Monthly Archive for May, 2007

Thursday Thirteen #29

I love you all! I’m tired and silly tonight so here are thirteen random jokes that people have sent me over the years (yes I keep them). I hope at least some of these will make you giggle. I tried to pick non-offensive ones, but you never know…

Thirteen Jokes!
1. Two friends, a blonde and a redhead, are walking down the street and pass a flower shop where the redhead saw her boyfriend buying flowers. Red sighed and said, “Oh, crap, my boyfriend is buying me flowers again.”The blonde looked quizzically at her and said, “You don’t like getting flowers from your boyfriend?”

The redhead said, “I love getting flowers, but he always has expectations after giving me flowers, and I just don’t feel like spending the next three days on my back with my legs in the air.”

The blonde says, “Don’t you have a vase?”

2. Jake was dying. His wife sat at the bedside. He looked up and said weakly: “I have something I must confess.”

“There’s no need to, ” his wife replied.

“No,” he insisted, “I want to die in peace. I slept with your sister, your best friend, her best friend, and your mother!”

“I know,” she replied, “now just rest and let the poison work.”

3. Why are hemorrhoids called hemorrhoids” instead of “assteroids”?

4. On a recent transatlantic flight, a plane passes through a severe storm. The turbulence is awful, and things go from bad to worse when one wing is struck by lightning. One lady in particular loses it. Screaming, she stands up in the front of the plane, “If I am to die, I want my last minutes on earth to be memorable! Is there ANYONE on this plane who can make me feel like a WOMAN?”

For a moment there is silence. Everyone has forgotten their own peril.They all stared, riveted, at the desperate woman in the front of the plane.Then an Italian man stands up in the rear of the plane.He is gorgeous: tall, well built, with dark brown hair and hazel eyes.He starts to walk slowly up the aisle, unbuttoning his shirt… one button at a time…No one moves…He removes his shirt… Muscles ripple across his chest…She gasps.

He whispers, “Iron this, and get me something to eat.”

5. After a few years of married life, a man finds that he is unable to perform. He goes to his doctor, and his doctor tries a few things but nothing works. Finally the doctor says to him, “This is all in your mind” and refers him to a psychiatrist.

After a few visits to the psychiatrist, the shrink confesses, “I am at a loss as to how you could possibly be cured.” And he refers the man to a Cajun witch doctor.

The witch doctor says, “I can cure this.” He throws some powder on a flame and there is a flash with billowing blue smoke. The witch doctor says, “This is powerful healing, but you can only use it once a year! All you have to do is say ‘123′ and it shall rise for as long as you wish!”

The guy then asks the witch doctor, “What happens when it’s over?”
The witch doctor says, “All you or your partner has to say is ‘1234′ and it will go down. But be warned: after that, it will not work again for another year!”

The guy goes home, and that night he is so excited and eager to surprise his wife.
He can’t wait to go to bed. They get in bed and he says, “123,” and just like magic, he gets an erection.

His wife turns over and says, “What did you say ‘123′ for?”

6. Can vegetarians eat animal crackers?

7. A visiting minister offered the opening prayer: “Dear Lord,” he began with arms extended and a rapturous look on his upturned face, “without you we are but dust…”

He would have continued, but at that silent, awkward moment when he paused for a breath, one very obedient young girl (who was listening carefully) leaned over to her mother and asked quite audibly in her shrill little voice “Mommy, WHAT is butt dust?”

Church was pretty much over at that point.

8. Don’t sweat the petty things and don’t pet the sweaty things.

9. A man and a woman, who had never met before and who were both married to other people, found themselves assigned to the same sleeping compartment on a transcontinental train. Though initially embarrassed and uneasy over sharing a compartment, they were both very tired and fell asleep quickly… he in the upper bunk and she in the lower.

At 1:00 AM, the man leaned over and gently woke the woman saying, “Ma’am, I’m sorry to bother you, but would you be willing to reach into the closet to get me a second blanket? I’m awfully cold. I have a better idea,” she replied. “Just for tonight, let’s pretend that we’re married”.

“Wow! That’s a great idea!” he exclaimed. “Good,” she replied. “Get your own f***** blanket.” After a moment of silence, he farted.

10. Why is it called tourist season if we can’t shoot at them?

11. As I was packing for my business trip, my 3-year old daughter was having a wonderful time playing on the bed. At one point, she said….”Daddy look at this,” and she stuck out two of her fingers. Trying to keep her entertained, I reached out and stuck her tiny fingers in my mouth and said, “Daddy”s gonna eat your fingers!” pretending to eat them before I rushed out of the room again. When I returned, my daughter was standing on the bed staring at her fingers with a devastated look on her face. I said, “What’s wrong, honey?”

She replied, “What happened to my booger?”

12. What was the best thing before sliced bread?

13. Best Email Out of Office Auto Reply: I will be out of the office for the next 2 weeks for medical reasons. When I return, please refer to me as ‘ Margaret ‘ instead of ‘Rick’.

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A Strange thing happened on the way to the coffee maker…

I started drinking coffee when I was twelve. Someone told me it would stunt my growth and I really wanted to stop growing. I was 5′9″ by then. Did didn’t work. I grew another two inches by fourteen. What did happen is that I suddenly grew to like the little jolt I’d get in the morning from my coffee.  Then I started drinking tea with my parents at supper time. There is something wonderful about sitting down and sharing a nice cup of tea with people you love.

As you know, my doctor told me I had to give up all caffeine because of my low blood pressure. I’m down to one cup of tea in the morning, and drink nothing but caffeine-free herbal tea. Last week sucked. I had complete stupid head for most of the week. Heck, Monday sucked because I had MAJOR stupid head and a headache.

But yesterday I must have passed over some sort of hump, because something happened to me that hasn’t happened in several months. I stayed up writing until midnight. Now, I’m normally a morning writer. Get me up at 5am and give me my laptop and I’m a happy camper. At night though, I can usually only make it to 10pm before I’m drained from my work day.

Not last night! I managed to get the second chapter done on a new WIP I’m working on, and did my first round of major edits on Perfect Match (thanks Red – Rick is fixed!!). I probably would have stayed up for another hour if my hands weren’t getting soar from all the typing I was doing.

Why do I think this is related to giving up caffeine? Before now, at night I always felt like I was crashing. I’ve always assumed it was from having a busy day job, but it seems to be more than that. I would pump myself so full of tea and coffee that my system would have to come down off the high sooner or later. Hence my crashing.

I hope I’m right. Because I feel so much more productive because of what I accomplished last night. So my question to you is, would you give up something you loved if you knew it would make you more productive as a writer?

(I’m still not giving up chocolate!)

Summertime

I love summer. I love everything about it. I even love it when I get too hot to sleep at night and end up laying there awake. The weather in my neck of the woods has been great for the most part the last few days. I’ve noticed my energy levels rise and I’ve been feeling better.

I always find I’m a more productive writer in the summer than the winter. I can take my laptop outside and write while my kids are playing. There must be something about the sun that get my creative synopsis firing full steam ahead. This is a good and bad thing.

Good because I get lots of writing done. :D
Bad because I can’t focus on my day job.  :(

I know the weather has a major impact on a  lot of people. Do you find you are more productive as a writer in the summer or winter? Or would you rather be outside playing?

Weekly goals

I’m not sure how I’ve managed to switch this from Sunday to Monday the last few weeks. Oh yes I do, I’ve been reading KICK ASS books. I forgot. :D I have my review below of Alien Overnight if you haven’t seen it already. I have a busy week ahead of me with lots on my plate for both the day job and the writing job. Renee and I got together last night to look over our story. Other than a few little blips we are going to smooth out this week, our story ROCKS!(This is me down to one cup a tea a day people. It’s all natural)I’ve also discovered I’m being haunted. Another reoccurring dream, one I haven’t had in a few months now, has come back with a vengeance. I don’t have time to write it down though. Too many other characters wanting to come out and play. But this story won’t leave me alone. Not even sure if it’s a novel or a novella. Knowing me, it will start short and then explode into 70k. I also need to work on my Duke’s story. I love it – I love him! But he may have to wait a week. Here’s what I have planned.

  • Finish edits on Halloween story and submit to editor (might be hard because Renee is going away. The submit part might be next week)
  • Finish revisions on Perfect Match and email editor
  • Work on chapter 2 of Duke’s Story

Okay everyone, what do you have on your plate this week?

Review – Alien Overnight

I used to have a reoccurring dream about a group of hunky aliens who came to Earth looking for women to mate with (explains a lot about me doesn’t it). So imagine my utter excitement when I read the blurb for Robin L. Rotham’s debut novel Alien Overnight. If you haven’t seen this here you go:

Commander Kellen is on Earth recruiting women for his planet’s sex-starved males. Not particularly excited by human anatomy, he seeks nothing more for himself than the occasional slaking of his needs with some anonymous female — which shouldn’t be a problem, since she’ll have to face the other way to accommodate his special anatomical needs.

Dr. Monica Teague is thrilled with her ten-year assignment caring for Garathan’s sexual recruits. Her quirky looks and childish excuse for a body guarantee she’ll never be expected to put out — which is kind of a bummer, now that she’s up to her armpits in horny alien beefcake.

But, when an overdose of alien pheromones makes Monica drunk off her ass, Kellen quickly claims the odd little doctor before another Garathani realizes what she is. The overdose sparks a violent chain reaction in her, and when Monica finally wakes, she’s got the body of a porn star — and two sexy alien mates who are determined to tame her.

If only she were as determined not to let them…

I picked up this hot little e-book with great excitement and couldn’t wait to get into it. Monica is a completely sympathetic character, yet funny as hell. I think most people can relate to her not feeling a part of the world around them at one point or another in their lives. Kellen is so hot and hunky I found myself wanting to submit to him too! I loved as the details of his former life slowly came out and how his past made him connect even more to Monica and her change. When he finally submits to her…wowza! Love him!

And I really felt for poor Shauss. I hope he gets his own story soon!

The sex between the three of them is smokin’ hot. The power play between domination and submission was handled really well, and at no point did I feel Monica lost any of her spark for wanting to give herself over to Kellen.

Alien Overnight is a hot, quick read and I highly recommend it to anyone who is looking for a steamy futuristic.

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Happy Saturday!

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I hope everyone is having a wonderful weekend so far. I know my friends in the US have a long weekend. I wish you all the best and please be safe. :D

What to do, what to do…

I feel like I’m in super hyper mode for some reason. I’ve made some really good progress writing wise this week. I finished my first draft of the Halloween story. Renee and I still need to go through and make sure everything fits nicely, but with only a little tweaking I think we’re mostly done. We’ll submit it to our editor either late next week or early the following.

My Duke’s story is coming along as well. I’ve gotten a good start on chapter 2, and will be diving hard into that this weekend. My goal is to get it mostly written. I’ve started this chapter off from his POV and I’m finding the switch interesting. Not wanting to give it too much of a historical feel, but trying not to use modern phrasing with him. He’s the opposite of my heroine. It’s a great challenge, I just hope I can pull it off.

I also want to start the novella I have planned for the Brava contest. I’ve been pulling my hair out because the idea I had, quite frankly, sucked eggs. But I think I came up with a better one last night when I was at the grocery store. People were looking at me funny so I must have been smiling.

So now I’m not really sure what I want to focus on this weekend. Tweaking of the halloween story, finsh chapter 2 of the duke, or start the novella. *sigh*

Of course all of my writing plans are being pushed off until I can get home tonight and finish Robin L. Rotham’s Alien Overnight. I sat down last night after some running around (I had to make 5-layer dip for a potluck at work today) and started the book. I really didn’t want to go to sleep, but I had no choice. I WANT TO KNOW WHAT HAPPENS?!?! ARRR!! So I’m not writing a word until I can read the rest of the book. :)

This weekend will be busy on the family front too. My oldest has an under eight soccer team try out. We’ll see how she makes out. Then on Sunday both the girls have an end of year event for Girl Guides. So lots of running around.

What are you folks up to?

Thursday Thirteen #28

So I thought I’d dig into my computer and pull out some pictures for you to look at for this week’s Thursday Thirteen. I hope you enjoy them!

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Here are some from when we filmed Test the Nation

1. Me, Vicky and Amy

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2. The Romance Writer’s Team

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3. The other teams

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Random Pictures

4. From my back deck

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5. My girls

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6. Virginia Beach

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Fun Pictures

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13. Me!

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Get the Thursday Thirteen code here!The purpose of the meme is to get to know everyone who participates a little bit better every Thursday. Visiting fellow Thirteeners is encouraged! If you participate, leave the link to your Thirteen in others comments. It’s easy, and fun! Be sure to update your Thirteen with links that are left for you, as well! I will link to everyone who participates and leaves a link to their 13 things. Trackbacks, pings, comment links accepted!

Tagged!

Hi there! I don’t know what happened to my site this morning. My host must have had a hiccup. But I’m back! 

Everyone knows I love a good meme. :D I ‘ve been tagged by Wylie to do this one. So here we go!

Answer all questions using only 1 word:

1. Where is your cell phone? hip
2. Relationship? forever
3. Your hair? flat
4. Work? hardly
5. Your sister? opposite
6. Your favorite thing? writing
7. Your dream last night? reoccuring
8. Your favorite drink? wine
9. Your dream car? mini
10. The room you’re in? loud
11. Your shoes? sensible
12. Your fears? heights
13. What do you want to be in 10 years? self-employed
14. Who did you hang out with this weekend? family
15. What you’re not good at? lying
16. Muffin? chocolate
17. One of your wish list items? jacuzzi
18. Where you grew up? east
19. The last thing you did? taught
20. What are you wearing? business
21. What aren’t you wearing? watch
22. Your pet? cat
23. Your computer? laptop
24. Your life? fast
25. Your mood? sleepy
26. Missing? mind
27. What are you thinking about right now? writing
28. Your car? minivan
29. Your kitchen? comfy
30. Your summer? wanted
31. Your favorite color? green
32. When is the last time you laughed? today
33. Last time you cried? month
34. School? booya!
35. Love? everyone
 

Copywrite!

OMG! I just saw this link to a YouTube video that was created giving a wonderful definition on what copywrite is. LOL!!!! It’s about 10 mintues long, but well worth the watch.

Share with your friends. :D