The Twilight Saga has ’sucked’ me in. I’m obsessed. I bought the book Friday and I finished it Sunday night. Then I couldn’t stop thinking about it. I had to get the second book on Monday, which I did at 9:30pm, just before they closed. At 4:30 in the morning last night I was done. I couldn’t stop. I just couldn’t even fall asleep. It is mesmerizing.

At first I was skeptical of the books because I heard of their likeness to the Harry Potter series, and I didn’t want anything to make me feel like they could be better than that. But to me they aren’t even close. Harry Potter is about childhood, mischeif and magic. Twilight is about love. Romeo and Juliet love. My favorite kind of love. There’s nothing more important in the world to me than love, and if you feel that way too, you must read this.

I’m off to buy the next book.

I’m writing out my Christmas List on my blog in hopes that my family will start to read it again. I realize I’ve been a bad blogger in the past, but it is a goal of mine to write once a week, if not more.

This year I’m going practical. Here’s what I was thinking…

Books/CD’s

any good reads; i’d like to start reading Nick Sparks

the Listography book I’ve been wanting for awhile so I can record my life in a list

the new Ray Lamontagne cd

Art Stuff:

Acrylic Paints; raw umber, alizeron crimson, yellow ochre, turquoise deep, and white are the basics, and then any other colors you want to throw in there for fun would be great.

Canvases; small squares and rectangles

Micron Pens

Neccessities

socks; athletic footies and nice work ones

Brown Converse All-Stars Low Tops

Dermalogica normal face wash - I know they carry it at About Faces

Gift Cards

Plaza Artist Supply - for art stuff

Target and IKEA - for all the apartment needs

Paper-Source- for future stationery and Mermade projects

Anthropologie, Urban Outfitters or H+M - for clothes

Sephora - makeup

Hope this helps. I might update it a bit if I think of anything else.

here’s a list of AMAZING books i’ve been reading over the course of the summer. I will add to it once I’ve read more:

Water For Elephants

The Shadow of the Wind, Carlos Ruiz Zapon

Saving Fish From Drowning, Amy Tan

Sisterhood of the Traveling Pants, Ann Brashares

we carried this book at Hometown Girl for awhile:

it’s Listography, a book based on a website project of creating a database of personal lists, created by lisa nola and her partner in crime, adam. It’s meant to be a creative way of writing and sharing things that you’ve experienced in life. I think it’s a wonderful and simple type of journal that you can pass on to your children and grandchildren. It’s also a reference for when you get older and forget all the things you did when you were young. It indicates such things as bands you’ve seen in concert, teachers you had, past lovers, etc.

Listography for Kids and the Love Listography will be available this fall.