Goodies

Some of my treats I ordered have turned up yay, 4 more to go!
I sure do love a package in the post.

Lots to watch, listen to and read this weekend.

Goodies in the post for Me :)

Still waiting on 2 packages.
Oh well at least I have some films to keep my occupied hehe.

I get my hippy haircut tomorrow yay, I sure do hope it goes well.

Have a lovely weekend :)

Just finished

...reading this:

I thoroughly enjoyed reading this book. I didn't want to put it down. Although its only short (231 pages) I read it over quite a long period of time (I read it during lunch breaks and what not) but it was easy to get back into each time.

If you've ever felt a little "different" then I strongly recommend this book.

"I guess we are who we are for a lot of reasons. And maybe we'll never know most of them. But even if we don't have the power to choose where we come from, we can still choose where we go from there."

Geekoid

I'm not ashamed to admit that I'm a bit of a geek. Many things make up said geekiness.
One part of this is .........I'm 26 and I enjoy the Twilight Saga. I'm not a crazy obsessed fan (although my bf has brought me a Tshirt and an Edward "action figure"- but that was his choice not mine) but I really enjoyed the books and the first movie, the second movie not so much (I think mainly I had built it up so much in my mind that I was disappointed....... it also didn't help the cinema was filled with teenage girls screaming whenever Ed or Jacob came on.) I'm looking forward to Eclipse but I'm probably going to try and go to an 18+ viewing of it.
Well to get to my actual point of this post, there's this new spin off book, The Second Short Life of Bree Tanner.


I contemplated pre-ordering/buying it but thought about the cost and the fact that it's not really got the main Twilight characters in it, so couldn't be bothered, although I did keep checking to see if the price had gone down. Well anyway yesterday I discovered that you can read it online for FREE until the 5th of July. So that's what I've been doing, it's not a long book ... I think only 178 pages and I'm about 100 in so far. I'm super pleased I discovered it, as it cures my curiosity about the book and saves me some cash. So I thought I'd share this info with others who may also be curious (perhaps I'm the last to know!?!) but yes if you'd like to read the book for free, just click on the picture above and it will take you to the website!


Now I would also like to point out as a side note, that I believe my enjoyment of Twilight (and in fact most vampire films/programmes etc) stems from my love of the Buffy & Angel series. Yes I know it's "so like 10 years ago!" but I would still put them down as my favourite TV shows on a questionnaire hehe. My best friend and I loved those shows so much and often over a cocktail still discuss them.
Yes my green tea this morning was sipped from a Buffy mug - which originally had come with an Easter egg - thanks mum :)
Yes I brought the boxsets on vhs when they cost about £30 a go (that's 11 for Buffy and I think 11 for angel - that was a ton of money for a teenager that wasn't working).
Yes I own annuals, books, tshirt and even a bracelet I think.
I obviously no longer wear such things.......my Buffy tshirt did look delightful with my pink dog collar back in the day (CRINGE- remember it was 10 years ago!!!).
But yes I love me some Buffy and Angel, my love of those shows has lead me to like Twilight and True Blood (Can't wait for season 3!!!- and this is totally not teeny) I also have taken to watching Vampire Diaries which is bad....but good, I'm easily sucked (har-di-har) in!
I think the main reason for humiliating myself with that bit of info is that I'd like to point out I'm an "old school" teen vampire fan. It feels wrong to enjoy things at 26 that are aimed at 16 year olds, so to make myself feel better I know it all really started when I was 16, and the fact that I know I'm not alone; even if it's just me and my best friend that are old but still like the teen vampire silliness.

EDIT- I don't know how blogger works, but every time you edit a post and then click publish does it show in the blogger buzz again. I swear I checked this post like 5 times before publishing it, yet there were still errors, grr it bugs me. So sorry if this is in your feed like 5 times hehe!

Things to look forward to: June

There are a few things I'm looking forward to this month:

The local(ish) horse sanctuary are having another open day. I'm hoping I can make my Bf go there again. It was a really nice day out before not only were there horses but lots of people brought their dogs, and I'm a total softy for a pooch.

The new Charlaine Harris book is coming out (it wont look like this but I couldn't find a pic of the UK release). Yay! They're super addictive although I did read the previous 9 consecutively, so hopefully I'll still be able to get into this one as easily. Equally as exciting.....

Season 3 starts this month! I'm so friggin excited about this it's untrue. As the UK has to wait for way too long for these programmes to come on to our screens, I'm going to geek it up online. The only problem is with shows I like I enjoy devouring the whole series in 1 or 2 sittings, so it's going to be hard waiting a week in between each one.....life is cruel sometimes hehe.

Hopefully I'll be going to the cinema to see this. I loved the show and the first movie was great, I hope the 2nd one will be just as good. However the posters for this movie are awful, someone has gone a little photoshop happy and morphed everyone beyond recognition.

One of my favourite bands have a new album out this month. Again I'm really excited about this. I've pre-ordered it and a limited amount have been signed by the band so fingers crossed I snag one of those.

Lastly that very same band are touring, so I have gig no.3 to look forward to this month. This band are awesome live, they're super funny and are always amazing. I've been to the venue once before and I can't wait to see them play there. The venue is so small so where ever I stand I'll get a great view (this is often a problem for someone who's 5'2) and hopefully some great pictures too. I've sold a bunch of bits on ebay so I'll have spending money, their merchandise is usually amazing so I'm making sure I have plenty of funds to buy lots.

Lots of things to look forward to this month, hopefully it all goes to plan :)



Things I'm not looking forward to:
*2yrs since my Dad passed away - It's not getting easier
*Yet more job rejections and thus more trips to the job centre