" When I woke up, everything smelt normal. I asked Lucy if she needed to go to the bathroom and she didn't move so I proceeded to the bathroom myself. I found it odd that she didn't need to go considering she always goes in the morning but I brushed it aside.

I brushed my teeth and washed my face. Walking back into my room, I smelt it. My arch nemesis, the very thing no man hopes to see. I turned to the culprit laying on her bed. She turned her huge seal eyes up at me and gave this face, the face of someone who was forced to do something evil. I turned from the culprit to try and find the evil I knew was somewhere near.

I looked on my bed. Nothing. I looked on my reading chair. Nada. But then, right between my dirty laundry and my dresser was a small puddle of irksomeness. I ran to the bathroom to try and find cleaning supplies, but to no avail. I went back into my room to try and find something to clean it up and that is when the stench fully hit me. It was as if I was being forced to sit in a room filled with rotting fish and cow manure. What could this dog have possibly eaten to do something so disgusting as this?!?!

And then it hit. The mucus. The saliva. I felt a churning in my stomach that could make the pope cuss. I ran into the bathroom but did not make it to the toilet and had to use the sink.

Needless to say, it was one hell of a way to start a morning. Mornings with Rotten Manure."

Weird

A fishing town in Newfoundland gets overrun by the government and they cannot fish anymore because it is killing off the fish. So everyone in town who once fished, now have no jobs and they are starting to forget who they are. They stop seeing the magical water creatures and stop telling marine tall tales. The next side effect is that they stop breathing on their own and they become extremely violent. People start seeing their dead relatives and start killing their living relatives.

It was a good horror book but it had too much information and plot that it was just about too much to handle. The writing was good and it was very imaginative. But when you finished the book, all you were left with is a confused facial expression and a bad attitude that you spent two weeks reading this 500 page book!!!

Something Beautiful

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...books

I have added some books to my list but I am still adding them weekly...

25. The Town that Forgot How To Breathe

26. Sookie Stackhouse 10

27. Sookie Stackhouse short stories

28. Little Men

29. Collection of Emily Bronte Poems

30. House of Night 6

31. House of Night 7

I have read more but I want to stop and talk about Louisa May Alcott's "Little Men". I read it because I was hoping for some good love stories but it turned out to be nothing but stories of 12 boys who live together in Jo and her husbands school. Jo and her husband have students who pay to be there but there are a few who Teddy pays for because they are homeless children who want to learn and need a home. One of the first scenes is so beautiful it kept me reading the whole way through.

Jo's son is showing a new student around the school. His name is Nat. This new student was homeless and fiddled in the street for money his whole life. Never had a mother, a family, or even friends. He walks with Jo's son upstairs to look at the dormitory. Nat sees a picture on Jo's sons bed of Jesus playing with children.

Nat asks "Who is that?" Jo's son, Demi responds..."That is Christ, the Good Man, and He is blessing the children. Don't you know about him?"

"Not much, but I'd like to. He looks so kind," answered Nat.."What makes Him bless the children?"

"Because He loves them!"

"Were they poor children?" asked Nat wistfully.

"Yes I think so. He liked poor people, and was very good to them. He made them well, and helped them, and told rich people they must be cross to them, and they loved him dearly."

"Was He Rich?" asked Nat.

"Oh No! He was born in a barn, and was so poor He hadn't and house to live in when He grew up, and nothing to eat sometimes, but what people gave Him, and He went round preaching to everybody and trying to make them good till the bad men Killed Him."

"What for?" asked Nat.

As this conversation was going on Jo walked up to tell the boys to go to bed and she overhears this conversation.

"Mrs. Bhae had meant to go and talk with Nat a moment before bed...she saw Nat eagerly drinking in the words of his little friend, while Demi told the sweet and solemn story as it had been taught to him, speaking softly as he sat with his beautiful eyes fixed on the tender face above them, her own eyes filled with tears, and she went silently away think to herself

:Demi is unconsciously helping the poor boy better than I can, I will not spoil it by a single word. If a single day of care and kindness had done so much, a year of patient cultivation would surely bring a grateful harvest from this neglected garden, which was already sown with the best of all seed by the little missionary in the nightgown. "

This book was so moving and beautiful I could not help but think of Bulgaria. I will be near little ones who are poor, hungry, and needing love and family. I pray that I will not only help fill their physical needs but as well help "harvest their neglected garden". This book was basically a guide to loving difficult and needy kids. It was one of the most beautiful books I have ever read. Please read it one day.

Friends Babies

Because of moving around a lot as a child I have friends that far away from me. They are off getting married, traveling the world, etc...but their favorite thing to do lately is to have babies...they just keep having babies and making me feel so OLD! But not only are the having babies...they are having the cutest babies ever. They are all so beautiful and it literally makes me ache that I cannot be an aunt and play with them daily. So I have to just look at pictures and send them presents. :)