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Flashback Friday: It’s Just My Imagination

July 15, 2011 By Jessica Filed Under: Flashback Friday 1 Comment

Flashback Friday is where I post some writing of my life as a younger me. This is a church activity as I remember it. It's Wednesday and I'm going hiking with the youth in my church as an activity. I'm Mormon and we call our youth groups Young Mens and Young Womens. I can't be much ... Read More »

 Posted on: July 15, 2011 6:34 pm By Jessica Filed Under: Flashback Friday | Tagged With: Funny, True Story, Writing
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Once Upon a Read-a-thon Wrap-up

July 14, 2011 By Jessica Filed Under: Reading Challenge 2 Comments

I made it!  Though staying up until midnight took it's toll on me by day 3 and I just couldn't stay awake anymore.  If this had been on a weekend, I would have killed it.  It was a challenge to fit in as much reading as I could in the evenings and honestly, I got ... Read More »

 Posted on: July 14, 2011 7:32 am By Jessica Filed Under: Reading Challenge | Tagged With: Events, readathon
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Once Upon a Read-a-thon Day 3

July 13, 2011 By Jessica Filed Under: Reading Challenge 1 Comment

Mini Challenges! The first challenge is from Wicked Awesome Books. So in the spirit of matchmaking, I'm setting you with the task of playing cupid and shooting your arrows at two characters from different books in, what I'm calling, LET'S PLAY MATCHMAKER! I would set up David from the Wings series by Aprilynne Pike with Hermione from Harry ... Read More »

 Posted on: July 13, 2011 10:41 am By Jessica Filed Under: Reading Challenge | Tagged With: Events, Harry Potter, readathon
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Once Upon a Read-a-thon Day 2

July 12, 2011 By Jessica Filed Under: Reading Challenge Leave a Comment

Mini Challenges! First challenge is by YA Bliss. Top 3 Love Triangles 1. Twilight.  Super-obvious, but she set the gold standard. 2. Wings series by Aprilynne Pike.  She did a great job making each guy have strengths and weaknesses that would make it so hard to choose! 3. Wicked Lovely by Melissa Marr.  It's kind of a love triangle between ... Read More »

 Posted on: July 12, 2011 8:16 am By Jessica Filed Under: Reading Challenge | Tagged With: Events, readathon
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Once Upon a Read-a-thon Day 1

July 12, 2011 By Jessica Filed Under: Reading Challenge Leave a Comment

End of Day 1 of the Read-a-thon at Pure Imagination. I entered both mini challenges at: IB Book Blogging The Musings of Almybnenr Though the second challenge with the close-up covers was really hard, I finally finished it!  I managed to keep both my kids alive and entertained today as well as surviving a trip to the grocery ... Read More »

 Posted on: July 12, 2011 7:22 am By Jessica Filed Under: Reading Challenge | Tagged With: Events, readathon
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