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Showing posts with label 2014. Show all posts
Showing posts with label 2014. Show all posts
Friday, January 9, 2015
Wednesday, January 7, 2015
63 Books Read in 2014!
As you read last year I made a goal to read 75 books during 2014. This goal was decreased to 65 and I still fell short at 63. I think I underestimated how time consuming going back to school would be. Nevertheless, here are the books I read in 2014 and the star rating I gave them.
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5 Stars:
Divergent (Divergent, #1)
Firefly Lane (Firefly Lane, #1)
Hush Little Baby
The Affair (The Affair, #1)
Women & Money: Owning the Power to Control Your Destiny
4 Stars:
Beautiful Day
Bringing Down the House: The Inside Story of Six M.I.T.
Students Who Took Vegas for Millions
Fifty Shades Darker (Fifty Shades, #2)
Fifty Shades Freed (Fifty Shades, #3)
Heartsick (Gretchen Lowell, #1)
More than Enough: The Ten Keys to Changing Your Financial
Destiny
One Simple Act: Discovering the Power of Generosity
Remember Me?
Shopaholic & Baby (Shopaholic, #5)
Shopaholic & Sister (Shopaholic, #4)
Something Blue
Something Borrowed
The Bourne Identity (Jason Bourne, #1)
The Consequences (The Affair, #2)
The Death Cure (Maze Runner, #3)
The Fault in Our Stars
The Maze Runner (Maze Runner, #1)
The Nanny Diaries (Nanny, #1)
The One & Only
The Opposite of Me
The Scorch Trials (Maze Runner, #2)
The Undomestic Goddess
3 Stars:
A Most Uncommon Degree of Popularity
A Reliable Wife
Drinking and Dating: P.S. Social Media Is Ruining Romance
Girls in Trucks
Insurgent (Divergent, #2)
Memory Lake
One Moment, One Morning
Sliding Into Home
Smart Women
The Gift of an Ordinary Day: A Mother's Memoir
The Guy Not Taken: Stories
The Island
The Three Theban Plays: Antigone; Oedipus the King; Oedipus at
Colonus
Then Came You
These Days Are Ours
Vision in White (Bride Quartet, #1)
When You Were Mine
2 Stars:
A Girl Walks Into a Bar: Your Fantasy, Your Rules
A Shore Thing
Allegiant (Divergent, #3)
Being Kendra
Four Wives
The Between Boyfriends Book: A Collection of Cautiously
Hopeful Essays
The Girls' Guide to Hunting and Fishing
The Sweet By and By
What You Wish For: A Novel
You're Wearing That?: Understanding Mothers and Daughters in
Conversation
1 Star:
None
0 Stars: (Read for School Purposes)
Devil in a Blue Dress (Easy Rawlins #1)
Lord Peter (Lord Peter Wimsey Mysteries)
Poirot Investigates (Hercule Poirot, #3)
Rebecca
Silver Blaze (The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes, #1)
The Poetics of Prose
The Purloined Letter
The Sign of Four (Sherlock Holmes, #2)
Thomas de Quincey, Collection Novels
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In 2015 my goal will once again be 65 books - Lets see if I can make this happen this year!
Thursday, January 1, 2015
Goodbye 2014
2014 Wrap-Up Quiz
1. What did you do in 2014 that you'd never done before?
Traveled so much!
2. Did you keep your new year's resolutions, and will you make more for next year?
I met and surpassed my goal to eat healthier – Thank goodness for Paleo!
3. Did anyone close to you give birth?
Two little baby boys come to mind – One is my God-son!
4. Did anyone close to you die?
No, thank goodness. <-- Same as 2013
5. What countries did you visit?
Canada
6. What would you like to have in 2015 that you didn't have in 2014?
Baby… maybe….
7. What dates from 2014 will be etched upon your memory, and why?
Niagara Falls with Mommy & Seattle with one of my best friends
8. What was your biggest achievement of this year?
Getting into Fordham University and receiving a scholarship
9. What was your biggest failure?
Debt re-payment – Even though we did very well I had higher hopes for 2014
10. Did you suffer illness or injury?
Nope
11. What was the best thing you bought?
Airline tickets to take my Mama to Canada - Money WELL spent!
12. Whose behavior merited celebration?
Not mine that’s for sure – Every year I spend on the east coast I find myself forgetting about my life in California (not intentionally) - In 2015 I aim to be a better friend with regular calls/e-mails/text
13. Whose behavior made you appalled and depressed?
No one that I can think of - This was a really good year!
14. Where did most of your money go?
Commuting to work! <-- Same as 2013
15. What did you get really, really, really excited about?
Going home for the Holidays meant the world to me. <-- Same answer as 2013
16. What song will always remind you of 2014?
Turn Down For What!?
17. Compared to this time last year, are you: A) happier or sadder? B) thinner or fatter? C) richer or poorer?
A) HAPPIER <-- Same as 2013
B) Thinner!
C) Richer!
18. What do you wish you'd done more of?
Decorating our apartment. <-- Same answer as 2012 & 2013
19. What do you wish you'd done less of?
Stressing over money when I shouldn’t have
20. How did you spend Christmas?
In CA with all our friends and family. <-- Same answer as 2012 & 2013
21. Did you fall in love with 2014?
Nope... still in love. <-- Same answer as 2012 & 2013
22. What was your favorite TV program?
Right now it’s King of Queens – Joe and I just bought seasons 6 – 9 for $4 each
23. Do you hate anyone now that you didn't hate this time last year?
NOPE <-- =]
24. What was the best book you read?
Firefly Lane by Kristin Hannah
25. What was your greatest musical discovery?
None <-- Same answer as 2013
26. What did you want and get?
Get into a four year school
27. What did you want and not get?
I wanted to purchase a home... but that is in the future. <-- Same answer as 2012 & 2013
28. What was your favorite film of 2014?
Maze Runner
29. What did you do on your birthday, and how old were you?
Turned 28 and had a BBQ at our house
30. What one thing would have made your year immeasurably more satisfying?
A home of our own. <-- Same answer as 2012 & 2013
31. How would you describe your personal fashion concept of 2014?
Classic/Glam but I am working on expanding my style <-- Still stuck
32. What kept you sane?
My husband
33. What political issue stirred you the most?
Again, no comment <-- Same answer as 2013
34. Who did you miss?
My friends and family in CA <-- Same answer as 2013
35. Who was the best new person you met?
No one new this year and I like it that way ;)
36. Tell us a valuable life lesson you learned in 2014.
Life is too short! <-- Same answer as 2012 & 2013
1. What did you do in 2014 that you'd never done before?
Traveled so much!
2. Did you keep your new year's resolutions, and will you make more for next year?
I met and surpassed my goal to eat healthier – Thank goodness for Paleo!
3. Did anyone close to you give birth?
Two little baby boys come to mind – One is my God-son!
4. Did anyone close to you die?
No, thank goodness. <-- Same as 2013
5. What countries did you visit?
Canada
6. What would you like to have in 2015 that you didn't have in 2014?
Baby… maybe….
7. What dates from 2014 will be etched upon your memory, and why?
Niagara Falls with Mommy & Seattle with one of my best friends
8. What was your biggest achievement of this year?
Getting into Fordham University and receiving a scholarship
9. What was your biggest failure?
Debt re-payment – Even though we did very well I had higher hopes for 2014
10. Did you suffer illness or injury?
Nope
11. What was the best thing you bought?
Airline tickets to take my Mama to Canada - Money WELL spent!
12. Whose behavior merited celebration?
Not mine that’s for sure – Every year I spend on the east coast I find myself forgetting about my life in California (not intentionally) - In 2015 I aim to be a better friend with regular calls/e-mails/text
13. Whose behavior made you appalled and depressed?
No one that I can think of - This was a really good year!
14. Where did most of your money go?
Commuting to work! <-- Same as 2013
15. What did you get really, really, really excited about?
Going home for the Holidays meant the world to me. <-- Same answer as 2013
16. What song will always remind you of 2014?
Turn Down For What!?
17. Compared to this time last year, are you: A) happier or sadder? B) thinner or fatter? C) richer or poorer?
A) HAPPIER <-- Same as 2013
B) Thinner!
C) Richer!
18. What do you wish you'd done more of?
Decorating our apartment. <-- Same answer as 2012 & 2013
19. What do you wish you'd done less of?
Stressing over money when I shouldn’t have
20. How did you spend Christmas?
In CA with all our friends and family. <-- Same answer as 2012 & 2013
21. Did you fall in love with 2014?
Nope... still in love. <-- Same answer as 2012 & 2013
22. What was your favorite TV program?
Right now it’s King of Queens – Joe and I just bought seasons 6 – 9 for $4 each
23. Do you hate anyone now that you didn't hate this time last year?
NOPE <-- =]
24. What was the best book you read?
Firefly Lane by Kristin Hannah
25. What was your greatest musical discovery?
None <-- Same answer as 2013
26. What did you want and get?
Get into a four year school
27. What did you want and not get?
I wanted to purchase a home... but that is in the future. <-- Same answer as 2012 & 2013
28. What was your favorite film of 2014?
Maze Runner
29. What did you do on your birthday, and how old were you?
Turned 28 and had a BBQ at our house
30. What one thing would have made your year immeasurably more satisfying?
A home of our own. <-- Same answer as 2012 & 2013
31. How would you describe your personal fashion concept of 2014?
Classic/Glam but I am working on expanding my style <-- Still stuck
32. What kept you sane?
My husband
33. What political issue stirred you the most?
Again, no comment <-- Same answer as 2013
34. Who did you miss?
My friends and family in CA <-- Same answer as 2013
35. Who was the best new person you met?
No one new this year and I like it that way ;)
36. Tell us a valuable life lesson you learned in 2014.
Life is too short! <-- Same answer as 2012 & 2013
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