A Few Things

1. Recently, an anonymous viewer pointed out that the quote I use as my title, "There is nothing better than a friend, unless it is a friend with chocolate," was not by Charles Dickens but by a woman named Linda Grayson. So thanks, whoever you are. The reason I had attributed it to Dickens is because when I first started this blog, I checked Goodreads for inspirational quotes. At the time, someone had written that the quote was by Dickens, not Grayson. After a bit of research, I found various webpages that also claimed Dickens had written that line, and so I wrote that it was his quote on the top of my blog. However, this just shows how widely spread this misconception is. I haven't read all of Dickens' books, and neither have most other people, so I had no idea whether or not he had written it. Could he have? Sure. Either way, it's a pretty great quote, and so it's staying as part of the title of my blog.

2. I won't be posting as often here due to the issue of my little sister who is always on the computer, as well as to other things. But I have taken up the task of being one of several authors of the Wordpress blog The Adorkable Timelord (my penname is theresonatinglight) simply because it is way more accessible from my DROID RAZR than Blogger is.

3. I DO, however, have a review coming up for you. The book is Ugly To Start With by John M. Cummings; I haven't had the chance to start it yet (due mostly to the restraints of my limited computer time), but I'm really looking forward to reading it.

So overall, though I am not going to be posting nearly as often, I still will occasionally.

4. By the way, my robotics team did really great this year. We ranked among the top 40 in the world!

~Ellen

Bookshelf Organizing Fail... x5

So in the past two months, I have attempted to reorganize my bookshelves a total of five times.

First attempt: This attempt was sort of half hearted-I kind of just put the books randomly on the shelves.

Second attempt: About a week after the first attempt, I realized that I actually had twice as many books as were on my shelves; they were all piled up next to my bed and in random places around my house! So yeah. I, again, just stuffed them on the shelves. In stacks. In front of the other books.

Third attempt: After a week and a half of ignoring the dismal state my bookshelves were in, I decided to totally reorganize them. By genre. Like, children's books on one shelf, series books on another, about fifteen Nancy Drew books on the next, then sci-fi, adult books, etc. Which wasn't the best idea because my books are unevenly distributed by subject and lots of them fit in more than one category.

Fourth attempt: Two days later, I realized the flaws with my previous method. Then, I decided I would just organize them by where they fit. Which worked great. For about two weeks.

Fifth attempt: Yeah, two weeks later, I went on a major book-buying spree and spent about eighty dollars on books from Barnes and Noble, various garage sales, and two resale shops. I bought a total of ten books. Which is pretty great, considering that maybe eight of them had never even been opened before... But anyways, I had to once again reorganize my bookshelves. Currently, they look quite neat. But I plan on buying more books over the summer, and I don't want to give up ANY of them, so...

Wish me luck.

~Ellen

REALLY EPIC!

So epic... And yes, that was a pun. :P

~Ellen~