Friday, December 25, 2009

Merry Christmas!

Merry Christmas everyone!!!!
I hope you have the most wonderful day this year surrounded by family and good friends! And that you get everything you could wish for. Oh, and please don't forget...

"And she will bring forth a Son, and you shall call His name Jesus, for He will save His people from their sins." ~~~ Matthew 1,21

Merry Christmas from TGDB, Chris and Edward! We will see you in January! ^-^
"God bless us, everyone!" ~Tiny Tim from The Christmas Carol

Saturday, December 12, 2009

Got milk? series two, part five


No need for sugar or tea

A gentlemen always takes some time for leisure, even in the middle of a war. So what better was to spice up your tea time ten with 3 servings of dairy a day? Studies suggest the nutrients can help you maintain a healthy weight plus the protein helps build muscle for a lean body. I don't have a bad feeling about this, why would you?

~~~TGDB

Thursday, December 10, 2009

Books I am reading


"You can never get a cup of tea large enough or a book long enough to suit me." ~~~C.S. Lewis

Here is a list of the books I have been reading and am planing to read. (Warning: this post contains a lot of C.S. Lewis's books. You have been warned! lol Oh, and click on the title of the book to see it on Amazon).

One of my most favorite Narnia books. (My other favorites are The Horse and his boy, The Magician's nephew, Voyage of the Dawn Treader and The Last Battle). It's so much fun to be pulled into Narnia, just like the Pevensies. When I went and saw the movie last year I read this book right before we left for the movie theater so I had the whole thing in my head. :) I would highly recommend this and all the other Narnia books to everyone.

This is the first of a series of manga books based off the game The Legend of Zelda. I have never played the game before but I really enjoyed these books. It reads like a tradishional Japanese manga books, where you read it backwards and right to left. But it is in english. The drawing are really cool and fun to look at. I almost want to get a copy just to color. Ha! I have only read book one and two, but there are more out there. I even think there are books about the other Zelda games. It's definitely fun to read.

I found this at a local used book store. I always wanted to know the chronology of the books. So I am really happy about that. The book talks about Lewis, his life and how he wrote the books. It gives a great description of each book and the advents that happen en-between each story. Probably my favorite chapter was all about Aslan and how he relates to God. I had a really good time with is book.


I have always loved Winnie-the-Pooh books. My dad read them to me when I was little, I have grown up with these memorable books. So imagine my excitement when I found out someone wrote a sequel. I could not wait to get is and read it. And I was not to disappointed. The books is whity, charming and it made me laugh which the original books always did. The story is very wonderfully done, it sounds like it would have been written by A.A. Milne. But yet there was something missing, I can't quite put my finger on it. I really enjoyed it and would totally read in again but it will never top the original. But I would still give it a try, as it's a very good read and lot's of fun.

Books I am planing on reading:
Ok, I know what you are thinking. Jane Austen and zombies? I thought the same thing until I read Sense and Sensibility and Sea Monsters by Ben H. Winters. It was surprisingly good. What they did is take the original text of Jane Austen and added on to it. I really enjoyed S.S. and Sea Monsters, it was funny and very creative. If Jane Austen was alive and wrote a book about sea monsters, I think it would be this book. So I am going to try P.P. and zombies. I am REALLY not into zombies but I think I will like it. I have a friend who is a HUGE fan of Jane Austen and she read the book and loved it. I will write about it when I finish it.

Mr. Batson is one of my most FAVORITE authors of all time. (He wrote The Door Within trilogy and two pirate books). I also really love Mr. Hopper's work. (The White Lion chronicles). They have teamed up to write a book series called The Berinfell Prophecies. I AM SOOOOOOOOOOOO EXSITED!!!!!! I can not wait to read this book! The next book is called Venom and Song and will come out next year. I can not wait till I get it from the library. ^-^

I hope you all have a good week, are staying warm (if it's cold where you are. It's really cold here) and that you are enjoying the season so far. Take care all!

~~~TGDB

"You said you where going to get rid of it." "No, I said I'd take care of him. We can't kill him now. I just bandaged his head. It, it, it would be like murdering a guest." ~Nikabrik and Trufflehunter talking about Caspian in Prince Caspian

Saturday, December 5, 2009

Got milk? series two, part four


No need for sugar or tea

A gentlemen always takes some time for leisure, even in the middle of a war. So what better was to spice up your tea time then with 3 servings of dairy a day? Studies suggest the nutrients can help you maintain a healthy weight, plus the protein helps build muscle for a lean body. I don't have a bad feeling about this, why would you?

Drink well. Live well.
Got milk?

~~~TGDB

Saturday, November 28, 2009

Got milk? series two, part three


No need for sugar or tea


A gentleman always takes some time for leisure, even in the middle of a war. So what better way to spice up your tea time then with 3 servings of dairy a day? Studies suggest the nutrients can help you maintain a healthy weight, plus the protein helps build muscle for a lean body. I don't have a bad feeling about this, why would you?


Drink well. Love well.
Got milk?


~~~TGDB

Thursday, November 26, 2009

So thankful!


Hello my dear friends!

Today is Thanksgiving, the day the pilgrims celebrated and gave thanks for all that they had received in the new world. Every Thanksgiving at dinner we have a tradition of everyone gets three corn kernels and we pass around a small bowl. Everyone takes turns putting their corn in the bowl and saying aloud three things what they are thankful for. So I would like to share with you what I am thankful for this year. But I am going to be more than three because I have so much to be thankful for! ^-^


1: I am thankful for my wonderful, crazy, loving, whacked out family God has given me. (Yes, I am looking at you dad!;)


2: I am thankful for my volunteer job at my local library. I have been so blessed to work and make friends with the wonderful people that work there. Especially my friend Linda, who taught me how to cover a book.


3: I am thankful for my new digital camera. (thanks mom, grandma and dad!)


4: I am thankful for my amazing and loving friends online. Especially Michele, Imagination, The Queen of Rose's and The LEGO Man! I lOOOOOOVE you all!!!!


5: And last but not least, I am thankful for God's undying love. That He sent His Son to die on the cross so that I might me rescued from the pit of sin and despair so that I might walk in the holy land of love and goodness!


And I am thankful for all you readers! It means so much to me! Have a wonderful Thanksgiving surrounded by your family!!!


~~~TGDB


"If in doubt, Meriadoc, always follow your nose." ~Gandalf in Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Rings

Monday, November 23, 2009

A few quotes I love


Hello all! Here are some of my most favorite quotes. Enjoy!


"The gulf's enchanted, where the Sirens sing--- and coral reeds lie bare, where the cold sea-maids rise to sun their streaming hair." (I do not know who wrote this, sorry.).


"Children have to be educated, but they have also to be left to educate themselves." ~Abbe` Dimnet


"What i like best is a book that's at least funny once in a while... what really knocks me out is a book that, when you're all done reading it, you wish the author that wrote it was a terrific friend of yours and you could call him up on the phone whenever you felt like it. That doesn't happen much, though." ~J.D. Salinger


It is not so much for its beauty that the forest makes a claim upon men's hearts as for that subtle something that quality of air that emanation for old trees that so wonderfully changes and renews a weary spirit." ~Robert Louis Stevenson


"Thank goodness I was never sent to school it would have rubbed me of some of my originality."~Beatrix Potter


"It may be possible to do without dancing entirely. Instances have been known of young people passing many, many months successively without being at any ball of any description, and no material injury accrue either to body or mind; but when a beginning is made -- when the felicities of rapid motion have one been, though slightly, felt -- it mist be a very heavy set that does not ask for more" ~Jane Austen


"You can never get a cup of tea large enough or a book long enough to suit me." ~C.S. Lewis


~~~TGDB