Surprise giveaway with a surprise prize!

Hey every one so as the title says I'm having a surprise giveaway with a surprise prize. The reason for the giveaway is mostly because,
1. I love surprises.
2. it's in honor of Halloween 
3.  and of course my birthday was this past Sunday Oct 9.

Since my birthday passed and I wasn't able to have my surprise birthday party (my mom kinda told me about it 2 weeks before XD lol) I was left wanting a surprise and so I decided that if I couldn't have my surprise I would give you, my followers, one.

So heres are the details:

1. One winner only, unless I have more than 150 entries then there will be a a second place winner and if more than 200 entries a third not sure if I'll have more than that.

2. Prize will remain a secret for the most part but of course I'll give out a few hints and here are some:
     a. Fist place winner will get a book from the most popular list in goodreads October releases randombly choosen, even I don't know what the prize will be yet! but here are the 19 choices (19 since I turned 19):
Silence (Hush, Hush, #3) The Son of Neptune (Heroes of Olympus, #2)
Destined (House of Night, #9) The Iron Knight (Iron Fey, #4)
The Death Cure (Maze Runner, #3) Beautiful Chaos (Caster Chronicles, #3)
Half-Blood (Covenant, #1) Eve (Eve, #1) 
Between the Sea and Sky Dearly, Departed 
Deadly Cool  Tris & Izzie
Past Perfect  Amplified 
Frost (Stork, #2) Kiss of Night 
The Fire Wars (Fire Wars, #1)   Girls Don't Fly
Glow
2. In the event of a second place winner that person will win  one of these from the September releases, again randomly choosen book.
Vanish (Firelight, #2)  Lola and the Boy Next Door
Lost in Time (Blue Bloods, #6)  A Beautiful Dark 
The Faerie Ring (The Faerie Ring #1)  Sweet Venom (Medusa Girls #1)
Shut Out  First Kill (The Slayer Chronicles, #1)
3. should a third person win they will get bookmarks and things like that =] sorry but no book unless I decided to add a 4th then maybe but should that happen I'll let you know =] 

ok so rules

1. can only enter once!!! if you enter twice be sure to tell me otherwise you will be disqualified!
2. fill out entry form
3. spread the word: remember the more people who enter the more chance there is of there being more prizes!
4. be a follower =]
5. US only sorry can't do international yet. T_T
so get to it fill out the form  and wait till November 4th (day contest ends.) winner(s) will be announced on the weekend.

last but not least a thanks to all my followers, thanks for putting up with my craziness =]

as always ♥, Carol

Almost time!!!

This will be a short blog post but that's only because I want to sort of prepare you for tomorrow. I'm going to be posting a surprise for every one it's almost here so be on the look out!!! I'm pretty sure you are all going to love it =] can't wait to post it but now I have to go to sleep work tomorrow.

            as always ♥, Carol

The new, old and the in-between

Hi every one!

It's been ages since I last blogged I know I'm so sorry about that. Things got a little too hectic for my taste and I had too take a break. If I remember correctly a couple months ago blogger was experiencing some bugs that were driving me nuts. There was the whole "an error has occurred" message when ever I tried to log in, many times I wasn't even able to log in, and when I was I wouldn't be able to write some thing or read or it would take for ever to even edit a page. Still I tried to continue to blog but my personal life was getting just as messed up.

especially when I'm reading XD

I was working at the factory for 12 hours a day  it was a very exhausting and the pay was all that good but hey it was a job I was happy to do as long as I could pay my bills and help out my family. The bad thing was working those crazy hours left me with no energy to either read or write and my reading suffered badly. The only time I was able to read was at lunch and I wasn't reading more than a book every two weeks, the longest time I've ever taken reading a book. I felt like every thing I was writing was the best I could be doing in and so it also contributed to my break in blogging.

The other thing that happened was college or lack thereof. I'm not sure but I think I mentioned how I had graduated high school last year (class of 2010 yay!) my plan had been to continue with at least community college but things don't tend to go according to plan I've learned. I was unable to continue in the fall so I decided I would take  a year to try and organize my life and so I did always with the hope of picking thing up, I should of known things wouldn't be so easy. I once again tried to enroll in classes but a day before I was to start I was basically denied because of money issues and other things like that.  Lets just say I had a nervous breakdown there was so much strees from myself to do all these things I felt I need to do, work and just family I couldn't take it and had the biggest breakdown I've ever had.

not my pic but awesome books no?

It was the right thing I feel I was able to finally just breathe, to think clearly after it and it just helped me to let go off so many negative feelings. It was during this time that I got some awesome news, I'd gotten the job at another factory. I 'm currently working there I have to say I love it! I'm working 8-hours a day 5 days a week getting payed more than the minimum wage and not stressed at all like I was at the old job. I'm very thankful to my sister who helped me land the job and who has been supporting me with the college thing. So since things have been going so much better I decided I could start bloggin again and I have to say I've been reading some amazing books I hope to review really soon.

Now that every knows the old, the new and the in-between of my lie so far I think getting back to books is a good idea no? also thanks to all who sent me messages wondering where I was. Made me feel like some one cared I wasn't here to at leat help pass 5 minutes of your life lol.

                           as always ♥, Carol

Splash Into Summer Giveaway Winner is...

Hi every one I'm so sorry it took so long to get this post up I couldn't get into my blogger for some weird reason yesterday and I spent most of today checking all the extra entries. I'm really sad to say some people were disqualified and there were also a few double entries. There were still so many entries and after much verification I'm glad to report the lucky winner is Lindsey from United by Books blog-spot (warning if you choose to visit her blog to congratulate her it is more of a mature blog)

anyways I've already sent her the email and I hope to get a response soon if not I will have to pick another winner.  Hope you have a nice day  every one!

                       as always ♥, Carol