Killing Yourself to Live

As I said in my previous post, I am not a fan of the book. I mean yes, it was interesting at times and I did read it but only because it was an assignment and I had to read it. Many times I didn't know what he was referring to and why he kept mentioning various rock bands or the different rock songs. Most of the times I would look them up online or just ignore that he even said anything about them and kept reading. He didn't really give much background about the groups or the music, other than he probably assumed the reader was familiar with what he was talking abou.
It was part of his job to go to places where these rock stars had died but I didn't see much point in that either since most of the time he just went to these places and didn't get any new information about their death. Sometimes he was not even allowed to go into the places where these rockstars had perished.
I honestly wouldn't recommend this book to anyone but that is just my opinion, I am sure many people who read it liked it.

Killing Yourself to Live

At first I wasn't so much interested in this book. I don't have a clue what he is talking about when he mentions rock stars and rock bands since I don't know much or I should say anything at all about rock music except that it is pretty loud. But thinking about the meaning of it and how people become famous after they die, pretty much makes alot of sense. Not only with rock stars but with everyday normal people, just random people that we don't know much about when they die we hear all these stories about them and how they lived their lives, we learn more about them and get to be sometimes more curious about their lives. I think the title is true to almost anyone that dies, they become more famous or known after their death.
The paragraph which we had to write a paper about, caught my eye even before we were assigned to write the paper, it made me think about all the things that were normal before and are not normal anymore. As for another part that I found interesting was the part about Chuck's nemesis, he was kind of his enemy but his friend at the same time, or was he just using him for a place to stay and for his own convenience, made me think about how people treat others or think of others at times. I kind of see where this book is going, actually the title and his work assignment says it all, when rock stars die they become more famous. I don't see why he needed to go to the places where they died, he didn't learn much by going there, he could have done more research online, but then again it was his assignment for work. About all the girls he talks about he just seems like he is lost and doesn't really know what he wants from life, thinking about one girl for a minute and another girl at another minute, he just seems really confused. I am going to read the rest of the book over the weekend. Hopefully he has some kind of good ending.

What's been happening...

I have been extremely busy the past couple of weeks with family. My father in law had surgery and has been staying with us since then and it's like a party at my house everyday. It's nice to have visitors but I never have time for anything else, like homework. I was sick and just when I started to feel better, now my little one is sick. He was up all night yesterday with a fever so now that is what I am going to be dealing with this week. I'm not complaining, just hoping everyone feels better soon, so we can catch up on things and start enjoying the beautiful weather that is coming up. We sneaked out of the house yesterday for one hour and went to Toys'R Us to get the kids a wooden swing set, it looks really cool and I know they are going to love it, but now we have to figure out how and when we are going to put it together, I read some of the reviews online and it looks like it takes anywhere from 18-24 hours to put together. I am really looking forward to the nice weather this week. Hopefully we get a chance to enjoy it.
As for anything new, nothing much going on. Trying to figure out if I want to paint some of the rooms in the house, just to make it look different I thought paint the walls and change some accents, maybe pillows and stuff to make it look more springy or summery. If I ever get a chance to do that it would be nice. I am really looking forward to planting flowers outside, we need some colors it looks so plain, the landscaping in the front of the house is empty I want it to be filled with beautiful colors. I do have a wedding to go to on Saturday, looking forward to that since we haven't been to a wedding or any other social event in more than 6 months. Life just gets really boring in the wintertime. And everytime we do plan to do anything or go somewhere someone is sick.