MOVING ...

I've decided, after a almost a year spent on both wordpress and blogger ... that I prefer one to another.

Therefore, I am moving both of my blogger accounts "Screaming For My Love" and "In the Masses" into one account and one blog.

It came be found HERE.

Hopefully this will make it easier for me to keep up with blogging since everything will be nice and neat in one place.

Resolution #3

Become a better blogger ... i.e. have more opinions.

Resolution #2

Read the Bible.

Resolution #1

Write more than I did in 2008.

Out With the Old

MERRY CHRISTMAS

and a

HAPPY NEW YEAR

2008 in Review

Trips I Took

• Coeur d'Alene - in January, March, July, December
• Walla Walla, WA - May for the Spring Wine Festival
• Disneyland - May for Megan's 21st Birthday
• Natsoopah - July for Family Reunion
• McCall - August
• Camp Perkins - September
• Salt Lake City - November
  

Concerts

• Def Leppard, Styx, REO Speedwagon
• Carrie Underwood, Josh Turner
• Chicago
• The Avett Brothers
• Sheryl Crow
• Stone Temple Pilots
• Jason Mra
• New Kids on the Block

Plays

• All's Well That Ends Well
• The Crucible
• Into the Woods
• Macbeth
• Greater Tuna
• No You Shut Up

Movies Watched (Released in 2008):

• Cloverfield
• 27 Dresses
• Untraceable
• The Air I Breathe
• The Eye
• Fool's Gold
• I Could Never Be Your Woman
• Definitely, Maybe
• Jumper
• Vantage Point
• Charlie Bartlett
• The Other Boleyn Girl
• 10,000 BC
• Funny Games
• Sleepwalking
• 21
• The Ruins
• Shine a Light
• My Blueberry Nights
• Smart People
• Prom Night
• Then She Found Me
• Iron Man
• What Happens in Vegas
• Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull
• The Strangers
• Sex and the City: the Movie
• The Happening
• Wanted
• The Dark Knight
• Mamma Mia!
• The Mummy: Tomb of the Dragon Emperor
• Tropic Thunder
• Vicky Christina Barcelona
• Mirrors
• Righteous Kill
• Nights in Rodanthe
• Deception
• Street Kings
• The Haunting of Molly Hartley
• Saw V
• Proof of Lies
• Quarantine
• Burn After Reading
• Twilight
• Leatherheads
• Wall-E
• Flirting With Fourty
• Australia
• Librarian: Curse of the Judas Challis
  
• The Curious Case of Benjamin Button
• Hancock
• Kung Fu Panda
• Nim's Island
• Made of Honor
  

Miscellaneous:

• Violette and Peyton baptized
• Cut off all my hair
• New sprinkler system and full landscaping at house
• Dylan and Cathie got married
• Tour de Fat 2008
• Stephanie and Kyle got engaged
• Heidy and Andrew got engaged!
• Violette visited Boise for the first time
• Dyed my hair brown
• Violette's First Birthday

Best of 2008 - Books

I made it my first full year of recording all my reading. And I found it very exciting and liberating to see that when I put my mind to it and branch out, I can find so many great books and authors out there.

I had many favorites this year, so I’m going to try and break them up into categories, much like an awards show.

Favorite New Author - Janet Evanovich

Favorite Old Author - James Patterson

Favorite Series - Stephanie Plum Series by Janet Evanovich

Favorite Recommendation - My Sister’s Keeper by Jodi Picoult

Favorite ARC/New Release - Friday Night Knitting Club by Kate Jacobs

Favorite Nonfiction - With Our Good Will by Doug Copsey

Favorite Classic - Sense and Sensibility by Jane Austen

Favorite YA - Twilight by Stephenie Meyer/Georgia Nicholson series by Louise Rennison

Favorite Book to Film - Twilight by Stephenie Meyer

Favorite Fiction - The Time Traveler’s Wife by Audrey Niffenegger

Lifetime Achievement - War and Peace by Leo Tolstoy

Favorite Overall - The Time Traveler’s Wife by Audrey Niffenegger

December - Where have the months gone?

Maybe a monthly post is better than trying to write as often as I can. Because once a month almost seems impossible.

Christmas is on the verge and then suddenly it will be 2009 and I don't know where the time has gone.

I've been abnormally busy this month, not only in life but in work, which was how Aug-Sept was. I've been in and out of town and seeing family and friends and somehow trying to organize even more what I try to call "my office".

This past weekend I attended a 50th birthday party for a former colleague, went to see my 5 year old cousin in is Y-ball basketball game, went to the Christmas Show, decorated my house and hung up Christmas lights.

Saturday felt like any other work day, not being home for long hours at a time. Even Sunday felt the same. I went from Church to a 3 hour long movie (Australia - AMAZING) and then home to decorate and all of a sudden it was 6pm and I hadn't eaten anything all day.

I felt I got some things accomplished. My house looks all festive and I am no longer the only on is my block who doesn't have some bright light on the outside. They don't flash, thank you.

I'm preparing for a long weekend in CDA visiting family, celebrating my Goddaughter's 1st birthday, celebrating Christmas early, and relaxing without the responsibility of cleaning and cooking and driving myself places.

I'll be back next week with pictures.

Where Have I Been?

Just for fun.


visited 10 states (20%)
Create your own visited map of The United States or try another Douwe Osinga project

NKOTB - 18 Years Later

While cheesy, one of the top three concerts I have ever been to, took place last night in Salt Lake City.

New Kids on the Block, Natasha Bedingfield and Lady Gaga. Not a fan of the later, but NKOTB and NB were absolutely amazing. Nothing brings your younger years full circle than traveling back to the very first concert I ever went to to.

Around 1990, when I was 6, my mom, cousins and aunts all went to see New Kids on the Block in Boise.

Now, 18 years later and my cousin Christy and I decided to take the drive to Salt Lake City, brave the crowd of screaming girls/women who all wanted to relive their childhood.


I'm still going on the amazing performance and hearing the songs ringing in my ears, not to mention Jordan Knight without a shirt, an up close and personal performance on our end of the area, upgraded seats and every song we sang to as little girls.

For all pictures and more videos:

New Kids on the Block - Nov 15