Book Review: Pride & Prejudice & Zombies

Let me just start by saying that if you are a true Austen fan, do not read this book. You will get angry. If you mildly like Austen than go for it. There is such a zombie fad going on right now. Both of my brothers are currently obsessed with The Walking Dead. Calgary is all about the zombie walk for such and such a charity. Well this dude totally jumped on the bandwagon. Really with Elizabeth's personality it is not far fetched to think that she could slay the undead. She's independent and feisty. The only bit that I didn't really think translated well was the whole plot with Lady Catherine De Bourgh. Other than that it is a fun little twist on the classic. Good for a read. Not good enough to make it to my bookshelf. I'll probably update this post tomorrow when I discuss this guy with my book club (yes we read books like this in our book club).

Book Review: The Great Gatsby

Here is another book that Brittany read in High School and had NOOOO idea what was happening back then. To say I was immature in High School is putting it lightly. They made us read these novels in English and we had no idea what anything meant. We couldn't relate anything to our own lives. I'm not mad at my teachers. That would be wrong. I just wish curriculum had dictated some books that teenagers could relate to. That being said I have not magically morphed into a Pre-WWII flapper girl in the past 10 years. But I understood the love, wealth, power, and identity issues now more than I did back then. Gatsby is a bleeding heart. Daisy is a bubble head. Nick is just straight up confused. Tom is a jerkface. Jordan needs to get over herself. (Yes I know I just sounded so deep there). You live a short life with these people. You feel for them. Then you've got a big ol' let down at the end. American classic, yes. A time-piece, yes. Something that changed my life, no. Read it say you read it. Watch the 1974 movie with Robert Redford. And then move on!

Milestones: 100th Post!

Isn't it rather funny that my 1 year anniversary is proceeded by my 100th post. So really I did 99 Posts over a blog year. I didn't even plan it that way! I'm just THAT FANCY! Here's a little sketch of Sofia to celebrate. With that I included more sketches on the blog... perhaps something to look forward for the next 100!

Milestones: One Year Anniversary (Oh Bother)

OH MY GOODNESS! I'm a silly girl. I had planned out that I'd really pay tribute to the One Year Anniversary of this blog... Yeah that happened on the 2nd. I forgot to check and assumed it was in November. Nope. So here is a hip-hip-horray and no pomp and circumstance. One year on the interweb. And shoddy at posting/picking random times to post. Hopefully next time this year I'll have the ol' act together!

Vacation: Grassi Lakes

I'm sure you might be sick of me talking about vacation. Especially since it's been two months since all this went down. It doesn't seem like it. It seems just yesterday that Tom was here and the summer was in full swing. Now that it is fall, and I live in Calgary we've had snow. So maybe I'm trying to extend the summer a bit. Anywho, Tom and I took a day trip with our pal Krista. She was our other amigo in Spain. It was the first time that all three of us have been together on this side of the Atlantic. We took off to Canmore for some light shopping, Mexican food (Tom had his first Margarita), and then decided to go to the mountain. Krista had been to a place called Grassi Lakes near Canmore, but wasn't sure how to get there. So we went on an adventure. We ended up driving up and down the mountain on an unpaved road (Go Krista). When we got to the bottom we finally saw the turn off for Grassi Lakes. To get to them though we had to hike up said mountain again. Being always dignified I trekked up the mountain in flats (TOMS to be precise) and may have wined the whole way up. It was beautiful at the top and fully worth it. There are several small bits of beautiful water, a rock face complete with the occasional climber, and cave paintings (though not like the ones you see in the textbooks).So honestly I want to go back when there is nicer weather and with hiking boots! Oh, and fully making it worth it is seeing a British person hamming it up on a mountain:

Vacation: Stampeders Game

I know these were taken so long ago but I had to post them for memory sake. I have managed to find one of the only British guys to love our version of football. Mind you that before me he didn't even look at the CFL. Well we got amazing tickets to a Stamps game, and it happened to be a first CFL game for both of us. The game was not all that great, and we did lose, but it was a fun first for both of us. Oh and we got the following cute picture out of it (which is Tom being sad we lost):

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