I Wants One!

 When the kindle came out I thought "cool", but it was the first of its kind and had limited options for buying books, and the different types of titles available to begin with, and well it was just kind of fugly. I knew with the advancement of the kindle more companies would start to make more e readers in the coming years and if I was patient (which I am NOT!) one would come along that had more options and was better suited for me as a consumer and a reader. This year Barnes and Noble have released their e reader. It is called Nook and the more I look into owning one the more I want one. They are quite spendy but with the added benefit of not only being able to read your entire library anywhere, but also being able to buy any e book where wireless access is available, and cheaper new release titles the idea keeps sounding better and better to me. So, now I have to wait until I save enough money to buy one…I hate waiting

I Can't Be The Only One!?

Please tell me I am not alone when I say that every year I buy myself a Christmas present from me-to me. I mean here I am out in all the stores, sales galore are going on, shiny things abound and prices are slashed for the holiday shopper! How can I not get myself the one thing (or two or three) that I know I will love getting for the holiday season? I know, I know, Christmas is not about gifts it is about the meaning behind the holiday. Jesus’ birth, the feeling of being with loved ones, giving to those who have little…BUT! Yeah, I don't have a reasonable explanation... I just like stuff, and I know it is horrible! I know I have so much more stuff than I need, so much more than a lot of other people. Yet, every Christmas I just see something and I am like “oooh, it was so nice of me to buy this for me! I shouldn’t have, but I did!” So tell me, am I really in a minority here? Do you buy yourself Christmas presents, Hanukkah presents, birthday presents, etc for yourself? Cause I sure do!

Turn Offs 1-10 In No Particular Order.

1. Spitting. I have never liked this! Will never like this! I can't stand when men, for no reason,walk outside of a building and suddenly stop talking, turn their heads and spit. Eh. Gross.
2. Pants that hang so low they look like they defy the laws of gravity. I just don't get this.
3. Facial piercings. Nuf said.
4. Skinny jeans- there are VERY FEW women who should wear these and I don't think any men should!
5. Chuck Norris Jokes.(or any stupid repetitive jokes for that matter) It was (not really) funny last year. Now you are just obnoxious.
6. Men that ALWAYS have to be right and or have the last word.
7. Poor Grooming habits- Yeah, women will tell you that sports stars are sexy and hot when they are sweaty, but on a daily basis we prefer our men washed and dressed in clean clothes. Don't even get me started on the smell of unwashed male... makes me shudder just to think about it.
8. Dressing like a slob- Now to be fair there are times to dress like a slob and times not to. The difference is to know when to throw on some sweat pants and when to dress it up a little more.
9. The Not-So-Courteous-Approach. The whistling, using slang terms, grabbing a woman’s arm, or snapping at her in order to get her attention. This makes my eyes roll so far back into my head I should probably fall over. Not only is it juvenile, but it is disrespectful, and just plan a dumb.
10. The dumb pick up lines- If you have ever used one on me, I am sorry, because I probably laughed in your face thinking you were joking, not realizing until later you were trying to pick me up. Whoops. They are just too cheesy for words, just go up and ask the girl out!

Bah Humbug!

So I was really excited about Christmas about a month ago. Ya know, in October when we had those days of snow, and cold. I was completely ready for the holidays, excited to go Christmas shopping, get together with friends and family, listen to Christmas music, and see all of the decorations. Now, however, since the weather has become nice and the sun has returned…I am not so much in the Christmas mood anymore. In fact I can’t imagine that now that fall finally got here that we are supposed to just rush through it to the Christmas season! I vote more fall!

The Next Doctor Who Special-Nov 15!

Uh oh!

Okay I am not happy with the blogger upgrade, and because of this new upgrade you are all going to suffer. Unless I am wrong, there is no freakin spell check! Now, I am a horrible speller and tend to just get worse when i am typing fast. Letters get left out, transposed...you get the idea. So because of this over sight on Bloggers part we shall all have to suffer. I mean now I can access all sorts of fancy things with the click of my mouse (pretty sure I could before too) I can strikethrough  change the size and the font depending on how i feel ;P be bold or slanted, but I just cant spell things correctly.

Fall Events Check Off

So with the approach of Thanksgiving and Christmas things always seem to get a little hectic, and I wanted to take a moment and look back at my list of fall outings and see how many I actually got done.

1.Go to the Minnesota Harvest apple orchard and gets some apples, some apple butter, oooh and some honey.
2.Go to the HUGE!!! Autumn Festival craft fair at Canterbury Park on November 12-15. (this one I am going to on Thursday and am super excited for!)
3.Find my way through Sever's Corn Maze in Shakopee.
4.Go on some hikes in the nearby area now that it will start to get cooler out.
5. Make a trip over to the "local" Betty's Pies in the fall for food and pie.
6. Go to the science museum to see the Titanic exhibit.
7. I haven't decided yet if I want to do a Halloween scare myself silly kinda of Soap Factory event or not but I will not rule it out yet. ( this one I decided I didn't want to do).

So I did half of them so far. I don't know if I will get the hiking in. Betty's pie changes their hours for the winter, so I will have to do some investigating into that, but I would like to get back there soon. As for the Titanic exhibit, that runs through January and I would like to save that for some weekend when it is a little colder out and not as nice to be hanging around outside. I will be extremely disappointed if I don't get out to see it.