Life of a Random

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...

I discovered this questionnaire at Cait and Mime's blog The Notebook Sisters , where I learned that the origin of these questions is most likely here . Thanks for bringing this awesomesauce questionnaire to my attention, Notebook Sisters! You guys need to check out their post . It's hilarious. I'm going to follow their lead because fifty-five questions is WAY too many to post at one time. So here's the first half... *drumroll* 1. Favourite childhood book: Unfortunately, I don't remember childhood reading too well. :/ But probably, all the horse books by Marguerite Henry and the American Girl books, especially the Kit Kittredge ones. :)  2. What are you reading right now? I'm in between books! So nothing right now. Even though I have a Mount Everest of books waiting to be read. 3. What books do you have on request at the library? Rebel Belle by Rachel Hawkins and Splintered by A.G. Howard. I've heard they're good. ;) 4. Bad book habi...

I know I'm not doing a very good job of getting back into the blogging groove yet, but I've had some very busy times attending something called SOAR (freshman/first year of college orientation). SO, many apologies! And because this is only my first day back from an exhausting two-day thingamajigger, I'm going to do a link-up called Beautiful People hosted by Sky @ Further Up and Further In and Cait @ Notebook Sisters . In this meme, the participants answer ten interview questions in order to learn more about one of their characters. Tansie @ Totally Tansie (aka my sister) did this recently and wanted me to do it extremely badly because I'm a bad writer and never finish any of the stories she wants to read. Sorry. note: since this whole thing is supposed to help us learn about our characters...I may be making up some things as I go. ;) 1. What is their full name and is there a story behind why they got it? Clio Leopar. Her last name is Leopar becaus...

Like they always do, the Notebook Sisters have brought us another delicious tag that I had to participate in. Hope you enjoy! And go check out their take on the tag here and the rules and linky thing here (you only have a little over a day to join in :P). The Questions: 1. Just Alice: What book cover(s) has made you super curious? This cover is just so vivid and colorful and unique that it's practically irresistible. LOOK AT IT.  This. *muffled screech* I could look at this all day. The colors are so intense. But, what makes it even more curiosity-inducing is that bubble around the city and the cracked, dry ground outside.  I'll probably mention colors a lot. Those are what catch my eye first, like contrast or blending. And the clock imbedded in the cobblestone (I love cobblestone) is glowing and ugh. No resistance here.  The amazing painted cover coupled with the title just grabbed at me so hard that I bought this one. I was crossin...

The scarf post is coming soon. Just wait, it'll be awesome. I hope. Have you ever made fun of ridiculous movie posters or...hm...book covers? Yeah, I have too. And the Notebook Sisters are turning it into a linkup! Mind readers. It has to be.  Rules are: 1) Pick 5 to 10 book covers and give a funny/sarcastic/ingenious interpretation of what they could be saying. {and apparently we're not supposed to be mean} 2) Add the blog button to your post or leave a link to THIS post {referring to notebook sisters' post} 3) Add your direct URL to the linkup below (so we can enjoy all your funniness) 4) Be unconditionally awesome {well, that one's easy} Check out the original post and the few examples given on the linkup post . They are hilariously funny :) "The flower and the baseball lived happily ever after. The perfect couple." "I know where you live, I know what you eat for breakfast. I know everything ." ...

Just a quick note before I start my first ever linkup (eek!): my blog set up has changed, as you already know, and some of the stuff like my profile, the followers + following widget, and subscription have "disappeared". Well, they haven't. If you look to the right of this page you will see what looks like the edge of some dark gray tabs sticking a millimeter out of the side of the page. If you pass over them with your pointer, they will expand and reveal those pesky things. Sorry about that, it's so annoying. On to the linkup! Cait and Mime from Notebook Sisters are hosting a linkup  for writers and  readers. And the questions look really fun. I will only be doing the questions for readers... (my collection of book beginnings is pathetic). Here we go... *wipes sweat off forehead* Questions for Bookworms 1. What was your overall favorite book this year? (Yes. Pick one .) Well that is extremely impossible. Hm. Gosh, this is really dif...