Kayla's Book Nook

Lately, I have been feeling a bit down and a bit off. I finally figured out that I am severely unhappy with my current weight. I have always struggled with my weight, but during high school I was also pretty trim, because I played 3 sports a year for six years. Since high school, my activity level has steadily decreased, and it makes it hard to keep weight off. I have decided to change my life , I have begun doing weight watchers online, eating more fruit and veggies, I have cut soda out completely, and I have started walking as much as possible. I feel great, and I think work is helping me lose weight because I am active almost everyday, not just sitting home and doing nothing. After two weeks of all this, I have lost six pounds! Now it may not seem like a lot but just seeing the scale and my results makes me feel awesome. I am eating better, exercising, and getting things done. I don't feel as tired, and my feet don't hurt as much after work. I am very proud of myself, and ...

     Spoiler Alert: If you have not seen Easy A then do not read the rest of this review.      I watched Emma Stone do an amazing job in her new movie, Easy A. Which is about the fact that she lies about losing her virginity, and sleeping with a lot of guys after that. At first you are pulled in by the dry sarcastic humor, the funny family, the interesting character that Emma plays, Olive. But, then you are pulled in by the message of this movie: That lying about who you are, can actually make you momentarily forget who you are.      This movie had many great moments that were funny, happy, sad, intriguing, and for many people that actually went to high school, accurate. I find this movie very accurate in the way that rumors often spread like wildfire, without fact checking at all. Also, there is a bible hugging jugdgementalist (not a real word but still works in this instance) in this movie, that seems to perpetuate all the religious ...

     Right now on this website  there is an awesome book sale! They are selling books 5 for 15$ with free shipping! It is a selection of kids books, fiction, non-fiction, classics, and new titles. There are about 2000 pages of books to choose from! You can also get more than 5, what I mean is that you can get 10 for 30$, sometimes websites allow only 1 set of books for a sale to be sold at one time.     The best part about this website, is that when you purchase books from there they donate money to organizations that help people read, give books to children, and support literacy everywhere. They also do carbonfree shipping which adds on a little to your books, but it helps  "offset" these emissions through the purchase of clean energy credits and reversing deforestation."  Although, books can sometimes seem like they are not environmentally friendly, this website is trying to change that and help build trees again.      Once...

     I am the type of girl that loves sports, I played 3 sports a year for six years in middle and high school. I loved watching my now husband play football, and wrestle in high school and college. Now I love to watch the Yankees play baseball with my husband during the season, and we love to watch the football games during the fall and winter, Go Packers! We have even gone to see the Yankees play at Yankee stadium, and we also saw Buffalo play at their stadium against New England (the season they were undeafeated).      Last football season, my husband was asked by a friend to play fantasy football. At first, I was like no that's cool I'm not jealous, I don't know all that much about football anyway. But, as my husband picked his players, and checked his scores, and watched the games with new excitement, I wondered what I was missing! Alas, at the time the league was not allowed to add more players.     So this season, I decided to make m...

    I am fortunate enough to have a wonderful car, which has a cd player and pretty nice speakers. Therefore, for long road trips or commutes, I usually make mixed cds to help pass the time. I usually make a cd of newly downloaded songs to my ITunes, or of songs that I really love that I know will help me stay awake during the ride.      Lately, I have been listening to Sirius Radio the Octane channel. It's their mostly rock channel with a little bit of metal thrown in there. Most of the time I love this channel, it has really good rock oldies on there, and awesome new rock for me to get into! Also, my favorite dj is a girl and her name is Kayla! This station usually gives me a ton of new music to download when I get home. So I downloaded about 14 songs from the Octane station to make a New Rock Mix for my car and for ITunes.      This is my New Rock Mix: ✓ Dragonfly by Shaman's Harvest ✓ Liar by Rains ✓ Dumb Luck by Re...

     Finally, I have had some good luck in my life. Recently, I have gotten a part time job at The Family Dollar, and although that is a break for me, I was still worried. I need more hours, and I also need benefits, because my pay at The Family Dollar is not going to cover me to pay for my own health insurance. The Good News: Lowes finally called me back! I have a full-time job with them for more than minimum wage and it's full time with all the benefits. Even though I will not be working at Lowes for the rest of my life (I hope not), it is a good job that gives me exactly what I need right now, stability.      It just feels great to finally have something going right in my life right now. I needed something like this, or I was going to lose faith in the employment system. It's very disheartening to put yourself out there time and time again and be shot down over and over again. As a person who had very little personal rejection, I met my husband in 9th g...

     This last week I have watched every single Resident Evil movie in order to go last Friday to see the new Resident Evil movie, Afterlife. Now, I don't want to spoil any movie for anyone, so if you haven't seen any of these then don't read any further.      After watching the first one, I thought wow that really was kind of interesting, and I love the lead action figure being a woman, a kick-ass woman at that! I also really LOVE the zombies rage right now: Call of Duty has a zombie game integrated into COD4, Zombieland the movie is hilarious, and many books are being remade into zombie and monster stories now.      Then we watched the second movie, Apocalypse, and although action packed, wasn't really an awesome plot, but then again what do you expect from a movie made from a game right? This one centers around a few people trying to survive in Racoon City after the Umbrella Corporation has sealed the city off. The third one, Extinction,...