Final Cover

Hi Everyone!  Had to share this with you...they've tweaked the cover just a bit before release.  Same idea, but bigger hot dude.  Nothing wrong with that:-)  Hope you all like it!  Have a great Thursday.  I do apologize for posts being sporadic during the week right now.  With a deadline in a month and a lot of work to do, sometimes online is the last place I should be!  And my updates, if I gave you one every day, would read "Writing", "Still writing", and the ever popular "Yep, STILL writing!"  I am a snoozefest of a human being right now.  I did get a brand new Durango a few days ago.  THAT was actually pretty exciting.  I really liked my Flex, but believe it or not, we needed more space.  This is what happens when you start adding enormous animals to the family.  Speaking of, we get Stella this weekend, so expect pictures soon!

Tuesday Fun

I'm swamped with work.  It's time for the Magic Dance!

Abby...Normal

So this weekend I went up to Wilmington, DE to see the musical version of Young Frankenstein with my MIL and daughter.  It was SO FUN!  I haven't seen a musical in a long time, but I really enjoy them.  And of course, I'm a big Mel Brooks fan.  My dad introduced me to the awesomeness of his films back when I was a kid.  I loved them instantly (in fact, Young Frankenstein was my first), but they're managed to improve as the years have gone by, too...because I didn't quite get all of the jokes when I was younger:-)  Same went for my daughter.  I was, um, pretty glad she had no idea why I was giggling so hard at Elizabeth's post-coital ode to the monster's, erm, endowments with the song "Deep Love".  There was also a plethora of boob jokes.  Pretty sure she DID get those.  Igor stole the show.  The guy who plays him in the touring company has also played him on Broadway and in London, and he's fabulous.  Here's a little trailer for the musical:

Now, the guy playing Frederick Frankenstein in these clips wasn't playing him in the show I saw.  Actually, the actor I saw do it was much better...this guy played a few other parts.  In any case, it was a great day, and it was a good way to introduce my daughter to the wonder of theater.  I've never forgotten my first show (Phantom of the Opera at the Pantages Theater in Toronto), and I'm betting she'll never forget hers.

Hope you all had a good weekend!  I've been ridiculousy busy, and it's the out of the house kind involving lots of car time.  That's life with three kids for you:-)

For the LOTR Junkies

I am one.  A Lord of the Rings fangirl, that is.  And I am beyond excited that The Hobbit is finally getting made with Peter Jackson at the helm!  Anyway, I ran across this the other day and thought it was VERY cool.  Pogo, the musician responsible, does some really interesting mixes.  He says this one isn't polished yet, but I say it's lovely anyway.  Happy Hump Day, ladies:-)

Pretty Things

I was rummaging in my pictures this morning, trying to come up with something decent to post, and discovered one of my potential candidates for Damien who I didn't show you.  He's one of those up-and-comers in Hollywood, and I believe he's in that new Beauty and the Beast take-off, Beastly.  Alex Pettyfer.  He's quite lovely, check it out.

Pretty, huh?  I can't say I'm excited about the movie from the trailer (and that is my favorite fairy tale, so major bummer for me), but Alex is kinda nice.  I think the movie has Vanessa Hudgens in it.  This may be part of the reason for my lack of excitement.  Maybe it's just me, but the current crop of popular stars and starlets just don't interest me much.  And there's a disturbing trend towards anorexically skinny bleached blondes...I mix them all up.  Oh well...Tangled hits Blu-Ray at the end of the month, and I'm looking forward to that.  Plus the teaser trailer for The Hangover 2 just came out.  Yeah...that's one I want to see too:-)

On the Mend/Puppy Fever

How is it Monday again already? I spent the better part of last week nursing yet another child through bronchitis, hence my finally giving up on posting at the end of the week. Hearing about dosages of prednisone and albuterol and antibiotic is just really not all that interesting.

HOWEVER, I'm back (insert golf clap here)! The vampire/werewolf forbidden romance continues apace. Got a little behind in the plague breakout, but working on catching up. I'm still doing P90X, shockingly...I did a month of the Lean version of the program, but at the end of it I knew I could step it up, so have switched to Classic and restarted on Week 1. It has added an extra month onto this workout journey of 90 days, but it's cool. I was in such incredibly lousy shape I had to start with something a little easier. There is this...thing...called Plyometrics. It's an hour of "jump training", very aerobic, lots of hopping and jump squats and you name it. The demonstrators are dying by the end of it, so you know what a beast this thing is. Anyway, it's not in the Lean program, but is in the Classic, and it's one of the big reasons I'm glad I waited. I would NOT have made it through that just starting out. Now I can, just soaked in sweat. I am, at present, in probably the best shape of my life. Ever. And I have a ways to go yet! Last night was Yoga. I'm getting quite bendy:-)

On to the Puppy Fever portion of the program. We found out this weekend which puppy will be ours! We had been down to two, and the breeder feels this one is much more what we're looking for, very friendly and interactive. She's certainly bright-eyed! I'm probably in for it.

We aren't sure what to name her.  Again.  It was going to be Stella, but I'm not really sure she looks like a Stella.  Because of her distinctive off-side blaze, we're actually thinking of just naming her...Blaze.  A friend told me that sounds like the name of a sassy saloon girl:-)  We'll figure it out.  I'm just really glad we know who's coming home!  She's a cutie...I liked the look of her from very early on.  We go get her a week from Friday.  I think I need to catch up on my sleep before then!

Have a great Monday!

Stuff I Do in My Nonexistent Spare Time

Some of you know that I like to park it and play a video game for stress relief sometimes.  I had a blast playing Dragon Age: Origins and all of the DLC, plus the Awakening expansion, while I was writing Renegade Angel and then Dark Awakening...slaying darkspawn was pretty cathartic:-)  Books, movies, video games...I'm a sucker for a good story, wherever I find it.  And I'm a fantasylovin' girl from way back.  So you won't be surprised that I was all over the demo for Dragon Age II when it was released yesterday (just the demo...the game isn't out until March 8th..and yes I have pre-ordered the signature edition and am ridiculously psyched).  It was just a taste of the new game, but they've changed some things, and I was anxious to have at it.  I plan to go through the demo as each of the three classes (warrior, mage, rogue), but last night I stuck to rogue, that being my favorite.  Why?  Well...leather armor and being able to pick locks and sneak up and backstab people has its appeal.  Anyway, here's one of the more recent trailers for the game.  Yes, this is what I enjoy wasting time on.  I wish there was a trailer showing the female version of the main character, Hawke, because that's who I play with (she's very pretty), but you'll get the idea anyway.


In other news, I am still writing along...that's not very exciting to talk about, but it seems to be going well.  Writing a more empowered and sarcastic heroine, which is always fun for me.  I mean, you never want to cross over into Pure Bitch, but sarcastic is always fun.  You know I love my snark:-)

Have a good one!