Life of a Random

Aaaaand we're back with the February section of the Book Blogger Organization Challenge  hosted by Brittany at The Book Addicts Guide . I need organization in my life and my blog ( lots of it ), so I'm loving how this challenge gives me specific goals without strict deadlines hanging above my head. You can click here to read my January post . :) You might remember the objectives I challenged myself with in January, some of which I did and...some that I wasn't able to do. It is now time for a whole new set of challenges. *dramatic jazz hands* This month's focus: Blog Maintenance This month's Twitter hashtag: #BlogOrganization my goals tbr On another note, I'm still looking for people to guest post for Life of a Random sooo if you're interested don't be shy. :)

Let me just say right now that this post is going to be pretty  long. After all, it IS a recap post and I always get long-winded on those. ;) But I hope you like it! (Let me know if you think this should be a thing) I also just want to mention that I did a guest review for Kate  @The Magic Violinist and you should maybe probably totally go check it out. *grins* favorite book quotes "We don't get to choose who we love. Or stop loving them when they're difficult."   {born wicked by jessica spotswood} "Laugh it up," she told him, "but the thing is, I hadn't known myself at all until I went away. I knew how Nicole and Amber saw me. And Lucien and the Spider and all the others-- they're afraid of you, so they figure you must be pretty awful indeed. They think you can't feel anything, because they've forgotten how. You're very, very dangerous, I get that, and you're prone to some very theatrical brooding, but don't le...

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...

It's a new year! I've always loved the first day of things, like the first day of school (because there's no homework yet and there are pretty school supplies to organize) and... the first day of the year. So I devote this whole entire post to talking all about my plans for 2015. WAHOO. It wouldn't be a new year if I didn't make a list of resolutions so I decided to make a regular one and use a bookish one I found on Pinterest. :) Take a picture every day for a year.  Try something (big or small) that I've never tried before.  Finish a writing project.  Exercise more (HAHA. But I thought I'd try.) Grow closer to God.  Get straight A's.  Learn how to do more types of art.  (or challenge) A book with more than 500 pages.  A classic romance.  A book that became a movie.  A book published this year.  A book with a number in its title.  A book written by someone under 30.  A book with nonhuman chara...