My Weeks in Pics ~4/1 - 4/10~

I've been a lot better at taking pictures this month, so I have to break this post into multiple. Just in the first 10 days I took quite a few!

So here's what I was up to!

The month kicked off with me getting really sick, and these were all the pills I had to take, just at night, to survive. It was brutal! Luckily my morning meds weren't so numerous.

These are the two kitties that I sometimes help out at my maid job! I play with them or brush them, and always get their fur out of everything! Mac is the top one (and was very curious as to what my cell phone was) and Dora is the bottom one. Mac is wild and crazy, Dori is shy and sweet. Both are adorable!

So I've been bad about checking my email, and discovered that I got a lot of email birthday wishes, including this one I missed until the beginning of this month. I thought this one from Funimation was cute.

I am apart of the Kellogg's family, meaning I rack up points and get music for free! (Or mostly free) I've been getting the different tracks of Skillet's album Rise, which I think is their best yet! 

The gift I got from my brother was this Twilight Princess inspired makeup from Dusk Cosmetics. Yes, they are that pretty, and even more so. I've used the light purple and so far it's been fantastic! You can use them dry or wet (meaning your brush/sponge applicator is wet with setting spray) and both time it's beautiful! I found applied the color rather sheer, as they are all VERY glittery, but just beautiful! Plus, the two little bags are sample sizes of two more eyeshadows that were a free bonus! I just love them, and the stickers on the bottoms are gorgeous!

You can check out her store on Etsy HERE

The same day those came in, I hit 300 followers on my Tumblr! THANK YOU GUYS SO MUCH!!! I'm so thrilled anyone follows me! If you want to see my full thank you, check out this post here!

So that's what I was doing at the beginning of the month! I hope you enjoyed this!

Books-Cupcakes Book Photo Challenge ~March Part 2~

Okay, so I promised this a week ago. SORRY! #AYearAThon started, so I've been distracted. It wrapped up an hour ago, so let's do this!

January Part 1  January Part 2  February Part 1  February Part 2  March Part 1

Day 16: Sequel Please

It wasn't until I was into BookTube that I learned that Stephenie Meyer originally intended The Host to be book 1 of a trilogy, but then the Midnight Sun debacle happened. In case you're unaware, someone close to Mrs. Meyer released Midnight Sun--a version of Twilight from Edward's perspective--online without her permission.

When that happened she did what I probably would: she stopped releasing anything. Seriously, she hasn't done a thing for years and years. And she may never release anything ever again. Her writing is now 100% private, and the trilogy is basically canceled. But I'd still love a sequel, and am pretty pissed that a "friend" released her stuff for a price. Way to ruin it for all of us, loser.

Pictured: The Host by Stephenie Meyer

Day 17: Newspaper/Magazine

I've been collecting Shonen Jump magazine, the american version of Jump magazine from Japan, since 2004. I have 84 of these guys, and haven't read all of them, but I wouldn't be a manga fan, or a true anime fan, if I hadn't found these during the last big move of my life.

Please excuse the blurry first photo, I was too excited and didn't take enough photos to wait for a good one.

Pictured: Shonen Jump volumes 2004 #6 - 2011 #2 with 2011 #8 and 2012 #1 by VIZ

Day 18: Makes Me Smile

I still can't get over my mom buying the limited edition of Harry Potter for me, and that alone makes me smile. Also I finally have all of HP in hardback original cover, although they're in terrible quality and many of them should be replaced (especially 1 and 2, 1 has a coffee stain and smells like cigarettes and 2 has no dust jacket).

But honestly having these two makes me smile.

Pictured: Harry Potter by JK Rowling

Day 19: Author

I've met several authors, have pictures of 2. On top is the amazing Marissa Meyer, author of the awesome Lunar Chronicles. She's so sweet and patient and awesome.

Watch the vlog of me and my friends meeting her

The bottom is, of course, LA Knight, my bestie Ray. She's amazing and awesome and I honestly don't know why such a great writer and person is my friend.

Her Channel Twitter Blog Tumblr Fanfiction.Net

Day 20: Book Cover

Why I wanted this set: THE COVERS ARE AMAZING!!!! Seriously! They're so pretty! I couldn't show it, but the backs are phenomenal too!

Day 21: Avoiding

While I enjoyed book 1, and love the movies, while I love both versions of Bourne, The Bourne Identity was a beast, and this is a beast. All the books are beasts. They're huge and long and take forever to read. I'm currently in the middle of several beasts already, so I've been avoiding book 2.

Pictured: The Bourne Supremacy by Robert Ludlum

Day 22: Pet Peeve

How I have 200 different book sizes. I hate it. They should all be the same stinking size, but no. Because books aren't all the same price they aren't all the same size. But my OCD hate it, and I hate it because if they're all the same size it's easy to fit them all in smaller space.

Day 23: New and Old

In case ya'll don't know, I'm a maniac and decided to buy a bunch of copies of The Lord of the Rings. Here all my different copies of Return of the King. Fun fact: the older copies are newer to me. Nice play on the idea of this theme.

Pictured: The Return of the King by JRR Tolkien

Day 24: Up Next

I finally got through Jedi Apprentice 6: The Uncertain Path. While I ended up moving onto Fairest and a bunch of comics and manga, I did pick this up and finished rereading it. It was definitely on my list of to read very soon.

Pictured: Jedi Apprentice The Captive Temple by Jude Watson

Day 25: Swoon

These are my collective editions of classics that I own. First is the Barnes and Nobel edition of Little Princess I found for half price at Bookmans, and then the Hallmark Gift Books. There's only 3 more of those editions that I want to buy (and like 80 of the B&N editions). My mother gifted The Secret Garden to me while I found Alice in Wonderland at the same time and place as LP.

Pictured: A Little Princess and The Secret Garden by Francis Hodgson Burnett, Alice's Adventures in Wonderland by Lewis Carroll

Day 26: Book and Candle

When I smell/see my Oceanside candle I think of Yoko waking up in a new world with an ocean unlike the one back home. When I think of spices like Nutmeg I think of royalty, such as Trickster's Queen. When I think of sundress and spring I think of fashion and fashionistas, like Cornelia. When I think of pumpkin I think of pumpkin patches, like Hagrid's.

Pictured: Bath and Bodyworks mini candles with Sea of Shadow by Fuyumi Ono, Trickster's Queen by Tamora Pierce, World's Apart by Elizabetta Gnone and Elizabeth Lenhard, and Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows by JK Rowling

Day 27: Book Stack

These are all of the books stacked up so my stuff can fit on my shelves (for the record I have another one in my closet that keeps growing). As you can see, there are a lot. Cuz I'm out of room. yaayy...

Pictured: a lot of books. If you want to know about a single books let me know!

Day 28: Blog/Site

On Tumblr I showed this blog, but this is my Tumblr blog (made really small so ya'll can really see it cuz my monitor is the size of a postage stamp). It's pretty and purple and all about books and kitties! With a little bit of random other things like politics and Legend of Zelda.

Day 29: Outside

This a place I rarely go cuz ugh, sun, and BUGS! Also allergens and blegh. BUT! I went outside into my mom's lovely garden that the world's too hot for us to appreciate more of, and snapped this photo. For the record those roses are hella red, even if the camera didn't pick the color up well.

Pictured: Outlander (Collector's Edition) by Diana Gabaldon

Day 30: Freebie

This is the stack of books in my closet (although it's only grown since then). Because this exists is one of the several reasons I put myself on a book buying ban, the main reason being because I need to save my mulla. But I'm totally out of room. I have books on top of my shelves, and books sitting on their spins on top of other books and other things like that. I'm so out of room it's beyond frustrating. I need to move out and get my own shelves...but that requires a job, which I'll be attempting to get this week.

Day 31: Read This Month

This is smaller than I wanted it to be, as it's most filled with manga and graphic novels, as usual. I'm attempting to change that this month, by picking up more books and less comics/comics/graphic novels.

Pictured: Pokemon Vol 5 by Hidenori Kusaka and Mato, The Uncertain Path by Jude Watson, A Great and Terrible Beauty by Libba Bray, Jedi Academy by Jeffry Brown, The Power of Five by Elizabetta Gnone, Saints by Gene Luen Yang, Fairest by Marissa Meyer, The Rift Part 1 by Gene Luen Yang, Batman: Arkahm Asylum by Grant Morrison and Dave McKean, Batman: Arkahm City by Paul Dini and Carlos D'Anda, ElfQuest: The Searcher and the Sword by Wendy and Richard Pini

Not Pictured: The Edge and the Light by Queenie-Chan, Carswell’s Guide to Being Lucky by Marissa Meyer, From Far Away Vols 5-8 by Kyoko Hikawa, ElfQuest: Dreamtime and A Gift of Her Own both by Wendy and Richard Pini

So that's it! I'll hopefully be posting later this week my April Part 1, so look forward to that! I also have acquired quite a few pictures for this month so far, so a new My Weeks in Pics will be coming soon too! But I have a lot on my plate this week so try to be patient with me.

:)

FMA LiveTweet

So, on Tumblr there's this thing, called liveblogging. While you read a book, you blog about your thoughts on certain things, showing via pictures, or typing out quotes that stick out to you. This can be you praising a book, or hating on it. I've enjoyed the few I've seen so far, and decided to try it while reading Fullmetal Alchemist Volumes 1-10 by Hiromu Arakawa.

And then Tumblr stating I'd exceeded my post limit for the day. And there was something like, 3-4 hours left before I could blog anything again. Which was extremely annoying. Since I'd never heard of anything of the sort on Twitter, I took it over there, redoing my first post. However, since it's Twitter, there was the problem of the 140 character limit. I had to keep things short and sweet, and at first had trouble fitting my thoughts with the images. But I managed it pretty well, and livetweeted all ten volumes. I've gathered all the tweets up, saved all the pictures, and now I'm going to show them all to you.

Now there were typos and grammar mistakes I couldn't fix due to the limit, but I've gone through and hopefully fixed them all. Let me know if you find any!

There are a few spoilers here, so if you don't want some info (though I tried not to spoil you guys) then don't read!

Remember, this was also during #AYearAThon last month, which was about diversity, so I talk about that. :)

Btw the way, to read the manga pages posted, you'll need to enlarge them, either by clicking on them, or by right clicking and opening in a new tab. And remember, this was written first in Japanese, which is read right to left, not left to right. So start on the right. Check out the photo below to get more information.

Without further ado, here we go!

Didn't make it to the library today to get Battle Magic so rereading FMA for @AYearAThon. It's amazing w/Ed being disabled and still badass!

I love FMA. So glad I'm rereading this.

 I love Ed. Hated for being a state alchemist, all he does after receiving hate is helping the people that hurt him. #ayearathon

 "Okay I'm gonna do something slightly illegal here so you just look the other way for a second." Ed to Al before seriously breaking the law.

 And enters Mustang, who's at least part Xingise, or Asian. :D #LorienRereadsFMA #ayearathon

*There's an emergency* Hold up, things aren't so bad! The Fullmetal Alchemist is on board! Next page...

fave fictional character: *smiles*
Fangirl: oh my god. ohhhh my god. do that again. do that agai.n
What I'm seeing:

 Oh man, we're meeting Nina. PREPARE TO CRY! TT~TT


"People may call us dogs or devils, but [...] we're not devils or gods. We're humans. And we can't even save one little girl." #ayearathon

 Now enter Scar, one of most interesting characters, also not Caucasian.  #LorRereadsFMA #ayearathon


I kinda wanna read Armstrong's ridiculous lines out loud, they're so funny #LorRereadsFMA #ayearathon

 "If Ed can’t use alchemy then he’s just a brat that swears a lot; arrogant little pipsqueak; useless just useless!" "YOU'RE ALL PICKING ON ME!"

 This is what I love. Dude's freaked & pulls a gun on them. Armstrong tells him to calm down three times. He won't SO HE THROWS AL ON HIM!

 "I have to achieve my goal, even if it means sleeping on this bed of nails." Ed #LorRereadsFMA #ayearathon

 This is how Ed greets basically his grandma:
#LorRereadsFMA #ayearathon

 That moment when you find a bookmark in a book you forgot was there... #whoops


Winry forgetting a screw that keeps Ed's arm working makes me feel better when I mess up. #LorRereadsFMA #ayearathon


Sheska's the character I relate to the most. Almost died buried under books, a bookworm only good at reading...yeah me. #LorRereadsFMA



Sheska gets a job, and her boss drags her away. Ed's only comment: "he looks like a kidnapper." LOL! #LorRereadsFMA #ayearathon


"Until I see [Scar's] corpse I can't relax enough to go on a date!" Mustang's such a great leader -_-' #LorRereadsFMA #ayearathon


You know, FMA could be considered a dystopian. Especially w/what's happening at Lab #5 *shudders* Ugh >< #LorRereadsFMA #ayearathon



"Okay, okay! As if we'd do something that dangerous." "We'll wait here for your report, major!" *next page* "Yeah, right!" #LorRereadsFMA

"I kill, therefore I am!" Ah, Barry the Chopper. What a wackadoodle. #LorRereadsFMA #ayearathon


I always flinch when they kill #48, the older brother >< #LorRereadsFMA #spoilers #Fullmetalalchemist #ayearathon



Annnd there goes the younger brother. Flinched again. #LorRereadsFMA #spoilers #Fullmetalalchemist #ayearathon


"Shouldn't that security chump have kept out you riffraff? Oh yeah I chopped him up didn't I?" Yes, you did, brainiac. #LorRereadsFMA



Love how the gossip in FMA is a male soldier to his male best friend. #LorRereadsFMA Thanks for putting up w/my livetweets for #ayearathon!


I know I said I'd stop tweeting but I kept reading. Ed's biggest fear has me in tears. Thinking of a 10 yr-old crying himself to sleep every night and I'm crying. Poor Ed. #LorRereadsFMA #ayearathon



And cuz I've read this all I know there's a reason he's there...#LorRereadsFMA #ayearathon

Yeah I totally got flapping my arms like a duck from Winry here... #LorRereadsFMA #AYEARATHON

And onto the saddest part of the series :'( #LorRereadsFMA #AYEARATHON

Yup. Crying. &gt;&lt; Worst thing ever! LorRereadsFMA #HearThatItsMyHeartBreaking #AYEARATHON

Ed really isn't patient. :D #LorRereadsFMA #AYEARATHON

He's also not sexist with who he attempts to beat (he doesn't lay a finger on her, lol) #LorRereadsFMA #AYEARATHON

And this is why Ed doesn't touch her. She's got a grenade launcher! #LorRereadsFMA #AYEARATHON

Paninya's story is eye-opening. Her losing the will to live cuz she thought she'd never walk again, and prosthetics giving her that back. Makes me want to cry and shows me I'm blessed because I can walk on my own legs. It's humbling. #LorRereadsFMA #AYEARATHON


This is how Ed's teacher greets him...ouch. #LorRereadsFMA #AYEARATHON

lol, he's not the scary one, kids!!! XD #LorRereadsFMA #AYEARATHON

Izumi's definition of training is very different from others! Yeesh! #LorRereadsFMA #AYEARATHON

"During my training they left me on Mount Briggs for a month!" - Izumi "Don't compare yourself with normal people." - her husband #LorRereadsFMA



The beginning. #LorRereadsFMA #AYEARATHON

"But Edward is 31..." "No, he's 11." "What's the meaning of this, Hawkeye!?" "It seems the document went through a time vortex or someone made a grave error, sir." LOL how Mustang and Ed meet. :) #LorRereadsFMA #AYEARATHON



All it took was one meeting w/Mustang, and Ed's eyes burned w/fire. #LorRereadsFMA #AYEARATHON

"Are you sure you want [to be a dog of the military]?" "Bow wow. Want me to wag my tail?" "Alright, then." #LorRereadsFMA #AYEARATHON


No wonder Ed doesn't like Roy Mustang! He calls him "squirt"! lol! #LorRereadsFMA #AYEARATHON



"From now on you'll be known as..." #LorRereadsFMA #AYEARATHON

"I've heard a strong shock can make old memories resurface."-Doctor "I guess I could try BASHING HIS HEAD IN"-Izumi #LorRereadsFMA

Day 2 started off with me ranting a bit about the problems in the official translation, especially when put up against the fan translations online for free.

Ugh, the inconsistencies in this translation are killing me. The FANS did better than Viz, and that's saying something!!! #LorRereadsFMA


I mean how on earth do you pronounce Cselkcess???? IT'S XERXIS! ZER-CEES! EASY PRONUNCIATION!!! #LorRereadsFMA #frustrated



And in both anime's and vol 4 Hughs becomes a Brigadier General, where the hell did commodore come from??? #LorRereadsFMA


Oh, and the WORST ONE, omnibus 3 (vol 9) page 445: ED says, "Geez, Ed/ You scared the crap out of me!" ED CALLS AL "ED"! #LorRereadsFMA


I don't know what happened at Viz, but this is bs, right here! GAH! >< #LorRereadsFMA #TheFansDidItBetter



Gah, mistyped, it's Xerxis is pronounced (from what I can tell) Zerk-sees. At least I can guess the pronunciation there. #LorRereadsFMA


But, cool things I've read! Barry. Barry is amazing. I forgot how funny he was! "I like strong women. I THINK I'M IN LOVE!" #LorRereadsFMA


The heartbreaking storyline of Greed. Talk about tragic! :'( #LorRereadsFMA


And of course, the reveal of the bad guy...WOW! #LorRereadsFMA



Oh, and Roy's call with "Elizabeth and Jaqceline" is brilliant! I totally didn't call that 1st time! #LorRereadsFMA


While I'm not pleased with the botchy translations, I adore FMA and that won't change! :) #LorRereadsFMA #timetogetbacktoreadingagain


Onto Vol 10...where stuff really goes down! OH YEAH! #LorRereadsFMA



Gotta love that when Mustang's mind is blown he almost drives into a wall, and almost crushes Barry, lol. And then he's back to his smooth self! :D #LorRereadsFMA

Oh, another mistake, Jean Havoc randomly was Jan Havoc. It's Jean, cuz it's UNISEX! >< At least he's Jean again. #LorRereadsFMA


Oh man. Someone's stabbed, and since I know what that does to him, I'm a mess. Seriously jumped and gasped. :( #LorRereadsFMA #depressing


Oh this line kills me. Mustang: Everyone's dying before me, damn it! :'( #LorRereadsFMA


Now Hawkeye loses it, and Royai is born (Roy and Liza) my OTP <3 #LorRereadsFMA But it's still a part of this heart-wrenching scene.



One homunculus down, 7 to go. :) #LorRereadsFMA THAT WAS EPIC!!!!!


Meanwhile... #LorRereadsFMA That's basically what happened! :)

When the bad guy that's got bitch resting face smiles, you know it ain't good. #LorRereadsFMA. Totally just happened.


"This is my duty. I'm fine." Yeah, your duty. You'd totally marry Roy if it wasn't against the stinking law! #LorRereadsFMA #RoyaiForever



OMG VIZ! Dublith, in 5 volumes of manga it's Dublith, now it's Dubliss! I'M A BETTER EDITOR THAN YOU HACKS! #LorRereadsFMA


This hilarity, as well as the big reveal, is why I love the desert chaps. #LorRereadsFMA (BTW read right to left)

THIS IS WHAT MAKES BARRY HILARIOUS! #LorRereadsFMA

"I had to bring Edward here casually." - a proud Armstrong "There's nothing casual about kidnapping." - Ed #LorRereadsFMA


"As long as there's breath in my body I swear I'll never let another person become a victim in this deadly game." - Ed #LorRereadsFMA


AND that's it! I've read up to volume 10 and livetweeted the whole time! I have one more thing I'll try to read before midnight and #AYEARATHON ends but I won't livetweet about that! Sorry & thank you! This was fun! I'll pick up 11-20 soon and #LorRereadsFMA will return

Those were all of my tweets! I loved rereading FMA, even with the translation problems. It was a blast, and really reminded me of first, the privileges I have just by my skin color, and having the ability to walk. It really is an amazing manga. Edward is such an awesome character. He's disabled, a master fighter, a scientific genius, badass. And he's just one of the many amazing characters. I adore this manga, and rereading it has only deepened my love. :)

If you want me to go into a little bit more about things, or see what else I read during the read-a-thon, check out my wrap up.

Hope you enjoyed this! <3