project horizons

I'll admit it, I'm pretty addicted to Pintrest, but I mean who isn't? It's a fabulous way to find and save online ideas, photos, articles, videos, recipes...all kinds of stuffs!

But ANYWAYS, I was browsing around on my Pinterest board category of "Books, Movies and TV" when I found a whole slew of different links to blogs and websites with recommended books to read. And so then I got this great idea of "Hey, I have a blog...maybe I should do this too!" Well of course I then thought "Wait, if everyone with a blog does this then why don't I do something different?" 

So here's the deal: I'm gonna make a huge list of books that I haven't read that are recommended to me. I'll pick books from the list at random, read them, and then put one of me personal-opinion-blurbs on here. Don't worry, I won't spoil any of them for you ;) If I like the book enough, I'll add it to my little library list here on my blog. If it's not up to snuff for me, it won't make it in the library.

I'll post the list up here on another tab labeled "project horizons". The books will be listed under the library tab. This might extend out to other media like movies and TV shows but for now we'll just stick to the books.

Stay tuned!

never grow up!

this is not a fan page

As this post title dictates this is not a fan page. It is not dedicated to a "fandom", I do not "ship" but I am a total fangirl of like a butt ton of fandoms hahahaha and I do not consider myself to be a "fangirl". I'm not dissing those that fall under these categories, you all are fantastic and hilarious people. I'm just not exactly that kind of a blogger. Yes, I will most likely go into ranting and raving posts about certain TV shows, books and movies that I love but I just want to clarify that this blog is open to all kinds of media that I find intriguing, worth the time and well basically it'll be something just stuck in my mind.

And my very first personal-opinion-blurb (gotta think of a good little nick-name for that...) is about...drum roll........Supernatural!

Okies, so I'm a very new viewer to this show since I just discovered it on Netflix but I have heard all kinds of glorious things about it from friends. And I must admit I do think it is a fantastic show. BUT, when I watched the first episode I was a little freaked out. I'm not a huge fan of supernatural/horror related stuff. Don't get me wrong, I love a good horror movie every now and then, but by every now and then I mean once a year at Halloween. But this show has made me actually like horror and sci-fi type stuff. I'm only a few episodes in but already the overarching plot line is fantastic and intriguing, the sub-plots that make up the individual episodes are equally awesome, and then the demons and spirits that are in the episodes are scary but also each one has a unique kind of back story as to why they do what they do.

And, I'll admit, I am totally smitten with Mr. Dean Winchester. Yes, Sam is adorable and a sweetheart but I am completely drawn into Dean's humorous and tortured personality. I am no where NEAR being done watching every single episode, but when I do, you can expect another personal-opinion-blurb from me!

Stay tuned!

a little intro

This is just a little introduction of me to whoever actually reads this, and THANK YOU to you for reading this! It's nice to know that my words get out there to somebody's eyes and ears.

I'm a college student, majoring in Education with a little Art History minor on the side and a bunch of random history and literature courses that don't really add up to anything. I don't really know what I'm gonna do with all that but the basic plan is to become some kind of teacher...eventually. I have many-a hobby, but to save time we'll just leave it at arts appreciation and horses. If you stick around and read some more of my little blurbs, you'll learn more about what arts in specific. I've traveled to seven countries in Europe, but I have only been to a few of the fifty states here in the good old USA. The dream is to visit every state and every continent before this body gives out on me. So far, I'm not doing so great at that but hey it's a start.

So why am I blogging? Well, I have tried blogging before but I could never figure out how to keep it up and I always lost my inspiration for it. The basic reasons are to 1) get me to write more 2) give me a project to keep me motivated and 3) why the heck not? The overarching goal here is to simply force me to write and write often. I really do love to write, I just never give my self ample amount of time to do it. ALSO, a little background to the title of this blog. The phrase "barefoot on a summer night" comes from one of my absolute favorite songs by Edward Sharpe and the Magnetic Zeroes. The song (if you don't know it already) is called Home and not only is it adorable it's super catchy and has fantastic lyrics.

So there it is, a little bit of info about me and why this blog exists. Stay tuned for more!