Project 365- {41-47}

Last week in pictures:

{2/10/13- Kitty playing with homemade toys :) }

{2/11/13- Cloudy winter day}

{2/12/13- Kitty snuggles while I'm doing grad school work.....}

{2/13/13- found this card at the store. HA}

{2/14/13- Dinner at Wildfire. Then some family pictures with kitty photo bombing!}

{2/15/13- Pretty day on my way home from work}

Project 365- {34-40}

{2/3/13- Egg drop soup in a mug. Yummmmm}

{2/4/13- Working hard or hardly working? Ha}

{2/7/13- So this was a fun day. Took me 50 minutes to get home, windshield wipers broke and I had to wear sunglasses and stick my head out the window to see where I was going on the way home. Then I got home and spent another 15 minutes to get myself in the driveway. UGH. But I love snow :)}

{2/8/13- Beautiful snowy day}

{2/9/13- Snuggling with Kitty. I don't think she was amused....}

Project 365- {27-33}

This week in pictures:

{1/27/13- at school working. It snowed, rained, and then froze all in a few hours. And this was my car as a result.....from the inside and the outside!}

Then I went home and watching the WORST episode of Downton Abbey. There are no picture of this, but if there were, it would be me, crying my eyes out. Just AWFUL.

{1/28/13- kitty in a box. That's it.}

{1/29/13- I see this car almost every morning on my way to work. It makes me want a cricut real bad.}

{1/30/13- Pretty winter day}

{1/31/13- Discovered I had the worst windshield wipers EVER}

{2/1/13- First day of Feb! Kitty got all snuggly after work. Which was just what I needed :)}

{2/2/13- Enjoying a snowy day from the inside}

And that's it! Whole lotta nothing this week..........

Another good one.

"And I know you too well to say you're perfect, but you'll see, oh my sweet love, you're perfect for me"

Project 365- {20-26}

{1/20/13- MLK Taco day! Lauren, Liz, and Drew came over for dinner :)  }

{1/21/13- Family picture gone awry.....}

{1/22/13- Just finished my laundry and kitty decided to lay on it and get it a lllllll full of her hair. nice.}

{1/23/13- Dinner with my husband at Olive Garden. This was dessert....now you see it, now you don't!}

{1/24/13- Watched Downton Abbey reruns when I got home from work and found the schedule for Season 3 online! This is it, in case you were wondering!}

{1/25/13- A snowy day today! I love the snow!}

{1/26/13- Ice skating at Joe's house with Emily, Joe, Kyle, and Kelsey!}

Fun week :)

#13- Read a Book From My Classics List

This is part of my 25 Before 25 List.

I just read one of the books of my classics list a few weeks ago- The Great Gatsby. I read this book back in high school in my Freshman English class with Mr. Olsen. (Anyone else have him? I LOVED that guy!)

Anyway, I loved the book back then, and took extensive notes in it so that I wouldn't miss anything. Now I look at those notes and think to myself, "Ohhh, that's where I must have learned that word..." which is weird because I don't remember actually learning the word, but there it is underlined with the definition next to it.

I did this with a lot of my classic books. I have a habit of underlining words that I don't know, or like and want to use more often, and ear-marking the pages. So my copy of the Great Gatsby has some underlined words, and though I didn't add any more marks to the pages, I did stop and think about a lot of the story.

Even though I had already read this book, it was different from how I remembered it. In fact, the parts that I remembered from the book, were not the parts that I really enjoyed or thought about this second time that I read it.

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Like the part of the story on page 144-145 when Gatsby is at Tom's house. Gatsby tells Nick that he is going to stay and watch over the house because Daisy said that she would flip the light off and on if there was any trouble. Then, when Nick goes over to peer through the windows, Daisy and Tom and downstairs in the kitchen talking. Nick describes it as an "air of natural intimacy about the picture". This time when I read it, I noticed the and felt the heartbreak for Gatsby. Here is a man, OBSESSED with a woman, who toyed with him. Deep down I think she was living in a fantasy world, but yet, she made him believe she really meant to leave Tom. And maybe she did, but she just didn't have the courage to. She left her light on and made Gatsby think she was in her room with her light the whole time, when really she was running back into the arms of Tom. It made me realize what a weak, confused girl she was, and what a hopeless, romantic man Gatsby was. Fitzgerald put it so eloquently when he ended that chapter with "So I walked away and left him standing there in the moonlight-watching over nothing".

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I never noticed this before. I mean, I read this part of the story, but I didn't get the emotion in those 2 pages. Now, as an adult, I do. This is why I am re-reading the classics.

Well, that and because there are no good books that I can relate to for twenty-something-year-olds.

Yay books! And movies that are based off of books!

2013- Resolutions

I haven't quite hammered my resolutions out yet. 

I understand that we are 23 days into the new year, and that I am a bit behind on this, but better late than never or something like that. 

Here's to PERSISTING though my new years resolutions laziness. 

HA.

Starting now