I enjoy being entertained...

I've recently re-fallen in love with reading.  I was always reading tons while growing up, and then ever since having Jake I've slacked off (hmm I wonder why... ;).  Just in the past 4-5 months I've re-read 1-6 of the harry potters, read the first two anne of avonlee books (forget the exact titles), jurassic park, lost world, the hound of baskerville, and, I'm kind of embarrassed to say, the first two of the twilight series.  I had read the twilight books back when I first got back from my mission when everyone was crazy about them.  They were entertaining but I categorized them under literary "fast-food" as I call it- once in awhile it's fun, but not really of substance, and we had watched the first twilight movie with riff tracks recently at my brothers' so it got me thinking about  them again.

It seems like I'm so bipolar with this stuff: entertainment (books/movies/tv) Either I am obsessed and enjoy them entirely too much/spending a lot of time on them, and then all of the sudden I'll go cold/tire of them for awhile like I got burnt out.  I think I need more 'moderation in all things' as it were.  Be more balanced.

As I've read all of these books I've gotten SO sucked into their different worlds and consumed by them.  It's fun but it's kinda frustrating cause all I can think about in my free time is the next time I can pick up the book and read/staying up WAY too late reading etc.  It doesn't help that all of these books have movies so then I get in the mood to watch those etc so it's a very time-consuming cycle.  So lately all I've been doing in my free time is read/watch movies.  I def think a classic should be the next book I read-less chance of a blockbuster movie plus I tend to read slower/think more with those....any suggestions?

Maybe I'll try to only read 3 days a week before bed instead of every night til midnight, that way I won't get burnt out/tire out my eyes.  Sigh...nerd problems.....


On a completely other tangent, I am so grateful for my family- I'm so blessed with an amazing loving husband and the sweetest boy in the world (biased of course).  We'll be doing xmas pics of the fam soon and I can't wait!