The Fine Line Between the Digital World & Reality

Over the past few years (when the Apple iPhone came into my possesion to be exact) the internet and digital world is what I live in 27/7 and it's all thanks to my yearning habbits of the computer geek I am and the fact that almost every website I use has an app for the iPhone. The world has gotten to the point where if you do not have a Twitter or Facebook account, you don't exist to the world. In a lot of ways, that's not right. For example, this blog has about 12 followers up to this day and assuming that my blog is pretty decent, I see that social media has made me invisible to the rest of the world of bloggers. I do indeed have a Facebook account and Twitter, but I choose to keep a lot of it on private so I don't even accidentally cross the line between the digital world and reality. To further my point, I have chosen a few funny comics from one of my favorite websites, TheOatmeal.com.

HA HA! Funny stuff right? If you want to see more of my favorite person, Matthew Inman's comics, check out TheOatmeal.com. If you want to see more from this specific comic, check out "Why I love and hate having a smartphone."

Back to my point, there's a fine line between the Digital World and Reality and ironically that line is YOU. You are the one who chooses where you would rather be, online or offline. You are the one who is responsible for your own actions, saying your iPhone made you do it doesn't cut it. I'm sure your iPhone can do a lot of things, it just can't control you if you don't let it. Same goes for the digital world, it can't control you unless you let it. Even after being a technology geek and always finding more ways for people to connect with me online, I realized that if I don't actually have a life then there's nothing for me to share on Twitter and Facebook.

*NOTE: All credit for these hilarious comics and pictures goes to Matthew Inman and his comical website, TheOatmeal.com!

xoxo,

Photo 365: My Week According to Instagram

Since I promised weekly photo updates following with my Photo 365 project this year, here's my first photo week update! This week I used Instagram to capture a glimpse of every day during the first week of January.

This is the book I just recently finished reading. There's also a review on the book that I posted, scroll down to the next post if you'd like to read it.

After purchasing the Wii for my little sister, I went shopping for video games for the first time in my life. I wouldn't say I'm an epic gamer, but isn't MySims just an adorably epic game? 

Here's a small sneak peak at my wonderful novel in progress' cover! What do you think? A simple classic cover with a catchy title? I thought so too!

If you don't know this already. Roses are my favorite flower and someone once told me a blue rose would represent me well. Plus, these blue rose earrings would go with almost anything!

Printing Invoices for my Fragrance Essence orders and writing personal business letters. I'm finally in business!

The journal I received as a gift more than a year ago that I still haven't used yet. I have not even used the pen. As soon as I finish writing in my current journal, I can finally get to fill in this novel with all my thoughts and experiences of 2013! 

It's just too many thoughts and not enough pages.

 I realize my photos are not very interesting to look at. There is no scenary or landscape, no people, or places, just plain stuff that somehow pretain to my days. I hope to get better at this and provide much more beautiful pictures, but until then please check back soon.

xoxo,

Book Review: "The Kite Runner"

For the past month I have been reading "The Kite Runner" written by Khaled Hosseini, but before I continue I want to point out that although I'm a writer, reading is not of my favorite hobbies. This one book I found hard to put down and coming from me that means this is pretty good book. I spent New Year's Eve finishing it up and it was a great way to the end the year. (Since I actually finished something for once.) 

Somewhere through all the frustration of having to read this book and trying to focus on understanding it so I may find something about it I liked, I found that almost everything in this book was likeable. The beautiful way of describing Afghanistan and it's cultures in English, how each character truly resembled the Muslim religion and Middle Eastern customs, and how the novel kept the reader wanting to read each word (even me).  

There were a few ideas in the book I did not agree with, but I loved it. It all wrapped together pretty well. My favorite part of the book was the mini-story of the one of the main character's love life. I found it to be well fitted into the book as a whole. My favorite quote of the book was "I see America has infused you with the optimism that has made her so great." 

The book even gave me a few ideas on my own novel. I think reading this book was totally worth it, I'm glad I did. 

xoxo,