It’s Wednesday and here is my update. Our kitchen is hopefully going to be finished by next week and then I can go on track again but lately I’ve been going out to eat with my family and my weight loss is not as much as I’d like. Anyway it’s still going down though, slowly but arrow shows down.

This week’s weight loss is 0.08 pound.

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I look at about 10 books and read the back side of them I can’t decide; just then my daughter hands me this cd box that reads “The Undomestic Goddess”

I decide to give it a chance after reading the back of the box;

“The story of a girl who needs to slow down. To find herself. To fall in love. And to discover what an iron is for…

Samantha is a high-powered lawyer in London. She works all hours, has no home life, and cares only about getting a partnership. She thrives on the pressure and adrenalin. Until one day…she makes a mistake. A mistake so huge, it’ll wreck her career.
She walks right out of the office, gets on the first train she sees, and finds herself in the middle of nowhere. Asking for directions at a big, beautiful house, she is mistaken for the interviewee housekeeper and finds herself being offered the job. They have no idea they’ve hired a Cambridge-educated lawyer with an IQ of 158 – Samantha has no idea how to work the oven.

Disaster ensues. It’s chaos as Samantha battles with the washing machine…the ironing board…and attempts to cook a cordon bleu dinner. But gradually, she falls in love with her new life in a wholly unexpected way.

Will her employers ever discover the truth? Will Samantha’s old life ever catch up with her? And if it does…will she want it back?”

The first bits of the cd is different than what I’d expected but after 30 minutes or so I’m completely hooked. Infact after a while it’s hilarious and I can’t stop even when I have to stop.

It’s red by Rosalyn Landor and she’s a big factor that I love it so much. After I finish it I go back to the library to get the other audiobooks by Sophie Kinsella. Twenties Girl (the latest book), Confessions of a shopaholic and then it’s over. The library doesn’t have any other audiobooks and I go back to the rows to see what they have there;

Shopaholic takes Manhattan

Shopaholic ties the knot

Shopaholic and sister

Shopaholic and baby

Infact I read the “Shopaholic ties the knot, shopaholic and sister and shopaholic and baby” in 1 week.

Sophie Kinsella is now officially my favorite author. She has this great imagination that hooks you rightaway to any book she’s written.

Born in 1969, real name is Madeleine Wickham writes her books under the name of Sophie Kinsella. She lives in England with her husband and 4 children.

She is best known for writing the Shopaholic novels series of chick lit novels, which focus on the misadventures of Becky Bloomwood, a financial journalist who cannot manage her own finances. The series focuses on her obsession with shopping and its resulting complications for her life.

The first two Shopaholic books were adapted into a film and released in February 2009, with Isla Fisher playing Becky and Hugh Dancy as Luke Brandon.

Her latest novel under the name Sophie Kinsella, Twenties Girl, was released in the UK in July 2009. She also has another addition to the Shopaholic series, Mini Shopaholic, which is out September 2010.

You can never have too many shoes.

So is she a women in charge?

Absolutely…

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Here is a biography of her;

Rania Al-Abdullah (born Rania al Yassin on 31 August 1970), is the wife of King Abdullah II of Jordan and the Queen consort of Jordan.

Rania Al-Yassin was born in Kuwait to Palestinian parents from Tulkarm. She attended primary and secondary school at New English School in Kuwait, then earned a degree in Business Administration from the American University in Cairo. After her graduation in 1991, Queen Rania worked at Citibank and Apple Computer in Amman, Jordan.

She met Jordanian King Abdullah bin Al-Hussein, then Prince, at a dinner party in January 1993. Two months later, they announced their engagement and on 10 June 1993, they were married. They have four children.

Although her husband ascended on 7 February 1999, Rania did not become Queen immediately. She was proclaimed Queen of Jordan by her husband on 22 March 1999. Without proclamation, she would have been a princess consort, just like her mother-in-law, Princess Muna al-Hussein.

Queen Rania has pushed for more rights for women and children in the region and in the world as a whole. She set up the Madrasati initiative aimed at renovating Jordan’s most dilapidated public schools and installing new computers.

Queen Rania has launched a “war on child abuse” after a story emerged of the brutal death of a child in Amman, Jordan. She is also an outspoken critic of honor killings.

Queen Rania has been an outspoken advocate of women’s rights. She was awarded the honorary rank of colonel in the Jordanian Armed Forces by her husband, King Abdullah, on 9 June 2004.

She was named the third most beautiful woman in the world in the 2005 top 100 of Harpers & Queen magazine. In addition, she was the youngest queen in the world at the time King Abdullah succeeded to the throne. She has made many public appearances, including a half-hour television interview on The Oprah Winfrey Show on 17 May 2006, where she spoke about misconceptions about Islam and women’s role in Islam. In May 2000, she was named an honorary member of Deerfield Academy’s class of 2000 (her husband’s alma mater).

Queen Rania was ranked 81st in the Forbes 2005 100 most powerful women of the world list. In 2009, she was ranked 75th.

In 2008, she was awarded the North-South Prize of the Council of Europe.

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Would you want to read some of them on this website? Just send me their names and I’ll research…

I think Hillary Clinton is one of the women that represents strong women. When she was a first lady she had to face with one of the most difficult situation that anybody has to face. Now she’s in Obama’s cabinet I think she’s fine, even though she wanted to be a president, she made herself useful to her country instead of pulling herself out of the game be forgotten eventually.

Hillary Diane Rodham Clinton (born October 26, 1947) is the 67th United States Secretary of State, serving within the administration of President Barack Obama. She was a United States Senator for New York from 2001 to 2009. As the wife of the 42nd President of the United States, Bill Clinton, she served as First Lady of the United States from 1993 to 2001. In the 2008 election Clinton was a leading candidate for the Democratic presidential nomination.

A native of Illinois, Hillary Rodham attracted national attention in 1969 for her remarks as the first student commencement speaker at Wellesley College. She embarked on a career in law after graduating from Yale Law School in 1973. Following a stint as a Congressional legal counsel, she moved to Arkansas in 1974 and married Bill Clinton in 1975. Rodham cofounded the Arkansas Advocates for Children and Families in 1977, and became the first female chair of the Legal Services Corporation in 1978. Named the first female partner at Rose Law Firm in 1979, she was twice listed as one of the 100 most influential lawyers in America. First Lady of Arkansas from 1979 to 1981 and 1983 to 1992 with husband Bill as Governor, she successfully led a task force to reform Arkansas’s education system. She sat on the board of directors of Wal-Mart and several other corporations.

In 1994 as First Lady of the United States, her major initiative, the Clinton health care plan, failed to gain approval from the U.S. Congress. However, in 1997 and 1999, Clinton played a role in advocating the establishment of the State Children’s Health Insurance Program, the Adoption and Safe Families Act, and the Foster Care Independence Act. Her time as First Lady drew a polarized response from the American public. She is the only First Lady to have been subpoenaed, testifying before a federal grand jury in 1996 due to the Whitewater controversy, but was never charged with any wrongdoing in this or any of several other investigations during her husband’s administration. The state of her marriage was the subject of considerable speculation following the Lewinsky scandal in 1998.

After moving to the state of New York, Clinton was elected as a U.S. Senator in 2000. That election marked the first time an American First Lady had run for public office; Clinton was also the first female senator to represent the state. In the Senate, she initially supported the Bush administration on some foreign policy issues, including a vote for the Iraq War Resolution. She subsequently opposed the administration on its conduct of the war in Iraq and on most domestic issues. Senator Clinton was reelected by a wide margin in 2006. In the 2008 presidential nomination race, Hillary Clinton won more primaries and delegates than any other female candidate in American history, but narrowly lost to Senator Barack Obama. As Secretary of State, Clinton became the first former First Lady to serve in a president’s cabinet.

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