Yay For Good Books

I just finished reading Pride and Prejudice, and I have to say that I loved it. I got the idea that I should try reading it again when we moved into our little cottage, and I have to say it was the perfect time to read that book. It wasn't hard to imagine myself in that time period when I live in the annex to an estate!

But now I am at a loss as to what to read. I still feel like I want that time period-y stuff... so... any ideas? (I already read Jane Eyre too, and I loved it. Oh and I've read Pride and Prejudice and Zombies, and thought it was awesome too.)

Please share your book ideas with me!

Where Else You Can Catch Me

So as you may have noticed I don't write on this blog too often. The problem is I am writing on too many other blogs. So I thought if you were interested I would give you those to follow if you wanted to.

First off I have a blog with my friend Samiee. It is here that I post my picture a day project. You can see those pictures at www.innerlightposse.blogspot.com

Then I have a blog with all my friends adventuring in England. We are posting about all our crazy adventures. You can read that at www.sillypilgrims.blogspot.com

So if you're wondering where I am, I'm probably writing on those blogs. I will try and post here too, but I might neglect this blog a bit. I apologize in advance.

Next Update!

So... once I arrived in England I thought it would be a simple thing to find housing. I soon learned I was wrong. Monday morning we went into town to do a few things, and then we took a train to Whitstable since we decided we would like to live in a village if we could. Well we soon learned that it was really hard to find housing as students. There was a new legislation that said that owners had to file a petition of some sort to let/rent to students, and there is an issue if you have more than three people who are unrelated. Also they refused to have shared rooms. Plus the smaller villages (Whitstable and Herne Bay) really don't like having students in the villages.

I've never wanted to love a village so much and then felt so disheartened upon leaving it. Whitstable was so perfect, and yet it just wasn't meant to be.

Then on Tuesday we decided to go to all the letting/renting agencies in Canterbury. Kathleen was our lucky one that day. She got us in the door for several "maybes" and at the end of the day we didn't feel quite so let down as we had the day before.

That Wednesday we had to leave our hotel room, it was getting way too expensive to stay there. One of the ward members had a tent we could stay in, in his garden/backyard. So we went to the housing office on campus and the did a few letting agencies and had our first viewing from the letting agency. That place didn't look right, but we had faith we would get a home. And we were excited to camp out for a few nights, and save some money.

Thursday was our miracle day. We went back to the housing office on campus and they told us of a new place opening up in Chilham, and that it might be perfect for us. That afternoon we got a hold of Emma (our landlady) and we able to come view the place that afternoon. WE FELL IN LOVE WITH IT, and the rest is history. We got to move in the next day, and it has been the house of requirement* ever since.

(We call it the house of requirement because it's like the room of requirement from Harry Potter, it seems to have everything we need, even down to the details. It's awesome.)

Our hotel room was a bit crowded... for people to a bed. We ended up sleeping the opposite way. We were able to fit then... Jesse on the end, Kathleen next to him, me and then Annie... it was really crowded!



This isn't a great picture, but it gives you an idea of the HUGE tent we got to live in for 2 days!