Humpday Confessions 4.16

So this is my first link up with Kathy's Humpday Confessions even though I've been reading them for so long! Was that my first confession? Am I doing it wrong already? Fuck.

- I discovered this on holy Sunday night:

When in the motherfucking hell did #ZacEfron become so bloody sexxxy?!? #fuckme #yesplease #ManCrushEverydayOfTheYear pic.twitter.com/AqsU4TQ3no
— Daniela (@daniela_k) April 14, 2014

But mostly my confession is what went through my head during this time...I'm sure you can figure it out.

- You'll hear me say "I hate.." a lot more than "I love...". This makes people think I'm a hater. Which I am; though not quite as big as people assume. It's just easier to trash talk something than to talk about why you love it (I just do!) and there's always the fear that you'll be mocked. LOVE MAKES YOU VULNERABLE, PEOPLE!

- We were going to have a healthy week of eating this week and that went to shit by the second day. For both of us. At least we fail together.

- I am ridiculously excited about Easter - making Easter bread & painting eggs (which you never stop doing if you're Orthodox) are my favesies!

- I file my nails a lot. More than anyone else I know. How do I know this? Because everyone comments on it...therefore it must be true. I used to file my nails during university lectures (and put profs in their place with my epic level of knowledge if they ever called me out) and I now file my nails at work. Yes, I can have an intelligent conversation about this project while filing my nail...because if it gets caught in my sweater ONE more time, I'm going to scream!

- I used to also paint my nails at work at my old job but that's pushing it, even for me.

Happy Hump Day!

Wedding Date

Suuuuuuch a good movie in a total cheesie, rom com way. And Dermot Mulroney? Hell yes. Please. Now. Way better than My Best Friend's Wedding. He seems to enjoy weddings. You haven't seen it? Oh, you should.

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is this movie seriously 9 years old? wow.

But that's not why we're here today. We're going to talk about my wedding date. I'm pretty sure I haven't posted about our impending wedding since the engagement. Because there hasn't been a lot to talk about.

Right from the time we got engaged, we had tentatively set Fall 2015 as our wedding period. A full two years after our engagement. Apparently, that is the craziest shit anyone has ever heard and if I have to hear...

Why are you waiting so long?!

...one more fucking time, I swear I'm going to impale the person. (Sorry if that's you.)

It's because we had other priorities. Being financially stable is important to us as we planned on financing the wedding ourselves. But first and foremost, we wanted to buy a place. Which we have! So now we're considering bumping it up to...Spring 2015.

Did you think I was going to say 2014? Oh no, no. I do not want to devote my life to planning this wedding. I want to take my time and actually enjoy it. We don't need a wedding to be together & happy.

So now that we've bought a place, how much have we planned? You'll have to wait until the next wedding post!

I'm linking up these gals because I'm so curious to get other brides-to-be's opinions & thoughts on this!

It's OK! - 5.23

Linking up with Neely & Amber for the LAST time to let you know what's OK today!

It's OK...

- that this is the last linkup! #sadz

- that I still haven't gotten my shit together to organize my blogging time & post more frequently

- that I have a MILLION blog ideas...but they're just hanging out in my brain

- that this short work week is not feeling short at all, and there's another day to go!

- that dC still hasn't given me his summer movies must-see list so I can tell y'all about it

- that I'm hoping our first softball game tonight gets rained out...I'm too tired!

- that I've had the shittiest sleep of life this past week

- that there are a couple of serious shit disturbers in my life right now who I really just want to put in their place

- that Koko has been EXTRA crazy in the mornings!

- that I really just want to go to sleep right now...

Good bye It's OK-ers!

Book Club!

I finally read another book & so I'm linking up!

Last week I finished:

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A grandson tries to buy the corpse of Lenin on eBay for his Communist grandfather. A failed wunderkind steals a golden cross from an Orthodox church. A boy meets his cousin (the love of his life) once every five years in the river that divides their village into east and west. These are Miroslav Penkov's strange, unexpectedly moving visions of his home country, Bulgaria, and they are the stories that make up his beguiling and deeply felt debut.
In East of the West, Penkov writes with great empathy of centuries of tumult; his characters mourn the way things were and long for things that will never be. But even as they wrestle with the weight of history, with the debt to family, with the pangs of exile, the stories in East of the West are always light on their feet, animated by Penkov's unmatched eye for the absurd.

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My mom heard about this book & ordered it off Amazon (a huge accomplishment for her!) in English so that  I would read it too. I'm not normally a short-story reader but I figured this was culturally relevant so I should probably read it. At the very least, to please my mom. ;)

I'm really glad that I read it. It's not so much that I really enjoyed it all (there were some stories that I found to be somewhat pointless) but nearly every story resonated in some way. Whether it was because it reminded  me of a personal situation or I could really understand where the character was coming from, it was real to me.

Of course, the author saved the best for last and it was definitely my favourite story. I think a large part of that is that the author finally defined in English what I have been unable to define for myself for the last couple of months. A single Bulgarian word that speaks volumes.

"Yad is what lines the inside of every Bulgarian soul. It's yad that propels us like a motor onward. Yad is like envy, but it's not simply that. It's like spite, rage, anger but more elegant, more complicated. It's like pity for someone, regret for something you did or did not do, for a chance you missed, for an opportunity you squandered. All those feelings in one beautiful word."

I won't explain right now why this 'yad' has had such a hold on me for the last couple of months but it was enough of a relief to finally have it defined in a way that I couldn't, for me to be able to start dealing with it a little bit more. That in itself made this book a worthwhile read for me.
If you enjoy books or stories about other cultures, this is an easy and definitely good read that I would surely recommend!

Happy Weekend!

Nail Files

This week I painted my nails in time for a [delayed] link-up with Tara & Vicki for..

Lilac

Book Club Friday

After the last book review rant, I'm happy to be linking up with Heather's Book Club on a positive note.

This week I'm reviewing:

In the ruins of a place once known as North America lies the nation of Panem, a shining Capitol surrounded by twelve outlying districts. The Capitol is harsh and cruel and keeps the districts in line by forcing them all to send one boy and one girl between the ages of twelve and eighteen to participate in the annual Hunger Games, a fight to the death on live TV. 
Sixteen-year-old Katniss Everdeen, who lives alone with her mother and younger sister, regards it as a death sentence when she steps forward to take her sister's place in the Games. But Katniss has been close to dead before—and survival, for her, is second nature. Without really meaning to, she becomes a contender. But if she is to win, she will have to start making choices that will weigh survival against humanity and life against love.
Good reads

I loved this book! YA or not, it was the perfect change from the last book I read. It was fast-paced, entertaining and well-written. Yes, this book actually had grammar. What I liked most was that despite its youth-based fictional story, the dystopian undertones were very mature and easily paralleled to reality. I don't want to give much away so go read it!!

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Twilight Link up!

Today I"m linking up with Tara @ Fabulous but Evil for

I'll start by saying that I am by no means a die-hard fan. However, the books do hold a special meaning to me as they were what kept me more or less in touch with home when I studied abroad 3 years ago. They were entertaining, light reads which I enjoyed. I don't however, enjoy the "spectacle" that they have become with R-Pat & douchebag K-Stew. It is yet another over-glorified, teenage frenzy. That being said, the shittiness of the movies does entertain me & I enjoyed reading the books so here I am!

 Are you going to see Breaking Dawn at the midnight release?

Most definitely NOT. Unless I want to be part of a mob of tweens. Plus, I work. I do however, plan on having a Twilight date with my friend Britt as has been tradition.

 Scene you're most looking forward to in Breaking Dawn?

The whole part of Bella's pregnancy and the birth of her human-vamp baby.

 Team Edward or Jacob?

 Favorite book in the Saga?

Ugh so hard to decide between these:

 

 Favorite character in the series and why?

Jacob - he always seemed like the most rational of all. Plus, call me crazy but I prefer to cuddle up to warm & fuzzy, not stone cold.

 Are the books or movies better?

The books, as mentioned :)

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