Saturday Snippet

Hello everyone!

It's another Saturday, and I just got home from spending a lovely afternoon with one of my best friends. She's moved to the capital so it's always a special treat when she comes back into this corner of the country! (And I say it like my country is really big haha, when really, it's not!)

But then I had to find something to eat to take my medicine as well, and for some reason I've been craving red bell peppers ALL SUMMER LONG.

No, I'm not pregnant.

It's just that for some reason I've developed a fondness for them, and I can probably eat them instead of popcorn or chips or something. It's kind of weird, but at least they're healthier than your regular snacks, right?

I've also been browsing around the world wide web, and found this really fun recipe on Julianne Hough's blog, which I think I'm going to try at some point. Maybe add some chicken into the pepper filling though.

Any good recipes I should know about, which include bell peppers?

xx

*image no mine

Tome Thursday: Elizabeth of York

Hello everyone!

Back to book reviews, and I've suddenly realized I don't have all that many from the seaside it looks like. What just happened?

I know for a fact that I had taken roughly about forty new titles with me on vacation, but that doesn't mean I managed to read them all, which, I'm pretty sure, will be a surprise to a lot of people who know me, because I'm always reading something. Usually more than one thing at a time.

And now it looks like I still have a mountain to climb!

Shocking, I know.

I blame it on The Lord of the Rings, because I always take it with me on summer vacation and end up usually reading it over the spen of a week, just to keep it flowing and also to keep my mind sane (no dreaming about Rangers or Elves, if I'm careful).

But one of the books I did manage to read was Alison Weir's Elizabeth of York.

Talkie Tuesday: Cinderella

Hello everyone!

Back to my movie blog routine, seeing as I still have so many to go through, I hoarded quite a bit of them for my three week vacation (or was it almost a month?) and ended up sometimes watching two per night while I was on my own, because what better way can you imagine of relaxing than by settling down, all cozy, with your favourite snack and drink, the air smelling of salt and pine needles, and watching some of your favourite left-behind movies? 

You're right, sounds about perfect to me!

Which is why I did a lot of it, and after finishing with The Longest Ride, I went with not so much of an alphabetic list through my movies, but mostly through the ones I couldn't bear to wait for until I watched, and the next one of the list was Cinderella.

I had heard different reviews for this one prior to leaving for vacation, and since I didn't have any internet connection before seeing it myself, I could only rely on what I would personally feel, but I was inclined to hope for the best. After all, you can't mess up much with an original Disney Princess, right?

Saturday Snippet

Hello everyone!

So getting back into the swing of things here after vacation, I really couldn't help myself and drove one town over to a big shopping center where I could indulge in browsing through a LOT of movie DVDs. I'm a little bit of a hoarder in these cases, really, but I'm also conscious of the fact that spending big money on this stuff won't win me any favours anywhere (but let's not talk about The Hobbit EEs, kay? Kay).

What I happened to stumble upon was a bit of a sale where you can pretty much purchase between five or six DVDs without spending too much money, or doing the math, you can get these for a price of one and a half of the usual, which is pretty nifty for someone like me.

You can see I splurged a bit, because really, handsome men deserve to be watched on the big screen. Also, the Immortals DVD was the last one, so lucky me!

Additionally, I also got the King's Speech and Draft Day, and the Jason Statham movie is titled Blitz.

xx

*image taken by me

Tome Thursday: Pyramid

Hello everyone!

So last week, if anyone remembers or if anyone read, I talked about David Gibbins and his underwater archaeology books. In a very brief summary of what I wrote then, basically, this is about a team gathered around Jack Howard, who globe-hop a lot and discover strange things left behind by our ancestors, whether this is Atlantis or a meteorite-fashioned swastika, it doesn't matter. Jack is joined in his endeavours by a lot of prominent members, notably Costas Kazantzakis, Maurice Hiebermeyer and his wife Aysha, his daughter Rebecca, and various females ranging from Spaniard Maria to Russian Katya.

Whew, that really was brief. Anyone else already feeling winded?

Anyway, last week, I talked all about the seventh book in the Jack Howard series, titled 'Pharaoh', and dealing with the hunt for Akhenaten, one of those Egyptian guys we really don't know that much about, and what we DO know is now being turned upside down by new discoveries.

History never sleeps, ladies and gentlemen.

Talkie Tuesday: The Tudors (season 4)

Hello everyone!

So instead of doing a recap on something I watched down at the seaside during my vacation, I decided that I should quite probably round up my series of recaps and reviews for the TV show that had everybody buzzing back between 2007 and 2010.

If you've guessed it's the Tudors, you got it right! 

Sadly, I don't have any appropriate reward for that particular guess, except the review which will follow in a little bit after the break in the post. I know it's been a while - probably more than a month, actually, if I think about it right, because I finished watching the last season of the show (this being the fourth one) right before I had to leave for vacation. Since I didn't have any internet on vacation at all, I had to save this and stash it away somewhere so that I wouldn't forget to do it when I got back home.

So now, without further ado, and to make sure Maegan is a happy camper and proud that I've managed to achieve this, let's get on to the review of season four!

Saturday Snippet

Hello everyone!

Obviously, I'm back from the seaside by now and completely in the game again with everything, although I still need to finish a short story I'm writing - dang it and Dwarves, they won't cooperate the way I want them too! Haha.

But I'm also doing a bunch of other stuff all around the place, and among that is looking through some photos my dad took on vacation underwater. Here's a sneak peak:

There's definitely more where that came from, I just need to steal his computer so I can email myself some of them!

How about you, what exciting thing did you do or see during your vacation?

xx

*image definitely mine

Tome Thursday: Pharaoh

Hello everyone!

Back with my second blog of the week, this one about a book, and it wasn't really a difficult choice to pick considering it was the first one I grabbed during my vacation. The main reason behind this being that I wanted to read book number eight, but I had sort of forgotten what happens in book seven ... yes, it happens to me too, folks!

Especially since I took roughly forty new e-books with me, luckily only in electronic format or else I think my dad would have deposited me, books included, on the curb and drove on without us.

The book happens to be Pharaoh, written by David Gibbins, and as I've said it's book number seven in a series centering around an underwater archaeologist and his team, who do a lot of globe-hopping, history-discovering and general all-around interesting things.

Well, at least *I* find them interesting!

Talkie Tuesday: The Longest Ride

Hello everyone!

Guess who's back from her vacation?

Well, technically I've been back since yesterday, but yesterday the only thing I was physically capable of doing was eating lunch and falling into bed. Border crossings are HORRIBLE here at this time of year, even though this is all supposed to be European Union territory and should therefore be painless. No such luck, I'm afraid, but at the very least I'm not rested enough - and my computer has updated enough - that I can get back into business! 

So before I left, my last blog post was about the Nicholas Sparks book, The Longest Ride, and I said in that post that I actually learned about it and got pulled into it by seeing the movie trailer. Before leaving, I made certain I had the movie with me so that I could watch and review it for you later on (aka right now as I'm typing this!).

And let me just say, it did not disappoint.