oh my gosh. This week has just blown chunks, let me tell ya. First, we had a big rain and my downstairs flooded. The next night…my washing machine sprang a leak…and the downstairs flooded. Yesterday, the rain returned… seeing a trend here? Yeah, the downstairs flooded. So the first night the house flooded, it wasn’t that bad but bad enough I had to spend an afternoon shampooing carpets and doing laundry. Mr C finally, found the general area where the water was coming in. YAY! Later that night, while I…
Read MoreBook of the Day: The Meryl Streep Movie Club
Its the weekend! Whoot!! Looky what I found in my mailbox! My first book from the SHE READS BLOG NETWORK!!! My book was pretty beat up (thanks UPS man!) but pretty – none the less. The Meryl Streep Movie Club by Mia March The Meryl Streep Movie Club by Mia March June 19, 2012 In the bestselling tradition of The Friday Night Knitting Club and The Jane Austen Book Club, three women find unexpected answers, happiness, and one another, with Meryl Streep movies as their inspiration. Two sisters and…
Read MoreNew Book Club and YOU are invited!
Hi you guys! I am so excited for this announcement! Sam (MidnightReadingOwl), Lindsay Mead (thebookvlogger), and myself have started a book club! We will be meeting ONCE A MONTH (we’re going to try to keep it on the first Saturday of the month) to discuss our book of the month! Each month we’ll be rotating host between us three, and the host is the one who picked the book of that month. They will also be hosting the club on their youtube channel that month so make sure…
Read MoreBack to school! yippee!!
I am so SO relieved. Summer break is over and the kiddies are OH-fficially back in school YAHOO!!!! Now, I just need to get myself set up back on some kind of schedule. I mean, I knew this summer was going to be hard but I didn’t know the kids being out of school was going to mean my personal time (ie: blogging time) was going to drop down to damn near ZERO. Holy schmokes! Anyhoo… first day back = SUCCESS. Both were in good spirits when they got home. …
Read MoreYour questions. Answered.
So I wanted to celebrate hitting 500 subscribers on the youtubes by having a Q&A. You guys submitted tons of questions, so I divided them up to PERSONAL and BOOKISH. This is the PERSONAL portion of the Q&A. **LANGUAGE WARNING** Im just sayin… Part one of my Q&A to celebrate 500 subscribers. Thank you ALL for being awesome. Here’s my blog post on HOW TO GET WHITER TEETH: https://wearewordnerds.com/blog/2012/03/03/affordable-whiter-teeth-no-dentist/ As always, Thanks for watching! Cya! Find me on: Twitter – http://www.twitter.com/BunnyCates Facebook – http://www.facebook.com/pages/Bunny-Cates/160855320598044 Website- https://wearewordnerds.com/reading Goodreads: http://www.goodreads.com/user/show/723007-bunny Google+:…
Read MoreBook of the Day: Starters by Lissa Price
Happy Saturday! Today in my mailbox I found Starters by Lissa Price, how exciting! I’ve had this book on my wishlist ever since it popped up on Goodreads! And now, its here! woohoo!! Starters by Lissa Price March 13, 2012 “Readers who have been waiting for a worthy successor to Suzanne Collins’ The Hunger Games will find it here. Dystopian sci-fi at its best, Starters is a terrific series kickoff with a didn’t-see-that-coming conclusion that will leave readers on the edges of their seats . . .” raves the…
Read MoreFriday Reads: Several things…
Happy Friday! What are you reading this weekend? Right now I am reading: I Am Legend by Richard Matheson Release Date: 1997-09-15 One of the most influential vampire novels of the 20th century, I Am Legend regularly appears on the "10 Best" lists of numerous critical studies of the horror genre. As Richard Matheson’s third novel, it was first marketed as science fiction (for although written in 1954, the story takes place in a future 1976). A terrible plague has decimated the world, and those who were unfortunate enough…
Read MoreVideo Editor Review: TrakAxPC
Over on my book blog, I do a lot of videos and upload to the youtubes. Of course I want to put out the best content I can, so for a while I have been looking to upgrade from the FREE windows movie maker. I think every one starts out with movie maker, and it does an ok job – but eventually you want to do more and more with your videos and that is when it is time to look into purchasing something with more features. Since the software…
Read MoreBook of the Day: Seeds of War
Happy Wednesday! Today in my mailbox I found Seeds of War by Rachel Fisher Seeds of War by Rachel Fisher July 10, 2012 The mission of Eden must be fulfilled and Eden’s best Seekers are needed. Forming a new group they dub the Seeders, Fi, Asher, and Sean are joined by a new addition as they set out to bring hope and support to the Topsiders in the form of radios and heirloom seeds. As radio broadcasts begin to reconnect the survivors, the Seeders stumble upon mysterious broadcasts from…
Read MoreWeekend reads: IT by Stephen King
I forgot to do a FRIDAY READS post this weekend. WHOOPS! How about a “weekend reads” post? I actually have three or four books going right now, but this is the biggest one. and by big I mean some 1200 pages worth, so yeah… BIG. It by Stephen King Release Date: 1986-09-15 A promise made twenty-eight years ago calls seven adults to reunite in Derry, Maine, where as teenagers they battled an evil creature that preyed on the city’s children. Unsure that their Losers Club had vanquished the creature all…
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