Here's to 2015!

Happy New Year everyone!

Here's what I've been up to in 2014:

READING:

favourites

~The Bible

~Les Miserables by Victor Hugo

~The Hunger Games trilogy by Suzanne Collins

~Evan's Gallipoli by Kerry Greenwood

others

~The Girl from Hard Times Hill by Emma Barnes

~Northanger Abbey by Jane Austen,

Silas Marner by George Eliot, and

A Selection of Poems compiled by Cambridge

for Cambridge English exams

~ Underwater Adventure by Willard Price

to name not quite all...

NEW WATCHING:

Les Miserables 2012

Seven Brides for Seven Brothers

Epic

Legend of the Guardians

Eragon 

The Hunger Games

Catching Fire

Mockingjay Part 1

An Unexpected Journey

The Desolation of Smaug

(Watching The Fellowship of the Ring tonight for New Years) 

plus probably more...

DISCOVERING:

~The importance of prayer

~How to write essays for exams

~wonderful maths :)

~new fandoms (just fandoms in general actually)

EXPERIENCES:

~music concerts (brass band)

~a night in hospital

~English exams (results come out January 22 or 23 - argh!)

~babysitting when your little brother has a severe allergic reaction - not fun :( No nuts in this house anymore :)

~lots of fun sleepovers with my amazing friends, especially "Captain America", my bestie.

~Seeing a movie in the cinema with my sis and Captain America^.

~ Seeing Mockingjay Part 1 in the cinema!

HOPING FOR IN 2015:

~To mature in the Faith and learn to trust and love God more 

~ To learn much more

~survive attending High School (sounds silly, but it's pretty major when you've been homechooled your whole life

~to get more blog followers

~reach 100 posts here

Which brings me to a small celebration.....

This is a big 6-0 for my blog!

Whoohoo! This is my 60th post! Wow. Yay.

Here are some random facts and stats:

First post: 5th June 2012.

 I just realized - the 5th of June, guys! The Night of Anguish! The June Rebellion! (No, it wasn't 'cos I started a blog) Fitting picture above :)

Published Commets: 32

Total Pageviews: 2,667

Followers: 12

3 Most Popular Posts;

1-Guest Post ~ Fan-fic Genre Mix-up

2-I love vintage photos

3-Catching Fire and Mockingjay 1: Snippet Movie Review

Published posts: 60. Obviously

Published pages:5

How People accessed my blog:

Windows	28 (65%)
Linux	5 (11%)
Macintosh	5 (11%)
iPhone	4 (9%)
Android	1 (2%)

Pageviews from countries:

United States	13
Germany	4
New Zealand	4
Canada	3
Greece	3
France	2
United Kingdom	1
Indonesia	1
India	1
Italy	1

Yay! 2 people from France viewed my blog! (Maybe they stumbled on it by accident, but whatever.)

Anyway, I'm off now, wishing you a blessed 2015!

Love,

Whatever you do....

...do it all for the glory of God. 

I have been thinking lately about the way I spend my time. What I read, watch, and...blog about.
And I've been thinking I need to watch how much time I spend doing certain things.

Fandoms and blogging are not bad, but I shouldn't let them occupy the majority of my time.
Don't get me wrong, Jane Austen, Victor Hugo, Elizabeth Gaskell - they're good, I like them- but it's not good if I let those things take up all my time, and keep me from important things like prayer, or reading my Bible.

So I have been trying prayerfully to keep these things in perspective, if you will.
Part of that is a new Bible-readings system my parents, and now me and my sisters use.
It's Professor Grant Horner's Bible Reading System, which is designed so that you can read the entire Bible in a year. In this system you have the books of the Bible divided into ten lists, and you read a chapter from each list every day - lists 1-5 in the morning, and lists 6-10 at night. You don't have to read all ten every day, but if you do you should finish it in one year.

Another thing I love is music. An Australian singer, Jason Coghill (who was once a member of the band, Sons of Korah) puts Psalms to music, literally word-for-word. One night he a few years ago he came and did a concert at our church, and we got two of his CD's, Songs of Deliverance, and Peace and War.We really enjoy listening to these as music in the car or at home. You learn the Psalms he sings off by heart and I can now recognize ones he sings when I read them. I often read or hear a psalm read and I think of Jason Coghill's tune for it and start singing along in my head!

"So whether you eat or drink, or whatever you do, do it all to the glory of God." 

~ 1 Corinthians 10:31 

Hope you enjoyed this post!

(Please note I am still open for post suggestions - let me know if you have any ideas!)

Thank-you, dear readers!