My Place & Yours

Kate from Kate and Michael + 3 has pick this weeks MPAY topic. It has been inspired by Mother's Day: What was the last present you received?

This is the present I received on Mother's Day from my 19mth old son Mason. He made this in Daycare and I am not sure what it is, apart from his hands of course.

My Place & Yours

A friend of mine, Kate, from Kate and Michael + 3 has just started the blog game My Place & Yours. Each week will be a different theme and then we have to blog about it. This weeks theme is:


What's on your bed?


This is Chelsea, one of our two cats. She loves to spend her days and some of her nights on the bed. I love waking up in the morning and finding her curled up either right beside me or on me

What I'm Reading

I've been re-reading The Vampire Diaries and I'm sure you are all wondering why would I do that? Well I first read them when I was about 14 and I really enjoyed them. So recently I watched the TV show adaptation of the books and enjoyed it. The obvious thing was to re-read the books coz I always have to see what they got wrong.
So what do I think of the books now? They are terrible!!! (Well the original 4 books aren't bad, it's the newer additions, The Vampire Diaries: The Return that just didn't need to be written). It seems like the author is just jumping on the back of the popularity of the TV series. The book is just dragging on and I am forcing myself to finish it. It does give the minor characters in the original series a bigger part, but there isn't really any character development. The plot has a lot of repetition and I'm just left wondering when will this book end.
I guess I'm just too old to enjoy these books.
Now as for the TV show, I can't believe how different it is. In the books Elena has a 4yo sister, Bonnie doesn't become an all powerful witch, Caroline doesn't become a vampire, Elena becomes a vampire before she dies and comes back as an angel. The list goes on. But still I prefer the TV show to the books.

Books

Some of my many books

I remember getting into books when I was 10, it was just after my grandfather died. I was sitting on my bed and I picked up a copy of a Baby Sitters: Little Sister book and forgetting about what had just happened. I progressed quickly thru the different reading stages and was reading adult books at 13. The first adult book I read was Flowers in the Attic by Virginia Andrews which was probably a little bit too adult for a 13 year old. It didn't stop there, I read all her books dreaming of the day when I would find my perfect guy.
My two all time favourite books are classics read by millions, Catcher in the Rye by JD Salenger and To Kill a Mockingbird by Harper Lee. I have read these books many times and they are no less riveting than the first time I read them.
These days I'm very much into Paranormal Fiction. I'm reading about vampires, angels, demons, witches and warewolves. I have been getting thru one of these books per day as I have been stuck on the couch trying to heal my stupid leg. Since I couldn't leave the house to get more books I started to read eBooks. I don't have an eReader I am just using my laptop. I feel like a traitor reading books like this but it is just so convenient not to mention that the little man can't rip the pages out of these books.
Books mean a lot to me they are a way to keep my sanity. I can really loose myself in a book and feel what the characters are feeling. Sometimes I forget that it is just a story and find that the characters emotions have become my emotions and it can take a couple of minutes for me to get back to myself. Without books I would be lost. 

Just Beginning

So I'm going to try out this blogging thing and see where it gets me. A bit about me: I'm 28 and live with my boyfriend of 3 and half years. We have a gorgeous little boy who is 19 months old and keeps us very busy. I work for a very large retail chain in customer service. I only work three days a week which gives me plenty of time to spend with my son.
I am an obsessive reader and will read just about anything I get my hands on. My plan is to start a course later this year so that I can get a job working in a library.
At the start of the year I found a new AWESOME hobby: Roller Derby. It was whilst training from my White Star assessment that I broke and dislocated my ankle. That was on the 7th of March and after an operation and 8 weeks sitting on the couch I got the all clear yesterday to start walking again YAY.
As I've been typing this I am watching the latest episode of Doctor Who and is why it has taken me half an hour to type this. So I might just leave it at that for now.
Until next time.........