathon
Become an early riser







Go to a Boston Red Sox game
Attend a murder mystery dinner
Go deep sea fishing
Learn to salsa dance
Take a self-defense class
See Macy's 4th of July Spectacular live
Go on a helicoptor ride
Drive down Route 66
Become a home owner
Learn to say "no" without feeling guilty







See the pyramids in Egypt
Visit the four corners
Learn to play poker
Have a house with a wrap around porch
Take up yoga
Go to the winter Olympics
Climb Mt. Kilimanjaro
Take a photo a day for a year
Dive the Great Barrier Reef

Swim with dolphins
Ride a segway
Shoot my own Thanksgiving turkey
Build something
Go to Bora Bora
Witness a meteor shower
Adopt a pet from the animal shelter
Hike the Inca Trail

Manic Monday: Weekend Recap

FRIDAY:
- We bought a house!!!
- I signed ALL the papers wrong... so now I have to sign them all over
- We celebrated at Rodeo with the whole family
- We moved furniture until 3:00 in the morning....

 

SATURDAY:
- We slept in!
- We finished moving the furniture
- We bought a new trash can and got the smell good trash bags.  I'm never using regular trash bags again!
- We found out that the light in the master bedroom doesn't work
- We worked on the kitchen
- We set up the washer and dryer

SUNDAY:
- We had a blow out.  Very scary!
- We went shopping!



One of my most favorite items that we purchased was a blue chair.  It is so comfortable!  This picture is not the exact chair but it is very similar.  Isn't it cute?!

Three Things Thursday: The Lucky One

If you have seen the Lucky One then you know that it is a good movie.  If you have read the book then you know that the movie was VERY disappointing!  Regardless, there are still some quotes from the Lucky One that I loved!

1. "Finding something like that, in a war, is like finding an angel in hell."- Logan

2.  "You should be kissed everyday, every hour, every minute."- Logan

3.  "Sometimes the most ordinary things could be made extraordinary, simply by doing them with the right people."- Elizabeth Green 'Beth' (quote from the book!)

Manic Monday

So today was supposed to be the day that we close on our house.... But we aren't getting to do that! I am so very disappointed.  Apparently something was wrong with the appraisal.  I don't exactly know what is going on which is extremely frustrating.  Best case scenario, we will be able to close by the end of the week.

Tanner will be turning 23 next Tuesday.  He has been wanting a Playstation 3 ever since our xBox 360 died.  So after continuously giving me those puppy dog eyes, I gave in and we went and got him one.  We always end up celebrating his birthday early!  I even got a controller so I can play with him.  This weekend he taught me how to play Call of Duty and some boxing game that I can't remember the name of.  I enjoyed playing Call of Duty with him, especially the very few times that I was able to sneak up on him and shoot him instead of him always shooting me!  I have to work on my aim, but I will make a come back :)

Three Things Thursday: Things I Onced Believed

I once believed.....

- that glow in the dark football was the most fun game ever! (I still believe it is pretty fun!)

- that Aladdin was my boyfriend.

- that if I couldn't see you, then you couldn't see me.

Wordless Wednesday

Night Night Black Jack!

Friday Fab: DVD Book Binder

I'm sure that there are many people out there that have a HUGE DVD collection.  We are included in that group.  Tanner and I have always had a lot movies.  Once we got married, we combined our movies and ran out of room on our big book shelf.  We had to start stacking them on top of each other! I have all the movies in alphabetical order, some call it OCD, I call it organized!  Everyday, I walk past the book shelf and just think about how ugly it looks having all of those movies just out in open like that.  Now that we are moving, I refuse to keep the same system that we have now.  I looked into DVD cabinets, but they were all so bulky and took up extra space.  I was at the point where I was just ready to get rid of all our movies.  BUT that would be a problem because we love movies!!  We are not very big TV watchers, and now that One Tree Hill is off the air, I don't have anything to watch.

Then, I found the most FABULOUS thing.... DVD Book Binders!  You take all the movies out of those chunky cases and put them in a binder, but the binder looks like a book.  So neat and way more cute for decorating purposes!!

My Bucket List:

Get busy living or get busy dying!

Here's my list!  I will continue to add things!
Items that are scratched out have already been done.



Go to Australia
Ride in a hot air balloon
See the northern lights
Ice skate at the Rockefeller Center
Go whale-watching
Visit Alaska
Marry my best friend
Be a spectator at a Cirque du Soleil
Go on a safari
Run a marathon
Become an early riser







 Go to a Boston Red Sox game
Attend a murder mystery dinner
Go deep sea fishing
Learn to salsa dance
Take a self-defense class
See Macy's 4th of July Spectacular live
Go on a helicoptor ride
Drive down Route 66
Become a home owner
Learn to say "no" without feeling guilty







See the pyramids in Egypt
Visit the four corners
Learn to play poker
Have a house with a wrap around porch
Take up yoga
Go to the winter Olympics
Climb Mt. Kilimanjaro
Take a photo a day for a year
Dive the Great Barrier Reef

Swim with dolphins
Ride a segway
Shoot my own Thanksgiving turkey
Build something
Go to Bora Bora
Witness a meteor shower
Adopt a pet from the animal shelter
Hike the Inca Trail