Tomorrow is Another Day

I know, i haven’t been on here in almost two weeks! but i have been busy what with school starting and dance and church and everything else.  I have managed to finish two book though! i will tell you about them.  The first one is called “A Bride most Begrudging” By Deeanne Gist.  Here is the excerpt for that one.

“Do you believe in love at first Fight?

Any ship arriving from England means good news for Virginia colony  famers. The “tobacco brides” would be on board–eligible women seeking a better life in America, bartered for with barrels of tobacco from the fields.

Drew O’Connor isn’t stirred by new of a ship full of brides.  Still broken-hearted from the loss of his beloved, he only wants a maid to tend hi shouse and care for his young sister.

What he ends up with is a wife–a feisty redhead who claims she is Lady Constance Morrow, daughter of an Earl, brought to America agaist her will. And she wants to go straight back to England as son as she can.  She hasn’t the foggiest notion how to cook, dared to argue with her poor husband, and spends more time working on mathematical equations than housework.  What kind of wife is that?  Drew’s Christian forbearance is in for some testing.

Headstrong and intellient, deeply moral but incredibly enticing, Constance turns what was supposed to be a marriage of convenience into something mose inconvenient, indeed.”

The other book that i finished late last night is called “The Measure of a Lady” also by Deeanne Gist.  Here is the excerpt from that one.

“Five rules for proper 19th century ladies.

Speak politely. Even when you’re the only respectable woman around, protesting San Francisco’s decadent surrender to gold fever.

Dress Modestly. Wear your sunbonnet at all times Ensure nsees your men’s boots muddied by the city streets.

Remain Devoted to Family.  Protect you siblings from the temptations that surrround them, even against their wishes.

Stand Above Reproach.  Most difficult when a captivating man turns out to be a saloon owner.

Rise Above Temptation.  No accepting gifts.  No bestowing favors. No impeachale behavior…well, maybe just one…little…kiss?

When these rules become increasingly dufficult to uphold, can Rachel Van Buren remain a beacon of virtue in a city of vice?

Gold rush San Francisco was no plave to a lady. Mud fulled teh streets; rowdy men filled the saloons; and gold fever filled the air.  Stranded and without hope of a quich return to the more civilized East.  Rachel Van Buren’s only option is to fight back.

Devoted to protecting her siblings and her honor Rachel appoints herself a one woman clean up committee, determined to bring some morality, and a little class, to this decadent town.  But fighting on her own proves a difficult task.  Her sister and brother can’t seem to resist the dangerous temptations about them, and ven Rachel’s own heart is threatening to betray her.  Is there realy anything worth redeeming in the rapscallion saloon owner she can’t seem for gorget?

Rachel is in for an unforgettable lesson about The Measure of a Lady.”

So that’s The Measure of a Lady.  Next i think i will read “Beyond This Moment” by Tamera Alexander.  Here is the excerpt for that one. (i know a lot of excerpts but i promise this is the last one for today!)

“Lives are made up of tiny steps.  Some are chosed nor us: some we choose.  All hold the power to change who we become–but only if we let them.

When Dr. Molly Whitcomb, Professor of Romance Languages, steps off the train in Colorado Territory, she makes a choice–one that goes against everything she stands for.  Yet it’s the only choice that offers her a chance to regain a fraction of all she’s lost.

Sheriff James McPherson’s instincs about people rarely miss the mark.  He senses Professor Whitcomb is hiding something.  He just doesn’t know what.  When James learns Molly’s secret his own reputation is undermined.  And when Molly Whitcomb’s reinvented life egins to unracel, it threatens his job, the stability of Timber Ridge, and what he always knew to be true abou thimself.”

Well, there it is.  I will start reading this today mostlikely.  I will also try to get on here more and post. 

~Scarlett~

sorry it has taken me so long to get on here and post again!  i was goin to get back on the same day as last time or the day after at the latest. but i didn’t and then i got busy and never got around to getting on again. sorry sorrry sorry!!!

i still haven’t started another book but i will start one today i promise! i have been reading a story online at fanfiction.net and so i never started reading a book.  but i have finished that story now and i will start a book.  which one i start i dont’ know yet.  but i will decide and let you know today.  no later than tomorrow. i promise!

~Scarlett~

Ok, sorry but i finished Rhett Butler’s People last Sat and finished the next book that i was going to read, The Inheritance By Tamera Alexander, this moring!  I was going to get on and put the excerpt on, really i was, but time just slipped away and i forgot!  Sorry!!!!!!!!! 

ok, so about Rhett Butler’s People.  I thought that the story line was very good.  i loved seeing things from Rhett’s pov.  but he was constantly using the N-word and that bugged me to no end!  I’m southern but i would NEVER use that word.  I honestly think it says more about the person saying it than it does about the person they are refering to.  What Donald McCaig doesn’t seem to know/understand is that back in the time of the Civil War, whites would NEVER use that word.  they would use blacks, negros, slaves, people, servents, and even property, but NOT the N-word!!!!  ironicly it was the backs them selves that used that word!  usually the house workers about the field hands.  the house workers thought that they were better than the field hands because of where they worked.  funny how the blacks themselves where prejudice of each other!  Don’t get me wrong, I am in no way prejudice of blacks or any other race.  i was raised that there is no difference between us just because of our coloring.  i’m just telling you what they thought.  anyway, it was a good book other than that.  thankfully it ends the whole story better than it does in Scarlett.  he goes from the time Rhett was about 12 to after he leaves Scarlett.  yes, in the end they are together again.  it just didn’t take as long in his book as it did in Scarlett.  and there is no Cat.  but i don’t like that part because i LOVE Cat!!!!!!!  almost more than Bonnie.

anyway, enough of that.  here is the excerpt for “The Inheritance” by Tamera Alexander.

“An unexpected inheritance.  An unknown future.  An unending love.

Determined to tame her younger brother’s rebellious streak, McKenna Ashford accepts her cousin’s invitation to move west and to begin again.  But she quickly descovers that life in Cooper Creek, Colorado is far from what she expected.  Shouldering burdens beyond her years, McKenna tries to be the parents that Robert needs, instead of the older sister he resents,  But an “untimely inheritance” challenges her resolve at every turn, while also offering a second chance to restore her trust-and perhaps ever her heart.

U.S. Marshal Wyatt Caradon is dedicated to bringing fugatives to justice, yet years of living on the trail have taken their toll.  When his path intersects ith that of McKenna, he comes face-to-face with a past he never wanted to relice-and the one woman who can help him find the future he’s been longing for.

As McKenna struggles to let go of her independence and Wyatt considers opening his heart again, they discover an inheritance beyond imagination.  But wil it come at a price.”

This book was one that i didn’t seem to be able to put down.  the farther into the book, the more i fell inlove with the people in it.  i cryed along with McKenna and Wyatt towards the end when bad things come, and i laughed when things were resolved in a way that you might never guess.  It’s a book that i grew spiritually so much, i wish there was a sequel!

Break me Lord, untill I’m wholly yours.

I will be going to the library in a few minutes to return these books and get some more so when i get home i will put on the next excerpt!

~Scarlett~

I’t taking me a little longer than i thought it would to finish “Rhett Butler’s People”.  I was hoping to have if finished by today at the latest but i havent been able to read it in a few days.  The last day i was able to read was Mon.  That was two and a half days ago now.

I will try to get some reading dome this weekend though.  I will be working tomorrow afternoon as well as Sat so i should be able to get a little fiished then.  i will be going to the library tomorrow hopefully so i will be getting a few more books i hope.  As soon as i finish this one i will put the excerpt from the next book i read on here.

Mon, i worked and then went to Bacca practice with H and Stalker Boy.  what was supposed to be a half hr practice turned into an hr and a half of talking, a half hr of practice, on and off, and then a trip to the library to talk to one of the librarians about something, then walking the two miles home in the heat.  not to mention that my ankle was hurting through most of this.  (don’t tell Stalker Boy and P that i was in pain through that.  Stalker boy was there and i told him that i was fine.)

Today and for the last week i have had one of those mouth ulcers.  it’s right in front of my bottom teeth, so anytime i talk to sing, (choir was last night) it hurts.  I also have a cut on the palm of my left hand and a bruse on my upper right arm.  The bruse is from Stalker boy.

Tonight we are going to canvase some neighborhood with our church.  we have to be at the church at 6 to meet up with everyone and get started.  IDK who i know that will be there, but i hope Candie will come.  Sissie would be nice too.  but here SM cut her leg with a rock while mowing the grass and had to have eight stitches in it.  This was just a few days ago, so IDK if she will be there because of that.

My sis E turned 11 yesterday.  i can’t believe she’s 11!  i feel old now.

I don’t think there is really anything else to say today.  other than that i will try to get that book finished soon and put the next one on here for you.

~Scarlettoh~

So, My BFF, planned a surprise un-birthday party for me.  She told my sis Pooh Bear, KD, Stalker Boy, my friend Sissie from chuch, as well as CC and, and H and S St.J  She also told Jerk.  But he didn’t come.  and in a way, I’m very gald he didn’t.

Anyway.  The “Surprise” would have worked better if i hadn’t known for the last three months what was going on.  no one knew that i knew, but i did.  one of my siblings spilled the beans one afternoon on accedent.

We had fun though.  it was at the park down the street from us so we went hiking out in the woods.  i had a skirt and flipflops on though, so that was a little hard.  After CC and Sissie left we played in the sand at the vollyball court.  Stalker boy and H ended up wrestling.  While they were doing this i was teaching KD and P to swing.  Thankfully Stalker boy didn’t see me doing this or he would have wanted to swing with me. 

Jerk was there but he wasn’t at the party.  he was playing disk golf with P’s twin S and Jerk’s dad. 

at the end right before we were all going to go home Stalker boy was drinking the last of the Coke from the bottle.  I don’t remember what brought it on but i ended up with the last of what was in the bottle on my leg from where he sloshed it at me, resulting in a sticky leg.

What i didn’t know what that they were going to give me gifts.  I got a necklace from the Ren Faire from P, a Geode from my sis E,  a webkinz from Pooh Bear, who i named Beau.  He’s a clown fish.  I also got a starbucks gift card from S and H, and $10 from KD.  Stalker boy said that he will get me something in a few weeks but i don’t expect anything.  don’t get me wrong, if he does get me something i will be more than happy, but i just don’t count on it is all.  Sissie and CC said that they would get me something when it’s actually my real birthday.

It was so windy when we were tryin to light the candles that we couldn’t so it.  So P just lit a match and let me blow it out!    P’s little sis M drew a pic of me on the cake.  she’s 4 so it is just a sitck person but it was cute.  i have red hair so she put pink hair on there because she didn’t have red icing.

I guess that’s everything.  It was an fun day.

~Scarlettoh~