History Tuesday: Charlotte Bronte

"God pardon me! And man meddle not with me: I have her, and will hold her."-Edward Rochester, Jane Eyre

If you are anything like me, you have at some point found yourself enraptured in the pages of Jane Eyre. You've cried with Jane, loved Mr. Rochester, and hated him at the same time. You've been held captive by the haunting, romantic, tragic tale at every turn of the page. 

I've read Jane Eyre so many times that my faithful copy of the story is starting to fall apart. The first time I read it, I was doubtful. Don't get me wrong, I was a fan of Victorian era love stories as much as the next girl, (Lord knows, I've read Pride and Prejudice too many times to count), but Jane Eyre seemed waaaaaaaay too long for a love story. I thought it would probably be kind of boring.

Of course, after I finished reading it the first time, I immediately flipped back to the beginning and started reading it again. 

Facelift and a new name

Okay, NOBODY PANIC.

Yes, this is the blog that was Blog of a Darkmoon Carnie.

I just gave my blog a facelift and a new name...something that I felt would be more...appropriate.

Blog of a Darkmoon Carnie just didn't fit very well.

If you like it, tell me on this Blog's facebook page OR let me know in the comments on the blog!!!

Seriously, I want to know how you guys feel about this new look.

Cheers!

How to be Happy

Hey guys!

So, as some of you may know, I've been sick for the last few days.

When I get sick, I tend to start wallowing in self pity and thinking of all the terrible things that have happened to me in my life.

I'm just going to go ahead and point out that my life hasn't exactly been one long happy story, I've certainly had my fair share of downers. If you were to look at my life story, it would be easy to understand why I tend to get upset sometimes.

But you know, nobody's life is one long happy story. You can't expect to have happiness without some bad stuff along the way.

Fighting The War

Hey guys!

Happy Veterans day! A big shout out to all the men and women who so bravely served our country in defending our borders and keeping us safe. Thank you all so much.

A reason to dance

Hey guys!

So I was looking at the news earlier. Dang, it's getting straight up depressing out there.

Who wants to live in this mess? Or to have their kids grow up in this mess?

I mean really, things have gone from bad to worse really fast, right? I mean, come on. Obamacare, abortion, violence in schools, government shut downs, mom's getting in trouble for breast feeding in court. It's sick out there.

Spiderwebs and Scripture.

Last night, I couldn't sleep. I just wasn't very sleepy. So I laid awake in bed, staring up at the ceiling for a while.

After a little while, I decided to look out my window, which for some reason always makes me sleepy.

At some point during the day, a spider had crawled up onto the outside of my window and built herself a beautiful web.

Government shut down?

The government shut down! Oh no! How will we survive?

No but seriously, I think this is a stupid idea.

I'm just going to warn you now that this is probably just going to be ranting and a lot of opinion.