Book review: The Fault in Our Stars

So I caved I finally bought and read this book, my little sister raved about it while she was reading it during our trip to Florida in febuary and I said I would read it. Now I will be completely honest I am a big YA fiction reader have been since middle school when many of the series's I became obsessed with started out. Anyway back onto the topic of this book. 

John Green did a great job of bringing emotion to the surface of this novel, I say this because not many of the novels I have read have ever made me come to the point of tears and yet this one did. While I do not care for the ending I do somewhat understand why it had to end that way. Can't have too much fear in one novel right? Well anyway while I do not know much about Mr. Green, I don't think that this novel is enough to push me to read the rest of his books. I mean to be totally upfront on the topic the only reason I read this besides my sister's suggestion was that it is coming out in theaters and I might want to see it. So there is that as well. 

Would I read it again?.... Maybe I don't know. Would I reccomed it to someone else?... Probably not, I don't think it is worth the hype it is getting to be honest. Maybe I should have read it a while ago and I might feel different about it, but with all the raving reviews and amazing amouts of praise I have seen it get I don't really think it was worth the $9.08 I spent on it at Walmart. 

With that said, I cannot wait for the next book in the Green Rider series to come out next month. 

Qotd: what are you most excited for in the month of May? It can be anything at all. 

Nixed yesterday's whining for today's running.

Well I can honestly say I was planning on being a good blogger yesterday after I got off work, but I honestly just didn't end up typing the post that I had written yesterday morning. it was a wee bit too whiny. I had a rough day with the random irritation with the job and the boss. I am hoping against hope that we ended up making our goal as a store by the end of the day. I made my goal of $735 by about 4 pm and left the rest of the customers for the girl who was closing. that would be a rather quick synopsis of the super long whiny post I had written up. 

now that being said, today has been very interesting, so far because of the clocks turning back it was a lot colder than I was expecting for my run today. Which ended up meaning that I turned back home sooner than I would have liked. I only got a little over three and a third miles today, which made for a short week in miles this time around, only a little over seven this week. but I must say that the trees did look exceptional today

 I love that about this time of year. The thing I am not liking is that I am going to have to spend money on some new running gear. I have decided on a jacket from Road Runner Sports and a pair of running tights as well, I really hope that they come soon. While they really don't match each other they will work with the things that I currently have. I just need to pick up some gloves or mittens and maybe a spibelt as well for my keys. hoping I can hold off on the rest of these till the end of the month. 

anyway, there hasnt really been much done within the yarny department in the last couple days, but I did get a new book. The second in the Divergent series, although I have not started it yet which is weird. I think it might be because it is a hardback version and I cant take it into work with me nor is it really that easy to read in bed either. We shall see how I end up liking it. The boyfriend and I also took the plunge and bought a soda stream and it came on thursday while I was out for my run on halloween. which was also a really enjoyable run. 

right now at this particular moment though, I am getting ready to go to dinner alone with my boyfriend's family, not something that I am used to doing. Actually I think I can count on one hand how many times I have been alone with his family. I am not exactly the most social person and I really do not know what to do in situations like this either. oh well I think I will just have to wing it. I am just gonna wear jeans, a beige cowl neck sweater, and an old pair of running shoes. yep apparently that is how I roll now, instead of my dressy shoes I end up in just a comfy pair of sneakers. I think that might be all that I have to say at the moment. but I will most likely be posting pictures of the afternoon/evening festivities or whatever the case may be. yep later everyone.

luv ya!

week in review

Well this week has been interesting to say the least. Monday I went for a little over 2 mile run, and then went into work at about 330. On the run I did get some really interesting pictures I'm not really sure how they will be seen on here but I will post them anyway. Simply because if you know me at all you know that I have a slight obsession with old cemeteries and all things macabre. And the fact that I was able to find this itty bitty cemetery was amazing. In all of the months that I have run the route I did on Monday I had never noticed it before. I think that is because of the corn field that was cut down a couple weeks ago used to block it from view. 

 It is absolutely insanely beautiful and peaceful. I felt horrible for taking pictures like I was disturbing the peaceful nature of it by bringing anything newer than a pencil and paper. To document the moments. Maybe I am just a little too weird. Oh well like I said I enjoy these sorts of things. They make me feel closer to my family back home and all of the people I have lost in my life. Oh jeez here I am becoming an over sharer again. My apologies. Anyway on with the review.

 I also discovered on Tuesday that I stink at keeping track of my finances... well I don't totally stink at it; its just that in the last month I had stopped keeping track of every purchase in my check register like I had been doing since my move and as a result the worst thing happened, I ended up with an over draft fee. The first since I moved out here. I don't like the feeling of not knowing how much I have in my accounts and I really dislike asking my parents for help with these sorts of things. But that is what I had to do. Not ideal but right now I am on a non-spending week in order to get my savings back up. Hopefully my boss starts to give me more hours... crossing my fingers. 

Tuesday and Wednesday there was no running other than running errands. But here are some pictures anyway,

 He's so cute when he is sleeping isn't he? Don't tell him I took a picture while he wasn't able to stop me or else he might actually try and wake up before me. 😉 

 Wednesday was his turn to make breakfast and it was yummy. He found the recipe on Facebook and it is just cinnamon rolls into the waffle maker, who would have thought right? Well I mean someone did or how would it have been online. 

Thursday, was a day of work followed by coming home and then going straight to my boyfriend’s hockey game. I was smart and thought that it would be warm at this sort of game... not the brightest move. I also forgot to take my camera, a mistake I will not be making again with the next game. However I did get some moderately decent pictures with my phone, well one or two anyway.

it was all fun until we got home but I already talked about that. 

Friday was a moderately long run of 4 ish miles and it was quite enjoyable if not insanely cold. I took a familiar route for my run and took it out a little bit further than I would normally go it was fun. I ended up seeing some really random things.

 I passed a really pretty creek and a dead possum.

And turned around at a really cute little mini-golf place.

I think I might try and convince the boyfriend to go on our next day off, if it actually gets warm enough for ice-cream again.

 I also finished Ender's Game by Orson Scott Card.

I really and thoroughly enjoyed it and am currently looking for the next book in the series to read as well as pretty much any other book anyone thinks might be enjoyable. I just need something to read to occupy my time. 

Oh and lets not forget the loveliness that happened Friday night. With how I am, when my mother brings up that my father was talking about the "M" word with her about me and the boyfriend. I think it is funny and tell the boyfriend... he isn't as amused, actually let’s be frank, he wasn't amused at all. He is actually kind of worried. Apparently there is a hidden tenuous relationship between a father and his daughter's boyfriend that I being the daughter am not privy to. But when the father begins to talk the "M" word the boyfriend must begin to think about it as well. Even if the daughter thinks the whole scenario is fricken hilarious. Oh well maybe my sense of humor is not approved of by the people in my life. Bah. Well this whole conversation led to massive awkwardness here to say the least. Oh well. 

Today’s run was pretty uneventful, other than deciding that I definitely need some more warm running clothes. I wore Capri pants and a short sleeved tee shirt again. While I really like the idea of having long sleeves and full length compression running leggings, I cannot condone spending the kind of money that it would require at the moment. I mean with the scare that I had on Tuesday... but that doesn't stop me from researching them. I am thinking of just going with an Old Navy or Target version of these things to save money. I mean I have been losing a lot of weigh recently and I don't think that buying the expensive versions would help me in anyway. It’s really pointless if I would only be wearing them for about 1-3 months. Right. But my parents want to buy them for me.

 I think I would just be better off asking them to get me a jacket, that way even if I lose weight I can just keep wearing it. All of my jackets tend to be really baggy and I wear them a lot longer than I probably should. My Jack Skellington hoodie and the pirate princess one I have been wearing lately can attest to that. They are both raggedy and torn to hell. I mean I keep patching them just so that I can keep wearing them. I just love them so much. But back to the run today, when I started it was 36 degrees outside and when I finished it was about 40 degrees. I ran about 3.5 miles and have gotten some really pretty pictures.

the frost was insane even toward the end of my run. I am really proud of the flower pictures.

They are covered in frost even at 945am its crazy. And it is really aparent that it is autumn here in Pennsylvania, the trees in the neighborhoods all look a lot like this one. They just may have more or less leaves depending on where they are. 

 I do love the colors out here. Back home you might get a week of yellow but with the hill we lived on the wind would blow all of the leaves off the trees before any real colors began to show. 

After the run was work for four hours of training and then I went grocery shopping with the boyfriend. We didn't really get anything too interesting. And that is about all that happened this week. Tomorrow I will be getting another run in and trying to work on catching up on my photo-a-day challenges on instagram. I'm so far behind it is just sad, just a little over two weeks. Well I think that is all that I have to say tonight. Talk to you all later

He says it's time for bed, good night everyone. Sleep tight. 

Luv ya!