Friday, May 29, 2015

Blogging

Ok, so I'm back. I know, it's been several, several months. Since it is now summer, I am going to try to blog a lot more. I apologize so, so much for lack of blog posts. I've been so busy and all this stuff has happened in my life that I have to fill you in on.

Love,
 Wren

Thursday, November 6, 2014

BACK!

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Thursday, June 12, 2014

100 Questions Nobody Asks Tag

Tagged by abookadaykeepsthelibrarianaway go check her out :)

1. Do you sleep with your closet doors open or closed?
Closed.

2. Do you take the shampoo and conditioner bottles from hotels?
Duh....

3. Do you sleep with your sheets tucked in or out?
Out. I can't stand it when they're tucked in!

4. Have you ever stolen a street sign before?
Totally!
jk no

5. Do you like using post-it notes?
I love to use post-it notes!

6. Do you cut coupons out but never use them!
OMG YES IT'S A SERIOUS PROBLEM

7. Would you rather be attacked by a big bear or a swarm of bees?
A bear. Don't ask why.

8. Do you have freckles?
No :(

9. Do you always smile for a picture?
I guess...

10. What is your biggest pet peeve?
Annoying people who start drama and talk too much, people who smack their gum....I HAVE SO MANY PET PEEVES IT'S NOT FUNNY

11. Do you count your steps when you walk?
When I'm bored, yes.

12. Have you ever peed in the woods?
Yep.

13. Ever pooped in the woods?
Nope.

14. Do you ever dance when there's no music playing?
Definitely.

15. Do you chew pens and pencils?
No.

16. How many people have you slept with this week?
Let me count.....29.
jk

17. What size is your bed?
Double.

18. What is your song of the week?
Pompeii by Bastille.

19. Is it okay for guys to wear pink?
DUH

20. Do you still watch cartoons?
No.

21. What is your least favorite movie?
Captain America. DON'T JUDGE PEOPLE BUT I FELL ASLEEP DURING THAT MOVIE

22. Where would you bury hidden treasure if you had some?
In my heart....awwww

23. What do you drink with dinner?
Water.

24. What do you dip a chicken nugget in?
I don't eat meat.

25. What is your favorite food?
Tofu.

26. What movies could you watch over and over again and still love?
Rom-coms.

27. Last person you kissed/kissed you?
My boyfriend.

28. Were you a girl scout or boy scout?
Yes, I was a girl scout.

29. Would you ever strip or pose nude for a magazine?
No.

30. When was the last time you wrote someone a letter on paper?
Yesterday.

31. Can you change a car's oil?
Yes.

32. Ever gotten a speeding ticket?
Yes, I got one when I was 18.

33. Ever ran out of gas?
No.

34. Favorite kind of sandwich?
Ummm....

35. Best thing to eat for breakfast?
Anything special like pancakes or waffles or scrambled eggs or french toast or hashbrowns

36. What is your usual bedtime?
It varies.

37. Are you lazy?
I can be.

38. When you were a kid, what did you dress up as for Halloween?
I remember being a witch in second grade but I don't know anything else...

39. What is your Chinese astrological sign?
A goat.

40. How many languages can you speak?
Four and I'm learning a fifth.

41. Do you have any magazine subscriptions?
The Smithsonian and National Geographic.

42. Which is better: lincoln logs or legos?
Legos.

43. Are you stubborn?
Sometimes.

44. Who's better: Leno or Letterman?
Letterman.

45. Ever watch soap operas?
ALL THE TIME
jk no

46. Are you afraid of heights?
Not really, but I can get a little scared sometime.

47. Do you sing in the car?
Yes.

48. Do you sing in the shower?
Sometimes.

49. Do you dance in the car?
Occasionally.

50. Ever used a gun?
Nope!

51. Last time you got a portrait taken by a photographer?
When I was like six.

52. Do you think musicals are cheesy?
Depends.

53. Is Christmas stressful?
Totally!

54. Ever eat a pierogi?
Huh?

55. Favorite type of fruit pie?
Apple.

56. Occupations you wanted to be as a child?
A singer or a wedding planner WHEN I WAS THREE DON'T JUDGE

57. Do you believe in ghosts?
Yes.

58. Ever have a Deja-Vu feeling?
Not really.

59. Take a vitamin daily?
Yes!

60. Wear slippers?
Yes.

61. Wear a bath robe?
No.

62. What do you wear to bed?
wouldn't you like to know

63. First concert?
Barney.

64. Wal-Mart, Target, or Kmart?
Target.

65. Nike or Adidas?
They're tied in my book.

66. Cheetos or Fritos?
Fritos.

67. Peanuts or sunflower seeds?
Peanuts.

68. Ever heard of the group Tres Bien?
No.

69. Ever take dance lessons?
Yes, I took tap at age four.

70. Is there a profession you picture your future spouse doing?
No...

71. Can you curl your tongue?
Yes.

72. Ever won a spelling bee?
Yes.

73. Have you ever cried because you were happy?
Yes.

74. Own any record albums?
Yes.

75. Own a record player?
Yes!

76. Regularly burn incense?
Sometimes.

77. Ever been in love?
Yes.

78. Who would you like to see in concert?
John Legend or Bastille.

79. What was the last concert you saw?
idek

80. Hot or cold tea?
Both!

81. Tea or coffee?
Tea.

82. Sugar or snickerdoodles?
My mom's homemade snickerdoodles.

83. Can you swim well?
Yes.

84. Can you hold your breath without holding your nose?
No.

85. Are you patient?
Depends.

86. DJ or band at wedding?
Band.

87. Ever won a contest?
idk

88. Ever had plastic surgery?
No.

89. Which are better, black or green olives?
Neither.

90. Can you knit or crochet?
Crochet.

91. Best room for a fireplace?
Living room.

92. Do you want to get married?
If I find the right person.

93. How long have you been married (if married)?
Not married.

94. Who was your HS crush?
Some boy at my school.

95. Do you cry and throw a fit until it goes your way?
No.

96. Do you have kids?
No.

97. Do you want kids?
Yes.

98. What's your favorite color?
Green.

99. Do you miss anyone?
Yes.

Tuesday, May 20, 2014

Chocolate Book Tag

Created by A Daydreamer's Ramblings:

Dark chocolate: a book that covers dark topics
The Impossible Knife of Memory by Laurie Halse Anderson.

White chocolate: your favorite humorous, lighthearted read
The Summer of the Geek by Piper Banks.

Milk chocolate: a hyped book that you are dying to read
Shatter Me by Taherah Mafi.

Chocolate with a caramel center: a book that made you fell gooey inside when you read it
Anna and the French Kiss by Stephanie Perkins.

Kit Kat: a book that surprised you
Enclave by Ann Aguirre.

Snickers: a book you're going nuts about
The One by Kiera Cass.

Hot chocolate with cream and marshmellows: a book you go to for a comfort read
Rules of the Road by Joan Bauer.

Box of chocolates: a series that has a little something for everyone
Divergent series by Veronica Roth.


Friday, May 9, 2014

25 Random Facts About Me

1. When I was in second grade and I could swim perfectly well, I had a friend who couldn't swim and my mother signed me up to take swimming lessons with her. The water was so freezing that I had a phobia of water for the rest of second grade and would act sick to get out of swimming lessons.

2. I am very organized... except I have to work super hard to keep my room clean even as an adult.

3. I used to pronounce my name as "pin" when I was a toddler.

4. My family is gigantic. I'll draw you a family tree sometime. I'm not even exaggerating. It's huge.

5. When I was child, I was the girl who constantly had bruises all over her legs and also scratches and cuts and bandages. At one point, it was so bad that one of my teachers suspected I was getting abused and talked to my parents, who didn't let me go outside and play for weeks.

6. I have never owned a cat, a fish, or a guinea pig, only dogs.

7. I am obsessed with photography.

8. I constantly cry at the movies. I cry at almost every movie I go to. I even cry when I'm watching a movie at a friend's house or my own watching a movie.

9. I've never been stung by a bee.

10. Once when I was sick, my dad took me to the doctor, who prescribed me some medication, which caused my entire body to be covered in hives, and I had that awful rash for three weeks. I have a phobia of being prescribed that medication again.

11. I have broken my right arm twice and my left leg once.

12. When I was 11 years old, I had my first cup of tea and I despised it. When I was 15, I befriended a girl who was obsessed with tea and made me retry it, and to this day it is my favorite drink.

13. I hate jelly.

14. I hate roller coasters.

15. As a kid, there was a girl at my school who I hated, but all the teachers loved her and they thought it was adorable that she had an imaginary friend, so I made one up named Ariki, but I didn't actually believe in him. They thought it was disgusting when I introduced them to Ariki, but they loved Jill and her friend Dolly.

16. I LOVE to eat.

17. I love running and exercising.

18. I am majoring in Social Work with a minor in Anthropology.

19. I am named Wren because my mother had a dream that a little wren bird came to her and told her she was pregnant. The next day, she took a test and the wren was right.

20. If I were a boy I would be named Ben.

21. I believe in love.

22. I like beards on certain guys, but mustaches turn me off.

23. When I was in fourth grade, I shared a room with one of my sisters and I used to say really weird stuff and talk really fast in my sleep.

24. I don't really like a book that's just romance, but I love romantic movies.

25. I love That's So 70's Show.

And there you have it!

Sunday, May 4, 2014

TMI Tag

Finals suck. Sorry for absence!!!!!! Let's just get into this tag, cuz it's a long one.

Tagged by readingisamazingyoushouldtry!

1. What are your wearing?
I am wearing a boyfriend tank from Target along with some white jean shorts from American Eagle and mint green combat boots that a friend got me. That makes me seem really girly and dressed up. I'm not. Yesterday, I was wearing $5 leggings from Target and a Quidditch shirt.

2. Ever been in love?
Yes, with my current boyfriend (and some fictional characters). Speaking of my boyfriend, a lot of you have been asking questions about him, so comment if you want a boyfriend tag!

3. Ever had a terrible breakup?
Yes....

4. How tall are you?
I am 5'7.

5. How much do you weigh?
I don't weigh myself, so I don't really know... I would say about 110?

6. Any tattoos?
No, and I don't know if I'm going to get any or not. I'm kind of debating it in my brain.

7. Any piercings?
My ears are pierced, and my right ear has two piercings.

8. OTP?
Four and Tris, Hazel Grace and Augustus, Lena and Alex, Captain Hook and Emma, Temperance and Seeley... THERE ARE SO MANY I CAN'T EVEN

9. Favorite shows?
Bones, Switched At Birth, 60 Minutes, Law and Order SVU, Dateline, 20/20, Castle, Once Upon A Time, Grimm, Resurrection, Criminal Minds, NCIS, The Big Bang Theory, Modern Family...

10. Favorite bands?
The Beatles, Coldplay, Lifehouse, One Direction, One Republic, The Four Tops, Frankie Valley and the Four Seasons, and Diana Ross and the Supremes.

11. Something you miss?
I miss my grandmother, who recently passed away. I miss my parents and my four siblings, because I don't get to see them a lot right now. I miss my dogs back home with my family, my Emma and my Pepper. I miss Tori, another one of my dogs at home who recently passed away at age 14.

12. Favorite song?
I have a lot, but my current favorites are Find You by Zedd, Matthew Koma, and Miriam Bryant, Hey Brother by Avicii, Viva La Vida by Coldplay, every song Ed Sheeran has ever sung, and Skin by Shere Khan.

13. How old are you?
I am 21 years old.

14. Zodiac sign?
I am a Libra.

15. Quality you look for in a partner?
I like him to be kind, humorous, sweet, honest, preferably British...

16. Favorite quote?
I love so many quotes that it's unbelievable, but my favorite is... "I solemnly swear I am up to no good."

17. Favorite actor?
Robert Downey Jr, Jason Isaacs, Bradley Cooper, Theo James, Katherine Heigl, Emily Deschanel, Leslie Mann, Jason Seigel, Emma Roberts, Jennifer Lawrence, Josh Hutcherson, and Liam Hemsworth. (and those last three are not just for hunger games)

18. Favorite color?
Light blue.

19. Loud music or soft?
Somewhere in between.

20. Where do you go when you're sad?
My bedroom...or the kitchen...THIS IS A NO JUDGEMENT CIRCLE!

21. How long does it take you to shower?
10 to 15 minutes.

22. How long does it take you to get ready in the morning?
A little less than an hour.

23. Ever been in a physical fight?
Yes, with my siblings.

24. Turn on?
British, funny, sweet, and loves books.

25. Turn off?
Selfish, TOO muscular, hates books, rude.

26. Reason for joining YouTube?
I am not a YouTuber. I've only made a couple of videos on there, but I originally made the channel and this blog to share my love of books with the world and get in touch with other book lovers!

27. Fears?
Drowning, not being loved by anyone, being locked in a small space...

28. Last thing that made you cry?
I rewatched Toy Story 3 with my boyfriend today.

29. Last time you said you loved someone?
Today to my boyfriend and also to my parents and my dogs.

30. Meaning behind your YouTube name?
My blog and YouTube name is Book Chirp, because my name, Wren, is a bird, and I love "chirping" about books.

31. Last book you read?
Summer of the Geek by Piper Banks.

32. Currently reading?
Code Name Verity by Elizabeth Wein.

33. Last show you watched?
I watched  a Castle marathon last night.

34. Last person you talked to?
My best friend Katie.

35. The relationship between you and the last person you texted?
My friend Annie.

36. Favorite food?
Tofu.

37. Place you want to visit?
I want to travel all over the world, but particularly England and Thailand.

38. Last place you were?
My apartment, where I am now.

39. Do you have a crush?
Yes!

40. Last time you kissed someone?
I kissed my boyfriend earlier today.

41. Last time you were insulted?
Earlier today.

42. Favorite flavor of sweet?
Strawberry and watermelon.

43. What instruments do you play?
Drums, piano, guitar, bass, viola, and cello.

44. Favorite piece of jewelry?
A ring that my grandmother gave me before she died.

45. Last sport you played?
I played soccer with friends yesterday.

46. Last song you sang?
This song that I heard on the radio but IT'S STUCK IN MY HEAD...something about American Apparel underwear...

47. Favorite chat up line?
Ummm...idk...Hi?

48. Ever used it?
Yes.

49. Last time you hung out with someone?
Earlier today.

50. Who should answer these questions next?
YOU. YES, YOU!

TAG WEEK

YES I AM! TAG WEEK IS HERE!

For tag week, on each day I will do two tags, one book-related and one non-book related.

DAY 1
Chocolate Book Tag
TMI Tag

DAY 2
Bookish Academy Awards Tag
100 Questions No One Asks Tag

DAY 3
Character Betrayal Book Tag
10 Little Questions Tag

DAY 4
Alphabet Book Tag
Sibling Tag

DAY 5
Gods of Olympus Book Tag
Boyfriend Tag

DAY 6
Literary Dinner Party Book Tag
Furry Friend Tag

DAY 7
Your Life In Books Tag
Dating Profile Tag