What I read, watched and rocked out to in 2018!

2018 was a trying year. But of course, good times as well. 

Here's to a healthy, happy 2019 for all of us!
My next book comes out NEXT MONTH!

Below is my usual list of what I read, watched, and the many concerts I attended in 2018!

What were your favorite reads, shows or events of 2018?

BOOKS – 9

Broken Little Melodies by Jennifer Ann

Luckiest Girl Alive by Jessica Knoll

No Relation by Paula Carter

The Perfect Mother by Aimee Molloy

The Couple Next Door by Shari Lapena

Fangirl by Rainbow Rowell

Girl, Wash Your Face by Rachel Hollis

A Dying Machine by Mark Tremonti and John Shirley

My signed book by Mark Tremonti!

When We Touch by Tia Louise

 MOVIES – Total at the theater 6

Black Panther

Solo

Avengers Infinity War

Antman and Wasp

A Star is Born

Bohemian Rhapsody

TV

My fave network shows right now are Life in Pieces and Modern Family.

I also watched

Atypical -seasons 1 and 2
Ozark season 1

The Little Drummer Girl
True Blood – my favorite series of all time! Currently rewatching. (On season 5/8)
Bird Box

CONCERTS- Total –14

Papa Roach (16th time)

Daughtry

Buckcherry

Harry Styles

Foo Fighters

Niall Horan

Buckcherry

Buckcherry

Buckcherry (19^th time), Alien Ant Farm, POD, Lit

Tremonti

Tremonti and Ten Years

Kip Winger

Fight the Fury

Winger

Daughtry (8^th time)

And I even got to sing onstage again with Kip Winger this year!

Check it out here! https://www.instagram.com/p/BpKCMtTH0Q2/

Happy 2019 to you!

What I Read, Watched, and Rocked Out to in 2016

My blog has been rather dormant this year, but I have not been! I've been busy teaching kindergarten, editing my middle grade novel, being a distributor for It Works health and wellness products, momming my three awesome kids, and all this below!

Here is my annual list of what I read, watched, and rocked out to!

BOOKS READ
I mostly read in the summer or on school breaks, so the list isn't as long as I'd like, but I read some amazing books this year!

ROOM by Emma Donoghue  (need to still see the movie!)

YES, PLEASE by Amy Poehler

ONE TO KEEP by Tia Louise

ELEANOR AND PARK by Rainbow Rowell

WILL GRAYSON, WILL GRAYSON by John Green and David Levithan

EVERYTHING, EVERYTHING by Nicola Yoon

BLUE LILY, LILY BLUE by Maggie Steifvater

SIGN OF THE GREEN DRAGON By C. Lee McKenzie

THIS ONE MOMENT By Stina Lindenblatt

SISTERHOOD OF THE TRAVELING PANTS by Ann Brashares 

THE RAVEN KING by Maggie Steifvater

PERFECT TIMING By Robin Mellom

SEVEN DEADLY SINS by Corey Taylor

 

THANKS FOR THE MONEY by Joel McHale

Oh! And looky! Here's me with that handsome and hilarious author/actor Joel McHale!

 

 

MOVIES WATCHED

I am happy to report that I read more books than watched movies this year!

 

Grease Live on Fox

Daddy’s Home

Trainwreck

Civil War

Magic Mike XL

The Secret Life of Pets

The Legend of Tarzan

Batman vs Superman

Bad Moms

Rogue One (Sigh. Very sad about Carrie Fisher.)

 

CONCERTS ATTENDED

And you know my huge passion for my rock music. Concerts are my therapy for sure. Here are the bands I saw live this year! (And a sidenote: been dancing to George Michael tunes for the last few days. What a loss for the music world!)

Justin Bieber  (yes, I have a teenage daughter)

Skillet (a five dollar concert- man, they rocked it!)

Buckcherry - 5 times!  (my total count of Buckcherry shows is 15 now)

Sebastian Bach

Me and the Buckcherry boys

 

Goo Goo Dolls/Safety Suit

Click HERE to see me singing with Doug, the lead singer of Safety Suit! :)

 

 

WHAT WERE YOUR FAVORITE BOOKS, MOVIES, AND CONCERTS OF 2016?

 



 

 

What I read, watched, and rocked out to in 2015

Happy New Year, friends! I hope 2015 was good to you, and I hope 2016 is even better.

2015 was busy. I taught kindergarten and reading, helped coach my son in basketball, went to three weddings in June, hosted a Spanish exchange student, chauffeured and watched my kids play sports, and traveled to Arizona, Iowa and Wisconsin. My newest picture book I'M A LITTLE GREEN WITCH was released in September. I became an It Works! distributor (I'm healthier!). And I finished the year wrapping up my rough draft of a middle grade novel on December 31. I'm determined to make more time for writing and improving myself in 2016.

Here is my usual what I read, watched and rocked out to throughout the year!

Books

 

Bark Until Heard by Becky Monroe

Paper Towns by John Green

To Kill a Mockingbird by Harper Lee

The Terrible Two by Mac Barnett and Jory John

One to Hold by Tia Louise

The Silent Wife by ASA Harrison

Dark Places by Gillian Flynn

King of the Mutants by Samantha Verant

The Girl on the Train by Paula Hawkins

Demon’s Ink By Kimbra Kasch

Into the Dark By Caroline Patti

Auggie & Me by RJ Palacio

 

Movies

Fifty Shades of Grey

Insurgent

The Spongebob Movie
Home
Avengers: Age of Ultron
Jurassic World
Inside Out
Minions
AntMan
Vacation
Goosebumps
The Outsiders
Star Wars: The Force Awakens (3x)

 

CONCERTS

Buckcherry for the 10th time

Papa Roach 2 times in January

Seether

Sixx Am/Apocalyptica

Taylor Swift/Shawn Mendez

Kip Winger (see below)

and Papa Roach (for the 13th time)/In this Moment/Pop Evil

What were some of your favorite

books, concerts, or movies of 2015?

 

 

The Listing Hop!

Welcome to the Listing Hop! Looking forward to seeing everyone's lists!

If you've been here before, you know I love music.
So my list is a list of all (probably most, I may have forgotten a few) of the bands I've seen and how many times!

Here goes! In ABC order even! I told you I love music! Papa Roach is at the top of the list with 13 times live!

30 Seconds to Mars (5), 3 Doors Down, 5 Seconds of Summer, Aerosmith, Christina Aguilera, Alice Cooper (2), Alter Bridge, Anberlin, Apocalyptica, Avenged Sevenfold (4), Sebastian Bach (2), Bad Company, Pat Benatar (2), Big Time Rush, Black Eyed Peas, Blondie (2), Bon Jovi, Brides of Destruction, Buckcherry (10), Bush, Mary Chapin Carpenter, Chevelle (3), Chicago, Coheed and Cambria, The Connells, Crash Kings, Creed, Sheryl Crowe, Daughtry (5), Def Leppard, Disturbed (2), Dokken (2), The Donnas, Dovetail Joint, Duran Duran (4), Eve 6, Foo Fighters (2), Lita Ford, Goo Goo Dolls (2), Great White (2), Guns n Roses, Halestorm, Hollywood Undead, Hoobastank, Billy Idol, In This Moment, INXS, Jet, Billy Joel, Elton John, Juke Kartel, The Killers, Kiss (2), LA Guns, Lovehammers (2), Maroon 5, Bret Michaels Band, The Monkees, Motley Crue (8), My Chemical Romance (2), Vince Neil solo (4), Nelson, Neon Trees (3), New Medicine (3), New Politics, Otherwise (2), Our Lady Peace, One Direction, Owl City, Ozzy Osbourne, Panic Channel, Papa Roach (13), P!NK,  P.O.D., Poison (3), Pop Evil (2), Prince, Puddle of Mudd (2), Queensryche (2),Ratt, RED, REO Speedwagon (2),  Rockstar Supernova, Gavin Rossdale, Safety Suit, Saliva (2), Mike Sanchez, Saving Abel, Scorpions, Seether (3), Seven Mary Three, Shinedown (2), Silvertide, Cody Simpson, Sixx AM (2), Skid Row (2), Slash, Slaughter (2), Smashing Pumpkins, Rick Springfield, Billy Squier, Stone Sour (2), Styx (3), Sum 41, Survivor (2), Taylor Swift, System of a Down, Tantric (2), Third Eye Blind (2), Three Days Grace (3), Justin Timberlake, The Plain White T’s, Toadies, Trapt, Tremonti, The Tubes, Van Halen (2), Velvet Revolver, Warrant, Weezer, Weird Al Yankovic,  Whitesnake (3), Kip Winger (3), Winger (2)

I told you I love music! Here's a song  for  Xmas Dolly's Monday's Music Moves Me Halloween edition! Love MCR and this creepy song!


And speaking of Halloween, my newest picture book, I'M A LITTLE GREEN WITCH is available at amazon, barnesandnoble.com and select bookstores!

Have you seen any of these bands live? What was your last concert?

Check out more links for lists here and here! Congrats on eight years of blogging, Bish!

 

What I read, watched and rocked out to in 2014

2014 in Review!

Happy New Year to you all! I am starting the new year with a wonderful new job as kindergarten teacher in my own children's school district. In the past I've been a third grade teacher, stay-at-home mom for 11 years, a teacher's aide for kindergarten and Early Childhood, and a preschool teacher, too (all that I truly loved-I'm pretty lucky). But I have wanted to be a kindergarten teacher since I was 20 years old and my junior practicum assignment was kindergarten with an amazing teacher! I wanted to be her so badly! And now I am! Cheers to you all in this new year!

This post lists the books, movies, and concerts of 2014. Surprisingly it's the first year in a while that I watched more movies than read books!

BOOKS!

Read some amazing books by blogger buddies this year!!

Anansi and Company by Bish Denham

Wonder by RJ Palacio

Divergent by Veronica Roth

Control by Lydia Kang

Wish You Weren’t by Sherrie Petersen

Before You Break by Christina Lee

Watercolor by LTM

The Fault in Our Stars by John Green

Al Capone Does My Shirts by Gennifer Choldenko

Al Capone Shines My Shoes by Gennifer Choldenko

The Dream Thieves by Maggie Stiefvater

The Giver by Lois Lowry

Wishing for Washington by Shelly Sly

Timepiece by Myra McEntire

Sinner by Maggie Stiefvater

Seven Letters From Paris by Samantha Verant

 

MOVIES!

I saw ten movies in the theater which is probably a record! Also, saw more movies than read books this year. Sorry, brain!

The Hobbit: Desolation of Smaug

Anchorman 2

Gravity

The Lego Movie

Muppets 2 Most Wanted

Mean Girls

Divergent

Dallas Buyers Club

Pearl Harbor

Bad Grandpa

The Wolf of Wall Street

Airplane!

European Vacation

Guardians of the Galaxy

The Giver

Neighbors

Mockingjay Part 1

Dumb and Dumber To

Elf (gotta see that every year)

The Hobbit: Battle of the Five Armies

CONCERTS!

Saw some faves (saw Buckcherry for 9th time and Motley Crue for 7th and final time) and finally saw The Toadies and Alter Bridge for the first time!

Buckcherry

The Toadies

Alter Bridge

Daughtry/Goo Goo Dolls/Plain White T’s

One Direction/Five Seconds of Summer

Buckcherry

Motley Crue/Alice Cooper  (two nights in a row- Crue’s final tour!)

What were your fave books/movies/music of 2014?

 

 

Last Leg of the Rock 'n' Roll Princess Tour

Happy Monday, people!

Thank you to Blog Tours by Elana, we have the last stops of my ROCK 'N' ROLL PRINCESSES WEAR BLACK blog tour! RNRPWB is now available in paperback! Woot!


Please stop by these wonderful ladies' blogs this week!

SHERRIE PETERSEN - Today Sherrie has GUESS THE MUSICIAN PART TWO!
Guess which bands I got to hang with plus win an ITunes gift card!

Sherrie just released her debut middle grade novel, WISH YOU WEREN'T. You can purchase it here!

ELANA JOHNSON - Last stop is Elana's tomorrow! Check out what she has to say about ROCK 'N' ROLL PRINCESSES WEAR BLACK!

Elana's novel in verse, ELEVATED, has been getting rave reviews! It's only 99 cents for a few more days! Buy it here!

Both of these books are on my Kindle, and I can't wait to read them!

Have an amazing week, everyone! Thank you so much for all of your wonderful comments and support for my new middle grade novel! YOU ROCK!

2013

is so last year.
But a good one! I started working full days in Early Childhood this year. First time working a full school day since I had kids. It's so wonderful to see a child grow and learn so much in one year. Two picture books were released (ROCKABET and HOLD THE MUSTARD!). Thank you so much for your support! We took fun family vacations to Wisconsin, Grand Canyon, Vegas, Utah and Arizona. And three of my three children are currently playing on basketball teams (my favorite sport to watch!). So it was a busy year!

So busy I only read 14 books (but enjoyed them!).

Open Minds by Susan Kaye Quinn

The Duff by Kody Keplinger

Make It Morning by Jody Bainter

Tenth of December by George Saunders

The Truth About Letting Go by LTM
Alligators Overhead by C. Lee McKenzie
Life of Pi
Safe Haven
Sharp Objects by Gillian Flynn
Dragonfly by Leigh T. Moore
Fingerprints by Suzanne Casamento
All of You Christina Lee
Indiestructable Edited by Jessica Bell
Undertow by Leigh T. Moore


I watched these movies (as you can tell, comedies are my favorite).

Ted

Escape from Planet Earth

Life of Pi

The Hobbit

Monsters University

Man of Steel

One Direction: This Is Us (twice!)

The Croods

Despicable Me 2

Dumb and Dumber

This Is The End

GrownUps

GrownUps 2

Catching Fire

R.I.P.D.

And went to these concerts (as you can tell, Papa Roach is my favorite).

Papa Roach/Stone Sour/Otherwise

Maroon 5/Neon Trees/Owl City

30 Seconds to Mars

Papa Roach/Otherwise

Daughtry/Three Doors Down

Lita Ford/Dokken/Winger/Sebastian Bach/Ratt (see Kip Winger below!)

 

Papa Roach/Shinedown

P!NK/New Politics

Daughtry

 

 

Bought these new albums (all awesome but 2 faves are Buckcherry & Mike Sanchez).

Love Lust Faith + Dreams by 30 Seconds to Mars

Stars and Hotel Bars by Mike Sanchez

Confessions by Buckcherry

Hail to the King by Avenged Sevenfold

Baptized by Daughtry

What were your favorite books, movies and music in 2013?