Books I've Been Reading Lately

Hey, it's been a while since I've posted, been doing some other things. Among these, I've been reading, and in the past few weeks, I've gone through 2 books and I'm now on my third...Soon, I'll post a little bit on some of the other good books that I've read during this deployment, but this is what I've got so far...

Gullible's Travels (The Adventures of a Bad Taste Tourist) by Cash Peters

Before the deployment, I'd discovered this hillarious show on the Travel Channel called Stranded with Cash Peters. The premise of the show was that this guy, Cash Peters, was pretty much dropped off somewhere in the world with no money, no place to live and no clue as to where he was. He would have to make friends, and he'd have to kind of sponge off of them for a few days while they carted him around and showed him the sights. Well, apparently, before being a TV star, Cash had been working extensively in radio, his thing being travel advice and quirky destinations. In Gullible's Travels, Cash chronicles his last days as a radio personality by telling the hillarious stories of his travels to crazy museums and sights throughout America such as the mini golf course in the basement of a funeral home and his search for the elusive Museum of Dirt. Very good read!

Check out Cash Peters at www.cashpeters.com

Robinson Crusoe by Daniel Defoe

I just finished the classic novel of Robinson Crusoe, a poor, unlucky sailor who gets shipwrecked for about 28 years on a deserted island in the Caribbean. At the beginning, I thought, "Man, this guy should just stay on land!" and I had doubts whether I could really finish it. (I've always had trouble reading "the classics".) However, Robinson Crusoe turned out to me to be a great book that I think everybody should read at least once. Actually, I've always liked the "being stranded on a desert island" theme. Apparently Robinson Crusoe pretty much began the whole genre, which is kind of neat. Some of my other favorite books/stories that are similar to Robinson Crusoe are The Cay by Theodore Taylor, Hatchet by Gary Paulsen, The Swiss Family Robinson by Johann David Wyss and Johann Rudolf Wyss, the movie Cast Away starring Tom Hanks and Wilson the Volleyball and the ABC hit drama, Lost.

Rachel's Holiday by Marian Keyes


I've just begun to read this book, and I'm around Chapter 10 or so. Rachel's Holiday appears to be one of your basic coming-of-age, funny but a bit dark chick lit novel, the type which I adore. Rachel is Irish and she's living in New York. Her life gets a little bit out of control, and her family ships her back to Ireland and into an "upscale" drug rehab center. I like it so far...

www.mariankeyes.com

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Well, that's what I've been reading lately. I've read some awesome books while on deployment, and if I get around to it, someday I'll write a little about those books too.

Blog annoyances and other stuff I'm up to...

So, I've been working on this blog thing for a couple days. I had made a couple posts to my blog at myspace, but that just wasn't cutting it. Now, I can do a lot more things with my blog, and I'll try to make it as cool as possible.
I decided to make this blog yesterday after I discovered Diigo, a cool social bookmarking tool, has a feature where you can blog stuff directly to your blog...however, because Diigo is in their beta stages right now, they don't support the API or whatever it is that Blogger.com uses. They do support Wordpress.com blogs though, so I went over there and got one of their blogs. I didn't have too much luck with that, because that website is slow and it was kind of hard for me to figure out stuff. Besides, Blogger is compatible with other programs that I have, such as Picassa. So today, I started working on this particular blog.
A lot of blogs have cool layouts and stuff, so I wanted one too. I looked up some help, and what I found was WAY too technical for me, so what I did was I found one of these "amateur" blog layout makers and got one of their layouts and played around with it until I was satisfied with it. Thanks, Melissa!
I am really not a HTML whiz or anything, the only thing I can really remember how to code is a hyperlink, and I usually mess that up somehow, so it usually takes me like five minutes to put in a link (not really). Oh well, thanks to Microsoft FrontPage, I finally got everything situated, and here's my blog.


Other recent activities...

Okay, so I'll try to stop boring you with this whole blog thing and let you know what else is going on...

A. I just finished upgrading my Myspace profile. It took a while, kind of like this blog, but it's finished now, except I have to put a link to this blog on there...

B. I'm doing some research on a vacation to the Smoky Mountains in August for Sean's sister. I'm learning a whole bunch of cool stuff about the Gatlinburg area...I'll post more on that soon...

C. I'm doing a lot of real work too, but can't talk about that here.

D. Sean and I are searching for a house for when we get back...I've been looking through a lot of listings and shopping for a loan. My Aunt Sandy and Uncle Joe have been doing a bunch of work on their house recently, and I have to say that I am a little envious. I wish I could sand windows and paint cupboards! Hopefully I'll be able to do that kind of stuff soon.

E. Sean and I have been working crazy shifts the past couple weeks, and it's wearing us out. Good thing we've got an Xbox to watch movies on and the Internet, or I'd absolutely fall asleep...


Oh, speaking of movies, I just finished watching House of the Flying Daggers. It's a Chinese film much like Crouching Tiger Hidden Dragon. It was really good. I loved all the vibrant colors, and the story was pretty interesting too.

Well, anyway, I don't really have anything else to write, so I'll close for now. Stay tuned for some cool postings!

Love Kendra

Welcome Message

Hey, Everybody! Thanks for reading my blog! I've been working really hard on making my myspace profile and this blog really cool...I have another blog that is all about my geeky, internet side, but this one is going to be mostly cool stuff about me, and the rest of my life. I'll post stuff about the travel research that I do and the other stuff that I like.