Well, it turned out I won a a custom comic strip from MySky.net. Lauren (or Elle!) Skinner is incredibly talented and just kind of took the idea of an Edie comic and ran with it. She chose her favorite Edie post, which was a recent one from last week and the below is what she created.

Thank you SO much, Lauren. Edie is thrilled to be immortalized as a comic and I’m in love with it!

All photo from the lovely and talented Allie Osmar. See the rest here.

I know I’ve mentioned the library a lot lately and that I’m flying through books. This is what happens when I have a lot of time on my hands. I read read read.

Well I’m hoping soon that I land a job and won’t have this much time on my hands. Because I am SO ready to get my hands on a new project and dig in. I would like more of a challenge than deciding what stack of books to hit next.

But for the moment, especially while I’m going through 3-4 books a week and really enjoying it, I thought I’d start posting what I read once a week. Also because so many of you have been asking what I’ve been reading too!

In the past two weeks, I’ve done mainly chick lit which is probably why I’ve been going through them so fast. So here we go by author –

Jennifer Weiner

• In Her Shoes

Meg Cabot

• The Queen of Babble
• The Queen of Babble in the Big City
• The Queen of Babble Gets Hitched
• She Went All The Way
• Every Boy’s Got One

Janet Evanovich

• One For the Money

Jen Lancaster

• Bitter is the New Black (reread)

I really loved Meg Cabot’s The Queen of Babble series. Some great quick reads right there. I’m waiting for one more book in her Heather Wells series to come in and then I’ll start those. I wasn’t particularly impressed with She Went All the Way and Every Boy’s Got one. But that’s chick lit for you, it’s a hit or miss.

As for the Janet Evanovich book, I don’t think I’m feeling her Stephanie Plum series. I think it’s the way she writes. It was very hard for me to get into but since I’ve heard so many good things, I picked up the next two in the series. We’ll see how book two goes and if I want to continue.

I’m sure I’ll have more to report back on next week in the book department.

As always if you have suggestions, let me know. As you can see, I just can’t get enough reading material right now!

I love –

Great hair days. Las Vegas. Library books. Ordering in. Perfect 75 degree Chicago days. Having a dj at my disposal who plays silly poppy songs for me that he wouldn’t play in the club. Wine tastings with my favorite girls. Ryan Leslie’s music. Meeting old friends for the first time. Polka dotted flats. Ice cream sundaes. Pedicures. Friends who look out for you.

BlogHer in a few weeks. Summer mix cds. Brand new notebooks. Puppies named Edie. Gchat convos with my Vegas people. The Beatles. Chick lit. Real lit. Pretending I’m a foodie. Finding the perfect shampoo and conditioner combination for my hair. Mac and cheese. Sitting down to write and the words just flow. Movie nights.

Swirlz cupcakes. Getting a tan. Super cold Pepsi. Honesty. Rereading favorite books. My iPhone. Greek. Ideas for days. Puppy swimming pools. Harry Potter and the Half Blood Prince.  Discovering you and your friend could have had the same prom dress. My hot pink MacBook. Having options.

What’s is one thing you are loving lately?

Anyway, yesterday I came across Twilight tattoos**. Unfortunately, there is such a thing because people get them.

Why?

I guess Edward dazzled them into doing it but really, is Twilight such a great piece of literature that you must have it tattooed on your body?

UNTIL YOU DIE?!

Well these people think so.

I know bring you the worst tattoos I’ve ever seen.***

Well, if you’re left speechless, that’s exactly how I was last night. And if that is not enough, here is some more.

* this includes: throwing himself in front of cars, protecting me from werewolves, telling me I am his life and of course, the sparkle factor.
** dude, just get a damn tshirt.
***I’m sorry if you happen to be on here but if you are, you’re a damn fool.

Family.

Not just my immediate family…. the whoooooole family.

Why all of a sudden do they have to be all hip with the times and discover the internet?

It was bad when Myspace was at the peak of it’s annoyance and they decided to OMG! FRIEND ME! and leave me blinkey, glitter gifs of an angel with devil horns that say, “MUCH LUV 4 MY CUZ!” on my comments page.

I mean Myspace wasn’t so bad since I logged in every three months so I could basically ignore most of it and still let them feel “connected”.

But now they are moving on to Facebook. Seriously. I’ve dodged quite a few family friendship requests. My internet presence is splattered way too much over my Facebook profile and I’d rather them not be that involved. My big ass Mexican family is way too nosy and too gossipy and will be all up in my shit.

I know all they have to do is google me to find this blog, I’m sure, but I’m hoping they still haven’t figured out googling people. You never know, I mean they did join Myspace like 37 years too late.

Does this make me a bad a person?

I guess I could do limited profiles for certain people but I think that’s a pain in the ass to set up. I have better things to do than to fuss with that. You know, like read through the whole Chicago Public Library (hi, two books in a day and a half).

But the day my third cousin once removed’s aunt’s daughter follows me on Twitter, I’m breaking the internet and only allowing limited access to people.

THE WHOLE INTERNET.

So be nice and stay away from my social media, family, or I’ll take your internet away.

For good.

This is how I’ve been spending my summer days.

A pile of library books and running around with Edie outside. She digs in her pool and tries to eat the water.  Then she proceeds to roll in the only small patch of dirt in our yard because she loves me THAT much.

She’s lucky she is cute.

This past week has been a rough one for me. I feel like I hit that wall and just need to get it out. Because if I don’t I might just burst.

I’m frustrated.

I can’t do anything because I’m broke. I can’t afford gas to get the hell out of the south side to go see my friends. And I’m not really el accessible so it’s hard to get around unless I drive or take the Metra which is super annoying. I can’t go out and grab dinner or drinks. Some friends were in town this weekend and I just couldn’t go hang out. It was a bummer.

The job situation is rough. I go on interviews and send out resume after resume. I’ve been hoping I wouldn’t have to go the retail route but it looks like that is going to be my next step. A very temporary solution hopefully.

I’m really trying to be healthier and get in shape. I have it stuck in my head that by doing that, things will fall back into place. I know it’s not the case and it probably won’t happen but I’m going to keep these feelings and use them as motivation.

I’m just kind of emotionally spent at the moment both with work and my personal life. I just need something to go right. Anything. I don’t want to blown off anymore. I don’t want to be second best. I want to be happy again. I want to be excited about what I do. I need some stability. All I want is to be wanted.

Truly a legend who changed the face of music.

He will be missed.

Rest In Peace