Pompeii

As many of you probably know, I like to change things up quite often, most obviously in decorating, whether rearranging a room or changing the desktop background on my computer, or in this case, changing the header on my blog. Hope everyone enjoys it, the pictures made me cringe each time I came to my site. Anyway, I actually designed it myself on this website after stumbling upon it (not the highest quality after going through Paint however). Just beware that the website may cause increased slowness & freezing of your computer if you do it while running too many other programs/web pages at once. Lesson learned.

It's tough sharing 2 1/2 working computers between 4 girls & a mom, which is why I am taking advantage of it this late while everyone else is asleep! (actually Lilly is on the other computer also blogging at this moment, haha).

It's kind of funny how quickly we judge people, and also how equally quick that first perception can be changed. Today my mom and I went to the Red Box at the grocery store, and had to wait behind this lady who was slowly scanning through all the movies. As we stood there I grew somewhat annoyed at how long she was taking (I'm a terrible person haha), but I couldn't help it. Anyway, she finally picked a movie and was about to leave when she turns around and asks me and my mom if we knew about the promo code for free rentals on every Monday. What! So she didn't hesitate to give us the code for the day, and tell us that we could sign up to receive promos via text with a code every Monday to get a free rental. Wow! She turned out to be really nice and generous, which makes me feel worse for being annoyed with her minutes earlier. Anyway, we got our free rental, and I'm planning on looking up how to get the code every Monday by text msg. Funny how very simple deeds in which we step out of our own little worlds for a brief moment can totally brighten someone else's day. I guess not all people are selfish drones going about their own business! And I'm proud to say that when me and my mom went back to return our movie later, we attempted to pass on the info to the man standing in line behind us, (He already knew about the code). Sharing is contagious, try it!

You might be wondering why this blog is titled "Pompeii," and I will tell you right now! Me and Heidi went to the library today (I've been going crazy laying in bed for 3 hours the past couple of nights with nothing to read!) and we probably got a little too excited to be checking out books, don't believe me, read her blog post about it! So here is my check-out list (which will also help me keep track of which books I have):

1. THE CABINET OF CURIOSITIES - D. PRESTON & L. CHILD
2. STILL LIFE WITH CROWS - " "
3. BRIMSTONE - " "
4. POMPEII - ROBERT HARRIS
5. THE SEAL WIFE - KATHRYN HARRISON

The first 3 are the next books in the series I've been reading, and if not for the great characters, the murder-mystery-closer-to-fantasy-than-real-life-and-by-that-I-mean-monsters would get a tad bit tiresome. So to break up the monotony, I grabbed POMPEII because it sounded interesting, (I'm really trying to branch out to a more versatile selection of genres), which I started reading earlier today and it seems promising. THE SEAL WIFE was one that Heidi picked out for me, written as if being told by a storyteller, which is somewhat unique, especially for a novel versus short story. I've digressed. To wrap this up, I will be spending much of my time this week reading & working on homework, as I have not one but TWO 5 page papers due this Friday by 4:30pm. So do me a favor the next time you talk to me and remind me to get working on that, and also forgive my extended computer hogging!