Mr. Beta Fish

Newest edition to the family =)

My beautiful beta in his beach themed tank.

He's been alive over a month now in my care.

I'm doing good. lol

This is his tank during nighttime.

I let the boyfriend's kids name him, so they picked Steve...

I just call him Mr. Fish.

Convinced my friend to buy a beta that's black, blue, red, and purple.

She's been calling him Squishy Fishy, which is super cute.

I found out he's a spider killer.

Darn thing fell in his tank and died.

He didn't eat it, luckily.

Finger Love

I got my second tattoo on April 9th, 2013 at a tattoo parlor place called Bohemia.

And let me tell you, finger tattoos don't heal well. Not even a week after I got it, it peeled off and the L and O were missing. I had to get it redone. Most of it is there this time, but the bottom of the L and O still disappeared and the V and E are a little splotchy. But what can I say? I was warned that getting a tattoo on my finger might not be the best spot on my body to get a tattoo. Going to have to get it redone a third time. Despite finger tattoos not healing well, this was a very good commitment tattoo to get. My boyfriend also got the same tattoo. (It was even his idea)

 When I got it redone, I had the tattoo artist reposition the L so that it wasn't connected to the O like it was the first time around. That was the only big difference between my tattoo and his.

 Over all, I am happy we got these tattoos together. That's love right there.

My Safe Haven Review

SPOILER ALERT!

Both the movie and the book were amazing, so amazing they put tears in my eyes at the end, but their were some major differences, and I'm not quite sure which one I liked more. I guess I just want to discuss the differences I remember because they were some really big difference I didn't think were necessary.

1: In the movie Katie's hair is supposed to be brown, but she dyes it blonde. In the book her hair is the complete opposite. It's brown, but she dyes it blonde and ends up telling Alex it's supposed to be blonde. In the movie, she doesn't mention anything about her hair color, I guess she just assumes he'll find out when her roots start to show. I really think they should've kept her hair the same colors.

2: In the movie, Alex's son doesn't care to be around Katie because he wants his mom more than anything, and it creates a problem because he knows his dad is falling for Katie. His attitude is horrible, and he's constantly snapping at his dad and wanting to be left alone. In the book, he really likes Katie and he wants her to become part of the family. He also doesn't have this special tower in his house where his mom used to spend lots of her time (her special place). That area is nonexistent in the book, and Alex ends up just having the letters Jo or Carly-Jo left for him before she died.

3: Right away in the movie, Katie moves to the small town of Southport, North Carolina, and she meets Alex instantly. In the book, she's living in Southport for a few months before Alex even talks to her. She doesn't show interest in him as quickly in the movie, and in the movie they actually sleep together when she does realize she loves him. In the book, I kept waiting for them to have sex, but the opportunity just never arose, though it wasn't needed because Nicholas Sparks expressed their love for one another in a way that made sex seem like it wasn't needed to show just how into each other they were.

4: Katie's husband did not make her a murderer in the book. He simply tracked every step she took, every clue he had until he found her. In the movie, and though she had no idea he even did it until Alex saw the flyer with her picture and confronted her, she was hiding from a man who made her a murderer simply to find her more easily. That fight between she and Alex never happened in the book because she opened up not soon after he confronted her about the similarities he saw between she and the battered women he used to help, and she told him everything about her husband. In the movie, he literally knew nothing until the flyer, until he followed her to the ferry and begged her to come back.

5: Jo was a ghost of sorts in both stories, but in the movie, I never knew her real name was Carly Jo. In the book, Alex talked about his wife quite frequently and always called her Carly, which gave the readers no way to connect her to this so-called neighbor of Katie's. I was very surprised when Katie read the letter Alex gave her because the one in the movie was from Jo, and the one in the book was from Carly Jo. If Alex had talked about his wife at all in the movie, I might've been able to put two and two together, but she just didn't even have a name in the movie. It was as if he didn't want to talk about her at all, when in the book, all he could do was talk about her because he wasn't used to talking about normal things with another woman; he didn't know anything but Carly.

6: The end result was pretty much the same in both. Katie shot her husband and he died. She also discovered, after reading the letter, that her friend was Alex's dead wife. Now why no one seems to think this story is a little messed up is beyond me. Its a completely normal story with no paranormal aspects what-so-ever, and then all of the sudden, a friend disappears and a ghost appears and everything makes a little more sense. It was sweet to know Carly Jo wanted nothing more than to make sure her husband fell in love again, and it was even better to know she wanted to make sure Katie was the woman for her husband. I truly believed this story was a rip off of Sleeping with the Enemy until the twist at the end. Don't get me wrong, it was a great love story with an awesome twist, and that twist made the story so much better because it had a lot of volume Sleeping with the Enemy didn't have.

I can see myself buying the movie and reading the book again. Both were that Wonderful.

My First Tattoo

I was very nervous, though I don't look it by a long shot. The tattooist said he sensed not one bit of tension while he inked me.

He was a strange man, and I was disappointed to find out he'd only been tattooing for a year.

 My ink is the logo of the Swedish band Arch Enemy. It turned out okay, but I wasn't given proper tattoo aftercare advice, so it needs a few touchups. Over all, I am still very happy I finally got my first tattoo on December 27th of 2012.

New Kitten

As you guys know from my other blog, I technically have two cats already named Dirty and Tutu, but they are staying with a friend for personal reasons, so I decided to adopt a kitten from the Human Society. Now, don't get me wrong, after I had to leave the other cats behind, I told myself I wasn't going to get a cat ever again because it was painful to lose the two I had for years, but my eyes fell to this little black and white thing and I couldn't resist. She called to me and pulled me in like a kid to a bucket of candy on Halloween. As soon as I stuck my fingers through the cage, she played with me and looked up at me with these big, green eyes. I knew right then I was going to adopt her whether or not other people living here wanted a kitten around because I knew I needed her and she needed me, and she was kind of a birthday present to myself. What better a gift than a little kitten?

The funny thing is: the paperwork said she was a boy. I never checked because I thought the people at the Humane Society knew what they were talking about. I do understand that it's hard to tell on kittens, but come on. Without even looking at the paperwork, I was calling her a girl because she seemed like a girl to me, and then the employee was like, "It's a boy." I felt a little disappointed because I was sure she was a girl, but I still wanted her (him), so I told the employee I wanted to adopt her.

A week later, the Humane Society sent her to the vet to get her fixed. I get this funny call early in the morning, and the receptionist is like, "I just want you to know that your kitten is a girl." I'm like, "Umm, okay," totally shocked and still trying to wake up. It made me giggle a little. Then when I went to pick her up the next day, one of the assistants yelled, "Congratulations, it's a girl!"

The poor little thing just happened to have an upper respiratory infection, ear mites, and fleas, so the vet had to give her medication on top of pain medication for her surgery. A few days after I brought her home, she started to wheeze and breath really heavy, and she couldn't breathe out of her nose at all, so I freaked out a little, (I laugh about that now) and I called the vet to ask them what I should do even though he'd only seen her a few days before. They told me to bring her in right away, and the vet was nice enough to waive the fee since he had just seen her, but I ended up buying another medication because I was still so paranoid she was going to die. Now, a few more days later, she's breathing just fine, not coughing like she was, and acting like a crazy kitten should act. She runs around and chases her tail and even smacks the dog when he's up in her business. I guess I worried for nothing and could've saved myself the trip, but she's worth it. She's too cute to lose.

I decided to name her Grimm since my birthday is a week before Halloween.

Feeling Festive

For Halloween this year, I felt like painting my nails something other than the typical black, green, or purple, so I went with orange and black with black spiders on the orange. It turned out pretty decent for my first time using nail stencils. Maybe I'll do something for Christmas this year too.

Newly Published

This is a short story about zombies. It may be short and straight to the point, but anyone who loves zombies should enjoy the storyline. It's newly published on kindle for only .99 cents!

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