Feeding Your Soul

When January 1 st rolls around, one of the first things anyone thinks of is resolutions. Everyone makes resolutions even if they don’t realize they are making any. Some of the most common ones are joining a gym, losing weight, eating healthier and saving money. Think back to your past New Year’s. How many resolutions did you make? How many did you keep? That is what this post is about – making those resolutions and keeping them. I know firsthand that keeping resolutions isn’t easy. I can’t count how many I have thought of and subsequently not kept because of one thing or another. We come up with these promises around the end of the year or even New Year’s Day that we know if we do these few little things our lives will be better, more fulfilled. We think that these promises will make for a happier life than the year before.   We have every intention of keeping these promises to ourselves and doing them throughout the year. But then, work gets crazy, the kids need to be driven ever...

Make Your Mark Every race has a winner. If not you, who? If not now, when? Never Give Up Go over, go under, go around or go through. But never give up. Quotes likes these two are powerful – and they are just words. But the essence that they bring to life is so overwhelming to some people it makes them do things they never thought possible.   Especially in sports, quotes like these help people gear up for an important game or even just a Sunday out at the rink.   I have 2 books filled with quotes like these that I have gathered over the years and once in a while I look through them to give me inspiration for whatever I am doing – mostly it is for working out to get me motivated or to get me focused for a hockey game.   No matter where quotes come from – movies, TV shows, and famous people – they have different meanings for everyone. The two quotes mentioned before, to me, have the meaning that I have to keep on moving in order to reach my goals – let nothing stop me in m...

For my second movie review, I am going to review a movie that isn't Oscar bound (well, maybe for special effects), is not a movie that many critics will like, and is what movies are supposed to be: entertainment!  That movie is 2012 starring John Cusack and Amanda Peet.  The premise is very similar to The Day After Tomorrow where a scientist finds out that our world is crumbling around us little by little. The difference with this movie is that the government is actually listening to the scientist and they begin to plan for December 21, 2012 when the scientist says the world will end. John Cusack and Amanda Peet come in a estranged exes who still harbor feelings for each other and have to navigate through the world to get to the safe harbor that the government has been working on since 2009 when the science team found out about 12/21/2012.  Still with me? Let's move on then! Cusack takes his kids camping in Yellowstone National Park to find that the lake where they wou...

From "The Blind Side" to "Wicked" to Patricia Cornwell, I have 267 books on my to-read list . . . and counting! Every time I go into a bookstore I would leave with at least 2 or 3 books to add and as you can see my list grows much faster than I can read them. There is everything from new releases, to old classics to teen fiction on my list and so much more. There isn't one specific genre I like - if the jacket or back of the book catches my interest and makes me want to keep reading, the book gets added.  So now the question you might be asking yourself - how does she keep track of all these books? The answer is simple - goodreads.com!  This website makes keeping a list easy - just search, click and add. The site automatically sets up your To-Read list, Read list and Currently Reading list. From there, you can make as many lists as you want. For example, I have My All Time Favorite and Would Not Recommend but the possibilities are endless. Just like Facebook, yo...

No this post is not about the 1 extra day we get every 4 years. It is about the movie starring Amy Adams and Matthew Goode about a girl who flies to Ireland to perform an old Irish tradition of a woman proposing to her boyfriend on Leap Day, February 29th.  This movie is just the start of my 101 movies to watch list from Netflix that I am slowly knocking down. For Matthew Goode, the role and romantic comedy is similar to Chasing Liberty. He has to help a woman get to where she wants to go albeit this movie is more for late 20-somethings rather than late teenagers so he is growing in that aspect.  It was hard to understand his accent at the beginning so it was hard to get involved in the story line at first.  Once I got used to the accent (and Amy Adams voice a little too) the storyline was pretty good. Adams plays the straight laced, picture perfect on the outside character very well. She is out of her element being in Ireland and showing that through facial expressions...

It's that time of year again when the decorations are up, the radio is jam packed with holiday music, and one character franchise is beginning its end on the big screen. Harry Potter has amazed people, old and young alike, for over 10 years and today (or rather last night at midnight) the Deathly Hallows is in theaters across the country to amaze us once again. For a movie fanatic such as myself, I love this kind of movie - big budget, big effects, instense storylines - it's easy to get lost in a world not your own.  I have begun re-reading the 7th book (and I am on page 152 after 1 night) to remember the little things that got Harry, Hermione and Ron to the epic battle at Hogwarts. We all know (SPOILERS AHEAD READ AT YOUR OWN RISK) that many people die including Fred, Lupin and Tonks and that Harry fights Voldemort but I honestly cannot remember what happens in between. I could just go and watch the movie but I"m reading the book before for the same reason I read the Tw...

Remember Me? by Sophie Kinsella What would you do is you woke up 3 years in the future with no memory of those past 3 years? That is the premise of Remember Me by Sophie Kinsella. A woman, Lexi, wakes up in 2007 and the last thing she remembers is 2004 - and that is just the beginning. Her entire appearance has changed, her friends hate her, she has a gorgeous husband who she doesn't remember at all, and she is the b**** boss from hell. Lexi has to decide what is important to her - this new life or the one she might have left behind. I love this book because it was so much fun to read. Lexi was getting in and out of problems and holes, making fun of herself at every turn.  I will be the first to admit it was not a deep thinking book such as Catcher in the Rye or A Thousand Splendid Suns but when does every book someone reads need to be thought provoking? Whatever you do whether it be watch TV, go see movies, read a book or magazine, the point of it is to entertain you and t...