New Blog Design!

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I am a very poor person--I really am. So I can't afford a custom design like I would love to and my old design that I created I loved but I felt like I had had it too long and it was a little distracting...
But I'm still not in love with my new design either. Honestly, I changed the design and forget to save the original template so I had to use something, and I liked this one best.

I feel like this design is more cohesive but also a little distracting. Purple is my favorite color, which is why I picked it too! But I hate having the logo for the design site in the corner. Don't get me wrong, they deserve the credit; I just don't like how it just sits there and draws attention.

Maybe one day I can get my own design... Until then, don't be surprised if it changes again!


UPDATE: Literally 5 minutes after this post, I changed the design.

I'm guilty.

Ok, So It's Fixed...Need Opinions

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I've gotten a lot of err...well complaints or concerns about my blog. They said it was hard the read the content with the post background being transparent. I thought it was fine but I don't want people to ignore my blog for something as small as design. So it's fixed! Is it better???

So Many books...

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I have so many books to read and so much homework to do it's unbelievable--and I haven't had any time to do many posts or really review any books because I'm just so BUSY! What happened to January being the lazy, after the holidays month where people sit around and do nothing??

But I've come up with a plan. I'm going to finish all my make-up work from the 2 weeks I missed school--i know i know, long story--and then dedictae all my time to reviewing books that need to get reviewed and reading books that nead to get read.

Yay!! 100 Followers!!

Today I reached 100 Followers. Woo-hoo! I'm so excited and I was going to do a giveaway but since my blogoversary is only 45 days away, yeah only, I'm going to combine the 2 when the date gets closer. Thanks to all my followers for reading my blog! It's really appreciated!

OH NO!

OH NO! is right! I just saw another blog with the same background as mine! :-(

I had to know this would happen because it's free and very beautiful but it still freakin sucks! I finally find a background that I want to keep and not change every 2 weeks like the others and then this happens. Do you think I should just keep it or change it? I'd love to get a custom design but I don't see a time soon where I'll be able to afford it and I can't wait. I am THE WORST DECISION-MAKER EVER!!

My New Plan.....AND a giveaway!!

Oh gosh. Can someone be embarassed over the computer? I'm so ahsamed for not keeping up with my neglected blog! I'm sorry blog...my life is so hectic. I know I'm making excuses but if you knew my life...you'd understand. Well, my mom finally got a new internet usb thingy, so I'm all good to go. For real this time, promise.

I know I seem all hunky dorey now, but I was thinking of ending my blog :'(
Not because I wasn't enjoying it, but because I haven't been blogging and reading, like at all. School is so much, not hard but I just don't have enough time to read. Junior year is supposed to be hard and...it's not that my classes are any harder, even though I'm taking AP Psychology, but there's a different aura this year. It might also have to do with my newfound self.

I've maybe hinted on it in some posts, but I do suffer from depression. I won't go into details but ever since I've been on anti-depressants, and they work!, I've been feeling a lot more better. I actually socialize a lot more at school, have no problem with presentations, and feel overall a lot more confident with myself.

But, unfortunately, my reading addiction began when I first became depressed about 4 years ago. And now that it's...well, not gone but not as severe, I'm focused on other things than just reading. I still enjoy reading but I just have to get my groove from the summer back.

SO thanks for reading my post, and hopefully my future ones, and as a BIG SORRY I want to do my first giveaway!! I'm very excited but I'm starting small. And I want to thank Pill Hill Press for providing Awakened by Ednah Walters! I'm gonna end this giveaway Tuesday, Novemeber 9th to celebrate the end of the first marking period at my high school!!

Most teens turn sixteen and get the license to drive, Lil Falcon gets the license to kill demons, but no one told her she is not supposed to fall in love with one.

Orphaned as a child and raised by an eccentric grandfather, Lil is concerned with surviving high school and is unaware she's a Guardian—a being with super powers charged with killing demons and protecting humanity. But when she meets Bran, a mysterious boy with amazing abilities, his psi energy unlocks her latent powers.

But Bran has a secret that can destroy their growing relationship. He's part demon. But in her heart, Lil knows Bran is not evil. So when her grandfather is kidnapped by a powerful nature-bender and Bran is the only one who knows where he's being kept, Lil convinces the other Guardians to trust him, not knowing her grandfather is just the bait. And the truth that she discovers in the demonic enclave may just destroy everything she believes in, unless she makes the right choice—love and sacrifice.




Good luck!!

I feel like the worst person EVER!

If anyone's notcied-hopefully someone has-I've been absent of late. Always wanted to say that, by the way. I won't have internet at home until stupid, evil October! It really sucks because just when I start getting into the hang of this blogging thing, school starts and I have to go back home. :-(

I'm sure you'd think: If you haven't been blogging you must have been reading right?
Answer: No. I know it's bad but I'm taking an AP class this year and even if I weren't school and my life at home is so much right now. And I'm looking for a job. And obsessing with boys, so there's no time.

Hopefully things will pick back up around October/November but I'm going to still try to post as much as I can! The first thing I did when I got to this computer was go on Blogger, see my dedication?

Yeah right, I know.

Back To School + Giveaway @ Reading Teen!!

I got my schedule in the mail yesterday, so I feel like school is more real than ever. I start my junior year Sept. 7th, which means I have a WEEK to do ALL of my school work for the summer.... I know, I should've been more responsible but...I'm just not. I know I can knock out my summer reading and history shtuff, I just don;t know how long it'll take me to do my PA Pych stuff. Probably not too long I hope- I need to read! Unfortunately, I think I'm not going to be able to post as much as I want because of school. And it's not because of school work, it's because I'll be living with my mom instead of my dad and I don't know how much access I'll have to a computer. Plus, I'm hoping I get a job....It's so bittersweet.

Buutttt, to make going back to schoola little easier for everyone, Reading Teen is hosting a Back to School Giveaway Bash!! Yay! Here's what's up for grabs:

The Duff by Kody Keplinger

The Eternal Ones by Kirsten Miller

Nightshade by Andrea Cremer

Pegasus by Robin McKinley

You by Charles Benoit

Halo by Alexandra Adornetto

Other by Karen Kincy

Grace by Elizabeth Scott

Beautiful Darkness by Kami Garcia, Margaret Stohl

Ascendant by Diana Peterfreund

The Mockingbirds by Daisy Whitney

Hunger by Jackie Morse Kessler

Immortal Beloved by Cate Tiernan

Dark Song by Gail Giles

Kiss Me Deadly Anthology multiple authors

You can go enter Here! Good luck!

Ugh

I haven't had been able to post in forever!!! It sucks. And now it might be a few more days until I can post again. I couldn't do my wrap-up post for the Read-A-Thon, I didn't get my IMM up, and I went to PAYA. I hope they do another one! I was so freakin shocked when I won, in my opinion, the best raffle prize they had! It was a Body Finder Raffle! It had so awesome shtuff, and I'll put up a pic of it later...if I get to it. I was a little nervous this time, but hopefully I'll have another year to get my confidence up. I was so sad though because they didn't have any more copies of Ballads of Surburbia by Stephanie Kuehnert. :-(

I'm also moving Saturday! Luckily, I won't have to help because I'll be at my dad's! Yay! I'm not strong enough to do that stuff anyway.

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Just, like is says above, this is an edit to this post. I somehow keep forgetting to mention my new blog design! I didn't have it specially designed or anything but I really like it. I loved my old layout but I was havng problems with my widgets and, beng no computer wiz, I couldn't find out how to fix it. But this seems to have done the trick!

Non-Book Related

I've been staying with my Dad for over a week, and I have to go back home today. *sniffles* It's not only that I'll miss being over here-with free access to a tv in my OWN room and a laptop, what teen wouldn't love that?- but it means I have no guarantee when I'll have access to the internet! It sucks. I have to go back to my mom's apartment with my annoying, evil sister who I share a room with and spend the weekend probably doing nothing. Except, maybe, cleaning and packing. We're moving, but what can you really pack away when you still have almost 3 weeks to live in your apartment. Fun stuff, huh?

Ok, I'm trying to get over my surly mood with the fact that I'm going to see my smallest sister. She's 20 months and I'm so attacthed to her it's unhealthy. So I'll hang on to that fact and tyr really hard to bribe my mom to let me use the laptop. *fingers crossed*