*Our next book club pick is Some Girls - My Life in a Harem by Jullian Lauren. I didn't read last month's pick (therefore, no review) since I was SUPPOSED to be at U2 last night.
*Completely bummed we weren't at U2 last night. Completely bummed. Though I'm hoping the rescheduled date next year is for a night that's, uh, warmer...
*If you were going on a girl's weekend with your oldest friends and HAD to choose one of these three cities to meet in, which would it be and why: Seattle, Chicago, San Francisco or (bonus) a condo on the Oregon coast (knowing I may never return home)?
*Isaac is working his day off this week (switched days really, because of some obligations) and I am surprised at HOW OFF MY GAME this has made me. And thoroughly bummed.
*I'm trying to decide between a Kindle and a Nook. I've handled both and am leaning toward the Nook. Any thoughts either way?
*Dill flavored cashews are HEAVENLY and I may be a little addicted. Seriously.
*So You Think You Can Dance is back. HEAVEN.
*I have way too much to do today and I'm procrastinating it all by sitting here with this list. I'm so very good at that...(and now you see why it takes me years to get one chapter in a book done!)
*Justin what's his name (Barber? Bierber? Barbar?) was on the Today Show this morning. In a sign I'm VERY, VERY old (or just musically superior!:)) my jaw dropped at his suckiness. Really? This is the big thing? The top trending thing on Twitter? Really? I don't get it.
*I want to rearrange my family room and I fear it may happen soon. Should I paint, as well? Project for next week?
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(1 in 10, cameron rafati)
*That book sounds interesting. I'll be interested in your review.
ReplyDelete*Bummer!
*I would choose Chicago because that's the only place on that list I haven't been before. Though I do LOVE the Oregon coast and would also love to get back to San Fran one of these days. I really don't think you can go wrong with those choices.
*Double bummer!
*I've never heard of a Nook.
*Sounds yummy. Where do you get them?
*What do you think about the returning all-star thing?
*I'm the queen of procrastination. No, the supreme ruler of the universe of procrastination.
*My girls make fun of Justin Bieber, so that makes me feel a little better.
*I need to rearrange my house. AND paint. Boo.
* I'm excited to get to it!
ReplyDelete* I know, right?
* I've never been to San Fran, either...
* I know. I MAY be being a petulant child about it...
* Barnes & Noble's version of an e-reader
* Target (it's by their archer farms trail mixes). Which is a DARN good thing they are so far away, except for the whole going to stock up tomorrow thing...
* I'm ok with it because it means more Pasha on my tv. So I MAY be a little biased.
* Can I be your procrastinator royal subject? Or jester? OOOOOOHHHH. How about LADY IN WAITING. Except you really would be WAITING, with me...
* That also makes me feel better. Thank your girls for me!
* I'm not looking forward to the painting. Did I mention I left a perfectly lovely PAINTED house?
I'll show my smarts. How do you get the books on it to read, is this a seperate purchase ? Painting always make you feel your room is better and up graded. Paint, paint, paint, love it. Speadking of paint maybe I'll paint this house again. ( Does it work if I paint it often enough the rooms get smaller and we HAVE to move)? You have to go ALL the way over to Target to shop, wah. Love Mom
ReplyDeleteI am laughing that I even know who Justin Beiber is. I serve with the Beehives in our ward and they are all obsessed with that guy. I haven't heard his music, but I think if you are 12 or 13 then he's your thing. I'm sticking with U2.
ReplyDeleteI vote for Chicago, because the only time I have been there was a short layover in O'Hare. Haven't seen the city yet.
I'm working on procrastination. The only thing that works for me is writing a time to finish by on my lists. I can't stand not to get them done by that time and crossed off. Simple, but always effective.
Have a great Friday and week-end.
Mom - it's like an iPod for books. You buy the digital copy of the book and download it from your computer.
ReplyDeleteI know. No shopping sympathy from you!
Aunt Kay - beehives would do it! I didn't change the channel fast enough or I would still be blissfully unaware of what he sounds like...
And, sadly, I'm FANTASTIC at moving to do dates in my planner. I think there are a couple of things that the original "due" date was sometime last year!
My vote is for the kindle. No need to download from the computer. It goes straight to the kindle from Amazon, within a minute. And even though some of the other readers might have one or two more features, the key in making our decision was book selection. I can get way more e-books from Amazon than we have seen for any other reader and anything else I download to my computer, I just use mobipocket to convert it to palm and I can put it on the kindle too. So I can shop lots of places for an e-book and still have it on the kindle. one nice feature for me is that Amazon keeps everything and if I try to buy a book I already have, it reminds me. :)
ReplyDeleteHa! I figured that would be your vote! You can buy straight from the reader with the nook, as well. Does not being able to replace the battery yourself worry you at all? So if you buy from B&N you can put it on the Nook and the Kindle, but if you buy from Amazon, it has to go on the Kindle only?
ReplyDelete*I didn't expect you to be so bummed about U2 considering your dislike of their recent album. (I LOVE Magnificent.) Their Vegas concert was really good. Maybe we'll have to go to Utah next year.
ReplyDelete*I'd pick Chicago too because I've never been there. Of course, I haven't spent a ton of time in Seattle either. I've been to San Francisco twice, both times in the middle of summer and it was cold, windy and cloudy most of the time, not my idea of good weather, but there are some fun and interesting things to see, do and eat.
*My husband has had all day classes on every other off Friday for the past 7 months and I'm so glad next week is the last one. I HATE it!
*I've never heard of the Nook before. I'm leaning toward in iPad because I like the backlighting and I'm just a huge Apple fan. I'm waiting for it to come down in price though.
*I'm totally curious about the cashews. I think I'll have to pick some up on my next trip to Target. I love their oriental trail mix & jalapeno potato chips. They have some good dips, cookies and juices too, not quite Trader Joe's French Berry Lemonade, but still pretty good.
*Beiber-He's probably like the New Kids on the Block or Backstreet Boys of his day. I never really got into any of them either nor did I think they were really any good, just my opinion.
*I LOVE rearranging/redecorating (much to my husband's dismay). I HATE painting, but love the end result. We're hiring someone to paint our new place before we move in. I've got to get busy picking some paint colors. Good luck!
*I didn't love the last album, but I still love THEM. And total one off kind of thing!
ReplyDelete*Hmmmmm. Chicago is sounding tempting.
*I can't justify an iPad because I already have an iTouch. And our new house isn't wired for real internet, which throws off the wireless (someday!).
*The cashews are happy. But I'm with you. I love their in store line anyway. And NOTHING is TJ's French Berry Lemonade, but we all know where I stand on THAT issue!
(speaking of...I may need to get my Cali friends coming to Utah this summer to restock me!)
*I never liked the NKOTB either, so maybe that's it!
*We paid someone to paint our last house before we moved in. BEST MONEY EVER SPENT!
I love San Francisco. Love. It's beautiful, and unique, and filled with a million things to see and do. Plus the public transportation is awesome. So easy to get around. And if you love Chinese food (and I do) you won't get better. If you ever go there eat (and I'm spelling this phonetically because I wouldn't know how to do it any other way) guy-may-bough. I would eat it every day and be totally fat and happy if I could. It is manna, quite frankly; I'm sure of it.
ReplyDeleteI know nothing about a nook. But I'm curious about the Ipad. Not that I could afford it, but how does it compare?
It charges just like a cell phone and lasts for weeks, so that hasn't been an issue at all and I have had mine for about a year and a half now. Anything you download to your computer you can put on the kindle, but I have never tried to take something I have downloaded straight to the kindle and move it to the computer to put somewhere else, so I am not sure about that. I also like that I can take anything I want off the kindle and Amazon stores it for me. I can put it back on whenever I want. Not that I am anywhere near to running out of space. I have nine pages of books on there now and that is only about a quarter of what I have bought, but I like to keep the most recent ones more accessable so the old ones or ones I didn't like a lot get moved back into my Amazon storage/library.
ReplyDeleteLaurel - from what I've read, not very well. I have an itouch and a reader on it and if the ipad is just a giant touch, I couldn't imagine reading for prolonged periods of time on it. With the kindle and nook, they are both designed to look remarkably like a book.
ReplyDeleteOne of my friends I'd be going with used to live in San Fran, so she would be our unofficial tour guide, so we go with that option.
Amanda - Not being able to move them to anything else but the kindle (like they do with itunes / can only be played on an ipod and not another mp3 player w/o some SERIOUS hoops) is actually working against it for me. On principle. As is the fact that I read that after this version comes out, Amazon will no longer give out free software updates to previous kindle types. You would have to buy a new kindle in order to get the new technology - whenever it comes along. That seems icky. And I love the touch screen a little more. 2 1/2 months to decide!
Hey Tawnya :) Thanks for posting Cameron's video :) I'll let him know! xoxo Jones
ReplyDeleteSo bummed about U2, really.
ReplyDeleteSan Fran or Oregon Coast for sure, love walking around San Fran with all the fun places there, and oregon coast - AMAZING!
Justin Bieber is awful, even the middle school kids say so (mine and her friends do!)
I just got my new consumer reports, Kindle scored much higher than nook. If you want the details, I can email it to you. I think one of the reasons was that the nook was slow to turn pages in comparison.
Love think you can dance!! Love it!
You know what, I miss you in SD. Hopefully, I can see you in UT this summer sometime.
Thanks for picking Some Girls! I hope you enjoy it. I'd be happy to meet with your group by phone or skype if you're interested. You can contact me through my website: http://www.jillianlauren.com/
ReplyDeleteLove the blog. Man, writing and having a toddler is hard work, isn't it?
Best,
Jillian
Wow, how cool is that to have an offer like that for your book club. Can I join?!
ReplyDeleteI pick Chicago. I've been to all of the places (although not the coast of Oregon) and I'm dying to go to Chicago. Rick Bayless is chef of Frontera Grill and Topolobampo in Chicago and I want to try his mole soooo badly. It's supposed to be Obama's fave restaurants ... not that I want to go for that! :)
My opinions, I'd go to San Fran. BRILLIANT city! Seattle rains too much to risk meeting there and have good weather, and Chicago.... never really drawn me. As for the reader, I'd go with an iPad. Just because you aren't "wired" for real internet yet, doesn't mean that you won't be eventually. Besides, it has a GREAT reader in it, plus the ability to do a LOT of other things...
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Kim, don't lie. I KNOW you'd want to go just because of the Obama angle! (hee!)
ReplyDeleteAnd D - one of the options was NOT "iPad". So... (and really? You think the rain in Seattle would deter me? I'd LOVE it!)
Since when do I stick with the options given? Seriously.... how boring would that be?
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Yes, but your "not an option" is WAY too expensive...
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