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Today is the day for a new tomorrow, one in which all generations, young and old, can stand together no matter their party affliation, to be one nation. I never thought I would feel this relieved. I feel like our world has hope, my generation has hope. After watching the record turnout of voting, I felt reassured that people are standing up to be heard. No matter who you voted for, taking a stand for who you believed was the best man for a job is a honorable act to perform.

While at the bar earlier, I heard some of the worst racist remarks I have ever had to hear. Whoever says this country isn't racist anymore is insane. I will NEVER understand these comments or why someone would dislike someone because of the pigment in their skin. We're all human, have 2 hands and feet, the same amount of chromosomes, bones, and organs. Some of us are darker, some light, no matter our skin color, we are all Americans.

Stand strong together! Live in this moment and embrace it. Have hope for a better tomorrow.

This year has been slow with reading (believe it or not), but this is what I've read so far. I probably took a good 7 weeks or so this year without reading at all (things got hectic), but I'm still going strong.

Book I recommend are illustrated with a *

BOOK 1: Saving The Millenial Generation - Dawson McAllister
BOOK 2: Girl Sleuth: Nancy Drew and the Women Who Created Her - Melanie Renak
BOOK 3: Undomestic Goddess - Sophia Kinsella
BOOK 4: the guy not taken [stories] - Jennifer Weiner
BOOK 5: Hunger Point - Jillian Medoff
BOOK 6: Crank - Ellen Hopkins
BOOK 7: The Religion Book - Jim Willis
BOOK 8: Eat Pray Love - Elizabeth Gilbert *
BOOK 9: I'm Not A Feminist But... Adele Lang & Susi Rajah
BOOK 10: Allure: Confessions of a Beauty Editor ... Linda Wells
BOOK 11: Fabulosity - What It Is & How to Get It .... Kimora Lee Simmons
BOOK 12: A Lifetime of Secrets...Frank Warren (Postsecret)
BOOK 13: The Modern Girl's Guide to Life.... Jane Buckingham
BOOK 14: The New York Times Practical Guide To Practically Everything
BOOK 15: Under the Duvet - Marian Keyes
BOOK 16: Cracks in the Foundation - Marian Keyes
BOOK 17: Mr Maybe - Jane Green
BOOK 18: Bookends - Jane Green
BOOK 19: Spin Sisters - Myrna Blyth
BOOK 20: The Tenth Circle - Jodi Picoult
BOOK 21: The Bodacious Book of Succulence - Sark
BOOK 22: The Other Boleyn Girl - Philippa Gregory *
BOOK 23: O Magazine - Live Your Best Life
BOOK 24: Chloe Doe - Suzanne Phillips
BOOK 25: Thin Skin - Emma Forrest
BOOK 26: Impulse - Ellen Hopkins
BOOK 27: Mayada, Daughter of Iraq - Jean Sasson *
BOOK 28: Pretty Little Dirty, Amanda Boyden
BOOK 29: Female Chaunvinist Pigs, Ariel Levy
BOOK 30: Mary Called Magdalene, Margaret George *
BOOK 31: The Case For Christ, Lee Strobel
BOOK 32: We are all fine here, Mary Guterson
BOOK 33: Hypocrite in a pouffy white dress, Susan Jane Gilman *
BOOK 34: Target Underwear and a Vera Wang Gown, Adena Halpern *
BOOK 35: Get to the point - Painless advice for writing, Elizabeth Danziger
BOOK 36: The Revolution - Ron Paul
BOOK 37: Ultimate Sex, Ann Hopper
BOOK 38: Secrets of a Former Fat Girl, Lisa Delaney
BOOK 39: Middlesex, Jeffrey Eugenides
BOOK 40: You, The Owner's Manual, Michael Roizen & Mehmet Oz
BOOK 41: White House Nannies, Barbara Kline
BOOK 42: Just Curious About History, Jeeves, Erin Barrett & Jack Mingo
BOOK 43: Girlosophy, Real Girls Eat, Anthea Paul
BOOK 44: Everything you know about sex is wrong, edited by Russ Kick
BOOK 45: Makeup, The Body Shop
BOOK 46: Angels & Demons, Dan Brown
BOOK 47: Supersex, Tracey Cox
BOOK 48: Choke, Chuck Palahniuk
BOOK 49: Shopaholic & Sister, Sophie Kinsella
BOOK 50: Shop NY Downtown Style, Meg Castaldo
BOOK 51: Girl Goddess #9, Francesca Lia Block
BOOK 52: The 100 Simple Secrets of Great Relationships, David Niven
BOOK 53: The Boleyn Inheritance, Philippa Gregory *
BOOK 54: Surviving Ophelia, Cheryl Dellasega *
BOOK 55: Sister Freaks, Rebecca St. James
BOOK 56: It's so you, Michelle Tea
BOOK 57: The Body Project: An Intimate History of American Girls, Joan Jacobs Brumberg *
BOOK 58: A People's History of the United States, Howard Zinn
BOOK 59: Survivor, Chuck Palahniuk
BOOK 60: Invisible Monsters, Chuck Palahniuk
BOOK 61: You Can Do It!, Lauren Catuzzi Grandcolas
BOOK 62: Fireworks, Anthology of Summer Stories
BOOK 63: Rhymes with witches, Lauren Myracle
BOOK 64: Dirty Little Secrets, Erica Orloff & JoAnn Baker
BOOK 65: The Big Bang, Em & Lo, Nerve Staff
BOOK 66: Bunny Tales, Izabella St. James
BOOK 67: Girls dinner club, Jessie Elliot
BOOK 68: The Breakup Club, Melissa Senate
BOOK 69: Manifesta, Jennifer Baumgardner & Amy Richards
BOOK 70: Diary, Chuck Palahniuk
BOOK 71: A Treasury of Royal Scandals, Michael Farquhar
BOOK 70: Be honest- you're not that into him either, Ian Kerner
BOOK 71: The Bigger, The Better, The Tighter, The Sweater
BOOK 72: Woman: An Intimate Geography
BOOK 73: Trash Talk, Cherie Bennett & Jeff Gottesfeld
BOOK 74: Spirituality For Dummies
BOOK 75: Secret Society Girl, Diana Peterfreund
BOOK 76: The Photo Book
BOOK 77: Uncle John's Giant Bathroom Reader (I LOVE TRIVIA!)
BOOK 78: The A-List, Zoey Dean
BOOK 79: Girls on Film, Zoey Dean
BOOK 80: Sex With The Queen, Eleanor Herman
BOOK 81: The It Girl, It Girl Series
BOOK 82: Notorious, It Girl Series
BOOK 83: Reckless, It Girl Series
BOOK 84: Unforgettable, It Girl Series
BOOK 85: Lucky, It Girl Series
BOOK 86: Tempted, It Girl Series
BOOK 87: The Unabridged Marilyn
BOOK 88: Blonde Ambition, Zoey Dean
BOOK 89: Tall Cool One, Zoey Dean
BOOK 90: Back In Black, Zoey Dean
BOOK 91: All-American Girl, Meg Cabot
BOOK 92: American Beauty, Zoey Dean
BOOK 93: Heart of Glass, Zoey Dean
BOOK 94: Some Like It Hot, Zoey Dean
BOOK 95: Bliss, Fiona Zedde
BOOK 96: Angus, thongs and full-frontal snogging, Louise Rennison
BOOK 97: On the bright side, i'm now the girlfriend of a sex go, Louise Rennison
BOOK 98: Knocked Out by my Nunga-Nungas, Louise Rennison
BOOK 99: Dancing in my nuddy-pants, Louise Rennison
BOOK 100: The Best American Non-Required Reading
BOOK 101: Quarterlife Crisis, Alexandra Robbins
BOOK 102: Stiff, Mary Roach
BOOK 103: Bright Lights, Big Ass, Jen Lancaster *
BOOK 104: Secret Societies, Sylvia Browne *
BOOK 105: America's Women: 400 Years of Dolls, Drudges, and Heroines, Gail Collins *
BOOK 106: Bitter is the New Back, Jen Lancaster *
BOOK 107: Such a Pretty Fat, Jen Lancaster *
BOOK 108: Queen of Babble, Meg Cabot
BOOK 109: Girlosophy
BOOK 110: Everybody Hurts, Emo Guide
BOOK 111: The Go-Girl Guide*
BOOK 112: Uncle John's Bathroom Reader Plunges Into New Jersey
BOOK 113: The Mystical Life of Jesus, Sylvia Browne *
BOOK 114: Why Men Love Bitches, Sherry Argov
BOOK 115: Why do Men have nipples? Mark Leyner
BOOK 116: The Eloquent Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis
BOOK 117: The Anti 9 to 5 Guide, Michelle Goodman
BOOK 118: Secrets & Mysteries of The World, Sylvia Browne*
BOOK 119: The Hidden Diary of Marie Antoinette*
BOOK 120: Those Who Save Us, Jenna Blum*
BOOK 121: The Usual Rules, Joyce Maynard*
BOOK 122: The True And The Questions, Sabrina Ward Harrison*
BOOK 123: Phenomenon, Sylvia Browne
BOOK 124: Men are from Mars, Women are from Venus, John Grey
BOOK 125: The Rolling Stone Book of Women in Rock
BOOK 126: One Fifth Avenue, Candice Bushnell*
BOOK 127: Marilyn, The Last Take
BOOK 128: Teenage Beauty, Bobbi Brown
BOOK 129: Queen's Own Fool, Jane Yolen
BOOK 130: IV by Chuck Klosterman*
BOOK 131: This Christmas, Jane Green, Jennifer Coburn, Liz Ireland
BOOK 132: Are you there God, it's me Margaret? Judy Blume
BOOK 133: Starring Sally J. Freedman as Herself, Judy Blume
BOOK 134: Emily Ever After, Anne Dayton & May Vanderbilt
BOOK 135: Fortune's Rocks, Anita Shreve*

I'm currently reading People's History of the United States. Every American should read this book, it tells history as it should be told....not propoganda, not misinterpreted, etc.

CHECK IT OUT!!!

Today is another day of productivity, I try to make MON-WED that way because I know I will be in a more relaxed mode on Thursday & Friday.... sometimes that changes, but it's how I have managed to work lately and I'm trying to find a SCHEDULE that works for me...with no school in fall, it's going to be weird to have so much free time. I'm used to juggling many things at once....

What do you do to manage your time?

So after a few hours of sleep, I got out of bed at 730 AM today. Why do you ask? Apparently, my landlord has allowed VERIZON FIOS to install boxes in our units, so it could be anytime between 8:30 - 4 pm. They came in about 9:30 to install the box and now I'm waiting for the lines...I hear him coming down the stairs now...one moment.


.... Anyway, I am typing this as they are running phone lines throughout my place...I woke up, brewed some coffee and FINALLY finished reviewing all of the interviews people completed for my book. I also updated the RESOURCE list...things are finally getting done. I still have a few tasks that I want to complete regarding the book today. The last few weeks I finally started working on it again, with graduating this past semester (YES FINALLY), I had no time for EXTRAs besides my schoolwork, client work and sleeping.

While I do enjoy waking up early, I enjoy sleeping too --- perhaps if I can get my body to fall asleep earlier, I can begin to feel better about being up and working already for a few hours... maybe not? This is a work in progress, much like everything else in life. Essentially, I will test this process and evaluate the influence it has on me, my daily life, my work, and productivity levels. I shall report soon.

P.S. Yes, I intentionally wrote that as I would for my client work. Scary huh?

I know I blogged earlier, but I had to mention I forgot to say I finally purchased a webcam (will be in the mail Fedex Monday), so I will able to show you my place, my desk, and other things :) ! I'm excited.

Next, this song has been my obsession for a few weeks:



LISTEN TO IT!!

I have been drawing all day (yes I'm trying to learn) and being lazy. What are weekends for? I also finished the Boleyn Inheritance (if you don't read Philippa Gregory, do it)! :)

I created this blog in order to blog out things that I bottle up and I haven't used it for that yet. I have been struggling with what to do with situations that are occuring in my life. I have discovered that the way I usually deal with things has changed, which has caused my mind to explode. I snapped the other night (3am) on the phone with one of my best friends, I was babbling and not making sense, I lost it. I usually take great care to ensure that I can fix most things that go wrong in my life. I have instilled the concept of "THINGS COULD BE WORSE" in my head the last year or so, which in most cases, is always true. But for some reason, my frustration is overcoming my once overpowering mindset.

Now that you've read this and confused yourself, you're probably wondering....what have I been doing.

Essentially, I work from home (if you don't know me), I write for different websites, corporations, magazines and newspapers. I write when I want, how I want, and where I want, it's a nice gig. It can be incredibly stressful because essentially I must market myself, do all client correspondence, do the work (or edit what my subcontractors do), do the billing, do my own books, etc. You get the point, it's an overwhelming job, but the payoff (for the most part) has outweighed the negative. I don't have to commute or deal with the cost of gas going back and forth, I don't have to sit in traffic, I don't have to answer to a boss (well clients, but it's different), I don't have to deal with office drama, I don't have to have set schedules, I don't have a dress code, and lastly, I don't have to deal with TINY raises...I charge what I want.

More later........