Life of a Random

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...

Before I get into the main part of this post, I'd just like to say that "white chocolate" appeared in the keywords that people have used to find my blog. Um, yes. That is fabulous. I love this person. Let's be honest here, the only search word better than this would be "milk chocolate." (Don't argue.) ~~~ I was wondering what to write today....and I really wasn't producing any interesting, fun ideas. At all. So I googled and found a list of topics, one of which was "What You're Addicted to and Why," here . I thought that sounded really fun so I'm stealing it for my blog. :)  Because we all know that as a blogger, I'm gonna have addictions . That's just how it works.  My List of 10 Things I'm Addicted To 1. Social Media + YouTube First, the expected things: Facebook, Twitter, Pinterest, and YouTube. Who doesn't adore these websites. They are literally my life. I check them everyday...

Okay. PANIC TIME. I completely forgot to publish yesterday's post. *begs for mercy* You may or may not have noticed that I started posting on Sundays and Wednesdays. Buuut, yeah, kinda forgot. Oops. In conclusion, once again SORRY and this is my 200th post yay! To All the Boys I've Loved Before  by Jenny Han Publication date: April 15, 2014 Publisher: Simon & Schuster Books for Young Readers Format: hardcover Source: me Pages: 355 To All the Boys I’ve Loved Before is the story of Lara Jean, who has never openly admitted her crushes, but instead wrote each boy a letter about how she felt, sealed it, and hid it in a box under her bed. But one day Lara Jean discovers that somehow her secret box of letters has been mailed, causing all her crushes from her past to confront her about the letters: her first kiss, the boy from summer camp, even her sister's ex-boyfriend, Josh. As she learns to deal with her past loves face to face, Lara Jean discovers that someth...

I got back to college for my second semester on Sunday evening. Today was my first day of classes. And I thought since I never did my whole "Here's my awesome dorm room" post, I'd do it today. Of course, this time around it was way less stressful and lonely and awful. POSITIVE THINGS. YAY. I've started getting hungry a lot faster again though. I'm having trouble keeping up with my stomach here. **I apologize beforehand for the bad quality of the photos. my book case AKA the center of my life I have a book case! Because my parents are fabulous. And my mom has a thing about stuff absolutely having  to go somewhere specific. Psh. On the top is my hotpot (very useful for making essentials like instant noodles and hot chocolate), the first letter of my name made out of a book (A gift from a friend. It has honest to goodness pages inside. I'm not sure whether I should cry with sadness or happiness), and a bin with dishes and snacks that I want e...

Number 9 of my 2015 book challenge is finished! I don't know what I'm going to do when the book requirements get more specific. ;)  Deep Blue by Jennifer Donnelly Publication date: May 6, 2014 Publisher: Disney Press Format: Hardcover Source: library Pages: 340 Deep in the ocean, in a world not so different from our own, live the merpeople. Their communities are spread throughout the oceans, seas, and freshwaters all over the globe. When Serafina, a mermaid of the Mediterranean Sea, awakens on the morning of her betrothal, her biggest worry should be winning the love of handsome Prince Mahdi. And yet Sera finds herself haunted by strange dreams that foretell the return of an ancient evil. Her dark premonitions are confirmed when an assassin's arrow poisons Sera's mother. Now, Serafina must embark on a quest to find the assassin's master and prevent a war between the Mer nations. Led only by her shadowy dreams, Sera searches for five other mermaid her...

Because I already addressed the main topics of this month, I'm just going to be talking about smaller goals that can be finished by the end of January. books to read Since the month is already almost half over, I'm not going to push myself too hard. But I do  want to read the two books below for sure.      Besides both of them counting for my 2015 book challenge, I've wanted to read both for a while and just haven't gotten around to it.  resolutions for the month 1. Create a Goodread's shelf for the books I want to read this year.  2. Set a time to work on blog stuff-- this will be super important to keep up because of school.  3. Write a monthly recap post and continue writing them each month.  things to change I'm not gonna call these resolutions but just things that I want to change in my lifestyle. Last semester was a pretty rough one for me. I ended up with great grades but throughout the semester I didn...

From past experiences with resolutions and to-do lists *cough* failures *cough*, at the beginning of this year I already had decided that I would put a limit on all my goals. I would: 1) Make them manageable. 2) Make them non-intimidating aka stress inducing. 3) Not make many resolutions. However, as I was randomly googling for neat blog tags, I came across something called the Book Blogger Organization Challenge   started by Brittany of The Book Addict's Guide . If there's one thing I need, it's a little organization in my blogging life. And this challenge is perfect because it has good goals but it doesn't have those intimidating specific  deadlines. So I decided to do it! The idea is to organize specific areas of your blogging every month for six months. Here are the "rules" (said exactly as the founder of said project): The Blog Organization Challenge will run from January 1st to June 30th. Participants can join in at any time!  Like I...