Books!

So I decided to create a list of books I really, really like. Not a top ten, because I could never rate books, just I LOVE these, and think everyone else should too.

1.Pride and Prejudice
2. Count of Monte Cristo
3. The Hunger Games Series
4. The Twilight Series (if any disagree, I find these books very entertaining. I do know that they are fiction – girls who try looking for their Edward make me a little sick)
5. Books by Meg Cabot – if you are ever looking for a light, stupid, quick read and enjoy books for teenage girls, this is one author for you. I really like the mediator series, the 1800-where r u series, and the runaway series
6. Ella Enchanted by Gail Carson Levine – I LOVE LOVE LOVE this book, and always will. But I will admit I do NOT like the movie. Terrible. It doesn’t even deserve to be called Ella Enchanted.
7. I have become a fan of Cinda Williams Chima – she writes the Heir Series, and is starting a new series as well which I really enjoy.
8. Eragon Series
9. Rick Riordan’s books – Percy Jackson and the Olympians series
10. Of course the Harry Potter books
11. I am a really big fan of Robin Mckinley – Beauty, The Blue Sword and others are awesome
12 The Giver – by Lois Lowry
13. Tamora Pierce – another favorite author of mine.
14. Shannon Hale – I love her goose girl series. She also has an adult book called Austenland which is pretty entertaining Here is the summary from Shannon Hale’s website.
15. The Witch of Blackbird Pond

Just a reminder, these are in no particular order and I could go on. Pretty much I just read a ton and ton of young adult books (in case you were wondering), and it also kind of turned into an author list as well. Either way these are all awesome. Also very entertaining and I believe one can never go wrong with them.

Honestly

I know I always joke that I have the worst luck ever, but honestly it's true. I have had to deal with getting my identity stolen, my ear swelling to massive proportions, and now (drum roll please) someone stole my debit card number. Apparently someone can take a "picture" of your card if you swipe it somewhere and create a card with your numbers and such on it. They took all of the money out of my utah bank account. Awesome. Luckily fraud prevention was aware of some purchases which were out of character for me. But, it still didn't stop them from stealing my money. And it's possible I won't get all my money back. Neat. I am now even more poor than ever. I love my life...

Compliments

I love compliments. I love getting them, I love giving them. They just make me dang happy. And it definitely makes it worth it to actually get ready when I receive one. I think many people's relationships (doesn't matter the type), would be better if everyone complimented others on a regular basis. Random, I know, but I got a lot of compliments yesterday and they made me happy.

Anyway, on to other things...I was hanging out with some guy friends the other night and either I have changed, or they have, but I don't find their sense of humor as fun as I used to. While many of them are a year or two older than me, they were acting pretty immature. We were trying to come up with various things to do and here were a few of their thoughts: Sobe bombs or go egging - in addition to more normal pursuits such as bowling, going to see a movie, and going out for food. I'm happy to say we decided to do one of the normal activites - which included making fruit smoothies and just hanging out and talking. As we were hanging out they mentioned that they were putting together a girls boxing competition for this upcoming Saturday. Fun? I personally don't think so, but they have about 6 or 7 girls willing to do this. They keep trying to get me to do it, because they think I would win (granted I am bigger than all of these girls), but seriously? Hitting others is not my idea of fun (unless I'm really mad at someone, and that hasn't happened in years).

I'm not saying I don't like these guys at all. I still really do enjoy hanging out with them - in fact we went camping the other weekend and had a blast. But sometimes I can't believe the things they come up with. Is this normal behavior for guys? I didn't think so, and I've had a lot of guy friends over the years (a lot more than girl friends). Anyway it just got me to thinking about various guys and what I want for the future. Anyway that is a long discussion/thought process that I won't bring up, but honestly...boys are weird.