Author: Cindy

 I am a little late in posting this for today but we have been busy cleaning up our basement and getting rid of stuff we no longer need and doing some repairs. I am hoping to eventually get my wall to wall bookcase down there in the famil room.

Here is the direct link for Day 5

I actually had to think about this because I read quite a few books last year and I pretty much liked them all with the exception of this one:

I read Beautiful Disaster by Jamie McGuire and I really liked it so when I saw this one I picked it up. I didn’t read the back of the book before buying it because silly me thought it was book 2 in the continuing series. Boy was I wrong, this one was told in the male point of view. The exact same book as Beautiful Disaster. I started reading it and but couldn’t finish it because it felt like I was rereading the same book over again.

What book or books were your worst reads of 2013?

Welcome to Day 3 in the Book Blogger New Year’s Challenge.

Here is the direct link to the post at Parjunkee.com

 Hey everyone welcome to Day 2 in the Book Bloggers New Year’s Challenge.

The direct link to link your post to Parajunkee.com is there.

PROS:

• Connecting with other book bloggers online and in real life
• Attending awesome author events
• Reading amazing books before they are released
• Sharing my thoughts on books
• Discovering many great books I might not know about orginally
• Being able to justify my time spent online
• Being able to justify my spending because you need to buy things to talk about them
• Being able to attend conferences

CONS:

• DRAMA
• My over flowing book shelves of books I need to read
• writing good reviews
• all the time I spend online
• Having to decline books that don’t interest me but wanting to promote the aurthor
• the cost to attend conferences

Those are just a few of my Pros and Cons, what are yours?

1. Blog daily. This year I want to make it a point to blog daily (if possible).
2. Read and Review. I really need to get into that habit of reading a book and reviewing it right away. That is something that slipped for me last year. I am making it a point this year to read one book and review it before starting a new one.
3. Commenting/Networking/Interact. I need to get into the habit of commenting on my posts. This has always been a pet peeve of mine and now I need to fix that. I need to pimp my blog more and put myself out there. I need to get more involved with the blogging world.
4. Organize. I need to sit down and plan out my week with what I want to post and try and stick to that schedule. This will allow me to schedule posts in advance.
5. Vlogging. I want to get more into that this year. This will probably consist of book hauls, shelf tours etc.

1. Managing my time. With being a stay at home mom, volunteering at my son’s school library and being a hockey team manager I need to work on this. This will require me to plan out my week in advance so I am not feeling rushed all the time and feeling as though nothing is getting done.
2. No Buy. I have put myself on a no make up buy ban and I am forcing myself to stick with that because this past week I have been cleaning up and wow I have alot of stuff that I really don’t need. That will be an upcoming blog post. I will also be limiting myself in book buying as well. I have been really good about that since the fall because I am no longer an iReward member at Chapters instead I am a plum reward member. Perhaps that will be a future blog post talking about the differences and how it affect my spending there.
3. Organizing. I mentioned above how I have been cleaning up and I am amazed at how much stuff I actually have and own. I decided in 2014 I really need to trim things down and keep only what I need and use. Things that have been sitting unused for the past year or more really needs to find a new home. Over the course of this year I will share those posts with you.
4. Journaling. I use to do this when I was in  high school and when I moved to Montreal but then getting married and starting a family it fell to the side. I think this will be theraputic for me.
5. Getting Healthy. I realized recently that I am so out of shape its not even funny. I was doing really good up until we got back from Hungary. Since then the weight I lost is now back plus some, I have been feeling really blah and unmotivated lately. I have also noticed that I get sick quicker and it lingers so I think getting healthy with eating and exercise will do me good.