have some sam

have some Sam. my posts have been Sam free for a while now so I'll share a few from the vault. my personal fave is Sam as Charles Bromley in Daybreakers or as a Sampire. he is HOT as a vampire. just his voice and presence. mmmm. sam.

the wrong characters are talking

yes I say BOOOO! as in I'm booing. I'm doing that because I don't think I'm going to get much work done on FUNdraiser because my vampires are talking to me and have already hashed out their plot complete with new characters. damn. I wish the characters in FUNdraiser would tell my vampires to STFU. they've been waiting so patiently to be written. I guess being from the south, they are super polite and are willing to step aside for others.

Happy Vladurday!

happy valentine's day to my own Stan Smith

Happy Valentine's Day Staniel.

hearts and hearts and hearts of love eternal and stuff

happy day of love for all! if you are an anti valentine's day person, be your own valentine. after all, you are awesome. buy yourself something supercool or do something nice for yourself. or I'll be your valentine.I'd love that!! I don't get why people hate this day so much or why this day causes stress. all it's celebrating is love, not couplehood. what's wrong with that? there isn't enough love in the world as it is so why not join in on the day meant to celebrate love? you don't have to buy into the whole commercialized thing. just let the people around you know that you love them. don't forget to let yourself know that.
so enjoy today. read, write, eat, create or just be. All in the name of love!

Happy Vladurday! Valentine's edition!

even despots dig themselves and like gettin with the ladies!

Dear Eamon and company

at the moment Eamon(wouldn't Paul Bettany make a YUMMY Eamon?) and the gang and touring about so I'll be moving back to my other WIP until the vampires start talking to me again. they can only go so long without barging back into the front of my mind. I hope they'll let me finish FUNdraiser because I enjoy writing it but I never get very far with it because the dang vamps won't be quiet. and they've got some problems. but they'll just have to deal for now. I need to finish this before I finish the third installment of The Primigenio Tales.
it's kind of hard switching focus like that. after being immersed in the minds of my characters for so many months, it's hard to switch back to reality. I was telling a friend about my WIP and he was stunned to find out that there wasn't one single paranormal element in it. yep, that's true but my story isn't run of the mill by a long shot. could you imagine me doing run of the mill? no. all I'll say about it is my MC is living my dream. unfortunately it doesn't pan out for her and causes a big ol bag of trouble but it's a fun read along the way. if I can't write paranormal, I write edgy and funny.  so now I'll head back to the world of SEC universities and trying to be a success in a thankless job the normal way. that never works so you know it's gonna have some spice. and I think even Eamon would dig it. I know I'm being vague and stuff but I'm not ready to talk details about FUNdraiser yet. when I am, you'll wish I'd shut up!

more karma cleaning and The Demi Monde Winter

I usually don't make jokes about HH but this is funny because it's true. I think HH would laugh. so more karma cleaning happened. yay! so things are going well. and when I went to my mail box, I had a FABULOUS surprise!Look!

I wrote a letter to author Rod Rees about how excited I was about the release of his awesome book and he graciously sent me a copy!!SQUEE! I can't wait to start reading. check out his blog and check out the book on Goodreads. it hasn't been released in the US yet so I feel super duper lucky to read it.YAY!

getting rid of my bad karma

I'm uber spooky and superstitious and whatnot. lately with all the time I have on my hands, I've been doing a bunch of pondering. I never come up with anything earth shaking but yesterday while driving, I came up with something. I figured out the root of whatever has spun my karma out of control. oh yeah, I believe in karma. I've seen it work. BIG TIME. there is one incident and possession that is the jump off point from my problems. I asked my mom what she thought about my revelation but she just kind of meh'd me. which means that she thinks that if I think it's true then she will just nod and go along with it. but that was good enough. my discovery seemed to make sense and gave me a new outlook on how to approach things.

and then I heard this song on the radio while in the process of trying to repay my karmic debt and I knew I was on the right track. p.s. I love this video and song. if I ever got married, I'd probably do something like this. this is so awesome even though it's kind of old now. still amazing!

Happy Vladurday!

Well here's how it went...it all started fine until

last week was the Warrior Dash. it was kick ass and it kicked my ass. the pic above is me crawling thru mud and gravel under barb wire.I'm the one on the far left hunkered way down. all in all it was a terrific experience. if it had just been running 3 miles it would have been okay but the obstacles...that's another story. there were 3 in particular that hold a ahem special place in my heart. the first were these 3.5 foot walls we had to climb over. yeah. I'm only 5 foot blah blah so this was an adventure. next was crawling thru a tunnel of mud. this would have been fine if I HADN'T SUNK UP TO MY ELBOWS on all fours.I felt like a dinosaur stuck in the tar pits. I had to hoist my pudgy ass up and out of the mud 10 feet each time sinking back in. I kept picturing those adventure movies where someone gets stuck in the quick sand and tells their friends to just leave them and go on without them. then I got mad and grunted out. the final obstacle from hell was the god damn rope ladders. apparently there is a secret to these. I didn't know it and just got frustrated and threw myself down them. yeah. the officials I'm sure are STILL laughing about it. anyway. I did have fun. I finished. I jumped fire, ran thru mud and palmettos, high stepped thru tires and did half a dozen other crazy things. it was a great time. I spent the time catching up with my friend John from high school and I did something I had never done before, proving my tuff chick status. it only took me until tuesday to recover. triathlons have NOTHING on these extreme races. there is no fire or mud crawling. and no beer. btw, I finished AFTER they stopped with the beer!!!I got cheated out of my beer! but I finished and got my medal! so there's my story. back to reality and my other rants. but enjoy these pics.

me heading to the finish line. you can see where I sunk in the mud. I felt like I was hiding from the Predator.

lol. clean from the back!

the bruises don't show in the pic. all the spots are bruises.

this one I have no idea where I did it. It's kinda green in this pic.

this bruise is the best. it's from the rope ladder incidents. it wraps around my arm and is about 4 inches wide.lol. my elbow from my surgery a couple of years ago was not happy.

happy vladurday!warrior dash edition (I'm doing the Warrior Dash today!)

the good news in bad news

I love The Bad News Bears. this version. not that crapbag version with Billy Bob Thornton. if you've never seen the original with Walter Matthau and Tatum O Neal, put it in your Netflix queue. it's worth it. anyway, I got some bad news in my email today but it was so awesome. it made me sad but at the same time, it gave me the most empowered feeling. it was like yin and yang dropped into my GatorLink Webmail. it had to do with my writing but that's all I'm saying. oh I will say thanks to the awesome person who sent me the email. you totally rock! I did the whole fist pump YES! thing after I read it.

6 days until Warrior Dash and about 1k words until done

yep 6 days until "the craziest frickin day of my life" next saturday is the Warrior Dash. I'm running with a pal from high school and it should be a blast. if you are unfamiliar with races like this, basically it is a run combined with hellish obstacles designed to test your endurance both mentally and physically. there's barb wire, mud, climbing and fire among a few of the perils. at the end, there is free beer, a medal and a nifty hat.I AM STOKED. it looks like a giant fraternity party with running so I should have no problem. they thing that drew me to it was it's name. the WARRIOR DASH.  WARRIOR. lately I've felt warred upon so I plan on making this the angry zen warrior dash where I vent all my frustrations. if all the things that have gone wrong in the past 5 months haven't beaten me then no 3 mile run will. I know the top pic looks kind of benign but you end up looking like this.

well that after you do

so yeah it's awesome!and I'm getting excited. even more so than with triathlon! this is a whole different thing. and there was never beer at the finish line of triathlons!
in the mean time, I am closing in on the finish of my ms. about 1k words to go. like one more scene.good for me!

happy vladurday