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Okay, which romance hero's kiss curled your toes? Name and book? I mean, can he kiss like MY GERRY???? ;-)
***dreamy sigh***
Can this man kiss or what? My toes curl every time I see his tongue.
I haven't been having a "holiday" season. It's work, work, work all these past weeks, trying to finish the last building for the project. Once this is done, everything will slow down quite a bit since the construction business isn't doing well these days. But I'm looking forward to some reading and writing time!
So my year is ending with quite a big bang, not in a celebrative way, but with lots of noise anyway. And hey, I shouldn't complain when it's 82 degrees down here, right?
How are you celebrating the end of the year and new year? What are you looking forward to in 2008?
It's been a tough year mentally for me and I'm wishing for more inspiration in my writing life. It's hard to explain it, but the loss of my old friend, my 18 year-old dog, Brando, really took a toll on my psyche. I'm okay, yet I don't feel whole. I'm happy, yet I'm still mourning. It's a strange strangled mess. My girlfriend told me that I'm depressed, what with Brando and also the delay to my book, and should seek therapy. Being me, I made jokes about what a psychiatrist would prescribe to a patient who had a writing block because her beloved dog died....
Eeek, this blog entry is turning out all blue and serious! Must be the wine talking again ;-).
Actually, I meant to ask the usual things:
Favorite book of the year?
Mine is definitely Lilith Saintcrow's The Devil's Right Hand, the third of the Danny Valentine series. The fourth book came out a couple of months ago, and although good, the heroine's thoughts and actions frustrated me. Also, I didn't like that yet another two links to Valentine's past were needlessly killed off. This action-packed series (ending in one more book) is very addictive and I can't wait to find out how it ends. Saintcrow's worldbuilding is amazing.
Excellent new find(s) of the year?
C.L. Wilson
Nalini Singh
Keri Arthur
Marianne Mancusi
Elizabeth Hoyt
Meljean Brook (and her covers are gorgeous, like Marjorie Liu's)
Disappointment(s) of the year?
You know, those shitkicker-wearing and label-donning brothahs who didn't bring it on like they promized in prevhious bookz. Ahem.
And Isobel Lambert...sigh...what happened to the icy, smart Madame Lambert? Gah. (But I still love the hero to bits)
Linda Howard's plane crash/survival in the mountains suspense story--wahhh...her hardcovers are losing all the romance. Sob. Sniff. You don't know how hard it is for me to finally have to admit this truth out loud to myself. ***weeps***
Your turn. Come on. You can tell moi.
And the winner of the $25 BN Card for Funniest Christmas Tale is...
DIANEV62!
Congrats, Diane, even though it was such a traumatic childhood experience ;-). Sitting in a bathtub for five hours would make me hate Santa too!
Please email me and let me have your snailmail addy. Congrats again!
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So I hope y'all survived the big family get-togethers and are now safely home with your presents. I admire those of you who braved the snowy highways during the holiday season for long trips home. A whole family in a car together for sixteen hours? Then spending days with all the sub-families in one house? Arghhhh. Heh.
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Very quiet on the news front but there was one piece of news related to the romance world:
Woman Fired For Writing Romance Novel At Her Job
She said she was honing her work skills, bwah! Check out the excerpts of her "lusty" novel. Whaddya think?
There was once a puppy who knew how to manipulate his mommy's heart with Christmas kisses.
See how he tried to divert her attention? See how INNOCENT he looked?
But the puppy was evil and loved to eat his mommy's books that took her attention away from him. Behind her back, using special dog-fu, he climbed up some chairs, took one book in his mouth, jumped off and trotted BACK to his nest to fight it to the death. After beating up and chewing his competition to bits, he climbed up the chair AGAIN and took on another of them! Bad evil naughty puppy did this to THREE romance heroes.
What amazed his mommy was the fact that his nest was in another room. This bad puppy took the time to take each book to his territory to rip apart.
Mommy was very upset. No more kisses for Bad Puppy all Christmas night.
Gasp!!! Santa!!!! What are you doing?!!!
Back by popular demand and because everyone I know is really too busy to shop lately...
You know how overblown the Christmas season can be? Well--THIS is an overblown dish to attempt to eat.
It's called a turducken. It's a boneless chicken stuffed in a boneless duck stuffed in a boneless turkey which is then stuffed up with sausage, spices and stuffing. I stuff you not.
It's the rage here in town. Everyone's ordering it for Christmas. I think I vomit a little in my mouth thinking about eating and digesting this humongous stuffed up bird.
Have any of you ever tried it? Is it as delicious as they claim? I can't even imagine how a normal stomach can take all that. And then eat pie. Argh. Burp.
And can you imagine the preparation of making this dish in the kitchen? How long would it take to cook in the oven?!! Wouldn't one bird get cooked faster than the other because of different poundage? And isn't one crazy already trying to wrap presents to also debone three birds and stuff them into each other?!
These are questions worth thinking about, I tell you.
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WANT TO WIN A $25 BARNES AND NOBLE GIFT CARD for Christmas? From now till this Sunday, post a cute or silly or funny Christmas story from your personal experience. The best story wins the card, which you can use at a brick-and-mortar store or online. $25, ladies (and gents)! Surely it's worth a short little Christmas tale?
Continue your Christmas tales...I want to hear them all! $25 BN gift card, readers! Come on.
I can't believe next week is Christmas already. I'm so busy, there is no way I'll be able to shop for everyone by then! This is when I use my Heathen Card. I tell people that "I'm a heathen and heathens don't celebrate Christmas." Heh. It works! They're shocked, but hey, I save a lot of time and money that way. LOL.
True story:
I went to the roofing supplies company Christmas get-together. Someone from high on up attended too and was making the rounds shaking hands.
When he met with Ranger Buddy, he said, "Hello, I'm the CEO of ABC Roofing Supplies."
Not even waiting a beat, RB shook his hand and said, "I'm the E-I-E-I-O of my roofing company."
Which makes me...some kind of farm animal, I think.
;-)
Oh, the CEO? He didn't know what to say. We roofers just don't know how to behave!
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WANT TO WIN A $25 BARNES AND NOBLE GIFT CARD for Christmas? From now till this Sunday, post a cute or silly or funny Christmas story from your personal experience. The best story wins the card, which you can use at a brick-and-mortar store or online. $25, ladies (and gents)! Surely it's worth a short little Christmas tale?
And no, I don't want it ;-).
Check this out:
This is the WALKstation. It's the ultimate Christmas gift for that person who insists on being IVed to his/her workstation and has been putting on a few extra pounds lately. So instead of chomping on chocolate and drinking wine (why are you looking at me like dat?!), presumably, the multi-tasker can walk away his/her pounds.
At a cool $6500 (complete with computer hardware and whatnots).
Whaddyathink? This or...the very unforgetable dick-in-a-box like I suggested last year? ;-) Want to see that video again? Heh.
With so much to do this December, what with unexpected ACCIDENTS, I'm left with no time to blog or shop at all. Actually, I do have several hours in the evenings, but for some reason, all I want to do is sit down and stare into space like a zombie. Last night, my girlfriend IMed me and asked me whether I was shopping Christmas presents for loved ones, and my reply was: "I'm too tired to love anyone these days."
Sad, isn't it? Too tired to love? Of course, Bad Puppy and the rest of the Mutant Gang don't believe that or they wouldn't jump on top of me and play "let's lick her till she hides her face" whenever I sit with them out in the yard. It's been eleven years and these dogs still think that's funny. Yes, Bad Puppy has learned the game well, even attempting to play it while I'm happily fast asleep at 3am. He sure didn't like my response....
I don't really shop as much as order online anymore, although I do enjoy walking through shopping madness for a few hours once every season, just to take in the abundance of Christmas wrappings and red and white decorations. I don't think I'll be doing it this year, though, because my feet hurt too much at night.
But I still remember back in Ohio, when I lived with the first boyfriend, I'd be sneaking around shopping for Christmas gifts. I used to go to the mall, goodness me. The unique gifts during my shopping years were the Rubik's Cube, in all its different manifestations, the Cabbage Patch Doll, Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles, Power Rangers, Transformers, something called the mini-Sony Walkman (what, no more boomboxes???!), some weird Air Jordan shoes that became the reason why tennis shoes are so damn expensive, and the must-have cordless phone (can you imagine, phones were stuck to the walls before then), among other things.
Can you imagine the special gifts/toys you bought back in your, ahem, growing up days, that have become memorabilia? Warning, though, thinking that far back can make one feel rather dated ;-).
But if you still have a Cabbage Patch Kid in your attic somewhere, it can be worth up to $500! Holy Cowabunga! I need to go look into dusty boxes....oh wait. Can't. Too tired to shop. Too tired to love. Too tired to look for memorabilia.
And now, I can't stop that stupid Flashdance song and MTV video running in my head. I thought I would infect you too.
The Alpha Male stole my truck (automatic) and disappeared. Where, oh, where is he? Rather, where IS MY TRUCK? I want my damn truck back.
When I got home, I saw this:
All links work!!!!
KIRKLAND FILES
Only the Commando Profiles are ready. Go down to the bottom and click on GLOW, Kirkland, COS and you'll get profiles and info. The rest, you'll have to wait!
What do you guys think? Proof-read for me too because I'm not good with website reading (words jump around). Let me know what interested you and what didn't. Are the pictures showing up? Is the stethoscope too vague a clue for you to CLICK ON????!
In other words, NEED. INPUT!
Thank you, Tara. Once again, you've done so much. WOW!
Do you like Crossword Puzzles?
Tara, a wonderful, dedicated, too-much-time on-her-hands reader, created this challenge with much love. You get to look for all your favorite characters and GLow phrases. She calls it
COMTEST
Cute!
Thank you, Tara! ;-)
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Bad Alpha Patient is in pain. Quiet = pain. I think I'm taking Sunday off, and I'll update FYEO and Intermundia then.
I'm not good with crosswords at all, so you guys will have to help me out with the bonus ten words....
Where is Bad Puppy? Quiet = something's up.
Sorry I haven't been posting on the other blogs more frequently. I know you all love Intermundia very much, checking it almost everyday. The personal life has suddenly been consumed by lots of extra work, including doing the chores of two people.
Quoting my favorite book, Animal Farm, the old horse mutters, "I will work harder..."
;-P
Give me a few days to get used to my new schedule. Sigh. There will be no more fun till after Christmas, I tell you.
However, we're still CHATTING ON THURSDAY 9PM
Instructions: Go to http://www.writerspace.com/
On top, you will see a link to the chatrooms.
Click on it, and you will see three rooms: Readers, Chatters, and Authors. I'll be in the Authors' Forum, unless someone is already scheduled there. Then I'll be in one of the other rooms. You will see an update HERE.
If you haven't been to Writerspace before, try going there now and look at the page and click on the link to familiarize.
Can't wait to talk to y'all!
And now, for the love of sweet plastic baby Jesus stuck in a field of Christmas lights, do not buy these for Christmas presents. Your cats will hate you. Forever and ever:
Kitty Wigs (Courtesy of John Scalzi, the author who feeds me all I know about obscure scary stuff)
:::dies laughing:::
Poor kitty cats. Those wigs aren't cheap either.
And today's Movie of the Week is:
Hear the screams and complaints of Alpha Man!
Cover your eyes at the hair-raising sight of impending knee surgery!
Look! A crutch!
Oh no! Someone will not stay in bed!
Arghhh! Alpha Man limping to work! The horror! The horror!
Sigh. I predict six weeks of misery in my future. Or more.
The Alpha Male fell off the bike in Bike School and is now in the hospital.
I don't know whether to laugh or to roll my eyes or to frown with worry.
Off I go now to the hospital. And I thought it was going to be a nice and easy day.....
MAY 07
