The Kpop Konverters One Year Channel Anniversary!

One year ago we created our kpop youtube channel. We went into it a bit nervous and embarrassed and shy and wary and feeling pretty weird about it. But one year later we are so so SO glad we jumped in and just did what we wanted to do. It's been a blast. And just like with book blogging, we ended up meeting and connecting with some really awesome people we would have never found otherwise.

To celebrate our one year birthday, we created another favorite moments and sort of a channel trailer to include stuff from all this past year. This will give you an idea of how crazy much fun we're having doing this silly channel and just embracing the passion. Watch and let me know what you think!






We are also trying to push to a goal of 10,000 subscribers, which totally blows me away! We are so close! So...if you have any sort of inkling to subscribe and see what we come up with next, do it now! :)

Fifty Things I've Learned

Today is the last of my countdown to 50 lists! Birthday week has arrived. (Ugh.) But, I hope you've enjoyed them. I've had fun thinking them up and stretching my brain a little to do so.  Anyway.... here's fifty things I've learned so far.

Fifty Things I’ve Learned

1. going to movies is fun, just do it
2. life usually won’t turn out how you think it will
3. embrace your passions
4. exercising doesn’t always work
5. having kids messes up your body
6. but it makes Christmas more fun
7. traveling is fun and hard
8. loud music is good for you
9. sometimes you just have to say, it doesn’t matter
10. you are never too full for ice cream
11. no matter how old you get you still feel like a teenager inside
12. if you worry about something sometimes it happens
13. if you dream about something sometimes it happens
14. you can write a book if you actually sit down and type some words out
15. chocolate solves a lot of things
16. as does listening to Josh Groban
17. if you lay down to have a nap, the phone will ring or the door will knock
18. don’t give up
19. don’t believe everything you read/see/hear/watch
20. hang in there, tie a knot in your rope if you need to
21. always having something to look forward to is good thing
22. being judgmental accomplishes nothing
23. always be yourself
24. and sometimes yourself is a little different in different situations, which is okay
25. read whatever you want
26. do something fun every day and don’t feel guilty about it
27. be flexible and spontaneous
28. pets are both a pain and soothing for the soul
29. life happens fast, don’t procrastinate stuff
30. enjoy kids when they are little
31. enjoy them when they are big too
32. life is good even when it feels like it’s not
33. if you say you’ll do something, do it
34. pick your fights wisely
35. be nice, even if you don’t feel like it
36. smile a lot
37. food is good for you, eat it
38. getting old, it happens
39. and it’s also a good thing since it means you’re alive and all
40. if you mop the floor, it will be dirty again the next day
41. reading, writing and watching makes you have ideas
42. just like the math teacher said, you will use math in your life no matter you chosen vocation
43. you can never have too many notebooks, pens, or books
44. as soon as you leave the grocery store and get in the car, you’ll remember something else you needed
45. take a book everywhere, because you never know when you’ll want it
46. create, create, create
47. having dessert for dinner now and then won’t kill you
48. sometimes it’s okay to get rained on
49. if you put stuff on hold at the library, they will all become available on the same day
50. if all else fails, be happy and be nice

What things have you learned so far in your life?

Fifty Things I Want To Do

And the countdown continues! We are just over two weeks away! Make times stop!

So, I've listed fifty things I've done and now you get the other list, the bucket list per say, the more common list... the list of things I still want to accomplish in life. Well, some of them. Actually, I struggled coming up with this list, and yet, I know there are a ton more I could add.

Fifty Things I Want to Do

1. go on a writing retreat (particularly the Writing Excuses cruise!)
2. live in England for a summer
3. have a beautiful yard and garden
4. finish the hexagon quilt wall hanging
5. lose 20 pounds
6. visit all 50 states
7. go to San Diego Comic Con
8. ride in a helicopter
9. see the Northern lights
10. get published
11. meet Josh Groban
12. watch a shuttle/rocket/spaceship launch
13. visit PEI in Canada
14. visit other places in Canada.. Quebec/Montreal stand out
15. drive across the country on back roads, no freeways
16. put together, glue and frame a puzzle
17. finish a scrap quilt
18. see Donny and Marie in Las Vegas
19. finish my Classic Club list
20. be in the audience of a talk show (once upon a time I would have said Oprah or Regis..but now I don’t know what)
21. visit New England
22. visit all the continents
23. wade in all the oceans
24. have Jenni successfully teach me how to crochet something
25. see Markus Zusak IN Australia
26. watch all the Supernatural seasons
27. finish all the Buffy seasons
28. be “The Book Grandma”
29. buy a convertible
30. clean up my “craft” room
31. meet John and Hank Green
32. build, decorate and furnish a miniature doll house
33. go to a Sundance Film Festival movie
34. do Zumba for a year
35. try whole food eating for a month (maybe a week…)
36. take the Lord of the Rings tour in New Zealand
37. stay in a beach house for a week
38. try a vlog with Megs… at least try
39. start up journaling again
40. blow up vacation pictures onto canvases and make a collage on the wall
41. have an herb garden
42. finish putting home videos onto DVDs
43. cosplay at Comic Con, once
44. go to BEA
45. finish The Wheel of Time series
46. write life story essays
47. revamp my wardrobe
48. empty my email inbox
49. take up boxing
50. think happy thoughts and fly

Any suggestions for how to accomplish some of these things? :) How are you doing with YOUR bucket list?

Fifty Favorite Books

Being as that this is a book blog, mostly, I thought one of my celebratory fifty things lists needed to be Favorite Books. Agreed? Most of these are listed on my favorites tab up top, but I'm guessing most readers haven't ever even clicked there, am I right? So now I'm forcing you to take a look at my list!

Only problem is... it needed to be longer. I left off a lot. I think I should have listed 50 books PER category. THAT would be fun!

I'll save that for another day.

Picture Books

1. Where the Wild Things Are
2. Ferdinand the Bull
3. Mr. Pine’s Mixed Up Signs
4. Rachel Fister’s Blister
5. Goodnight Moon

6. Oh, the Places You’ll Go
7. The Giving Tree
8. If You Give a Mouse a Cookie
9. Alexander and the Horrible Terrible No Good Very Bad Day
10. Are You My Mother?

Kids Books/Classics

11. The Boxcar Children

12. Little House on the Prairie

13. Socks

14. Follow My Leader

15. Island of the Blue Dolphins

16. Where the Red Fern Grows

17. Charlotte’s Web

18. Anne of Green Gables

19. Little Women

20. Harry Potter and sequels

Classics

21. Pride and Prejudice

22. Great Expectations

23. A Tale of Two Cities

24. The Grapes of Wrath

25. Wuthering Heights

26. Jane Eyre

27. North and South

28. Tess of the d'urbervilles

29. The Forsyte Saga

30. To Kill a Mockingbird

Non Fiction

31. Seabiscuit

32. John Adams

33. Unbroken

34. Coop

35. The Long Walk

YA

36. The Book Thief

37. These Broken Stars

38. All The Truth That’s in Me

39. Under the Never Sky and sequels

40. Finnikin of the Rock and sequels

41. The Hunger Games and sequels

42. Daughter of Smoke and Bone and sequels

43. The Queen’s Thief and sequels

44. Twilight and sequels

45. The Winner’s Curse and sequels

Adult

46. Life of Pi

47. Katherine

48. The Far Pavilions

49. Ender’s Game

50. The Way of Kings and sequels