Top 2 Tuesday : Favorite Books

I have been MIA from the T2T scene the past few weeks, apologies! I just wasn't feeling up for it. But I'm back, and just in time for one of my favorite things to talk about... books!




I had a hard time narrowing it down to just two! My go-to books are always chick flicks, but as I was thinking back to the books I really really could-not-put-it-down-and-continued-to-think-about-it-after-I-finished books, these two definitely filled that category!

1) Deception Point by Dan Brown

This book, along with all of Dan Brown's other books, had me absolutely intrigued. I loved the mystery with the twinge of conspiracy and of course a little bit of a love story.

2. The Beach by Alex Garland

I had never seen the movie (yea, the one with Leo DiCaprio) until after I had finished the book. I'm really glad. If I had seen the movie I probably would have never even considering reading the book because the movie just sucked in comparison! Travel, suspense, a great beach... I loved it. LOVED it!

And a close runner-up taking third place:

I am Not Myself These Days by Josh Kilmer-Purcell

An autobiography, written by a man who was a drag queen, one of the few books that has actually made me laugh out loud while reading it. I picked this out because of the cover, true story, but it is a FANTASTIC book. He tells so many funny stories, you can't help but feel for him!

I've done a few other posts about my favorite books too, you can check them out here if you'd like!

Reminiscing

A few weeks before Olivia was born I wrote about how much I love Mondays,  I still have that love... in fact it's grown even more.

My mom watches Livy on Mondays. That means I get to rush home after work and catch a few sweet moments with my niece before anyone else comes over for dinner. Those 20-30 minutes every Monday mean the world to me!

She has grown so much, it's crazy to me. She smiles and laughs now, and is finally discovering her voice (which can be rather high-pitched and loud at times!) We carried on QUITE a conversation yesterday, it was too stinkin cute! Chris caught these pictures later in the evening while we were sitting on the porch...

Miss Olivia Lauren, before I even met you, you had my heart... now that you're here I know I will never get it back. And I couldn't be more thrilled!

Dear Chris...

[graffiti on a concrete wall in Nassau, Bahamas]

If it was a fairytale...

[via]

In a fairytale world Chris would get to live in his condo downtown forever*....

In a fairytale world Chris wouldn't have 2 weeks to find a new place to live....

In a fairytale world I wouldn't have to worry about if I'll still have a job after my company merges with another the end of this month....

In a fairytale world Chris and I would both get big raises just for being excellent employees...

In a fairytale world I wouldn't get the horrible anxious feeling in my tummy worrying about the next few months....

In a fairytale world my head would be clear to love Chris as much as he deserves without it being clouded with worries about money, houses, jobs, etc....

But, we don't live in a fairytale world, and I'm the queen of worrying about things that are beyond my control. We are taking it day by day, keeping this in mind, and hopefully (in the words of JayZ) the best of our today's are the worst of our tomorrows!

*(Chris is the property manager at a big condo building in downtown Indy, sadly the HOA has decided they want to replace his job with someone who will live off-property and do it as a full-time position instead of living on-site and being on-call whenever necessary. This doesn't work out with Chris' full-time job)



PS I will post about the Fantasy 500 party tomorrow when I actually have the pictures to post too!

Four words....

Waste. of. an. outfit.

(Will share more later, swamped at work right now!)