Sunday meme/feature!

I was thinking I wanted a meme or feature to do on Sundays. I won't always have an In My Mailbox post and I haven't found one that's on Sundays, so what should I do?
And if there's already a meme or feature you enjoy doing on Sundays, let me know!!

P.S. Please go here and vote for my book cover. It's the first one in the poll. (Girl looking up at the sky) I would appreciate it!!!

Feel good picture:

(from Dina90T at Deviantart!)

* click to enlarge! (I want this house, lol)

Meet Me on Monday (004)

Meet Me on Monday is hosted by Never Growing Old and it's a meme for bloggers to get to know each other one Monday at a time.



This week's questions:
1. What is your favorite holiday?
I don't know if I could choose. I love all holidays for some reason. Christmas for family, food and presents, Halloween, for the cute kids in costumes (and because overly religious people have ghosts, witches, devils, vampires..etc, come to their house-haha), Easter for the pretty pastel colors, Thanksgiving for the food, family, football & fun, Fourth of July for the fireworks, Groundhog's day....because it's my birthday, and St. Patrick's day because it's green....lol. So, I can't choose.

2. What color clothing do you wear the most?
Probably black. But I wear nothing but t-shirts and sweats or jeans. I don't have any black jeans(which I want) or black sweats(which I want)....so I wear pretty much every color. Currently I'm wearing a red t-shirt and red, black & white plaid pajama bottoms....... So I don't know.

3. What is your heritage?
My mom is white & my dad is black...but I believe there's some Mexican, Native American mixed in there. I do want to get my blood tested to see all of my races. I think that'd be interesting....what is that process called?!

4. What is your middle name?
LaRea. Pronounced Luh-Ray.

5. What is your favorite cookie?
Shortbread! I don't eat enough of it though!
I love love love Girl Scout Thin Mints too. And luckily Keebler's Grasshopper cookies taste exactly like them!!

Random Post, Saturday! (002)

I'm posting this hours later than I'd have liked to, but as you know from previous posts, today is National Dance Day, so yeah...I've been dancing. Dancing and cleaning!

Music is pretty much everything to me, so of course it's always on, and I am doing more than just singing along. :)

How is your Dance Day, aka D-Day, going? Moving & grooving?

I should give you an awesome dance playlist....but that's too much effort for right now.

I really don't have a topic for today, so what to talk about?

Well, for one, no one seems to care what they get in the giveaway I'll be doing soon. As shown by the lack of comments on this post. So, that means I'll just pick whatever book I feel like & give away if you want it, you'll enter, if not, you won't. Simple.

One thing I will talk about...my new blog:

Twisted Symphony!
http://stayonkey.blogspot.com/

I started this blog a few days ago. It's specifically for posting any songs I write, short stories(working on), and poetry...and anything else music related. You can learn more here, or click the tab that says Twisted Symphony at the top of the page.

Because I'm using a different kind of blogger template, you'll have to do something else to follow.

To follow you can click here or in the sidebar of the page click on: "»click to follow«"

As I am constantly saying, music means the world to me, so when/if I give away music (iTunes gift cards, CDS...etc) then I will there. So, you obviously have to follow.

I will keep the template I'm using for now and as I get more follows, I will switch to the newer one. As of now, you cannot leave comments, but you can click here to send me an e-mail or comment about the page.

That's all for today....
Have a great D-Day.
And comment about which book you would like to enter to win!!

What you can expect next week:

• Review of Devoured by Amanda Marrone

• Review of Rules of Attraction by Simone Elkeles

• A new playlist for Tune Tuesday - (maybe two).

• New buttons for you to find me on other sites.

• And of course all of the features & memes!

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I may go on HIATUS the week after next to focus on some things I need to. And the computer & blogging isn't something that is of importance right now.

I will still be reading however, so there will be two or more reviews when I come back.

And I will probably do "double" posts for the meme's and features I did not participate in.

National Dance Day - July 31st | Update

This is an update on the post I did on the 22nd of this month about the National Dance Day that is happening tomorrow! It was declared by the people at Dizzy Feet Foundation. I am definitely participating!! How about you!?

There is a NappyTabs routine that they choregraphed for anyone to learn, and you can find it on the FOX website or on the Dizzy Feet Foundation youtube page.  I'm going to attempt to learn it tomorrow. No I won't post a video or anything, but you can by going here to learn how.

To learn more about National Dance Day, click here.

The reason I'm talking about this is because I believe that dance is a sport (and Gatorade has finally recognized it as a sport).

Last time I talked about this, I posted about the top 4 dances I loved thus far in the season or So You Think You Can Dance. I don't think I can choose only 4 this time! This is really an amazing season. (And the Adéchiké & Comfort video is posted on the list now, #4.)
Little Billy Bell danced his heart out last night, but I think Lauren deserves this season! So, good choice judges.
Robert is a phenomenal dancer, but that's all that's appealing about him. Yes, the shows about dancing, but we fall in love with the people and their personalities as well & Robert can be a bit over the top. But I do vote for him.
:)
The top 4 (Lauren, Kent, Adéchiké and Robert) are my top four and this next week is going to be extremely hard!


Are you a SYTYCD fan?

Who are your favorites?

Will you be participating in National Dance Day tomorrow!?

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P.S. I'm working on new buttons and links so you know exactly where my twitter and facebook links are. :)

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Re-Create a Cover | "You Wish" by Mandy Hubbard

Okay, I've done a contest for the The Princess Bookie before...with quite upsetting results. So I'm going to do another one & hope that things work out.
This contest is to re-create the cover of the book You Wish by Mandy Hubbard.
You can read all the details here.

After the contest I'll post the others I worked on.

My cover:

Picture credit goes to: m1kikey on DeviantART.
Made with Photofiltre.
(click to enlarge)















Original Cover:

Summary for You Wish by Mandy Hubbard:
What if all your wishes really came true?

Kayla McHenry’s sweet sixteen sucks! Her dad left,
her grades dropped, and her BFF is dating the boy
Kayla’s secretly loved for years. Blowing out her candles,
Kayla thinks: I wish my birthday wishes actually
came true. Because they never freakin’ do.

Kayla wakes the next day to a life-sized, bright pink
My Little Pony outside her window. Then a year’s
supply of gumballs arrives. A boy named Ken with
a disturbing resemblance to the doll of the same
name stalks her. As the ghosts of Kayla’s wishes-past
appear, they take her on a wild ride . . . but they
MUST STOP. Because when she was fifteen? She
wished Ben Mackenzie would kiss her. And Ben is
her best friend’s boyfriend.

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So. What do you think of mine?
So, so?
Yeah, not my best. But there's not much you can do with a book that already has a cover that fits perfectly for the book....

National Dance Day - July 31st | SYTYCD

If you are a fan of So You Think You Can Dance, then you have most like heard of this day. July 31st, 2010 is National Dance Day as declared by the amazing people at the Dizzy Feet Foundation. You can find about the entire organization, how to donate, and everything else: click here. 

I am quite passionate about dancing. More so singing, but dancing is one of my favorite things to do and watch others do. When I'm in a mood...any mood...I'm either singing or dancing or just listening to music. Basically...I cannot function well without some sort of self expression through the form of musical arts.

What you'll do is go to the dizzy feet foundation website (I will remind you the day before) and find the list of activities you can do to get you dancing, promote physical fitness. And you may end up learning something about yourself. Dancing really is fun!!

To learn more about the Dizzy Feet Foundation and what their mission is, click here.

If you know you are going to join in on the day of dance you can get a shirt that let's everyone else know you joined in, then click here. The shirts are kind of expensive, but proceeds go to the Dizzy Feet Foundation. 

*I'm not sure if some or all go towards the foundation.

So...do it!!

Now, let's talk about So You Think You Can Dance...

How frickin amazing is this season?

Lauren, Kent, Alex(eliminated), Adéchiké....Ugh. It's hard to not vote for them all!

Below are the links to 4 of my favorite performances thus far in the season:

1. Robert & Allison* | Contemporary - (Travis Wall) 
2. Lauren & Mark* | Tahitian - (Tiana Liufau)
3. Adéchiké & Comfort* | Hip-Hop - (NappyTabs [Tabitha & Napoleon])
4. Lauren & Kent | Contemporary - (Travis Wall)

I have other favorites, but those were on the top of my head!!

I will remind you of the National Dance Day July 30th!

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