I love the smell of used books!

I have decided that the current "25 things" post floating around has been incredibly fun. I love the little things I learn about people. also enjoy the giggling about the ones I already knew :) sooo... as I love opening my blogs with a consistent theme (my old blog opened with lyrics), I have decided to now open my new blogs with 5 random facts. I hope you enjoy them.

1. (I feel so strongly about I used it as my title). I LOVE THE SMELL OF USED BOOKS. I could play in a bookstore for HOURS.
2. I once had a senior year break down and spent an entire day locked up in my room. I watched tv on dvd. I ate. I learned the choreography to Britney Spears "you drive me crazy". I was then informed "bri.... you REALLY need to leave this room".
3. I love planning trips so much that I have even planned one I never will take. A summer tour of european festivals. From bastille day to the tomatina to the puck fair in ireland (cause who doesnt want to see a goat crowned?).
4. I tend to use the same topic/gimmick for awhile to make my kids laugh. Currently it has to do with hippos in tutus.
5. If James ever picks on me for wanting chocolate or waffles, I tell him it's in my blood (im belgian).


I have finally formed the great reding list for 2009. Im sure it will change a bit, but I will try to stick to/complete it!
(those already completed are in bold. Currently reading in Italics)

Slam
Me talk pretty one day
Report from a Parisian Paradise
Three cups of tea
The Secret Garden
The winter of our discontent
Chuck Klosterman IV
Utopia
House of San & Fog
A million little pieces
Love in the time of Cholera
Atonement-
The Catcher in the Rye
Sherlock Holmes
Alice in Wonderland
Memoirs of a geisha
Wuthering heights
Extremely loud and incredibly close


YAY!! Feel free to recommend more

Hello world!

So I have not been updating much... here is a quick update

1. I saw Bond over the weekend. YUM. I mean, talented. Very... talented. mmmmmmm.
2. My website is finally up! www.labohemephotography.com. Tell your friends to use me for their weddings. :)
3. I find out this week if I get a promotion at work. Im honestly ok either way, I just want to know!!!
4. My shows are about to go on hiatus... but when they return, they bring friends! Yay LOST and scrubs!
5. I have been sick A LOT lately. It's pretty ridiculous.
6. I got to spend 4 days straight with James. yay yay yay. Im sad that thanksgiving weekend is over and we are back to our opposite schedules. sadness. sigh.
7. We have a chunk of our living room wall ripped out. Ahhhhh flooding.
8. The fog is rolling in. I LOVE IT.
9. I desperately want chocolate chip cookies right now. sigh.
10. I need sleep.

sums it up for now.

my new curse

Getting the ends of books given away...


I wont lie... the Harry Potter thing scarred me. Tonight's was not so bad, but still a bummer. I have been reading Anna Karenina for some time now (the book is thick), and was just noting last night how excited I am to be nearing the end. Tonight, I was watching Gilmore Girls while editing, totally tuning out... then tune in just to hear them discussing the ending!!!!

Geez.

I hope everyone had a good Thanksgiving!!!!! I will post more happy thoughts soon. hehe.

Music to my ears

CD's I desperately want but can't afford:

Ingrid Michaelson - Be Ok
Ray Lamontagne - Gossip in the Grain
Keane - Perfect Symmetry
Copeland - you are my sunshine
Nikka Costa - Pebble to a pearl
Jason Mraz- we sing we dance we steal things
Muse - absolution
The hotel cafe presents winter songs


I dont know why I even look in my itunes store. sigh.

Entertainment tonight

Here is what has been keeping me entertained as of late...

Literature:
Here is the most recent update on my 2008 reading list...

Completed:
Angela's Ashes
Killing yourself to live
Wicked
High Fidelity (reread)
A Thousand splendid suns
Chronicles of Narnia 4-7 (Prince Caspian, Voyage of the Dawn treader, silver chair, last battle)
1984
Kabul
Catch me if you can (reread)
Grapes of Wrath
East of Eden (sooooooooooooooo good)

Currently reading:
Anna Karenina

Upcoming:
3 cups of tea
The Secret Garden (reread, but I barely remember it from my childhood)
The Canal House



Music:
I had forgotten how much I enjoy feeling a bass drum as if it were beating deep in my own heart. While I have never stopped enjoying live music, I have not been able to partake in it much in the recent year, and have felt my passion for it dwindle. I find it fitting that I could feel the love of a live band come back alive in me while enjoying a small and barely known group called Enation. I saw them with friends at the Whisky a go-go. While I enjoy their cd, their performance was incredible. It wasn't a high energy "show", but rather this intriguing intensity given off by the singer. Stephanie described him best with her comparison to Jeremy Enigk... something about the way he sang forced you to just stop, look, and listen.
Glorious. I was mesmerized.



TV:
Here is what I'm watching:
Heroes (sylar. david anders. plots becoming enjoyable again. so happy), OTH (laugh all you want, it is fantastical), Gossip Girl (oh manhattan), LIpstick Jungle (I wouldnt compare it to Sex and the City, but I like it), The Office (what needs to be said), Greys (has potential to be good again, but I need them to prove it).
I mostly just watch online. I still miss my tivo

Film:
Wait... are there movies being made still? I never get to go anymore. SO sad. I need to utilize netflix more.

So there we go.

oh... and how could I forget my greatest form of entertainment




we are fun :)

stroke of genius

The music and mac nerds inside of me have gotten together for a play date, eaten lots of sugar, jumped on the beds, and are currently outside shaving the neighbors cat.

but perhaps I should explain myself...

For those of you who have installed the newest Itunes update, I hope you are taking advantage of the newest addition... the "Genius". I guarentee itunes will now be my closest and most trusted mix making cohort. I can see exactly what they are doing... another "genius" plan to take my money, $1.99 at a time... but I am not insulted, instead I applaud them. 

Guilty Pleasures

2 of my shows have returned.

hoorah.

2 more weeks til their friends join them

Cake... or death?

Last night I took James to see our favorite comedian, Eddie Izzard. Here's to smart comedy!

While he was an "off duty" transvestite this time around, we were still able to enjoy what I consider to be the most brilliant case of ADD ever. Or at least that's how he plays it off,  but you know they must be worked in at times as even his tangents are fantastically brilliant.  He is someone you would want to have over to your parties to tell crazy stories, and I love how conversational he is... his audience interactions were classic. I feel like if I ran into him on the street, I could invite him for dinner and not even be nervous. Man. That would be the greatest night ever.  Would it be too much to offer him cake? Probably... 

He claims to build more of his script on the information he gleans from the history channel, the discovery channel, and wikipedia (and would read to us from wikipedia on his iphone). He covered many important topics, such as dinosaurs, religion, dinosaur religion, language, scrabble (wee), creation, and an angry squirrel.  His comments about the upcoming election and being embarassed to admit you are American while traveling were hilariously truthful. I will also never see Bush now without thinking of Homer's dancing monkey.

If you have yet to experience the glorious cult of Izzard, and consider yourself to be:

  a) someone who is at least remotely intellectual

  b) someone who like to laugh

 

then head to netflix.com, your local video store, youtube (if you have patience) or my apartment, and watch Dressed to Kill.  Preferably with a cupcake.

My bookmark has traveled more then I have this year...

So here is where I am on my 2008 reading list...  I tend to switch things up as I go, but Im happy to be reading so much again!   Im trying to get the books from the library and not buy (saving money), so I occassionally reread a favorite novel while waiting for other books.

Completed:

Angela's Ashes

Killing yourself to live

Wicked

High Fidelity (reread)

A Thousand splendid suns

Chronicles of Narnia 4-7 (Prince Caspian, Voyage of the Dawn treader, silver chair, last battle)

1984

Kabul

In the middle:

Catch me if you can (reread)

Grapes of Wrath

Upcoming:

East of Eden

3 cups of tea

The Secret Garden (reread, but I barely remember it from my childhood)

The Canal House

Anna Karenina

I already have 14 listed for 2009. hehe.  *Sigh*   I love reading