I tried a new recipe for dinner tonight! I feel rather accomplished! I made artichoke chicken. You know, when I first read it I was thinking "Ew gross. Artichoke? Sounds like some sort of organ." But my mom really wanted me to make it and I had actually made a Mediterranean salad before that had artichoke in it, so I knew that artichoke wasn't a type of organ, but still, the sound of the word? Artichoke? Kinda sound like artery? Yeah, that's what I was thinking.
So anyway, after it came out of the oven an hour later it smell AMAZING! And oh my goodness, it tasted even BETTER!! It was really yummy. Speaking of yummy, I'm thinking some ice cream is being called for in the near future.
I also made another discovery today that I am really excited about. I can get a free book from a publisher if I read it and then write a review for it on my blog, their website, and any consumer retail website that I visit! Wow! That is so cool! Especially for someone like me who loves to read. I just signed up for one, and I'm supposed to expect to get my first book within 10-14 business days! Yay!
And...another thing. There was a blog that I was reading today that gave a challenge to their readers. It's called the The Books of Old Reading Challenge.
You're supposed to choose 1 to 5 books to read in the year of 2011 that was published before 1950. There's more information on The Ladies Library blog. (Just click the link above.)
The 5 books on my list are:
1. Jane Eyre by Charlotte Bronte
2. Emma by Jane Austen
3. Gone With the Wind by Margaret Mitchell
4. Pride and Prejudice by Jane Austen (surprisingly I haven't read this before)
5. 1984 by George Orwell
(Not necessarily in that order.)
And there's another one that I discovered if you so desire.
It's a Jane Austen Reading Challenge and again it goes from now till the end of the year. And since I'm already planning on reading 2 of her books in my first challenge I thought "what the hey?" The Cool thing about this challenge is that you can either read books that were written by Jane Austen or you can choose to read books that were inspired by her.
Some Jane Austen titles are:
And some titles inspired by her:
Well, I think that's all that's happened today. Sadly I have a slight problem with my short term memory and being able to remember things, so when I say "I think that's all that happened," it's more like "that's all I can really remember and just when I'm about to fall asleep tonight I'm going to remember something I wanted to put on here and then I won't be able to sleep"...yeah, it's really so much fun. But I deal with it. Good night world!
