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You may have been wondering where I have been since it's been awhile since you've seen a post. Well, I've been coming up with a new blog creation that I hope you'll all enjoy a bit more. I realize I do well with instructions and themes, so my new blog deals with certain themes, but a different one each day. It's slightly easier for me to write and keep me in line to be more creative and post more often. So far, I'm pretty in love with it and hope that you will be too. "Life's Lemons & Limes" has been good, but it might just serve as a mere stepping stone to becoming better at this whole blogging thing. So please, please follow me over to my new blog (and then keep following it!) @ http://c2avery.blogspot.com and enjoy! I'll see you over there.

iGoogle

How have I not discovered this until yesterday? Seriously, this page is great. If you don't already have it for yourself, I definitely recommend it. I already use Google calendar avidly, and now I have so many more gadgets to play with. Also you can customize it to your liking. It's so fun and useful, I love it!

A Quick Tip

This is just a quick clue in to something I've found very helpful. Over the past few years, I've purchased a few Women's Health magazines and they all come with good workouts to do at home or the gym. Well, I hate working out at home and I always forget them when I'm at the gym. So I cut them all out and pasted them into a spiral notebook I had lying around and it's the perfect gym companion. That way, you have lots of workouts to choose from and you can remember things that you may have forgot. Also, you can use remaining pages for keeping track of your workouts or putting in the great recipes that WH has to offer. It's been so useful, I just thought I would pass on the news!

Music Monday

So, this is Brandon Flowers. He is the lead singer of The Killers (who I love), but is trying some stuff on his own. This is his first single called "Crossfire" that I heard for the first time today. And then I heard it again later. I have to say, I'm not sure how I feel about it. So I'm asking your opinion. What do you think?

At first I liked it. It seemed genuine. But then when I heard it again I felt it kind of channeled Bryan Adams a little and belonged in an early 90's movie. I'm just not sure. It could be one of those songs that grows on me. Or it could be one where I change the station...Bah!

Music Monday

This song is #2 on my top 25 most played list in iTunes. I absolutely love it still after listening to it for a couple years. The first few instrumental measures just tug at my heart strings and the story is heartbreaking, but so enticing. It's pretty much amazing.

P.S. It's called "Cath..." by Death Cab For Cutie

Summer Lists

Reading List


These are the books I plan to pour through this summer whenever the sun decides to come out.

1. The Fountainhead - Ayn Rand: I've had this one on my list for a long time. Pretty much ever since I finished her other book. Her writing is so amazing and her stories bring up such interesting philosophy. I can't wait to see what this one is about.

2. Out Stealing Horses - Per Petterson: When I was younger, I had a big thing for horses, so this book caught my eye. Then I read the summary and it sounded really interesting and from a different point of view so I added it to my list.

3. Eat Pray Love - Elizabeth Gilbert: Not gonna lie, I was totally hesitant about reading this book. But given my current state of life and my new found love for travel, I've decided to give this one a shot.

4. Road Dogs - Elmore Leonard: I randomly came across this book while at B&N. I'm very attracted to book covers (yes, I do judge books by their covers) and I read the summary and it has to do with Cuban culture as well as a mysterious story, so I'm hoping it will go along with my love for stories in other (Spanish-speaking) locations!



Movie List

These are the movies I will go see when the weather stinks.

1. The A-Team: Basically a two hour movie with a shirtless Bradley Cooper. That's all I need really...

2. Toy Story 3: I am so excited they made another one! I love these films and this one looks just as good as the other two. I can't wait.

3. The Twilight Saga: Eclipse: This movie is coming out on midnight of my best friend's birthday, and this is her activity of choice. I can't not go! Besides, it couldn't possibly be any worse than the last one, right?

4. MacGruber: I can't believe I haven't seen this yet to be honest. SNL stars and written/directed by members of The Lonely Island...winner.

Music Monday

After much, much listening of the brand new album from The National, I've picked "Afraid of Everyone" as my favorite track. There's just something very haunting and moving about the end when he sings "Your voice is swallowing my soul, soul, soul". Here is them performing this track on David Letterman. I cannot wait to see these guys in September. I can only imagine how moving they'll be in person. Buy their album!