Hello December

Oh hello December! I promise to write as frequent as I could this month. I was just extremely busy lately due to the early Christmas shopping spree and appointment with my endocrinologist. I now have a new endocrinologist because the previous one seems to be the only one where I live thus it's such a pain setting up an appointment. 


Health is Wealth...

  

As I always say, I hate hospitals but, I am happy with my new Endoc because he answers all my questions as honest as possible. I was advised to cease taking my vitamins for the time being to see if my body will respond better to meds. Since he's an Internists at the same time, I was also advised that, I take other tests other than the usual blood test (FT4, TSH)  to also check my cholesterol level and come back after a month which I did. My blood test turned out fine, everything is normal so my only concern now is to rid off the muscle cramps and reduce any signs of hypothyroidism as it can no longer be totally eradicated. My Endoc eventually increased my dosage and advised that It's really all up to me how I would control my intake. I asked how come my muscle cramps seemed terrible whenever I am stressed out and I feel depressed at times for no reason at all. He responded that the reason behind that it's 'cuz my body is releasing insufficient hormones for my activities thus explains the depression and muscle cramps. That, I have to increase my dosage to address the lack of. I just then realized how odd my life would be from now on, I now have to gauge how many dosage (of hormone replacement meds) I have to take whilst my body is supposedly doing that job for me,  a lifetime side effect of my RAI (radioactive iodine treatment). I once stopped taking Levothyroxine without telling my Endoc but It didn't do me any good. I gained weight so fast and my muscle cramps came back plus the depression. I tried understanding my condition for as much as I could but It was really difficult without any aid from my Doctor. So far so good, I am taking my meds religiously and I have no plans of stopping because I don't want to go through the same ordeal I went through before. I really felt like an emotional wreck without my meds so I guess I shouldn't self medicate because battling against any thyroid related disorder  is serious. I think taking my meds before I go to bed did all the trick so I don't feel sleepy and tired that much during the day.

 I finally finished reading the last book from the Winterhaven Trilogy by Kristi Cook called “Eternal” (Winterhaven #3). Sorry to be such a spoiler.

Aidan, Violet and friends went to Paris after their high school graduation to celebrate and fight the bad vampires to restore the Tribunal. The battle against the bad vamps was a success except Aidan took the serum which was handed to him by Matthew (Violet's 'Megved'). Matthew perfected the serum and carefully instructed Violet that she must inject the serum to Aidan's no matter what. Violet was totally hesitant but she still managed to inject the serum to Aidan thus he resurrected, now a human being. Matthew unfortunately died. Violet was distraught with Matthew's death, he needed to die for Aidan to live. Violet in the long run met her Sabbath family and their Megved counterparts. The End. I thought, the Winterhaven trilogy was  entertaining.

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Next read: Another one of Neil Gaiman novels called Fortunately, the Milk. 

It's 20 days to go before Christmas...

Speaking of the holidays, My lovely make up brushes came in through mail last week! I purposely ordered a month early for Christmas as it's a reward for myself (for working so damn hard) and for my sister. It was a 12 piece brush set btw and is a good alternative for the really expensive ones. 

sunflowers for Mum :)

something for my sweet
tooth :)

Sunflowers in bloom
They're such a pretty sight to behold. 

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Mirage #2

Mirage, Book 2 | Kristi Cook

I just finished the second book from the 'Haven' trilogy this morning and yes as soon as I woke up I flipped through the few remaining pages excited to know how it would end. This trilogy is just my guilty pleasure not realizing I would enjoy it more than twilight. Well, Meyer's Twilight is the heavy drama version as opposed to Cook's trilogy.

Anyways, a new character came in at Winterhaven, Tyler, from another psychic school called Summerhaven which sounded kind of funny to me cuz I never thought Cook would coin such name for a school considering she named the first one Winterhaven.

Tyler happened to be Violet's fencing counterpart at Summerhaven and the two became friends. Aidan got a little jealous of Tyler because Violet spends a lot of time with him as they were fencing partners. Another new character came in, Dr. Matthew Byrne, a young professor with Phd at Winterhaven who teaches Science and became Violet's precog coach. The girls at Winterhaven called him Mr. Hottie because he was goodlooking ang young for a professor.

Violet and the gang got busy with SAT and scouting for a perfect college/university after high school whilst Aidan spent more time at the Laboratory trying to perfect his serum/elixir that would turn him to a somewhat normal human being again.

Dr. Byrne kept his regular coaching sessions with Violet to improve her precog ability and enable her to playback her visions vividly.

A vampire stalker on the lose started victimizing random targets until one day a female body was found on Winterhaven grounds. Tyler learned that Aidan is a vampire and suspected he might be the culprit. Violet started having doubts neither.

Among Violet's significant visions; putting a stake at Aidan's heart and Whitney getting chased by someone unknown.

Violet learned about her Megvéd who happened to be Matthew or Dr. Byrne, a match for a sabbat.

Came Christmas brake, whilst Patty, Violet's step mom is away for a holiday with her new boyfriend, Whitney called Violet to let her know she is sleeping over at Patty's apartment where Violet is headed for the holidays. Violet got a call grom Trevor to warn her something is wrong with Aidan and must immediately stay away from him for the time being. Too late because Aidan already got to Patty's apartment and Whitney asked him to come up. Violet asked Whitney to leave the apartment to run away from Aidan.

Matthew called Violet and already knew what's bound to happen. The two started looking for Whitney and Violet realized her visions about her friend. The two were able to save Whitney from Aidan. Aidan realized what he did decided to turn himself to the tribunal.

On the other hand, Trevor and Matthew have this resolve that Aidan is the vampire stalker as he wasn't himself every time he injects the serum.

Aidan and Violet believe that there is someone messing with the serum at the lab whos intent is to destroy Aidan. This was also one of Violet's vision, an unknown person getting a hand on the test tubes.

Aidan, broken hearted, bid Violet goodbye and asked Matthew to look after her.

Book 2 did not end happily and I already started reading book 3 as I am writing this bloggie. I don't wanna spoil what's to unfold next :)

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Haven (Book 1) by Kristi Cook

Violet Mckeena was sent to a boarding school in New York Junior year high school after her father was murdered. Her stepmother,Patsy accepted a job offer in NY thus decided to send her to a boarding school after she refused to stay with her grandma any longer because she wouldn't want to be any more burden to her after having lived with her for so many years.Violet got admitted to Winterhaven because of her exceptional academic records. An honor student and with the elite fencing team. 

The book started when Violet first set foot in Winterhaven. She was ushered in by Mrs. Girard. She describes Winterhaven with arched wooden doors that looked like it belonged in a medieval castle which is way different compared to Windsor Day, her former school.

Violet was introduced to Mr. Blackwell, the Headmaster and later on she was toured to the campus by Mrs. Girard. Violet met Cece, her roomie at the East Hall Dormitory. She also learned about basic shool policies such as the 11pm curfew, all cellphones must be left at their dorm room and so on and so forth. Cece and Violet clicked. Cece later on introduced Violet to the rest of her friends in Winterhaven.

Her first class, Violet saw Aidan Gray, the a boy from his class with gorgeous eyes. Everyone thought Aidan is kind of a snub  and not interested with any girl in school until he saw Violet the new girl in Winterhaven.

I'll just fast forward, Violet learned later on that Winterhaven is a special school for kids with special psychic powers like telekinesis, shape shifters etc. She also found that Cece's power is Astral Projection whilst hers is precognition or having a knowledge of an event before it even occur. She's been aware of what she can do long before but she never really acknowledged it. Violet,everytime she transcends to her visions of the future loses her grip from reality. 

Violet and Aidan eventually fell in love and later on she learned that Aidan is a vampire with super powers as well. Violet also learned about the school policy about not using their psychic powers in campus otherwise it means disciplinary action will follow suit.

Violet was heartbroken at once because of Aidan and decided to breathe some fresh air and go home to Patsy in New York. She encountered a dangerous man who almost got her into serious trouble hadn't Aidan came to her rescue who later on took her to his mansion home. She learned that Aidan's house has a servant of his kind, also a vampire but not deadly kind. Violet also learned that Blackwell, the Headmaster is also one.

Moving on, Aidan spends ample time in the school laboratory finding a cure for vampirism which he claims as some sort of  blood infection. Aidan takes an elixir so she wouldn't be tempted to bite the mortal Violet.

During one of Violet's vision she found that Blackwell is conniving with other vampires to vanquish Aidan because he is the good kind as he doesn't slay humans unless left with no choice as in the case of the guy who almost killed Violet. Violet and friends formed alliances with other kids in school incuding the shape shifters. Aidan once saved a shape shifter from a troublemaker mind you. Aidan found that Blackwell is indeed a traitor. Violet along with Aidan vanquished the bad vampires, Blackwell got kicked off and replaced by Mrs. Girard and there you go end of Book 1.

The advent of Twilight spawned countless vampire books. I honestly found Bella and Edward in this book because of the similarities. Violet, like Bella, is a mortal while Edward like Aidan are both vampires. I'm also giving Cook the credit for making 'Haven' much more colorful compared to Twilight though. I'm looking forward to reading the second book 'Mirage.'

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the rain and ebooks

New read.

I know it's gonna take some time before i finish this but i'll try in between movie marathons, reading and work. Just a quick spoiler..I can smell another Edward and Bella in this trilogy, I hope not 'cuz I love brand new reads.

Moving on, i kinda noticed it's been raining a lot lately. Lemme just say this-i hate when temperature rakes up that's why i retreated  here up north because i love the cold except during rainy days cuz it's wayyy colder and gloomy. What can i say..Rainy days are here again.

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