Friday, January 2, 2015

Hello 2015!

Here we are in the 2nd day of 2015. New Year's Eve was a fun and fabulous night spent with awesome friends. There were also wine slushies, Cards Against Humanity and bobbly-headbands:


The first day of the year was spent relaxing. I managed to level up Hol'den to 60 and began working on getting Wreynn to 60. Then I started my first book of the year... and finished it! 

I read Cinder by Marissa Meyer. 

 

It is the first book in the Lunar Chronicles. This book has been sitting in my Kindle library for a while and I kept seeing the book on Best YA book lists, I should give the series a shot. I'm so glad I did. I'm already seven chapters into book two and the story is great!

If you like Fairy Tales and science fiction, this series is for you. It really takes those classic tales we all know so well and puts a fantastic dystopian/science fiction spin on them. Though the big "twist" in book one was fairly obvious from the get go, the ride the book took you on was still exciting. 

Another cool fact, the author is apparently a huge Sailor Moon fan and an avid cosplayer! So awesome. 

Yesterday I also pondered on my goals for the year and came up with this list: 

1. Read 28 books
2. See 25 movies
3. Work on healthy habits
4. Get on budget and STAY on budget
5. Keep track of happy memories
6. Cook healthy meals at least 6 days a week
7. Continue to do well in school
8. Level Nessà up to 60
9. Go on a Road Trip
10. Get my teaching license
11. Get rid of negativity in my life
12. Get a teaching job
13. Write more
14. Start writing movie reviews again
15. Organize my life
16. Continue being confident and loving myself
17. Move out into my own place
18. Sleep at least 7 hours a night
19. Get dressed up and go dancing
20. Make 2015 a year of awesomeness

Some are very similar to last year and I did that on purpose. There were quite a few things I didn't get to last year that I really want to work on this year. 

I realized that my lack of planning, organization, space, time and money were keeping me from my weight loss goals. So I decided that I need to work on my planning better. I started last year asking a bit too much of myself, which was a big part of my failure. This year I am starting slow and steady and working myself up to success. That is the only way I am going to be able to achieve my healthy habits goals. 

When it comes to blog goals, I think I also put a bit too much on myself. With school and tons of other responsibilities, writing something once a week was a bit too much, so this years blog goal is once a month. I know I will be able to accomplish that because I am going to start a monthly feature!

So Preston and I began subscribing to Lootcrate in October of last year and we have decided to continue our subscription into this year.

Lootcrate is a box that comes every month filled with nerdy awesomeness. Each month is themed and you have no clue what you get until you open it. 

Now there is another nerdy subscription I have also subscribed to, and that is Nerd Block. Like lootcrate it is a box of nerdy collectibles, and starting this year they are also going to be assigning a theme to their boxes. 

I thought it would be fun to blog about what is inside the boxes and to rate which one was better! 

So for this month I will be rating lootecrate's "Rewind" box



and Nerdblock's "A Galaxy Far, Far Away" box


I will admit, I am SUPER excited for the Nerdblock box, they have revealed that there will be an exclusive Star Wars collectible AND a Doctor Who collectible. SO EXCITED. Also, by the looks of this picture, there may be some Lord of the Rings as well!

This doesn't mean I am not excited about lootcrate, because I see Star Wars up in that picture as well, also some comments have made me think there might be some Power Rangers stuff too! YAY!

I think this is it for now. My next post will most likely be my lootcrate and nerdblock unboxings. 

I'm off to wait for my Pop Vinyl Baby Groot to show up AND read more of my book. 

Until next time...

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