S. L Wright contest on Bitten by Books

I'm inviting everyone to try and win a Kindle 3G by heading over to this website: http://bittenbybooks.com/?p=33965 I can't seem to figure out how to post the picture that they show but I'm entering it and trying to inform everyone so that they can try to win it. Here's the shortcut that I copied from the cover. http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/0451463676?ie=UTF8&tag=bittenbybooks-20&linkCode=as2&camp=1789&creative=390957&creativeASIN=0451463676

Good Luck everyone and happy holidays!

-Jessica

Realization and questions

The night before last I came to a realization. To share this realization I'm going to have to talk a little bit more about my past.

So I graduated with my Bachelors degree in May and since then I've gained all my weight back. I seem to have completely thrown out all of my hard work. I don't exercise, I am not eating right and I've actually gotten to the point of not even eating meals. I'm eating chocolate and candy all the time.

And just out of the blue I came to the realization that I'm not respecting my body and that in turn has brought me to realize that in not respecting my body I have no respect for myself. Me and my body. We are one and I'm totally abusing my body by not exercising or eating healthy.

I then tortured my coworker (Sorry Adam!) with talking to him about it. Mind you, I am a female, I started out on one subject and then jumped around. And I was talking to a male. . I guess it wasn't such a good idea but Adam was awesome and listened. And provided support. For that I thank you Adam.

From our conversation and my realization, I've come to the conclusion that I'm going to start respecting my body and myself again. I'm going to work through a lot and I'm going to hopefully post on here instead of torturing my coworkers.

The only real question that I've been asking myself is, where do I start? Should I start with my body or with myself?

Today I started with my body. I've had oatmeal for breakfast and an orange for a snack. I am now going to have lunch which will consist of a salad with leftover turkey. I'm going to take small steps and hopefully work my way through this.

Thanks for reading/listening to this. I'm planning on posting more on here and hope to have more support from friends.

Now, LUNCH!

-Jessica

Sparkling Reviews: Giveaways

Sparkling Reviews: Giveaways: " Kindle Giveaway I have a fantastic giveaway going on! There is a catch though... Before I will be giving anything away we have to reach..."

Kindle Giveaways

we have a kindle giveaway at sparkling reviews
http://www.sparklingreviews.com/p/giveaways.html

we have another one with Scott Nicholson
http://www.hauntedcomputer.com/blogtour.htm
(without participating in this one I wouldn't have found out about the sparkling reviews one)

So go over and try to win one. I am.

-Jessica

Tristan

Okay. So I decided to enter in a contest to try and win a Kindle. I didn't find out about it until it was almost too late but when I saw that picture I couldn't pass it up.

The site: http://www.kristiecook.com/2010/10/contestgiveaway-news-deadline-extended.html

The details: Kristie Cook gave us the one picture and then we had to do something to it. The color picture is the one given. The drawing with the color picture in the picture was my first attempt and after asking my friends their input, the very first and second drawing is my FINAL product (I couldn't really figure out how to turn it). It would have been fun to do something on photoshop too but I don't have that program.

The first saying that popped into my head and I loved, was 'WANTED: A MAN TO CALL MY OWN' and the last saying that I decided it probably went with the book better, was 'WANTED! Name: Tristan Knight Last Seen: in Promise by Kristie Cook', with a cowboy drawing. When I saw the picture, a cowboy was the first thing that popped into my head (I've heard of them called a devil).

This was fun and I will have to get back into drawing hands and faces (which I stink at!). I hope that other authors or even Kristie Cook does this sort of contest again because it was fun to see peoples interpretations.

What do you guys think? Still terrible?

So it's a new year and I just got around to looking back at this

I mean how often does someone checks people's blogs? When does one have time to post on there blog and how often?

Ok. so last year was a year full of a lot of firsts. This year has just begun and where it will take me will be for anyone to figure out as it goes. Currently I'm trying to make it through 5 classes this semester so that I can graduate with my bachelor's degree by May. I can do it, I just know that I can.

So the first movie that I saw in the movie theatre this year turned out to be Avatar. I, personally, loved it and can't wait for it to come out in DVD. I'm currently watching Julie and Julia with my mom and it's cute.

I seemed to have strayed off of topic. Well, that's all for now, wont take up anyone's time for any reason. I'm off to work on my homework. I bid everyone a good weekend.

Like the saying goes: Life is a rollercoaster

So the past couple of months has been a big trip for me. I had my first surgery (which was a lot of fun, not!), took a class during the summer (which I had to be up and out of the house around 6:30/7:00am), got the hospital bills (man it's a lot of money), my step dad's been in and out of the hospital (but since he goes to Hines VA hospital his bills are a lot less then mine), my sister got an apartment with friends, my brother has started Panther Football, my dad's got a new girlfriend and so many other things.

Currently I am working on cleaning my room (when you can't see your floor you know that it's time to clean it), working extra hours to try and make up for the ones I missed from the surgery and 3 weeks that I had to take off, working on a latch hook that I got many years ago and I'm going to have to find a way to fix my paper shredder (while shredding stuff from my room last night, it quit working. I guess I'm going to have to take it apart and try to fix it).

School starts in less than a month and I still need to finish applying for FASFA and hope that they pay for a good chunch of schooling. I will hopefully be done with my room before school starts (if you don't know me too well, I've got over 3,000 books and have a bad habit of putting things in bags and just shoving them on top of each other).

I hope that everyone is having a good and safe summer! I'll try to post more often about general items or more personal.