You guys! Sorry this is so late! I have a 20 page paper due tonight at midnight and only have 5 pages written, ahhh! it's okay though I will get it done and if it isn't done I will turn in what I have. Anyway... The book for this month was Mindy Kaling's book. So I know I put up some discussion questions and all but I wont be following all of those, just so you know.
First off, I love this book. She was so funny.
Favorite Office Kelly Moments:
I love when Erin tells her to go be mean to Jessica, its great when she makes Jessica feel all awkward. I love the Diwali episode, which is all about Kelly and her relationship with her co-workers. I love in the season finale when she finally ends up who she was supposed to be with the entire time. I hate how she is dating Ryan who treats her like crap sometimes, but yet I know they are perfect for each other. I love how her new year's resolution was to get more attention, so funny. I almost considered that one of mine. I love that she pops in for some great one-liners and then you don't see her for the rest of the episode. I just love Kelly, she is great.
What my life book will be called:
Why is everyone so short? Being tall is sometimes the worst
What its like being married to a ginger: The truth about red-heads.
Puppies: they solve everything.
That's all I can come up with right now but I know that whatever I did decide would be totally worth it.
I don't really have any friends I wonder about. The great thing about my life is that Facebook started to get popular right after I graduated high school in 2006. This was back in the day when you had to have a college email address in order to sign up for Facebook. All my college friends signed up and we all added each other as friends. I found a bunch of high school friends and then since I haven't ever wondered about somebody I was friends with back in the day. In fact, my two best friends Amanda and Laura, I am still friends with. We have known each other since 7th grade and have been friends for that long as well, its been so fun watching each other's families grow and its nice having them around. I love them dearly and its great that we live so close now.
I love talking about my marriage to other people. It has been the single greatest thing of my life. Zack is awesome! Being married to a ginger rocks! He takes such good care of me, has supported my hopes and dreams, listens to me vent for hours after I get home from a bad day at work. He seriously is the best and I am so lucky I have him.
I know that isn't a great review for the book, but I have been so busy with school lately. I also interviewed for a new job yesterday (which I am hoping I get) and it was a long interview process.
Well if any of you blogged about the book be sure to link it up down below.
XO
Caitlin
P.S. you can also leave comments, I love comments so leave some about your opinions of the book. Thanks!
Thursday, March 20, 2014
March 2014 Book Club Discussion Question
Tomorrow I am headed out of town, to good old Albuquerque, New Mexico. I have a professional conference that I am presenting at there and I am really nervous about it. I will probably blog all about it tomorrow night while I am at the hotel, I mean hostel. We are probably staying at a dinky little place but hey what can I do, school is paying for it so I take what I can get.
Today I am going to post the discussion questions for the first book in our book club: Is Everyone Hanging Out Without Me? (And Other Concerns) by Mindy Kaling. Check out this page here, for more info regarding the book club itself. If you haven't read the book yet, don't worry there is still time to do so before the discussion. It was a really quick read and I was rather surprised by that. Mindy is funny and keeps you engaged in the book. Remember that in a week from tomorrow (March 28,2014) I will post my review of the book and will do a link party so you can link your review to the book as well. I can't wait to hear all of your thoughts.
Discussion Questions
1) I loved that she included a list of alternate titles for her book after the intro, "Sometimes You Just Have to Put on Lip Gloss and Pretend to be Psyched." made me laugh the most. If you wrote a book about your life what would you have the titles be? (I cant wait to hear from all of you on this one, I bet you guys have great ones in mind)
2) Mindy talks about how her friend who she still wonders about later on in life, a friend she clicked with and got her started with her love of comedy. Do you have a person like this in your life? Someone who influenced you a lot and your thinking, yet you haven't seen or talked to them in a while?
3) I love the chapter titled "The Exact Level of Fame I want" and the details that she put into it. What is the exact level of fame you want?
4) Day Jobs, this was one of the more funny parts of the book for me. I related because I have gone through jobs so frequently lately. What has been your most interesting day job/part time work/ temp job?
5) Of course she talked about The Office in her book, how could she not? I love Kelly, and the role she plays in The Office. What are some of your favorite Kelly moments from the T.V. Show
6) I love the section on marriage and hearing her thoughts about in. How do you show others that you are "psyched" as she puts it for your marriage? How do people who know you, know that your marriage is the bomb? What would you say to someone if they asked you if marriage is worth it?
7) Finally what photos do you have of yourself on your phone? Cause lets face it, we all have photos we never share via instagram or Facebook. Maybe if you are brave enough you can share a few with us... I sure will.
Can't wait to hear all of your thoughts and of course you can write an overview of the book as well and your opinion on it as a whole. I just loved it.
XO
Caitlin
Today I am going to post the discussion questions for the first book in our book club: Is Everyone Hanging Out Without Me? (And Other Concerns) by Mindy Kaling. Check out this page here, for more info regarding the book club itself. If you haven't read the book yet, don't worry there is still time to do so before the discussion. It was a really quick read and I was rather surprised by that. Mindy is funny and keeps you engaged in the book. Remember that in a week from tomorrow (March 28,2014) I will post my review of the book and will do a link party so you can link your review to the book as well. I can't wait to hear all of your thoughts.
Discussion Questions
1) I loved that she included a list of alternate titles for her book after the intro, "Sometimes You Just Have to Put on Lip Gloss and Pretend to be Psyched." made me laugh the most. If you wrote a book about your life what would you have the titles be? (I cant wait to hear from all of you on this one, I bet you guys have great ones in mind)
2) Mindy talks about how her friend who she still wonders about later on in life, a friend she clicked with and got her started with her love of comedy. Do you have a person like this in your life? Someone who influenced you a lot and your thinking, yet you haven't seen or talked to them in a while?
3) I love the chapter titled "The Exact Level of Fame I want" and the details that she put into it. What is the exact level of fame you want?
4) Day Jobs, this was one of the more funny parts of the book for me. I related because I have gone through jobs so frequently lately. What has been your most interesting day job/part time work/ temp job?
5) Of course she talked about The Office in her book, how could she not? I love Kelly, and the role she plays in The Office. What are some of your favorite Kelly moments from the T.V. Show
6) I love the section on marriage and hearing her thoughts about in. How do you show others that you are "psyched" as she puts it for your marriage? How do people who know you, know that your marriage is the bomb? What would you say to someone if they asked you if marriage is worth it?
7) Finally what photos do you have of yourself on your phone? Cause lets face it, we all have photos we never share via instagram or Facebook. Maybe if you are brave enough you can share a few with us... I sure will.
Can't wait to hear all of your thoughts and of course you can write an overview of the book as well and your opinion on it as a whole. I just loved it.
XO
Caitlin
Tuesday, March 18, 2014
Flight 370
I have become obsessed with this missing plane. I don't know why but I am just so fascinated that in the year 2014 a flight is completely missing. Read this article here if you don't know what I am talking about. The latest news is that some information was put into a computer just before the jet turned around off course. Read that article here.
I think I have been so fascinated with the whole thing because I feel like LOST is being played out in real life:
It doesn't help that I am re-watching all the seasons and I just finished the third season.
I have so many questions about the whole plane as I am sure the rest of the world does. For instance didn't the passengers have cell phones? And if they did why didn't they use them? And since we haven't heard from them does this mean that they are being held captive? I don't know.
I have been following the news on the fight wondering what could possibly become of all these people.
Some people have suggested using the apple id and track the phones to see if we can find the plane. Also I don't know why I am clumping myself with the search committee when I clearly am not doing anything to help them except reading every new article published about the plane.
It's so interesting to me. It is interesting to watch how the world is coming together to find the plane. 25 countries are currently helping the search committee.
I don't have any opinions on what happened to the plane. I think that a lot of speculations are happening and unfortunately we don't have enough details. I am praying and hoping for the passengers aboard that they will be safe. What a scary thought, aboard a plane and all of a sudden its not going where you thought it would and you have no control over changing that. So I hope that everyone will be safe and things will be okay.
What do you think about this news story?
XO
Caitlin
I think I have been so fascinated with the whole thing because I feel like LOST is being played out in real life:
It doesn't help that I am re-watching all the seasons and I just finished the third season.
I have so many questions about the whole plane as I am sure the rest of the world does. For instance didn't the passengers have cell phones? And if they did why didn't they use them? And since we haven't heard from them does this mean that they are being held captive? I don't know.
I have been following the news on the fight wondering what could possibly become of all these people.
Some people have suggested using the apple id and track the phones to see if we can find the plane. Also I don't know why I am clumping myself with the search committee when I clearly am not doing anything to help them except reading every new article published about the plane.
It's so interesting to me. It is interesting to watch how the world is coming together to find the plane. 25 countries are currently helping the search committee.
I don't have any opinions on what happened to the plane. I think that a lot of speculations are happening and unfortunately we don't have enough details. I am praying and hoping for the passengers aboard that they will be safe. What a scary thought, aboard a plane and all of a sudden its not going where you thought it would and you have no control over changing that. So I hope that everyone will be safe and things will be okay.
What do you think about this news story?
XO
Caitlin
Sunday, March 16, 2014
Simple Closet Organization
I have had this post in my draft section of my blog for a while now. I just needed to get my act together and actually organize my closet. I didn't have the motivation, I knew that it needed to be done and my sanity would be saved. Before now my closet was so unorganized and chaotic. I was trying a bunch of different methods and none of it was working. So I took some before pictures so you can empathize with me, and then I pulled everything out of my closet.
My goal was to reorganize it with supplies I already had in my home. I don't have the money to go out and buy new organizing bins or materials so I wanted to just use supplies already in my closet. I also started this project at 7:45 PM at night. A little late so I had to do it rather quickly and make it simple yet functional.
Here are the before pictures:
My goal was to reorganize it with supplies I already had in my home. I don't have the money to go out and buy new organizing bins or materials so I wanted to just use supplies already in my closet. I also started this project at 7:45 PM at night. A little late so I had to do it rather quickly and make it simple yet functional.
Here are the before pictures:
Those towels. Toppling over like that,not working at all. That box in the corner, I have no idea what is in that and why I am keeping that. Two empty bins on the shelf's? Why wasn't I using that? Definitely needed to be reorganized.
My husbands shoes everywhere, my shoes everywhere.
Don't even know where that towel on the ground came from. My shoes over flowing from the bins, a bag on the ground.
Sheets just bundled in the shelf, not even folded. Pillows taking up valued space. Too many tennis shoes, I didn't need all those pairs.
A lone shirt on the top shelf, what is in those bins? I have no idea.
Bags/ purses/scarves/ belts. Empty hangers everywhere
The full effect. BEFORE the organization process.
I since emptied the closet, went through all the bins and purged through a bunch of stuff. I had three trash bags of stuff to throw away. THREE. That is a ton of stuff, glad I got rid of it. I also donated one bag so that felt good.
Next came my favorite part. Putting everything back into the closet.
I started with my boots. Matching them up, I need to find some old magazines to put in so that I can keep the top from flopping over.
The shelves are already better. I keep my jeans that I wear the most folded on the top shelf as well as some of my pencil skirts. I then put shoes on the shelves. The blazers I wear the most often are on the right.
In the crates are my hats and belts and scarves. The shoes look much better and who doesn't love a great polka dot bag.
I moved the pillows up to the top shelf and one day I will get that pig out and use it. I know the comforter looks messy, I will fix that later.
Husbands corner. Ha ha. I love how he just gets a corner.
I filled the empty bins with the linens. Our apartment doesn't have room for a linen closet so I turned the storage bins into my linen closet. I need to get some cute labels for them. I keep the towels we use the most on top so they are easily accessible.
I put my husbands shoes in the bins, I think he doesn't really care. I just like them corralled in one place. I put his work boots on the top because he uses those the most.
And the top shelf. My workout clothes are in the space, makes it easier to find and some miscellaneous items are in that crate.
Although this organizing project wasn't really that much of a difference I feel so much better about our closet and in the end that is what matters right.
XO
Caitlin
