Daniel bought me the 16g Ipod Touch for Christmas. I love it!! I jailbreaked it, in less then 20 mins. It was really easy. It's a great gadget. When I opened the ipod, I was in Gaspe. Gaspe=no highspeed internet. Which means it takes 9 hours to download itunes. So, I had to wait to come home. The wait was worth it, as soon as I got home this morning I started playing with it. It's a great little toy. I'm also keeping my 30g Video to store movies on when I travel. I had all season 6 of Gilmore Girls, and a 3 or 4 movies stored on it which was great for the train ride. I love APPLE!!
Which are your favorite sites for shopping online?
Ebay.ca
ioffer.com
Name brand products, Gucci, Juicy Couture....
www.amazon.ca
Books and DVD's
www.chapters.indigo.ca
Books
www.avon.ca
makeup
These are my favorite sites, and you can tell I do ALOT of online shopping.
For dog lovers, this book is great. I saw it in the bookstore, looked through it and wanted to buy it right away. It's hilarious.
Book Description
A LAUGH-OUT-LOUD PARODY: AN lLLUSTRATED GUIDE FOR--AND BY--DOGS, UNLOCKING THE MYSTERIES OF DOGHOOD AND TEACHING THEM HOW TO DO THE VERY ACTIVITIES THAT HUMAN SOCIETY SAYS ARE WRONG.
The Dangerous Book for Dogs asks a simple question: isn't there more to being a dog than wearing a mini cashmere sweater and riding around in a $400 evening clutch? What about the simple pleasures of life -- feeling the wind in your fur, digging up the grass beneath your paws, smelling another dog's butt? Isn't that part of the great joy of being a dog?
Written (with help) by dogs and for dogs, The Dangerous Book For Dogs provides insight on everything from the tastiest styles of shoes to chew to the proper method for terrorizing squirrels. It also contains portraits of noble dogs throughout history, the mysteries of cats and humans, and everything else your dog ever wanted to know but was afraid to ask–like how to make toys out of human's household items, or how to escape from a humiliating reindeer costume.
Generously illustrated with drawings by cartoonist Emily Flake, this hilarious parody is for good dogs, bad dogs, and the millions of people who love them.
Rex and Sparky wrote this parody without authorization (because they are dogs and they do what they want.)
A LAUGH-OUT-LOUD PARODY: AN lLLUSTRATED GUIDE FOR--AND BY--DOGS, UNLOCKING THE MYSTERIES OF DOGHOOD AND TEACHING THEM HOW TO DO THE VERY ACTIVITIES THAT HUMAN SOCIETY SAYS ARE WRONG.
The Dangerous Book for Dogs asks a simple question: isn't there more to being a dog than wearing a mini cashmere sweater and riding around in a $400 evening clutch? What about the simple pleasures of life -- feeling the wind in your fur, digging up the grass beneath your paws, smelling another dog's butt? Isn't that part of the great joy of being a dog?
Written (with help) by dogs and for dogs, The Dangerous Book For Dogs provides insight on everything from the tastiest styles of shoes to chew to the proper method for terrorizing squirrels. It also contains portraits of noble dogs throughout history, the mysteries of cats and humans, and everything else your dog ever wanted to know but was afraid to ask–like how to make toys out of human's household items, or how to escape from a humiliating reindeer costume.
Generously illustrated with drawings by cartoonist Emily Flake, this hilarious parody is for good dogs, bad dogs, and the millions of people who love them.
Rex and Sparky wrote this parody without authorization (because they are dogs and they do what they want.)
Today we started Christmas shopping. We got a lot done. This year we were suppose to stay in Montreal for Christmas with my parents and New Years in Gaspe with Daniel parents. We rotate this each year. Unfortunately we received bad news this week, Daniel's grandfather was given 6 months to live. So, were going to spend his last Christmas with him. My parents might come down as well, so we'll see. It's really sad. Daniel has been taking it well, but I think he's just pretending. I need to ask me boss if I can get an extra two vacation days. It shouldn't be a problem. I'll ask tomorrow. His grandfather never had to take medication before, and now he's told this. His grandmother is taking it hard. He's 83 but it doesn't make it any easier....
As for my book update,
I'm reading:
Product Description (From Amazon)
Books in Canada
This strikingly original portrait of a year in the life of a young Montrealer opens with dash and optimism. Baby, almost twelve, and her father, Jules, twenty-six, have taken up residence at a once-stylish downtown hotel. Like all their friends, Jules exudes style: fur hat, long leather jacket, slippery leather boots. He also has a heroin habit. Yet Montreal’s decrepit downtown is viewed through Baby’s eyes as an enchanted place where everyone plays an endless game of dress-up. Having Jules as her dad-her parents were fifteen when she was born-has made her wise, however. “Having a young parent meant you had to pack up your stuff and run away”; this time he has sold a twenty-year-old pal’s guitars. Going out for “chocolate milk” means dad needs to score. But the strong love and good memories between them keep her hopeful.
Depending on the severity of Jules’ troubles (TB treatment, Detox, his harsh reaction to Baby’s adolescence), Baby moves in and out of foster homes and even into a detention centre where every kid she meets is a character. Although nothing shakes her love for Jules, there’s only one career option for an attractive, neglected girl, no matter how bright and imaginative. Attracting a local pimp, Baby enters the sex trade while still scoring A’s at school. These scenes are hard to bear. But O’Neill allows us to see beyond the squalor into the heart of a girl who won’t-through pluck, brains, and a last-minute authorial rescue-be destroyed.
Although she sounds sometimes like Holden Caulfield, the spirit of Leonard Cohen’s “Suzanne” hovers over this Montreal story: “There are heroes in the seaweed/There are children in the morning/They are leaning out for love/And they will lean that way forever.” This time it’s Baby who “holds the mirror” to an extraordinary world the rest of us tend to tune out.
Nancy Wigston (Books in Canada)
This strikingly original portrait of a year in the life of a young Montrealer opens with dash and optimism. Baby, almost twelve, and her father, Jules, twenty-six, have taken up residence at a once-stylish downtown hotel. Like all their friends, Jules exudes style: fur hat, long leather jacket, slippery leather boots. He also has a heroin habit. Yet Montreal’s decrepit downtown is viewed through Baby’s eyes as an enchanted place where everyone plays an endless game of dress-up. Having Jules as her dad-her parents were fifteen when she was born-has made her wise, however. “Having a young parent meant you had to pack up your stuff and run away”; this time he has sold a twenty-year-old pal’s guitars. Going out for “chocolate milk” means dad needs to score. But the strong love and good memories between them keep her hopeful.
Depending on the severity of Jules’ troubles (TB treatment, Detox, his harsh reaction to Baby’s adolescence), Baby moves in and out of foster homes and even into a detention centre where every kid she meets is a character. Although nothing shakes her love for Jules, there’s only one career option for an attractive, neglected girl, no matter how bright and imaginative. Attracting a local pimp, Baby enters the sex trade while still scoring A’s at school. These scenes are hard to bear. But O’Neill allows us to see beyond the squalor into the heart of a girl who won’t-through pluck, brains, and a last-minute authorial rescue-be destroyed.
Although she sounds sometimes like Holden Caulfield, the spirit of Leonard Cohen’s “Suzanne” hovers over this Montreal story: “There are heroes in the seaweed/There are children in the morning/They are leaning out for love/And they will lean that way forever.” This time it’s Baby who “holds the mirror” to an extraordinary world the rest of us tend to tune out.
Nancy Wigston (Books in Canada)
I finished reading Midwives, and it really was a great book. It is a new favorite of mine.
Now, I'm reading Peony in Love. I loved Snow Flower and the Secret fan, and this new novel is also by Lisa Sea.
I'm only a few pages in, and I'm hooked. My work has slowed down for a week due to American Thanksgiving. This is great, because we've been extremely busy with the 3rd quarter results coming out. I was on the most awkward conference call today, because a whole committee was arguing and they were telling someone he should resign. I felt horrible for him, and hearing him stumble over his words was sad. I'm still loving my job, and I get the inside scoop of companies.
Daniel and I have been looking at condos, we're planning on buying one near the spring. We really want an island in the kitchen, and a fireplace in the living-room. We're really excited, I can't wait to pick out furniture! Then were going to start planning our wedding. I'm in sure a great place right now!
Today, I installed the new Mac Operating system, and i'm really happy with it. Stacks are amazing, and I'm so happy that everything was saved in my computer when I upgraded!! I love Mac!
I'm still reading
I really am enjoying it. I know it was chosen by Oprah for her book club. It honestly is a great read.
I'll update more later, i'm still experimenting with my new OS.
Book: Show us a book you've read more than once.
I love this book! I feel in love with it during highschool, and I still consider it one of my favorite books.
The First is the Hound dog and the other is a Ninja Turtle. It was made for my oldest nephew. Daniel and I worked all day, but they are really nice!
Here is my latest book purchase blog:
I bought a few young adult books, because sometimes I really enjoy them. I'm currently reading "Skin" by Adrienne Maria Vrettos, and I'm really enjoying it.
Here's the description from Amazon:
Adrienne Maria Vrettos’s intriguing debut novel, Skin, depicts teenage angst with a capital A. In it 14-year-old eighth grader, Donnie LePlant, suffers through a miles-long list of anxieties. His parents, for example, argue and shout so loudly that he and his 16-year-old sister, Karen, have to leave the house to huddle in the cold on the porch. He suffers from a recurring ear infection. His best buddies, Chris and Bean, inexplicably turn against him, refusing even to talk to him in the school cafeteria. Girls, and in fact most people he knows, simply ignore him. So he fantasises about sexual encounters with his sister’s best friend and neighbour, Amanda. But not only does Amanda treat him like a kid, she openly castigates him when she learns via the town’s teenage telegraph that he has been falsely bragging to his buds about his sexual conquests with her. But most important, and this is the real glue of the story, is his reaction to Karen’s wilful transformation into a skin-and-bones, full-blown anorexic-a situation readers know about right from Donnie’s first sentence in the powerful, heart-grabbing prologue to the novel.
As the novel unwinds the threads from the prologue, Donnie struggles with his angst, at times hating his Dad for leaving home, at other times criticising his Mom for her nit-picking ways, and always worrying about why he’s ostracised by his peers. While he comes to grips with his sister’s losing battle with her condition, she turns family meals into battle zones. She rejects food, regurgitates anything that she’s coaxed into eating and stashes her calorie-counting journals in the most unlikely of places. She shuns Amanda’s offers of assistance, physically battles her parents’ efforts to force her into a rehab centre, and tells her brother it’s time “that you write the book of Donnie”. It’s a tribute to Vrettos that the story, as sensitive and poignant as it is, never slips into the maudlin-not even when Donnie agonises over his conflicted feelings for Karen, Amanda, his lost friends and his warring parents. In fact, much of the dialogue and sidebar stories, such as Donnie’s escapist fantasies and his deliberate attempts to fade into invisibility, especially when dealing with a pair of British-born East Indian twins, Karen and Rodney, are quite funny. And despite the overall seriousness of Karen’s anorexia, the novel clips right along because of its reliance on dialogue, short chapters and hard-hitting emotional impact. Skin is written with consummate skill and the empathy and understanding necessary for such a delicate and disturbing subject. It deserves a wide readership.
M. Wayne Cunningham (Books in Canada)
Here's the description from Amazon:
Adrienne Maria Vrettos’s intriguing debut novel, Skin, depicts teenage angst with a capital A. In it 14-year-old eighth grader, Donnie LePlant, suffers through a miles-long list of anxieties. His parents, for example, argue and shout so loudly that he and his 16-year-old sister, Karen, have to leave the house to huddle in the cold on the porch. He suffers from a recurring ear infection. His best buddies, Chris and Bean, inexplicably turn against him, refusing even to talk to him in the school cafeteria. Girls, and in fact most people he knows, simply ignore him. So he fantasises about sexual encounters with his sister’s best friend and neighbour, Amanda. But not only does Amanda treat him like a kid, she openly castigates him when she learns via the town’s teenage telegraph that he has been falsely bragging to his buds about his sexual conquests with her. But most important, and this is the real glue of the story, is his reaction to Karen’s wilful transformation into a skin-and-bones, full-blown anorexic-a situation readers know about right from Donnie’s first sentence in the powerful, heart-grabbing prologue to the novel.
As the novel unwinds the threads from the prologue, Donnie struggles with his angst, at times hating his Dad for leaving home, at other times criticising his Mom for her nit-picking ways, and always worrying about why he’s ostracised by his peers. While he comes to grips with his sister’s losing battle with her condition, she turns family meals into battle zones. She rejects food, regurgitates anything that she’s coaxed into eating and stashes her calorie-counting journals in the most unlikely of places. She shuns Amanda’s offers of assistance, physically battles her parents’ efforts to force her into a rehab centre, and tells her brother it’s time “that you write the book of Donnie”. It’s a tribute to Vrettos that the story, as sensitive and poignant as it is, never slips into the maudlin-not even when Donnie agonises over his conflicted feelings for Karen, Amanda, his lost friends and his warring parents. In fact, much of the dialogue and sidebar stories, such as Donnie’s escapist fantasies and his deliberate attempts to fade into invisibility, especially when dealing with a pair of British-born East Indian twins, Karen and Rodney, are quite funny. And despite the overall seriousness of Karen’s anorexia, the novel clips right along because of its reliance on dialogue, short chapters and hard-hitting emotional impact. Skin is written with consummate skill and the empathy and understanding necessary for such a delicate and disturbing subject. It deserves a wide readership.
M. Wayne Cunningham (Books in Canada)
"Middlesex" is honestly a great novel. I really wasn't sure how much I would enjoy it and that is the reason it has sat on my bookshelf for a few years now. Thankfully, my bookclub has chosen it and I thought it would be a great way to make me read it. It's a book that's hard to understand because there are so many levels to the novel. It's a story that I can't relate to, and i'm sure most people can't. It's more of a book that keeps to curious and wanting to read more. It seems like a surreal story but you keep wanting to know more. Jeffrey Eugendies writing is exceptional. I'll post more when I'm done. I do not want to write any spoilers, but I highly recommend everyone to read it.
My newest book purchase has been,
This book was sitting on the shelf at my local Chapters book store, and I was really captivated by the cover. I turned it around and read it and had to buy it.
"War-torn Afghanistan could not seem farther from Newfoundland, but it is about to change twelve-year-old tomboy Jack Cooper (or Jacqueline, as her mother insists on calling her) forever. When her father is killed in the war, she watches helplessly as her mother crumbles under sorrow and depression. Jack and her younger sister and brother, Tessa and Simon, end up across the country, living on a run-down farm in a small town on the Prairies with a great-grandmother they didn’t know existed. Worried that they will be abandoned again if Gran moves into a retirement home, Jack puts on a brave face and encourages Tessa and Simon to take on the challenges of their new life. In the process, she learns that families come in many different forms and that love, trust, and faith can build a home anywhere."
It looks like a simple fast read, but enjoyable nonetheless. I'll update later on about this book. I still want to read another Augusten Burroughs book, I'm just really into Middlesex right now. So many book, so little time....(another book I need to get around too.)
"War-torn Afghanistan could not seem farther from Newfoundland, but it is about to change twelve-year-old tomboy Jack Cooper (or Jacqueline, as her mother insists on calling her) forever. When her father is killed in the war, she watches helplessly as her mother crumbles under sorrow and depression. Jack and her younger sister and brother, Tessa and Simon, end up across the country, living on a run-down farm in a small town on the Prairies with a great-grandmother they didn’t know existed. Worried that they will be abandoned again if Gran moves into a retirement home, Jack puts on a brave face and encourages Tessa and Simon to take on the challenges of their new life. In the process, she learns that families come in many different forms and that love, trust, and faith can build a home anywhere."
It looks like a simple fast read, but enjoyable nonetheless. I'll update later on about this book. I still want to read another Augusten Burroughs book, I'm just really into Middlesex right now. So many book, so little time....(another book I need to get around too.)
