Recommendations for 2010

I'm doing a couple lame posts but whatever. Here are my recs in books and music. I would add movies but as most of you know I don't like movies much. My only rec for that is New Moon lol.

Books

The entire Sookie Stackhouse series by Charlaine Harris
These books are what the hbo series True Blood is based on. Look for a mix of adult love and mystery. Always something going on for the reader to enjoy. I read 8 or 9 of these books in a 3 week period, I couldn't get enough!


Evermore, Blue Moon, and Shadowland (The Immortals) by Alyson Noel
Think Twilight but with a slightly different twist. I picked up Evermore on a whim and fell in love, the book made me cry but want more. Quick reads.

The Host by Stephenie Meyer
Many people overlook this book for a few reasons, A.they are trying to avoid the Twilight craze or B. it isn't Twilight. Well for me it was hard to get into, the first 80ish pages are slow and I actually put it down for a couple months (Edward never appeared so I got mad). When I got back into it I ended up love, love, loving this book. I dare to say this book may have pushed itself ahead of my Twi love. I cried my eyes out during this book too! You will love it I promise!

Witch, and Warrior by Marie Brennan
My friend who was stationed in Iraq sent me these books, I started on Witch and was totally confused to what was going on. I wanted to quit reading it but with the trouble my friend took to send them and my own rule "finish a book before a new one can be started" I kept reading. About 3/4 of the way through the first book I finally got it. With that being said the second book is much easier to read and the story goes a lot faster.

Nightwalker, Dayhunter, and Dawnbreaker (Dark Days series) by Jocelynn Drake Probably my favorite new series! Once again I randomly picked up Dayhunter at the grocery store of all places. I got home and realized there was a book before it so I went and found that one. These books are somewhat like the sookie series except the hot chick is a powerful vampire and not a human. If you pick any of my books to read these are my #1 choice right now.


Kissed by an Angel, the Power of Love, Soulmates by Elizabeth Chandler
I guess these books are rather old (out in 1995) but have been put into one large book. The individual books are only a little over 200 pages so I read one book per night. It's focus is on a high school girl but I feel like those books just work right now. I mean really who doesn't remember being in love in high school and this story brings that back. I also cried in the first and last of these books so be prepared!

Music

Kelly Clarkson - All I Ever Wanted Taylor Swift - Fearless

If you don't have either of these cds something is wrong with you! Both amazing and talented girls with songs that just fit your life, well at least mine!



Paramore - Brand New Eyes
I'm a huge Paramore fan but even critics agreed this cd is awesome. Maybe you haven't gotten into them because it's not main stream radio or because you think it's just for the emo kids, WRONG. Paramore is like No Doubt 2.0 and you might be surprised to how much you like them after listening to Brand New Eyes.



Daughtry - Leave This Town
It's just good from beginning to end. If I can put a cd in and not skip a single song, then they did something right.

Bobby Long - As I have been talking about in my vlog for @whensheisdrunk I just went to a Bobby Long song and fell in love. He co-wrote a song on the Twilight soundtrack "Let Me Sign" sung by Robert Pattinson. He doesn't have any official cds out but you can check out his music atMyspace Bobby Long Music

My life in 2009

This year has been, well fast. I can't believe next week will be 2010! I remember when I was in high school thinking the year my brother would graduate was insanely long away, it was 2006! But seriously this year was great for me I did a ton of fun things. I feel I need to list them..not so much for you but for my memory.

Jan- First full month of my new job.
Feb- Hubs turned 29 and got scared of being 30.
Lizzie came home from FL to visit and Tori came home and got married!
Mar- Went to Florida,alone,to visit Lizzie. Didn't even drink while I was gone.
May- Katy Perry concert
June- Went up north for the first time all summer to my parents place in Harrison. Spent the best 5 days of the year in St Ignace at the casino and car show with great friends and family!!
July- Went to see Paramore and No Doubt twice! Had another weekend at the parents trailer and watched fireworks. Spent a weekend in amazing Chicago and came back to Grand Rapids to see The Veronicas. Went to the Cheap Trick, Def Leppard and Poison concert and the Detroit zoo in the same day.
August- Celebrated my 1st wedding anniversary. Went to the Pete Yorn concert with Natalie. Randomly decided to buy a pontoon and went to Bud Bash at Houghton Lake.
Spent the rest of this month on Lobdell Lake whenever I could. Went to my parents lake again.
September- Bought 2 jet skis, learned how to jet ski, went tubing for the first time. Spent a weekend in Tawas with the hubs fam. Went to see Kelly Clarkson in South Haven and spent the weekend there.
October- Had a Halloween party at our house, went to every apple orchad in the area. Saw Daughtry in concert and Paramore in concert again.
November- Went shopping in the day after Thanksgiving madness. Went to a Michigan State football game. Went to a Pistons game.
December- Went to Muskegon to visit family. Saw Bobby Long in concert in Detroit.

So there you have it I went up north alot and saw a LOT of concerts. I feel like living life it what I should be doing right now and I am. My new year contains more trips and more fun. I am going to Chicago and 2 Michigan State basketball games just in the first two weeks of January. We also plan to head to Jamaica once again and possibly Vegas. Anyhoo I won't bore you anymore today but for real, go out and as T.I. said live your life people! 99% of these places were within my own state and only a few hours from my home!!

Till next time!

What the hell is she wearing??

This morning bright and early I woke up and got on the computer as always. I searched my fav sites and got to people.com. The front and center picture is of America's little darling Miley Cyrus, but wait she doesn't look so darling in this photo! In fact she looks like she should be dancing in an adult club, with her booty shorts and open shirt exposing her metallic bra. Now I'm no prude and I understand that this generation is more open with sexuality than any other before it but this girl JUST turned 17. The reality is that we are surrounded by perverts and molesters, I don't care about the she's a bad role model talk it's almost like I'm worried for her! I don't even want to think about how many nasty people just right clicked and saved that picture for their own private uses (ICK). I get it she's over the Hannah Montana thing and wants to appeal to a greater audience, do it with your music hunny not with your body. I wouldn't call myself a "fan" of her parse but I did enjoy her music when it came on the radio, now I just don't know if I want to listen.


I can already hear the comments coming on this, what about Taylor Launter (he's 17 as well) in New Moon, he has no shirt on and it objectified because of it. Well yes this is true BUT for one it was for a movie role, you don't see Taylor prancing around town shirtless do you? Two it is socially acceptable for a man to be shirtless in public (see Jersey Shore if you want proof) but unacceptable for a women to run around in a bra...ever. On a side note none of these hold true for the beach, obviously you can wear a bikini there and it's fine.





The whole situation isn't fair but either is letting a 17 year old girl dress like a hooker to sell her album. Can you imagine being a 14 year old right now? I remember when I was that age I was completely embarrassed if someone was making out on tv and my parents were in the room, I would be mortified if my idol was dressed like that and my parents saw...but I guess that's just me.

I'm sick and he's partying.

Tonight my husband went bowling and to the bar, without me. Why you ask? Well we had these plans all week and I have been sick, dying actually (at least this is how I feel), so I decided going out wasn't the best plan. Yet while he was getting ready I was still weighing the pros and cons of getting my ass off the couch and going. Let's be serious here, yesterday I had a temperature of over 100 degrees, today I just felt crappy and yes I still wanted to go bowling and to the bar. What the hell was I thinking? Oh I know what I was thinking, "everyone is going out and having fun and I'm staying home being lame".

The problem with this whole situation is that I go out, a lot actually. I went out Thursday night when the sickness began to take over my body and stayed out till 3:30 in the morning in fact. All this talk of going out makes me remember the many times I have went out drinking and bowling for that matter. Last weekend I went bowling, I use to be on a bowling league, a few years ago. Definitely scored a 53 this time, the only word that comes to my mind regarding this is awesome. Anyways this all made me think about the first time I ever drank.

I was 16 and went to a friends house while her mom and brothers were gone for the night. She had a few people over and we began to make drinks. Being that I had no clue what I was doing I just asked for the bottle of Bacardi and poured some into a water bottle. As you could guess I was wasted in no time and proceeded to jump on the trampoline (with my "water" bottle), and jump into the pool with all my clothes on (without the "water" bottle). My boyfriend at the time who was older and from another school showed up at the house and I ran out the front door to greet him, I tripped and luckily before falling face first into the ground was rescued by him. After this part my memory is foggy I know he asked my friends (whom he barely knew)what the hell was going on and they decided to let me lay in the bathroom. I was freezing in there and requested somewhere warming to pass out, you want to know where they put me??? In her little brothers' bunk bed, but that isn't the worst part. As my head was spinning I open my eyes to steady myself and all I saw was glow in the dark stars all over the walls and ceiling.



Let me tell you about those damn little stars, when you are drunk they make it worse, MUCH, MUCH worse. Just saying. After puking my guts out all night I vowed to never drink again, yet I have many times since. I don't think I will ever learn, but tonight I feel like a champ for staying home and being "lame".