Darice de Cuba

For the past week I have read and watched vampires stories so much that my head is spinning. In December I had a month vacation so I bought the Twilight series and read it in one week. Besides the overly annoying adoration of Bella towards Edward the story kept me hooked till the end. After I finished them I wanted to read more vampire stories and somehow came across Charlaine Harris Sooki Stackhouse series.

I bought Dead Until Dark but after e few chapters I gave up, I guess I was too much yet in Twilight mind set. Then last week I ordered The Vampire Diaries when I found out that CW is doing a series on it coming fall. It was written in the 90′s, same era as Buffy the Vampire Slayer but really not comparable to it. The first book is kinda slow, it only got really good in the last chapters of the second book. I have yet to order book 3 and 4 and reading from the reviews I should stay away from book 5 which came like a second after thought to the series.

Meanwhile I got season 1 of True Blood to watch. True Blood plays on HBO and is based on the Sooki Stackhouse series. Now that is one hell of a TV show, if it was on prime time networks where the public is as prude as one can get they would have a fit. But this show is good and very graphic. Season one keeps very true to the book considering how shows are mostly completely rewritten from the book form. But True Blood is good, good writing, good actors. Anna Paquin is Sookie Stackhouse, Ryan Kwanten plays her brother Jason, just to name a few. I couldn’t place the actor first, when I looked him up I realized he is Jay from the old show Summerland.

But True Blood got me hooked, I finished watching season 1 in two days. Then I went back to finish reading The Vampire Diaries but I had to sort my mind, not to get the stories confused with each other.

And today before ten in the morning the post delivered the first two books of the Sweep series. I never heard about the Sweep series, it was due to a photo on Flickr of someone reading a book which turned out to be from the Sweep series. A lot commentators commented on how good the series is. So I ordered the first two books. Just started book one today, so far so good.

It is a teen series about Wicca, the heroin Morgan finds out that she is a blood witch and has to fight dark magic. I just started reading it and to not spoil the story I haven’t looked up much about it.

Once I have watched the new Harry Potter movie my doses of all things supernatural will be complete and yes I also read the Harry Potter series. I haven’t absorbed so much stories at once in a long time. Considering the Sweep series has about 14 books until now, I will be reading them for some time.

At least I’m still sane knowing it’s pure fantasy, I read some comments on a TV show blog where people where seriously talking about how vampires exist, even quoting the bible. I guess it’s the appeal of eternal live that has people obsessed. But all things considered I just like a good read and a good TV show.

It has been seven months since I did a write up about my current life situation. For those who follow my weblog regularly know that I had a kidney transplant in March. Since then a lot have changed on other areas. The transplant came right in between changing jobs. Needless to say the new job didn’t work out, I have to much health stuff on my mind to put energy into a job that required me to work fast on websites without quality lost or mistakes(read: high stress levels). Besides that I don’t believe in working as fast as possible on a website and expect no quality lost or mistakes. So being that it was still the trial month of my contract I asked to be let go of the contract.

So currently I’m at home, working on a personal project I hope will become something soon. I’m also formalizing some documents to be able to work freelance without having to fill out tax forms for each freelance job. I have one active website job right now and I’m working on a offer for a second one.

I recently came across a photography style; Strobist. I came across it through Dustin Diazs flickr stream. Not that I wan to try it out but his photos are so inspirational it gets my fingers itching to start taking photos again. So I must really make an effort to take the D70 with me for some shooting. I just need to write down what I want to shoot, make a plan and stick to it. This way I can get disciplined again in taking photos more often.

Two days ago I turned 28, man does the years fly by fast. I commented to my mom I might be 28 in physical years but mentally I feel like in my 30′s. I have gone through so much the last three years with health issues, family issues and just life generally. But I gladly celebrated my 28 years yesterday with a nice dinner at Pastis.

The food was yummy, I had mussels with fries and for dessert I went with a creme burlee which was delicious. I don’t drink alcohol anymore but I had a sip of the white wine and it was real good, not too dry and very light tasting. Definitely a place to go to more often.