Really Random Ramblings and Tidbit Tuesday!

Welcome to the second "Tidbit Tuesday"! I'll be sharing the tidbit excerpt with you later in the posting.

First of all, I wanted to share with you the short review of the book The Awakening by Kelley Armstrong that I finished reading last week and forgot to write about. This was the sequel book to The Summoning which I had told you had a slow start to it but turned out to be pretty good and very engaging. This sequel jumped right into the action picking right up where The Summoning left off. I found this book to be more compelling than the first book in what is intended to be a series apparently. The action kept rolling throughout the book and the intensity kept me reading all the way to the end with barely a rest between. Kelley Armstrong apparently intends for this to be a series called "Darkest Powers". I look forward to the rest of the series as The Awakening left off with the reader hanging on dying to know how the story ends again!

Well, my 3 year old nephew, Kristian, had to have a MRI today under sedation and has come through that well. I was worried about him having to be sedated, but he's groggy and watching a movie according to my sister. Now we just have to cross our fingers and pray that the results come back good. He has an EEG next week on Wednesday and we all hope those results come back good as well. Any prayers will be gladly appreciated.

My house smells really good right now. I have a pork roast slow cooking in the crock-pot right now to make BBQ pulled pork for dinner tonight! YUMMY!! I just had to throw that in here.

The music of the moment today is on the "Mel's Music" playlist on iTunes. The song is "Let's Get it Started" by the Black Eyed Peas. I love pop and hip-hop music, anything you can dance to! In the second book in the Elyssia Masters series, The Council, there is a dance at the end of the book (I haven't written that far yet, but it will be there) and I can just imagine all the characters dancing around to Black Eyed Peas and Flo Rida songs.

Okay, now for the tidbit excerpt of the week! This is a bit longer of an excerpt, but it's the introduction to Train Wrecks. Let me know what you think!

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Saturday, September 6^th

My parents bought me this new laptop for my birthday in July and I haven’t really done much with it yet. I figured I would start a journal. I never know when it may be the day I finally succeed in dying, so I thought I might want to leave something behind. Here goes…

My name is Catherine Marie Nichols, but everyone calls me Cat. I just turned sixteen on July 18th. I live in the small town of Corinth, KY and go to Grant County High School. I live with my parents and my younger sister, Josephine. Everybody calls her Jo. She’s thirteen and most of the time is a real pain in the ass.

Jo is pretty and popular and makes straight A’s in school. She’s my parents’ favorite, especially Mom’s, and I know it. They make it pretty obvious to me.

On the other hand, there I am. I don’t think I’m pretty like Jo. She has long dark brown hair and deep brown eyes and a tanned look all year round. I’m pale with mousy brown hair and greenish brown eyes. We’re about the same height, but I need to drop about twenty pounds to be better.

But, enough with the niceties. The real reason I’m writing this is simple. I hope I die and I wanted to leave an explanation of what goes on in my life behind. Every day I think about dying. I hate my life and everything in it. I’m sure no one can understand that, but that is just the way I feel.

That’s enough writing in this e-journal for now. I’ll try to be more descriptive from now on so you really get it. I think it’s all pretty simple, but not everyone understands what goes on in my head. I’m going to share the darkness with you and you alone.