Her nose stuck in a book...

Last night my amazing small group cancelled their regularly scheduled program to come over and help Mom and I pack for our big move on Saturday. And they also brought food! My small group pretty much rocks.

Anyway, we packed a bunch of boxes, and then I lead a team over to our new place to unload them. We have a limited number of boxes, so we have to empty boxes at the new place so we can reuse them. We have about 1,000 boxes of books, so those are the first to get emptied.

Last night I was in our new kitchen unpacking some boxes when I heard some giggling drifting up from the basement. And I immediately thought, "Oh no. They found Mom's books and think that they are mine!" Sure enough, when I reached the basement, I saw them flipping through books that look a little something like the one on the left. They were busy reading the back covers in sultry voices (something I do myself because, hey, it's funny.) I kind of wanted to die from embarrassment and they weren't even my books!

The books I've saved over the years are much better. Especially the ones from junior high and early high school. With strong plots and unique characters. Wait a minute... that's actually not true. I read a lot of cheap romance novels, with bad plots and one-dimensional characters. The only difference was instead of sex, they had a sermon or two thrown in.*** There actually are some good Christian novels, I just wasn't reading them at the time. And I worry that many woman are reading the poorly written Christian novels and patting themselves on the back for reading something good because it's a Christian book. Just because it is written by a Christian, it doesn't mean it is the end-all-be-all of good literature, people!

I will now get off my soapbox because I fear I've deviated from my blog goals of posting things that happen to me on a daily basis, and not media reviews. I will however end with a link I stumbled upon while looking for covers to romance novels. It's a parody site that pretty much is amazing. Check it out, you won't be disappointed. Here's one of my favorite covers:

***Lori Wick actually has written some pretty good book series. A Place Called Home Series is not one of them.

It's the start of something new...

This weekend, I got together with family for a reunion. In attendance were my Aunt Sarah, my cousin Justin, and his wife Julie. Besides being related, these three have something in common. They all blog. It's a nice way to keep in touch with what is going on in their lives.

Now, I had a blog in college to keep in touch with my high school friends, but it soon became a place for me to discuss the latest movie I'd seen or show I'd watched, and who really want to hear me go on and on about a movie?

But being around all of these bloggers inspired me. Maybe I should start up another blog. And set parameters, like posting about my actual life instead of movies (although the occasional review may slip in. I watch movies. And I love to talk about them.)

I hope to keep up with it. I have a few concerns. The first will always be, "Now what do I post about?" Another concern is length. I like to talk. And I like to write almost more than I like to talk. And nobody needs to read 1000 words on what my cat did last week (he peed himself from fright. No joke.) This post is already getting too long.

My other major concern is pictures. I take pictures. But not everyday. And I don't always have time to upload them. So I can post without pictures, but nobody likes reading a blog without some images. So I may have to post stock image like this:

But my goal is going to post 200 words (at least) 2-3 times a week. And if that fails, my overarching goal is to be better at posting than my cousin Travis is.