It's a new week

Last week has been lovingly renamed to the week from hell. Seriously, anything that could go wrong did go wrong. This includes, but is not limited to, broken cars, hospital trips and wedding drama. I have yet to find one person that had a really good week.

Even though it was the week from hell, I have taken some time to reflect and have decided that it did teach me some important lessons.

* Sometimes a girl really just needs a box of tissues and the boy she loves. Crying it out in his arms, while he says mostly the right things and does everything imaginable to make me laugh actually helps.

* Best friends that know you well are so important. Friends that can instantly pick up on an upcoming wedding break down so they grab the Ipod, find your wedding song and put it on, all without saying a word.

* When all else fails, PJ's, bed and a Gilmore Girls marathon is fool proof.

Here's hoping that this week runs just a little bit smoother!

I have some catching up to do....

Hello all!

I have been such a crappy blogger! I'm not going to even try to make excuses this time. It's just pure laziness.

I guess I will start with a bit of a rant. My enrollment date for 4th year is tonight at 6:30, and it has caused me nothing but headaches thus far. I have learned from my three years at York, that they get pure joy out of making everything as complicated as humanly possible. We all make our own schedules yearly, and we all need to make sure we have all of the requirements per year to graduate, with little to no help from the faculty. Obviously, being that I do want to graduate in April of next year, this year I need to be 100% positive that everything is in order. You would think that a university would make this simple. Nope. We have a bunch of core courses that we need to have, along with several electives. Through this, we need to have a certain amount of credits from one area and a certain amount from another, without any crossovers or problems.

I have literally spent the past week sitting in front of my computer with a million tabs opened, as well as 2-3 course books on my lap, trying desperately to figure out what exactly I NEED to graduate. Frustrating? YES! I am finally at the point where I am 99.9% sure that I only need my fourth year credits to graduate, now I need to make all of them fit. York also makes this next to impossible. They put the core courses right in the middle of the day, covering a three hour slot. They also put most of the English credits in the same time slot, so literally anything remotely interesting, that is actually worth taking, doesn't fit. UGH! I'm at the point where I figure I will just wing it at 6:30 and whatever I get, I get.

Ok...Rant over.

I added the goodreads tab at the side of my blog today all by myself. Pretty proud of myself actually. I didn't have to argue with C to get it done.

Other than the great York war that I am in the middle of, I have been on the hunt for vases to help me create my perfect centerpieces and have come up with a few options.

This is basically the look I'm going for, but I think the smallest vase is not tall enough.

This is probably a bit more accurate

But these ones twist, so they are fun

Any opinions?

And my final piece of agenda for the day is to introduce you to some great finds for today:

Kayleigh, at my I-Do it yourself wedding is hosting an awesome monogram giveaway for all you brides out there, go check her out.

And Stacy at You Can't Take it With You has provided me with my entertainment for the day by posting site she runs with another blogger titled Letters from a pissed off bride. Definitely recommend checking this out.

A Rant....

I'm currently reading Chosen, by P.C and Kristen Cast.

This is the third book in the series, and I have to admit.....they are driving me nuts. I didn't really like the first book, I found it slow, but it picked up enough at the end for me to continue on. Now that I'm at the third, I'm not anymore impressed.

The first half of all of the books are exactly the same. She gives the same backing information, explains the same characters and the same situations the they have been "struggling" through for the last three books. They are telling me the same crap, that I ALREADY KNOW. It's like they are assuming that some new follower is going to pick up the series and start reading it from the third book. No reader (avid or not) will do that. I honestly feel like just flipping to the halfway point in the book and starting there, at least at that point they get moderately interesting.

To top this all off, Zoey, the main character is also successfully driving me nuts. I just passed a point where she was whining (again) that her life sucked and she was so stressed. This was brought on by the fact that she has 3 (yes 3!) boyfriends that she can't seem to keep her hands off of. Now granted, I realize that these books are written for an audience of people that basically have the mental capacity of a 12 year old, but really, 3 boyfriends is the reason for a mental breakdown, give me a break (is this really the best message for a 12 year old anyway). P.C and Kristin Cast should introduce REAL stress into the characters lives, like bills, and work, and future plans and real life in general. But no, they choose to give us characters that live cushy, pleasant lives, in a pretty school, who are well fed, and spend their days making out with not one - but 3 - "hot" guys and determine that this makes their lives suck.

I am going to finish this book, because I don't believe in giving up. But I also don't believe in not finishing a series of books, but yet I'm not seeing book four in my near future.

P.S - If anyone really likes these books, I apologize. I'm not having a good day (could you tell??) and this book is really, seriously irritating me.