Series review.

This is first of many future book reviews. I love to read, and I love recommending books to people, so what better place than here? :-)

Title: Series--- Stephanie Plum novels

Author: Janet Evanovich

*I've read:

• One For the Money
• Two For the Dough
• Three to Get Deadly
• Four to Score
• High Five
• Hot Six
• Seven Up
• Hard Eight
• To the Nines
• Ten Big Ones
• Eleven on Top
• Plum Lovin'
• Twelve Sharp
• Lean Mean Thirteen (currently)

I've never before read a series that had it all. This one truly does. With a ballsy female protagonist, this series crackles with wit, charm, romance, and action. Stephanie Plum is a woman that all women can look up to. She's the perfect combination of femininity and masculinity: beauty meets beast. She's been absolutely thrilling to read about for fourteen novels. Not only does the reader want to emulate her by the end of each novel, but the reader wants to know the most intimate details of her life. Will she end up with Ranger or Morelli? Will she catch her latest crook? Evanovich leaves the reader gasping for more with every turn of the page.

4 1/2 out of 5 stars

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New job.

I really need a new job. I love the hours of my job. I love the weekends and holidays off. I love the benefits. It's just the pay sucks so much. I need to be making more than $1000 a month. It's awful.

Trying to get married on only that much is pretty much impossible. So, today I begin my great quest. A quest for new employment. $25,000 a year, here I come!

The Devil Wears Tactlessness

There are many people that annoy me in this world. A certain coworker. A certain family member. The Jonas Brothers. Robert Pattinson. Subsequently, Twilight freaks. Ann Coulter.

The last one holds a very special place in my heart. I'm not blasting her for being conservative. Heck, I'm socially conservative as well. Maybe not to the extreme level that she is, but I'm sure we share a few fundamental beliefs. The reason she irritates me is that she can never keep her mouth shut.

It's one thing to be honest. It's one thing to be open about one's views. It's a completely different thing to not know when your comments are insensitive and hurtful. In regard to the murder of famed abortionist George Tiller, she said:

"I don't really like to think of it as a murder. It was terminating Tiller in the 203rd trimester."

Okay, so when did abortion become something funny? Something we can just joke about so cavalierly? I'm not going to go off on a diatribe about my moral views on the subject. Whether you think it's murder, or an acceptable form of population control, one thing can be agreed upon: It is a serious thing. Whether or not you think it's killing a life, it affects everyone it involves. It affects the doctors, the women who undergo it, the baby, and their family and friends. It's not something to joke about.

What really bothers me, is the following quote from regarding the previous quote:

"I am personally opposed to shooting abortionists, but I don't want to impose my moral values on others."

Shut up, Ann Coulter. So, you don't want to impose your beliefs on others, but you publish books with titles such as "If Democrats Had Any Brains They'd Be Republicans" and "How to Talk to a Liberal (If You Must): The World According to Ann Coulter." I have 2 problems with this.

1. First of all, regarding the latter title, I love that she's so wise and all-knowing that she can claim that last part of her title. The World According to Ann Coulter. How scary.

2. If she doesn't like to impose her moral values on others, why does she constantly publish work in which she's shoving her political ideology down people's throats? So she's not only an insensitive bitch, but she's an arrogant liar.

I despise Ann Coulter and hope she gets a revelation. I hope she finds Jesus. I hope she finds something that helps her realize the error of her ways.

Wedding jitters.

255 days away. I want it to be today. I have absolutely no nervousness or anxiety or jitters about the planning or big day. I don't enjoy the planning, don't get me wrong. Much of it is tedious and pointless. But it's all a part of the day itself. Everything I'm doing now is contributing to the beauty of the ceremony and reception, so in the end, it's important. It's going to be the most magical day of my life, so I'm putting up with the little stupid aspects of planning now.

Today

was awful. I had to go to court. I can't go into details, but it was terrible. I'm not going to be melodramatic and say it was the worst experience of my life, because surely the deaths of loved ones supersede it. But I hated it. Luckily, I only have to go back tomorrow from 8:45 until roughly 12 and not all day, as I did today.

I decided I hate the legal system. The fact that the woman suing me can get as far as she has gotten is preposterous. Again, I can't go into details, but no sane judicial system should allowed her to have taken me to court today. Boo.

259 long days.

Having attended a wedding today, my impatience for my own wedding is growing by the day. I know it will come soon enough--- in 259 days to be exact. But I am so looking forward to it that it consumes my thoughts.

I'm looking forward to getting dolled up and having Ken see me in my dress. I'm looking forward to the presents and the cake. But most importantly, I'm looking forward to starting a life with Ken.

Because it's not about the big day. At least, it's not if you have the right mindset. Ken and I are so looking forward not just to the big day and the honeymoon, but to a life together. All the hardships and joys of married life, we are ready to take on as a team. If anything, we're looking more forward to the married life and getting our house together than to the big day.

Advice to the engaged: Don't put all your stock in the big day. It's over before you know it. If you're one of those brides that's so preoccupied with the details and terrorizes those around her during the planning process, you're with the wrong guy, period. If you were with the right guy, it wouldn't matter if a bunch of little things go wrong. :-]

I am a strong ass powerful woman.

I am a yellow belt in taekwondo. Fear me.

I may not be a brown belt or black belt, but the confidence I've gotten from passing my yellow belt test is unsurpassable. Fear me.

I broke a board on my first try. Ken couldn't do it on his first try. Fear me.

I love myself. Fear me.

I love life. Fear me.

Dreams

My fiance and I are planning a trip to Europe for possibly the summer of 2012. I really hope it happens! We'll have to spend a few thousand bucks, but it will be so worth it! :-]


This is the potential itinerary:
3 days in London
2 days in Spain
3 days in Rome
3 days in Prague

Say some prayers to God and the money fairy that this can happen! :-]

Bored out of my skull.

I hate rainy days. I'm so sick of this weather. I want summer! A genuine summer climate. Not constant rain and clouds. I want 80 degrees and sunny every day. I want blue skies. I want sweat bees buzzing around glasses of lemonade. I want sunbathing on porches and laying out by the pool with a good book. I want to have to shoo away mosquitos. Summer won't feel like it's started until I get all those things.

CRANKY

I feel so cranky. Just get me out of here.

I have a period that won't go away.

I want to move out.

I want a million dollars.

I want to not ever have a period ever again.

I want to not be babied anymore.

I just want to be out on my own.

Miscellaneous musings.

I've been working on my fiance's website a lot. I'm trying to make it as jazzy as possible. Check it out and make suggestion! I'd really appreciate it! www.kenmade.com

Watching a show on MTV called "16 and Pregnant." Not only does it reaffirm my belief in birth control, but it very much reaffirms my belief that teenagers have no business having sex. This show is so depressing.

I am so glad to be on summer break! The first year at work was so hard, that I feel as if I've earned a vacation. :-]

Yeah.

Summer break!

I am finally on summer break from work! I'm so excited to not have to think about anything work-related for 2 1/2 months. I kind of hate the job, but I'm thankful to work in a school when the summer comes around!

I'm going downtown next Friday to some museums with my fiance. So excited!

Yeah, I don't really have too much to say today. I had a really fun time with my fiance last night. We made some cocktails and relaxed to celebrate my first night of summer break. I played a little computer Wheel of Fortune. I won. I rock. :-]

Enjoy your summer, readers!

4 years later

I am still so in love with Ken. I don't even know how it's possible. No matter how many stupid tiny arguments we have, he's the first person I think of when I wake up and the last person I think of when I go to sleep. He's the first person I call when I have good news and the first person I call when I'm pissed off about something or need to cry. He may not be a Christian, but I feel like God has blessed me with a person like him, because he has helped me to be happier and more confident. I am so thankful.

Happy 9 month weddingversary Ken!!!

Plane crash.

I read the saddest story on AOL this morning. It was about a couple--- the woman Brazilian and the man German--- who met at the law school they both attended in Germany. They fell madly in love and got engaged.

Recently, they wanted to share the news with their families. First, they went to Brazil to tell the bride-to-be's parents. Later, they boarded a flight to Germany to tell the parents of the groom-to-be. Unfortunately the plane never made it there.

My heart goes out to their families. What an unimaginable tragedy. To be cut down in the prime of one's life, especially as such a special and happy turning point. I can't imagine that. It just made me sad.

Real adult life...

Adult life is scary. Ken and I are making a budget for when we live together and there are so many little things we keep thinking of that we need to add.

Therefore, I have a message for any younger readers I might have that have yet to enter the real world: Stay out of it as long as possible. Yes, it's exciting and thrilling and lovely, but at the same time it's scary and daunting. Cherish the youth that you have before you have the responsibilities of student loans, and mortgages, and groceries, and gas bills. Hold it close to your heart like a precious stone, because it will slip away before you know it.

Taekwondo

Today is my first day of taekwondo lessons with my fiance. I'm really excited, but kind of nervous. He's taught me a few moves so that I feel more confident, but I'm still nervous. I'm nervous because I don't know what the flow of the class will be like.

I hope I do well. I always want to do well at everything. I'm a perfectionist, so starting new things is really nerve-wrecking. I'm sure I'll end up having fun, but I have butterflies in my stomach.

I'll let you know how it goes!