Amelia is awesome!!!! Seriously though, it blows me away what she can accomplish!!! She will get an idea (like creating a book review blog) and then she usually takes a while to think about it before she acts. And then, all of a sudden she just decides to do it and WHAM!!!!! Within a day she has a professional grade blog, that she had to figure out how to write HTML code, contract image hosting, and all kinds of stuff. And she does it all on her own!!! She is going to accomplish things in this life that no one is going to think possible!!! She will lay waste to any and every obstacle that gets in her way, and she do it with a focused brow and a smile in her eyes!!! p.s. here is the blog, you should all check it out!!! www.foundinthefiction.blogspot.com
Amelia's new passion about her book blog has got me thinking a lot about how much I used to read and how much I love the world of fiction. Ever since I went on my mission I have found extremely little time to read especially like the way I used too. There were many summer/weekend days that I spent the entire day in my room or on the couch just reading away. I remember when I was about 11 I bought a reclining camping chair and I set it up in my room. I would spend hours in my camping chair reading everything from Brian Jaques magical world of "Redwall" to Dan Brown's suspense filled "The Da Vinci Code". I can remember reading books like "Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows" in one sitting..... seriously... one sitting!!! I can remember having to reach to non-fiction books in elementary school because I had read so many of our school library's books. I remember laying in bed at night while my Dad read me books like Walt Morey's "Run Far, Run Fast" and Wilson Rawls' "Where the Red Fern Grows". Other night's I can remember my Mom reading hilarious books like Judy Blume's "Tales of a Fourth Grade Nothing" and Louis Sachar's "Sideways Stories from Wayside School"
With memories like these, it really makes me wonder.... what the heck happened?!?!?!?!?! I can spend hours and hours watching 7 seasons of a show on Netflix and not even blink an eye, but I can't remember the last time I read an entire physical book, just for fun.... I listen to books on tape while I work every day and these provide enjoyment, entertainment, and distraction from the daunting tasks of manual labor, but its just not the same as reading a good old hard copy of a book.... in fact if you ask Amelia, she says listening to a book on tape doesn't even count :)
So, I think one of my goals this summer is to spend my time way more productively than I have been..... I need to read more, I need to write more, I need to accomplish more, and for heaven's sake, I really really really need to workout more :) hahahahaha
that being said, I think its time I post some summer goals!!!!!!
Goals For Summer 2014 i.e. 5/6/14 - 9/2/14 (the first day of fall semester):
-Weigh under 230lbs
-Work out at least 3 days if not 5 a week
-Read at least 4 hard copy books
-Restore a Rocking Chair for Amelia
-..... others to come, but at least these so far :)
Anyway, a bunch of random thoughts today, but there it is!!!
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