Things to do when you are up in the Air!

Last night I was thinking about the last time I was in an airplane for 8 hours & realised that was a long time ago. The last couple of years I only travelled to places in Europe and those were flights of one or two hours. I started to think about what I’m going to do while I’m in the airplane. I’m sure there are many more things to do in an airplane, but I could only think of these:

Read a book. Or magazines. I’m one of those persons that get nauseas when I read a book on the plane. I do love to bring magazines with me and just flip trough it and look at the pretty pictures. I am going to bring two books with me, True Whit by Whitney Port & Vogel by Enne Koens, but I probably am not going to read them on the plane.

Listen to music. When I travel I love to listen to music. Time goes by very fast if you listen to music on the plane. Music I have on my mp3 for my flight tommorow is Young blood by Young and Famous, It will rain & On the other Side by Bruno Mars, With your love by Cher Lloyd & many more.

Write in diary. I recently bought a beautiful notebook and I’m declaring it as my travel diary. Every day, starting the 31st of January, I want to write in it what I have done, seen, my feelings and experiences. I can start with writing some goals in my diary or just write about the plane ride, the people in the airplane, the food etc.

Watch a movie. I like watching movies on the airplane, but those movies have to be fun movies and not depressing ones. I’m not a big fan of flying and watching movies can take my mind away of what I’m actually doing and where I am. In the air, oh my!

Sleep. Maybe it’s a good thing that I’m flying in the morning, because I can sleep in the airplane. I usually don’t sleep well in the airplane, I always keep thinking about my destination place and what I’m going to do there. I should write the things down that I’m thinking about and then try to fall asleep. Let’s hope this helps.

What do you like to do in the airplane? Do you have some advice or tips for me?

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Bye, bye January!

Reading:
My goals for January were to read at least one book from my to be read pile & change the layout of my blog. I managed to do both things & I can cross them off my list. Yay! I read Need So Beautiful & Love Letters II. Both two fabulous reads. I also finished reading The Dead-Tossed Waves by Carrie Ryan. I loved all of these books, but if I had to choose my absolute favourite it would be Need So Beautifull. I managed to read these books, because I was sick and decided to do a kind of little read-a-thon over the weekend. See, being sick has some benefits.

Travelling:
This month I needed to buy everything I need for my stay abroad. So, last week I went shopping with my sister & bought everything I needed. I’m now almost broke, just kidding, most of the stuff I need I already bought in November/December 2011, but I needed some small stuff that I forgot. I already packed one suitcase & decided to bring another one with me. I just have too many shoes. Too many! I just hope I don’t forget anything.

Life:
I needed to be more organized in January. I love making lists, but when things can’t get crossed off I feel anxious & I forget about the list or throw it away. I know! I wanted to be more organized by having a daily planner and using it everyday. But, I didn’t get one & I lost the lists I made. Last week I did made a list of the things I needed to do, finished & get for my internship. So, it can be crossed of, but I really want to be more organised in February too…so it stays.

Another goal was getting a new haircut & Friday I went and the hairdresser changed it. It now looks like this. Yay!

The two toughest goals this month were changing my morning routine & eating breakfast everyday. On days I didn’t had school, I woke up at 9 or 10. I didn’t eat breakfast everyday, but I did drink tea or orange juice when I woke up. I can cross of those two goals for the month January. It is still important to eat breakfast everyday, but I think drinking tea or some fresh juice is a great option (for me) if you get nauseas eating in the morning. I’m going to stick with this, fresh juice, in February & hopefully it will become a routine!

So, it looks like this:
1. Be more organized.
2. Buy everything I need for my stay abroad.
3. Change the layout of my blog.
4. Get a new haircut.
5. Read at least one book from my tbr pile.
6. Change my morning routine.
7. Eat breakfast everyday!

Goals for February are: 1. Be more organized, 2. Every Friday write an e-mail (weekly update) to my best friend, 3. dress up and walk in high heels ( I count this one as one goal) & 4. be positive. 5. visit my grandmother (She lives in Curacao), 6. write everyday in my travel diary & 7. take loads of pictures (Take my camera with me everyday).

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The Dead-Tossed Waves by Carrie Ryan

Title: The Dead-Tossed Waves
Written by: Carrie Ryan
Released date: March, 2010
Pages: 407
Source: Bought

My feelings:



Description:
Gabry lives a quiet life. As safe a life as is possible in a town trapped between a forest and the ocean, in a world teeming with the dead, who constantly hunger for those still living. She’s content on her side of the Barrier, happy to let her friends dream of the Dark City up the coast while she watches from the top of her lighthouse. But there are threats the Barrier cannot hold back. Threats like the secrets Gabry’s mother thought she left behind when she escaped from the Sisterhood and the Forest of Hands and Teeth. Like the cult of religious zealots who worship the dead. Like the stranger from the forest who seems to know Gabry. And suddenly, everything is changing. One reckless moment, and half of Gabry’s generation is dead, the other half imprisoned. Now Gabry only knows one thing: she must face the forest of her mother’s past in order to save herself and the one she loves.

My Review:
After reading and falling in love with the Forest of Hands and Teeth, I immediately bought a copy of the companion novel. I wanted to read it when I would do a zombie month, but seriously I couldn’t wait.

First of all let me say that I could relate more to Mary in the first book. She always wanted more out of her live and nobody could stop her in her journey to find the ocean. Yes, she was selfish, but sometimes you have to be. Gabry isn’t like her mother. She thinks more about her actions and the consequences. A likeable character, who for me could have used more *balls*.

I loved the plot. It gave me answers to the questions I had at the end of the Forest of Hands and Teeth. It also gave me chills and a lot of moments where I couldn’t rest my eyes, because I needed to read all of it straight away. I love the twists and turns that I didn’t expected. The love triangle was awesome. Yes, this one people, worked out great.

This series is the best zombies series ever and you should check these books out. Don’t read out of order, because you need the first one to get the bigger picture. I cannot wait to read the third and final book in this awesome series.

Let’s hope that Carrie Ryan will write lots and lots of more young adult books and include zombies in them.

The forest of hands and teeth series:
The forest of hands and teeth
The Dead-Tossed Waves
The Dark and Hollow Places

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My Promise to You!

In 2011 I told a couple of bloggers that I would read the Harry Potter series before the year ended. We are now here in 2012 & I still haven’t touched a single Harry
Potter book. (Shame on me!) I’m not sure why I didn’t read them when they first
came out. But probably it’s because I thought they weren’t that much fun. (Oh,
how wrong am I?) I don’t even have to go out & buy the books, my sister has
the Dutch copies and I can borrow them from her. But I probably have more fun
reading them in English & with these covers. Beautiful.

This promise is for you, everyone who reads this, that I will read the
Harry Potter series this year. I promise that I will read every single book,
all seven of them, before the year ends. I solemnly swear.

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Read in 2012

January
A Need So Beautiful by Suzanne Young
Unlovable by Sherry Gammon
Settling by Shelley Workinger
The Dig by Audrey Hart

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Saying goodbye to GFC

I only have found a couple of weeks ago, yes apparently I’m living under a rock, that GFC is going away in March. I’m not sure what the reason is why they decided to this, but I love using the GFC widget & I hope that they think twice about it. Anyway, I just wanted you, my readers, know that there now are other ways to follow Jadore Happy Endings. You can follow Jadore Happy Endings by:

E-mail. If you subscribe by e-mail, you will get in your inbox an e-mail with updates from Jadore Happy Endings.

Networked Blogs. I saw this widget on some blogs & decided I would give it a try too. It kind of works like the GFC, but you need to sign up with them and get an account.

RSS Feed. This feed have a lot of feed readers & you can decide which one you want to use to read my updates.

Facebook. So, finally I decided to make an face book account. You can follow me by just adding me as a friend.

Goodreads. You can also follow me by goodreads, but this is a little different. The only thing you can read at goodreads are the reviews I have written. So, you don’t get every update I post on the blog.

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Top Ten Books I'm Dying to Read.

The Broke and the Bookish created this weekly feature where bloggers/readers can post their top ten list.

Freebie --- Make a top ten list about anything book related that you want. That super specific topic you thought would make a great top ten list or that past topic you wished you would have gotten a chance to participate it? This is the week to do it!

Do you have time? Seriously, the list is too long & picking out ten books that I desperately want to read is a very tough thing to do. I mean, I want all of the books that I have listed & I know that’s quite unrealistic, but still picking ten is so hard. So to make it a little more easy for me, I’m going to pick two books per genre.

Genre: Dystopian
1. Hourglass by Myra McEntire
2. Wither by Lauren Destefano

Genre: Horror
3. Posses by Gretchen McNeill
4. Graveminder by Melissa Marr

Genre: Historical Fiction
5. Huntress by Malinda Lo
6. The Girl in the Steel Corset by Kady Cross

Genre: Fantasy
7. Angelfire (#1) by Courtney Allison Moulton
8. Witches of East End by Melissa de la Cruz

Genre: Dramalicious Reads
9. Beauty Queens by Libba Bray
10. The Disenchantments by Nina

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