* sigh *

I hate the day before payday. It means, I can't go no were, can't shop the inter webs for fear of temptation. Just sit at home. I mean, I have books here I could read but... I don't know... I'm kinda over the ones I have here. I'm really looking forward to the books that are coming out this summer. Lover Avenged by J.R. Ward, Skin Trade by Laurell K. Hamilton, and Rapture by Jacquelyn Frank. I guess this restlessness I have is my subconscious telling me this is what I'm really waiting for.

Wednesday Wish You Were Here

YAY!!! It's that time of the week! And because I'm on Spring Break I have decided to have an Island theme Wednesday Wish You Were Here. Ah, but not the same ole' same ole' Bahamas or Caribbean Islands, I'm talking about the Golden Islands of Georgia!!!
The Golden Islands of Georgia have long been the retreats of the rich and elite. According to the font of all knowlege, Wikipedia, Sea Island hosted the G8 summit. But my favorite island has to be Cumberland Island.
It is actually not truly a part of the Golden Islands but, I mean, it's right there. Anyway, Cumberland Island is a national park and has a set limit on the number of people allowed to visit each day. The coolest part about Cumberland Island, in my opinion, is the wild horses. These horses were shipwrecked by the Spanish in the 16th century or so, when Florida was still a Spanish Colony. The horses on the ship managed to swim to Cumberland Island and their survivors are there to this day.
The island has a visitor limit of 300 people a day, you can rent a bicycle to tour the island but beware, there are no paved roads.











Song of the day:

could you be loved - bob marley

OMG!!!

It is SO beautiful outside!!! The high is about 80 degrees, the sun is out and the clouds are perfectly spaced!
So because I knew it would be this gorgeous day, I decided I want to tan. But the problem is this... I am what you might call... fair skinned, and I didn't want to blind my neighbors with my paleness so I decided to get some self tanning lotion. Well, this girl freaked out (in a good way) when she saw what I was buying. She goes digging through her purse and gives me a card for a free mystic tan! So I went today. It was an experience, I stood necked in a little booth while this machine sprayed me with tanner. I have to say I kinda freaked out when the mist went for my face. I was, like, OMG I can't breathe! But it only lasted a minute. And it's kinda nice to be able to get a little glow without sitting in the sun for hours.
I still haven't been able to sit still and read anything new like I had planned to, oh well. Till then I'll just go visitin'!

The song of the day:

Last day of Work

*sigh* I now have three whole days to myself! I's such an exciting idea, I plan on sitting outside getting some sun, reading some of the books in my to be read pile, and work on the essays that my wonderful professors assigned to me!
I finished Into the Fire by Suzanne Brockmann. It turned out to be a very interesting book. It's told with different characters, which sounds kinda dumb but hear me out. Oh and I might spoil something so be warned.
The book is primarily the story of Hannah Whitfield and Vinh Murphy. They have been friends for many years, each having a secret passion for the other. Before either can act on it Vinh falls for Hannah's best friend Angelina. They get married and start to live happily ever after but tragedy strikes. Angelina is killed by a member of a Neo-Nazi group and Vinh badly wounded. Meanwhile, Hannah (a cop) is in a horrible car accident that leaves her with a bad ankle and profounly deaf. Vinh and Hannah go on separate drinking and drugging binges, every now and then Vinh will find himself on Hannah's doorstep. Finally one of these visits they have sex. Of course it's not the happy, hold me afterward sex and Vinh, who is feeling like he betrayed Angelina and mad at the whole world, tries to find a gun and kill himself.
Flash forward six months. Vinh is back and sober and ready to get his life together, Hannah is doing the same. Then they find out that the man who was the head of the Neo-Nazi organization that had Anelina killed has been murdered. Vinh might have killed him, but he had spent most of the six months high or drunk. The rest of the book is the two of them trying to find out what happened.
There are other storied mixed in with Hannah and Vinh's, but all of the people whose stories are told were touched in some way by Angelina's murder.
All in all I really liked this book, I really want to start the series from the beginning, just to see if it makes more sense.

Today's song of the day:

Hurt Again - Mary J. Blige

Happy Sunday!

The weekly quote:
To love at all is to be vulnerable. Love anything and your heart will certainly be wrung and possible be brokenIf you want to make sure of keeping it intact, you must give your heart to no one, not even to an animal. Wrapit carefully round with hobbies and little luxuries; avoid all entanglements; lock it up safe in the casket or coffin ofyour selfishness. But in that casket - safe, dark, motionless, airless - it will change. It will not be broken; it will become unbreakable, impenetrable, irredeemable. The alternative to tragedy, or at least to the risk of tragedy,is damnation. The only place outside heaven where you can be perfectly safe from all dangers and perturbations of love is Hell.
C.S. Lewis

and the song of the day:

Restless

I must have the Spring Break Blues, or Spring Fever 'cause I just can't sit still and get anything done. I had every intention of beginning Sookie Stackhouse #6 when I got home form work today but I just couldn't make myself sit down and read it. Then I was going to try and Crochet while watching a movie with my sister, but it was a movie I hadn't seen so I actually had to pay attention. Now I'm trying out the crochet thing again. I just feel the need to do something with my hands.
However, the book I'm using is a little off. It's called Creepy Cute Crochet and it's full of little monsters and things you can crochet, but I think the author uses her own shorthand for the stitches because I can't understand some of them.

Anyway, I think I'm going to take a break from vampire mystery/romance. At least until Lover Avenged! I bought this book at work today, it's called Into the Fire and it's by Suzanne Brockmann. It's very good from the few pages I was able to read while at work.

Today's song of the day:

Let me Fall(From Cirque du Sol - Josh Groban

Ugh... Fail.

I went on my break at work, all excited to start what I thought was the sixth book in the Sookie Stackhouse series only to discover that it is in fact the seventh! I stopped reading at once, but still felt slightly foolish.
Oh darn! I guess that means another trip to the bookstore!
And speaking of bookstores, I'm so glad Borders has coupons now! I took one that I got today for 30% off and bought a Putumayo C.D. Putumayo is a record company that specializes in music from around the world. I have several of their C.D's already and was very excited to add their New Orleans album to my collection.
Today's song of the day is in honor of the Big Easy,