30 Day Photo Challenge - Day 6

Day 06 - A picture of a person you'd love to trade places with for a day.

Kate Middleton is the only person who sprang to mind for this post. Who doesn't want to be a Princess for a day? Plus, Prince William is kind of a hottie.

Yes, I know I'm behind in posting this. I'm a crap blogger.

30 Day Photo Challenge - Day 5

Day 05 - A picture of your favorite memory.

Britney Spears' Circus concert - Touring the stage with my friend Khrista.

My first visit to Niagara Falls with my family for my Uncle's wedding.

Boating on our family vacation to NC.

My drama class field trip to Chicago for a weekend during my junior year of HS.

My BFF Jenny during a night babysitting for my Uncle.

Jenny and I on my 17th birthday.

Blowfishing for a picture after our appearance for Senior Homecoming court.

Josiah and I before our opening performance of The Importance of Being Earnest. 

(My Senior year - I was Gwendolyn, he was Jack.)

Babysitting weekend with my friend Rebecca.

Senior lunches in my old Honda with my two best friends.

All 4 Senior girls and our dates at our prom.

My friend Rebecca and I at our Senior prom.

My first concert (SPICE GIRLS!!) with my madre.

During my first cruise (to the Bahamas) with our waiter, that I had a biiiiig crush on.

My grandma and I after something for my Girl Scout troop.

This is how I will always remember her.

First trip to Las Vegas with my Aunt and Uncle when I was 14.

True Blood Fan Event with my mommy. Yes, we made shirts haha.

It was too hard to just pick one memory. Sorry this was such a long post! And sorry again that they aren't in chronological order... I'm too lazy to fix it.

30 Day Photo Challenge - Day 4

Day 04 - A picture of your night.


I didn't actually take a picture of my night so here are some Google images that will have to suffice.

Movies on Netflix, nachos, and Halls strawberry cough drops. If you can't tell from that unusual combo, I'm sick tonight and stayed in.

30 Day Photo Challenge - Day 3

Day 03 - A picture of the cast from your favorite show.


This is a bit of a longer post - I like a lot of shows. Thank God for DVR haha.

Bones will always have the biggest part of my heart. Booth and Brennan <3

Not a great cast photo but...Eureeeeeka! Love me some Carter.

Gotta include Grey's, obvi.

Modern Family!! So funny.

And this post would sooo not be complete without my favorite little crazies from True Blood. <3

30 Day Photo Challenge - Day 2

Day 02 - A picture of you and the person you have been close with for awhile.

Jenny and I posing with my Uncle's "pimp cup" in the summer of '07.

This is Jenny. She's been my best friend since the very first day of our Freshman year in 2004. We were both new kids at our high school and quickly banded together since we shared every class except for one, she took Spanish while I took French. I've spent some of the best and worst nights of my life with this girl and while we've had our ups and downs as friends, nothing has been able to tear us apart. She currently lives in VA and just gave birth to her daughter, Audrey, and I can't wait to go down there in 16 days(!) to see her and meet my goddaughter for the first time.

Long time, no blog!

It's been exactly two months since my last post (yikes!) and sadly, there will be no super awesome post today - just an explanation for why I've been gone. December was a rough month; I was busy with my new job and then, on the 28th, my grandmother passed away. It was a huge shock to all of us, even though she'd been sick for almost four years. January wasn't much better, either; it was hard just to do normal things for a while and then once I did, I just wanted to drown myself in work and books. So, needless to say, I haven't really been in a mood to blog and even if I had, I haven't had the time because of work.

Anyway, when I finally get around to book blogging you'll have tons of reviews to look forward to. (Including Across the Universe, If I Stay, Before I Fall, Revolution, The Hunger Games series and many more.) To get myself back into the swing of blogging I'm going to start doing a cute little challenge I've seen floating around on Facebook! It, admittedly, doesn't have much to do with book blogging but oh well, I just need to get back into the swing of posting.

Day 01 - A picture of yourself with fifteen facts.

Day 02 - A picture of you and the person you have been close with for awhile.

Day 03 - A picture of the cast from your favorite show.

Day 04 - A picture of your night.

Day 05 - A picture of your favorite memory.

Day 06 - A picture of a person you'd love to trade places with for a day.

Day 07 - A picture of your most treasured item.

Day 08 - A picture that makes you laugh.

Day 09 - A picture of the person who has gotten you through the most.

Day 10 - A picture of the person you do the most messed up things with.

Day 11 - A picture of something you hate.

Day 12 - A picture of something you love.

Day 13 - A picture of your favorite band or artist.

Day 14 - A picture of someone you could never imagine your life without.

Day 15 - A picture of something you want to do before you die.

Day 16 - A picture of someone who inspires you.

Day 17 - A picture of something that has made a huge impact on your life recently.

Day 18 - A picture of your biggest insecurity.

Day 19 - A picture of you when you were little.

Day 20 - A picture of somewhere you'd love to travel.

Day 21 - A picture of something you wish you could forget.

Day 22 - A picture of something you wish you were better at.

Day 23 - A picture of your favorite book.

Day 24 - A picture of something you wish you could change.

Day 25 - A picture of your day.

Day 26 - A picture of something that means a lot to you.

Day 27 - A picture of yourself and a family member.

Day 28 - A picture of something you're afraid of.

Day 29 - A picture that can always make you smile.

Day 30 - A picture of someone you miss.

So, here's the picture and 15 facts for tonight's post:

1: My name is Chanel and that ^ is me.

2: I have five sisters and one brother; I'm the middle child of 7. My older siblings and I are only half siblings while my younger siblings were adopted when I was 16. 

3: I'm an English major in college but I'm currently taking a quarter (or more) off from school to decide if that's really what I want.

4: I love animals! Penguins are my favorite and I've seriously contemplated breaking into the zoo and bringing one home with me.

5: I'm having a hard time figuring out what to say about myself.

6: My graduating class consisted of 10 boys and 4 girls, including myself. I hated high school while I was going through it but now that I'm a few years older I really miss it. I realize now that it was one of the best times of my life, just like people said it would be.

7: I want to travel the world.

8: I was diagnosed with Rheumatoid Arthritis three months before I turned 18.

9: I love board games, card games, etc.

10: I live in the middle of nowhere aka a small town in Ohio. I long to live in a big city but I'm pretty sure I wouldn't last a day in one if I moved there.

11: I recently discovered that I have Celiac disease, which is an intolerance/allergy to gluten. Gluten is wheat and it's derivatives. I've been (mostly) gluten free for a couple months. It's hard but I feel SO much better since I've eliminated it from my diet.

12: I converted to a Macbook from an HP in January of '09 and I love it. I'm now a firm believer that once you go Mac, you'll never go back. ;-)

13: I've had a bit of an obsession with vampires since I was a little kid. My mom does too, so it must be genetic haha.

14: I drive a 2008 VW Bug convertible. Her name is Lola and she's beautiful.

15: My family means the world to me. This should probably be higher up on the list because they are, literally, the most important things in my life but I'm too lazy to change it. :-)

There we go! My first post in two months which will, hopefully, get me back into the swing of things!

Waiting on Wednesday (3)

First of all, HAPPY 1st of DECEMBER!! It was definitely a great first day here in OH as we've seen snow all day! :-) Not enough to really accumulate but it's enough to get me excited about winter. Although, I'm sure I'll be singing a different tune once we're still having snowfalls in April. Ha! Now, onto today's post!!

Across the Universe by Beth Revis

A love out of time. A spaceship built of secrets and murder.

Seventeen-year-old Amy joins her parents as frozen cargo aboard the vast spaceship Godspeed and expects to awaken on a new planet, three hundred years in the future. Never could she have known that her frozen slumber would come to an end fifty years too soon and that she would be thrust into the brave new world of a spaceship that lives by its own rules.

Amy quickly realizes that her awakening was no mere computer malfunction. Someone-one of the few thousand inhabitants of the spaceship-tried to kill her. And if Amy doesn't do something soon, her parents will be next.

Now Amy must race to unlock Godspeed's hidden secrets. But out of her list of murder suspects, there's only one who matters: Elder, the future leader of the ship and the love she could never have seen coming.

This sounds soooo good to me! I don't normally like sci-fi-ish stuff but I feel like it's something that I'll probably enjoy. I'm also a sucker for a good romance so hopefully Amy and Elder's love story rocks. And of course, it's a gorgeous cover! I know, I know - it's so tacky, etc. to judge a book by it's cover but whatever you know you do it, too! ;-)

Across The Universe will be available in book stores everywhere on January 11, 2011.

I feel like WoW are the only posts I've done (ha) but I promise that that will be changing soon! I've got a couple reviews I'm getting ready to post in the next few days, so that's something to look forward to. Also, I'm putting together a giveaway/contest to help get my blog "out there" and to gain more followers. So stay tuned for that as well! ;-)


EDIT: Also, I can't figure out how to format the stupid huge space out of my post - I've tried everything I can think of... Sorry :-(