I'M SO EXCITED!!!

I just checked the mail and there are no words for how happy I was! I got an ARC! My first ARC from a non-contest source! Straight from the publicist! It was one I wanted so bad too! I've been waiting to read this since last fall!


The Treasure Map of Boys: Noel, Jackson, Finn, Hutch--and me, Ruby Oliver

I'll write more soon, once I've read it! I'm so excited!

Um, I Did a Bad Thing!

Okay this is one of the pictures from yesterdays books!


This is the other one (not pictured are: A Confederacy of Dunces and The Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Pie Society)!

This is my haul from Powells!

This one is Bookmooch and Paperbackswap!

This one was the other Hastings this week!

So Hastings had this coupon. Buy 2 get the 3rd YA book free. Big trouble. In addition to my MCAT study guide (which I will just say was far too expensive) I left the store with 14 other books! 14! And that's not to mention all the other books I've aquired in the past two weeks via Powells (yay!), more Hastings, Bookmooch, and Paperback swap! I had to take a few pictures to get all of them in!

Back!

I'm back from Portland and I had a blast! The girls were both so happy and enjoyed themselves thoroughly! I wish we could have stayed!

Classes started and I'm taking Yoga, Piano, and Sociology of Marriage and Family. Yoga is four days a week for an hour and a half, so I should get rid of some of my shapes.

I'm reading Lord of Misrule. The fifth book in Rachel Caine's Morganville Vampire series. I'm truly loving this series. It's gone by so fast! I read the first four in no time at all! There are so many great books coming out soon though, it's going to be hard to get all of them!
Here's some great ones coming in the rest of this year:
Prophecy of the Sisters by Michelle Zink
Blue Moon (The Immortals Book 2) by Allison Noel
Catching Fire (Sequel to The Hunger Games) by Suzanne Collins
Fade Out (Morganville Vampires Book 7) by Rachel Caine
Blood Promise (Vampire Academy Book 4) by Richelle Mead
Along for the Ride by Sarah Dessen
The Van Allen Legacy (A Blue Bloods Novel) by Melissa De La Cruz
Killers (Pretty Little Liars #6) by Sara Shepherd
Treasure Map of Boys (Roo 3) by E. Lockhart

So Many Books, Too Little Time!

VACATION!!!!!

So, I get to go on my very first vacation in 4 years! I'm so excited! We're going to Portland and Seattle!! It's going to be so fun! If anyone has been to either of these places and has any suggestions for me, let me know!

Maybe

This is all of my Pez dispensers spread out all over the carpet!

Okay, so I didn't get the Chemistry Research Assistant job that I wanted. It really sucks because I totally thought I would. I decided I'd just take a couple classes instead, so I'm taking Piano, Yoga, and Sociology of Marriage and Family. Hopefully it'll be a good semester.

On a better note, I applied to Portland State. They have on campus housing for families, so I can apply for that if I get in! And they have a child care program like the one the kids are in right now. I'm wishing and hoping that something finally goes right. Just gotta suck it up and save money!

Summer "Vacation"

So I'm done with school until June 8th. I've read three books in the past week, and my kids are driving me crazy already!
The thing about daycare is that you get out of practice with your own kids. It sucks. You get them back at the end of the school year and don't know what to do with them! Plus, I think Sadie may have just hit her terrible twos!
AHHHH...They call it summer vacation, but is it really a vacation?

Oh, and I got a B in Physics! A's in the rest of my classes! I'm so proud!

May 5th!!

So Melissa walker and Susane Colasanti both have books coming out on the 5th of May. So of course they're having a contest! You can go to Melissa's blog to win Susane's prize and Susane's blog to win Melissa's prize. How fun is that?!

I've already got Melissa's book pre-ordered, but I'm going to have to pick up Susane's!