Life of a Random

It's that time of the year again. School. (It's actually slightly terrifying that I'm a sophomore already.) Last school year   really messed up my blogging flow. I had been getting into a good rhythm (summer of 2014), but moving to a new college (2 hours away from home I might add) and taking new classes-- It was stressful. And when I’m stressed out about school, reading is the furthest thing from my mind. I’m a nerd like that. But blogging is a huge part of my life. It has been for the past few years. And I don’t want to stop anytime soon. SO, here’s my new plan that I will try my hardest to stick to. It involves a few, small changes. 1. I will now be posting, at the minimum, once a week. Now, if I have time I will try to slip in another post in the middle of the week around… say Wednesday. But that’s not a given. What IS going to happen is that there will be a post on the blog every Sunday. 2. Many of these posts will be pre-written and scheduled. I...

The K-pop concert was only one  of the exciting things I got to do in Chicago. I also met up with Sophia from Ravens and Writing Desks !! It was so much fun and I have pictures. ;) The Saturday after the K-Pop concert, I got up around 7:20 to get ready to meet up with Sophia at 8. The hotel room we stayed in was so. freezing. cold. And the blanket was kind of little for a full or queen or whatever size the bed was. My sister is a blanket-hogger. I never forgive people who steal sleep hours away from me. *villainous cackle* So, I got ready. Got dressed. Sophia and I had already been messaging back and forth, making sure we were still meeting up at the same time and telling each other what we were wearing so we wouldn't accidentally try to hug strangers. Sometimes my brain doesn't process picture to real-life transitions okay. My mom wanted to meet Sophia too so she went down to the hotel lobby with me. And, you know what, it wasn't hard to recognized ...

Obviously, since I've officially finished my first year of college, I am a total pro at this. Obviously. I AM SO EXCITED. I cannot tell you how many times I supremely wanted to curl up in a ball and cry and watch Netflix (at the same time) and not worry about grades. Buuut, I'm poor. And poor people especially have to worry about their grades so. Yeah. The horror story known as finals is over for me. I am currently packing and getting ready to leave for home and summer break. *excited muted screeching noises* My room is very  messy so no pictures. I'm actually not having a complete break. I'll be taking an online class, studying to CLEP a class (Which is taking an exam, and if you pass you get full credit but no grade. Just pass or fail.), and possibly getting a part time job. My car needs some TLC and it'd be nice to pad my account for the coming school year. I've also become kind of almost addicted to the Korean reality show, We Got Married. Whaaaat? ...

Okey-dokey, peoples. Game plan. Here goes.  I don't have everything figured out yet, but I'm going to lay out the basics of a posting plan I hope will work.  1. Hopefully, I will post one or two times per week. Ideally, it will be two-- one review and one "other." But there's no way I can post the way I was last year in summer break while I'm at college. Have I freaked out about the THREE art studio classes I'm taking this spring on here yet?  2. I will be tweaking the blog a tiny bit. Mainly just the tabs/links at the top, just so they'll match the current design.  3. Does anyone feel up to doing a guest post for me?? Or if not, are there any things about my real life that you're curious about? As a book blog (or mainly bookish), I don't touch on that too much but I plan to do way more in the future.  4. I have made an art blog.  This is huge. For me, anyway, because I'm super insecure about my art. Which is ri...

Hey guys! So I have been catching up on sleep and food and other essential things these last few days. FIRST DAYS OF WINTER BREAK. Excuse me while I do a happy dance. That is like one of the only  best things about college that I completely support. But I say that it's deserved because what the heck is a two day long fall break? Okay. I'll stop hating on the system. ;) (For now.) My main purpose right now is to give you a game plan on the future of Life of a Random . This last semester I didn't have any idea how to incorporate blogging into my busy life but that doesn't mean I want to quit at all. It means I'm going to find a way to do blogging anyway. *grins* 1. You can expect regular discussions, reviews, or link-ups starting this next week or sooner. 2. I have LOADS of books to read-- ones I've bought, ones for review, physical ones, e-ARCs. Everything. I'm also planning many trips to the library so: reviews! That also means I'll be pre-writin...

Since I'm planning on coming back in full force on my blog soon (YOU CANNOT STOP ME), Cait's tag celebrating her new blog website Paper Fury  is a perfect post. But before I start talking all about my blog, go check out Cait's! Seriously. She's awesome.  RULES: Grab the set of ten questions, answer them, and use Cait's button or link back to paperfury.com. You can also add your post to her linky if you want. :) 'Bout This Blogger I feel like I've used this before but I can't contain my swag, guys. 1. Why did you start  blogging? Because I wanted to have a way to express my feelings, I guess, of just whatever. At first, I used my blog to just talk about my life or different things I had opinions on. Just the idea that people were seeing my posts, even if it was just 5 views, was an awesome feeling. Especially since they weren't family members ;) 2. What’s the story behind your blog’s name? The story behind my blog's name...

So guys, I'm really embarrassed *hangs head* I haven't been a good blogger at all. I could list a whole sheets of things why  I haven't had time but I think I shall just talk about how that's hopefully going to change. Soon a glorious vacation will arrive called winter break. I have really high hopes for this. *grins* During winter break, figuring out a schedule that works for me and scheduling posts will be high on the priorities list. I've also been thinking about doing vlogs once in a while. I'm gonna try to get at least one post out this week or weekend though, probably a book haul. So, crossed fingers everything works out. Who ever heard of professors handing out homework to be done over Thanksgiving? ;)

This is my first weekend home since I moved to college. I know I haven't been posting regularly with the exception of my Sunday Swoons posts but that's to be expected with the new schedule and everything. So, I have decided to give you the run-down of a tentative new posting schedule. Hopefully it works out...If I make more changes, I'll be sure to let you know about them. My Plan TO TAKE OVER ALL CHOCOLATE RESERVES. Mwuahahahaha.  Eh. Just kidding. (Mostly.) My blogging plan for now is to have posts up for Fridays, Saturdays, and Sundays. Sundays, of course, will be for the Swoons posts or maybe sometimes another post added to that one. Fridays and Saturdays will be for my reviews and discussion posts. This will be what you can expect unless/until I find a better schedule.  One exception to this though is the week of Freshmen Assemble (bloggers going to college) posts that will be going up like I planned before.  I want to thank you all for stickin...

That got your attention didn't it. This is a post that I've been thinking about writing for a long time. It's kind of a introduction post and kind of a clarification post. I want to talk about my name. Around the time I started this blog, I decided to come up with a pen name in case I ever wanted to publish a book under one. Then, because I was paranoid over revealing any real-life information (courtesy of the mom), I decided to use that pen name as my name on Life of a Random too. In other words, Skylar Finn is my pen name and identity in the blogging community. I love it! I probably will write something under it, but...at the same time, I want people to become familiar with my real name too in case I ever publish anything under that or even meet some of you awesome people in real life. My real name is Selena Hughes. I go by Selena to almost everyone I know. No nicknames because...um just because. This brings me to a tricky situation when I do guest posts or ...

Sooo, I got back home last night from a tiny vacation with my family. It was awesome. I had so much fun and I can't wait to go back sometime. But you want details, don't you? Of course, you do. Me and my family went on a two half-day, one night trip to Florida. We hadn't taken a vacation in quite a while and so it was really refreshing and relaxing. And despite my good intentions, I didn't read one page of The Clockwork Prince like I planned to. It happens every time. For some reason, I just don't read on vacations. There's too much to take in and explore! We left early in the morning (around 5:40, I'd say) and drove for around seven to eight hours to Panama City Beach, Florida....which is the actual name of the city and not a beach. As soon as we got there, we changed into our swimsuits in the Burger King restrooms and headed out to the beach. It was beautiful. I've been to the beach in Delaware, which is northeastern America, and the o...