The Five People You Meet in Heaven

This book was ok. The story was definitely moving and I certainly cried. I wouldn't say it was one of my favourite books, but, at less than 200 pages, I will probably read it again.

I think what I disliked about this book was that it seemed to preach and give lessons about how you should live your life. I don't like novels that have a "message", I prefer that they just have a story. I think that is the my problem with a lot of modern novels, they want to tell me how to be a better person, or how to live my life. If I wanted a book to tell me how to live my life, I would read a self-help book. Another problem that I had with this book is that I don't really believe in heaven. I think that this is the life you have and you should be a good person because it is the only life you get and you want to make the most of it, not because you want to be rewarded in some eternal paradise. Also, eternal paradise sounds hella boring.

The book did a good job of keeping my attention, and since it was so short, I read it all in one go. I wasn't wild about the structure, the "Today is Eddie's birthday" thing was confusing at the beginning and got old SO fast. There were also some parts with unclear pronouns and I hate that, you should always be able to tell who is doing or saying what.

Anyway, if you are a believer in heaven, or have a short attention span, or would like to cry while reading a book, I would recommend this one, but I wasn't a huge fan. I remember liking Tuesdays With Morrie more when I read it, but that was four years ago.

201.4

Well, it's not MORE than last week.

It was this morning though. 202.2. I suck pretty hard. I didn't want to post this morning because I was so upset about it. And today I had a migraine like you wouldn't believe, so I stayed home from work and slept most of the day. I guess sleeping all day helps you lose weight, because here I am, 7 hours of sleep and 1 shit later: 201.4.

I am not doing well at my sleep little changes, I finished The Five People You Meet in Heaven yesterday and then found My Sister's Keeper in the laundry room so I read that yesterday too and didn't get to sleep until 3. Not on the list though, so let's just say I cried, but I didn't think it was a fantastic book. I cry at Tim Horton's commercials for children's hockey though, so take that with a grain of salt. I probably won't read it again. I forgot to take my Pill yesterday and I haven't showered for a couple of days because I slept in on Tuesday and was nearly late for work and I was just too lazy to do it today. I made supper the last couple of nights (chicken caesar salad and meatloaf and pasta) but today I made my husband bring home DQ because they have been advertising Blizzards like crazy and I am a sucker for advertising. Things are going great on the dishes front, the only dirty dish in our house right now is a cup full of milk that I am drinking. The financial stuff is not going super hot, I let my husband take advances on next week's entertainment cash for Blizzards and I haven't opened the TFSA and RRSP yet. Pay day isn't until next week though, so it's not URGENT.

Anyway, that is my life so far. I am terrible at sleeping when I am supposed to and I think my migraines are caused by my glasses. Super.

Little Change 7

This week's little change is a financial little change. I got a couple of raises at the end of last month (just annual performance and collective agreement things) and it is driving me crazy that, although we are out of debt, we are making no progress in saving money to buy a house. I really want to live in a house. I want a yard. And to not be woken up by an incessantly barking dog on Sunday mornings. Seriously people, if you put your dog out on the balcony because it is barking too much, do not be surprised if one of your neighbours shoots it. (I would never shoot a dog, but after 45 minutes of barking, I was pretty fucking close.)

Also, we are spending too much money on stupid things and it is annoying me. We make a very good wage and we are living from paycheck to paycheck. It is ridiculous. With that in mind, little change 7 is:

I will open a RRSP and TFSA and make automatic deductions to these accounts at every paycheck.

Also, we will use cash for any "entertainment" spending for the next couple of months to avoid over-spending and get us into the habit of spending less. Eventually we will go back to using out debit cards, but only after we are acclimatized to less spending.

As far as the other little changes are concerned, things are going well. I was out of bed on time today, but a nap in the afternoon on Sunday really screwed up my sleeping schedule, I don't think I slept more than 10 minutes at a time all night, for a grand total of about an hour. I have been taking my pill but not my vitamin, but my hair isn't falling out anymore, so that is cool, also my (not very severe) acne is pretty much gone. I am reading The Five People You Meet in Heaven right now and the review will be posted on Thursday as per usual. I bought some new mousse and hairspray, so hairstyling is even more fun: I even curled my hair on Saturday. It was pretty rad. We have been eating supper at home and ALL of our dishes are done. I even swept the kitchen floor and had my husband take down the recycling.

I am officially back on the Little Changes Train! wOOt wOOt!

Anne of Green Gables

I love this book. I love the entire series. I have loved them since I was 10.

The End.

Just kidding. I really do love this series of books though. They are well written and the story is wonderful. Anne Shirley and the rest of the folks in Avonlea could be real people. The situations in the book are real life situations: nothing is outrageous or beyond what would actually happen to an actual person, unlike in some other novels.

I highly recommend these books to everyone and anyone. My especial favourites are Anne of Green Gables, Anne of the Island and Anne's House of Dreams, but I think my most favourite is Rilla of Ingleside. I really enjoy historical fiction and, according to Wikipedia, that book is one of the only novels to present the First World War from the perspective of a Canadian woman. It's wonderful. They are all wonderful. Stop reading this blog garbage and go read these books.