come on baby, just a little more....

Happy Thursday

Cover Models

Do you ever stop to think that maybe you picked up this book instead of that book is because the cover model was the same as another book you liked? I hadn't.



While surfing around, I checked Tess Harrison's blog and found an announcement that a cover model had died. Going through his site, I have many of the books he modeled for. Rob Ashton will be missed by many who don't even know he's gone.

Sunday Flash at SEx

Not mine, I was sleeping but I stopped by SEx to read what was going on. Here are two of my favorites. Stop by and check out the others.
















Today's blog is "Why do you read e-books?" Think I'll go over and put in my two-cents.

Happy Monday :)

another funny

Larry gets home late one night and, Linda, his wife says, "Where in the hell have you been?"

Larry replies, "I was out getting a tattoo."

"A tattoo?" she frowned. "What kind of tattoo did you get?"

"I got a hundred dollar bill on my privates," he said proudly.

"What the hell were you thinking?" she said, shaking her head in disgust. "Why on earth would an accountant get a hundred dollar bill tattooed on this privates?"

"Well, one, I like to watch my money grow.

Two, once in a while I like to play with my money.

Three, I like how money feels in my hand.

And, lastly, instead of you going out shopping, you can stay right here at home and blow a hundred bucks anytime you want."


Larry is recovering in room 233 at the local hospital.

Dinner & a Movie

Friday night: Dinner and a movie. Sa didn't go to the movie but did go to dinner. Sc didn't go to dinner but did go to the movie.

We saw the Simpson's Movie. F.U.N.N.Y. Plus, there was male nudity. NOT full frontal and it was really funny how they did that.

If you watch the show, you'll get it. It's just on a bigger screen and it lasts longer. The opening sequence is different but Bart still writes on the chalkboard. It starts off with a Itchy and Scratchy movie and Homer stands up in the theater and calls all of us suckers for paying money to see something we could see at home.

Bart goes on a hike and we get to see the four states that border Springfield. None of which actually touch each other.

I'll give this one a B. Glad I saw it, will watch it again on cable.

just wanted to share

New Online story

I bought Guys in College by Matthew Haldeman-Time from Lulu.

At the end of the collection was a story called "In This Land". The story wasn't complete but Matthew has more on his website. Think Pharaohs and m/m sex and very involved story lines.

The story time is during the Dynasty of the Seven Siblings. The first child is Pharaoh, no matter what the sex is, who marries a Queen and a King. Each of the seven siblings have a specific job to do except that this time there were eight children.

The story so far is that the Diplomatic sibling is looking for a King for the Pharaoh. That makes it sound too simple. Check out his website, you can read the first three chapters and a couple of shorts for free. If you like the story, you can pay (paypal) $1.99 for 30 days of access to the rest of the story. There should be four chapters added a month.

I've already had to get up twice because my butt fell asleep and wasn't happy about having to interrupt the story :)

Happy Wednesday

too funny

Joke from Jodi Olson:


A guy falls asleep on the beach for several hours and gets a horrible sunburn.

He goes to the hospital, and is promptly admitted after being diagnosed with second degree burns.

With his skin already starting to blister, and seeing the severe pain he is in, the doctor prescribes an IV with saline, electrolytes, a sedative, and a Viagra Pill every four hours.

The nurse, who is rather astounded, asks, "What good will Viagra do him, Doctor?"

It'll keep the sheets off his legs."


Jodi can be found at MySpace or at her Yahoo! Group or website. Her newest/first book is "Playing House" and can be found at Romance Divine

I have two words for you

BACK UP!

Actually, I mean your computer files. I didn't lose too many files. I was worried about my ms and some of my recent ebook purchases but they're okay. What's NOT okay, is all my bookmarks.

The articles I found while surfing around that I wanted to read again. The picture sites of eye candy. Author & publisher sites. Oh, man, the author sites! I may have had 50 links just in my author folder.

So while you're thinking of it, make a list of ALL your bookmarks and then BACK UP EVERYTHING. While you're at it, make a list of user names and passwords. The "autofill" and "remember this password" are gone. Don't forget all those email addresses, I not only lost a couple years worth of emails & jokes, I lost all the addresses.

I'll be gone for a while, trying to recreate folders and bookmarks and looking for program disks to reload. Office is gone! I use the spreadsheet more than you'd think but can't open any of the files.

I'm leaving now, to cry....

Happy Anniversary...

to me! We'll be going out to dinner but not sure if we'll do a movie or not. M wanted to see Wild Hogs so maybe we'll just rent it.

Busy checking out all my Yahoo! Groups before finishing laundry

Happy Thursday

TTFN


Update: This is the front of the card I got, inside it says: They'll have to pry us apart.






We did go to a movie, Harry Potter & the Order of the Phoenix. I never did finish the book for the second time because of the "lines" the new Dark Arts teacher has Harry do. I like how they did it in the movie, but man, the teacher? shudder. Just look at her! All sweet looking but she hides the wickedest witch inside. Total proof of never judge a book by it's cover. Plus the cats in her office were just plain creepy.


My kids said the last "I must never tell a lie" line isn't in the book, I haven't gone back to check but it was perfect.

Monday? Already?

I don't know what happened, how could it be Monday already? Let's see, I last checked-in on...Tuesday? Not good, not good at all.

Wednesday, Aug. 8: daughter's birthday. She choose dinner and a movie. We met both sets of grandparents at Olive Garden then we went to see The Bourne Ultimatum. I'm not going to say is was "the best movie ever". I will say I'm satisfied with the ending and would pay full price to see it again. :)


Daughter made her own birthday cake Tuesday night then when she hadn't cut into it by Friday, her brother did. By Saturday it was all gone and she hadn't gotten any. Sigh, I guess this time, I'll bake the cake.


The rest of the week/weekend was normal stuff. I went to the gym with my workout buddy on Friday instead of last Monday. I called in to Jury Duty (call again Monday after 7).

Sunday is Flash Fiction at SEx. Stop that, it's called Silver Expressions Blog and feautres authors of Liquid Silver Books. One of the authors starts it then you can comment with your own. I've done two (patting myself on the back) but couldn't come up with anything yesterday. It was Flashes of Animal Instincts. There was some great stuff.


Y wrote one of my favorites: "She was torn, he was the most beautiful specimen that she had ever seen, in both his forms. He was walking on the beach as a man, beautifully bronzed and nude. She watched from the ocean where he couldn’t see her.

She knew that it wouldn’t work out, they weren’t compatible. She felt a longing for him and a hunger that would not subside. He looked around and dove into the water, taking his animal form of a sea otter. She watched as he darted through the cove, coming at her.

Hunger won and she opened her jaws and ate him."


I'll be taking rides on the Poetry Train today and hope to post favorite links tomorrow.

A BIG thank you to Lisa

for the link to Les Byerley's website. Les does book covers and photography. You can find Lisa Andel here

Back from vacation

There are over 500 photos to go through now, here are just a few.



This is one of the views everyone goes for, and I mean everyone. We're at the Watch Tower and the viewpoint was so crowded we almost missed the shot. Luckily, we wondered over to the other side where it wasn't paved. Awesome isn't it.
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This is Angel's Window. There a couple of view spots along this trail. The one where S was standing, the top of Angel's Window and at the end where S caught the lightning. The storm was on the other side of the canyon but the static was so bad our hair was standing on end.











There are two strikes here, one is more horizontal and across the clouds.


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It's a lot harder writing in the car than I thought it would be and with all four of us sharing a room, there was no late night writing. Except one room had a dimmer switch and I had an idea....An idea that has led to a flow problem that I've got to fix before writing any new scenes. grrr


I was checking over old blogs. I didn't read any of the print books I bought the week before vacation, not even the two I took with me. As for the ebooks? There were actually ten purchased before the trip that were ready to go and half were read before we left! Three are still waiting for me to find the time. I'm still finding it hard to believe that I haven't bought a new ebook since I got back. There are several out there, I just haven't bought them yet. Must not feel well ;)

Vacation & Progress

S took his digital camera and two memory cards, one was 4 gig, so what happened? Lots and Lots of photos. I haven't gone through all of them yet. Here's one of rain at the Grand Canyon. I think we're on the North Rim.







And one of me walking across the Colorado River. That's right, I walked across the Colorado River, twice. We stopped at the Navajo Bridge since M's a civil engineer. The old bridge is now the Historic Navajo Bridge and it's set up as a walkway. I got half way out and thought "why not" then I had to walk back to the car. M asked if I wanted to walk it once or twice. Silly me chose twice. I know I'm small, but I'm right in the middle, wearing a blue top.


I did work on my 70 days WIP while on vacation. I moved the first kiss up several pages and rearranged the remodeling project. Instead of doing just her room, she's doing all of upstairs and I mean ALL of upstairs. Now I've got to reread and see where my flow problem is! grrrr

1. a "non-date" (got it - 1: dinner at house - first kiss!, 2: shopping)
2. 1st official date - with children (got it - swimming)
3. 1st official date - without children (got it - dinner out)
4. picking up her books from storage - out of state, hotel stay both ways
5. Honeymoon

I'm up to 12,750