Now that *that's* over...

I finished The Iron Daughter tonight. It's like a weight has been lifted off my shoulders. I don't know why I didn't catch on to Meghan's immaturity during The Iron King. I guess I was too enthralled with finding out about the world Julie Kagawa created. But it was very apparent in Iron Daughter. That and when did Ash and Meghan fall in love with each other? When they were fighting for their lives against the Iron fey? I'm sorry to break it to y'all, but that's an adrenaline rush. Not. Love. *headdesk* And of course there was a "love triangle". *glare* I'm so sick of love triangles that I refuse to read anymore books that have them until such a time that I can stomach them again.

On to happier news, I received my giveaway win on Saturday! I now have so many books on my 'TBR' shelf that my Star Wars action figures have been momentarily relocated to the 'Books To Be Given Away/Resold' shelf. ...you read that right.

Last night I was talked into (i.e. guilted into) playing Halo Reach with the boyfriend. I've previously stated to him on several occasions that I do not like Xbox's controller and I certainly don't like playing Halo. I still stand by that statement after over an hour playing Halo Reach. Give me a Sony game station any day over Xbox. I'll even take a Nintendo game station.

That's all I've got. Until next time... mwah.

I won a book!

That's my big news of the week. I won a copy of Shades of Milk and Honey by Mary Kowel from Cecelia Bedelia, who is now my best friend even though she doesn't know it yet. (Not in a stalkerish way, I swear.) I just genuinely love people who give me free books. I enter about ten giveaways a week, it seems, but I never expect to win one.

Also, I finally finished The Angel Experiment by James Patterson. It's the first of the Maximum Ride series. It was.. alright. Definitely intended for children, though. I'm not going to read the rest of the books since I have far too many others waiting on my bookshelf.

I've been working on something new. A short story from the Mammoth Book of Paranormal Romance kind of inspired me to do something a little different. I don't know if it'll go anywhere, but when the mood strikes to write, I have to go with it. Otherwise I might lose it altogether and then the lynch mob of RG readers will find me. *grimace* (I'm working on it, I promise! ...don't hurt me.)

Until next time, stay classy blog readers.

Oh, Hai

I'd completely forgotten about this blog... man, this makes me wonder about other blogs I might have floating around the interwebs.

Anyway, update on life. I'm back on tweeter. I'm also reading quite a lot. You can find my ratings and the occasional review on my Goodreads profile. I'm also involved in a YA/Adult review site aptly named WhatchYAreadin?

So, that's me. What's going on with you?

Blog Rec

If you want to laugh over how the 'other side' lives, i.e., your husband, boyfriend or significant other, while you're indulging in all the Twilight stuff out there, definitely check out this blog.

Twilight Widowers Anonymous

It's hilarious! And I pimped it out on the podcast, which should have a new episode up sometime tonight.

It's Funny

I love getting the emails or PMs asking me when I'm going to update because it's funny. I feel like I'm writing all the time. True, it may not be what they're following at the moment, but I do write a lot.

A lot, a lot.

The boyfriend sat me down the other day as a sort of intervention because he felt I was spending too much time on the computer.

I didn't know how to answer him because to me, it seems like I'm always trying to catch up. Between the podcast, writing two multi-chaptered fics, the online community stuff, and keeping in touch with the friends I've made online, I AM online most of the day. Plus I listen to tons of music and watch whatever movies or television shows I've downloaded inbetween the times I'm not online. So I see where he's coming from. From his viewpoint, I'm just online. From mine, I'm clearly doing different things and never really getting anything done.

Eh.

I don't know what to cut down on, though. I thought about it all day yesterday. I love writing. Now that I've started, I find it hard to stop. Plot ideas rattle around in my head all day long. Lines I want Edward or Bella to say pop up at random times and I'll find myself hunting for a piece of paper in my car while driving so I can scribble it down before I forget it. I love doing the podcast. I love talking to Caitlin, Danielle, and Claire about this thing that has become such a big part of my life. And I love talking to/stalking the women I've met online.

But I am going to cut down... around him. That might mean I'll have to skip a podcast episode recording here or there, or be a little later on my updating, but so be it. Because I love John (that's the boyfriend, btw) and I'll push aside what makes me happy a little bit to make him happier.

It's all about compromise, right? Finding that balance. (Hah! I knew I could use it at least once in this post.) -serious time again- So if that upsets some people or makes them go into a frenzy... whatev. He's more important to me.

God, when did I get so freakin' sappy?

I'm going to write something dirty now for a friend's birthday... Later.

April?? WTH?

When did April sneak up and kick me in the ass? Not cool, April. Our friendship is over. No more enjoying your showers or looking for Easter eggs for us. We're done. You're supposed to at least let your 'friends' know when you're coming, not just show up and crash the party. Did you lose my cell number or something?

Besides my anger at April, life is... eh. Work, boyfriend, reading, podcast, occasionally writing, trying to find a balance between all that and keeping up with my friends - the list can go, but I'll stop there.

I finished Chapter 16 of 'I've Been Looking For You'. Now I'm just waiting for vjgm to validate it so I can post it over on FFn. Also working on Chapter 12 of 'Resident Geek' and outlining my Twilight Gift Exchange story so I can start working on that in between my other stuff. (Dear lord, why do I agree to more?)

We recorded episode 12 for the podcast this past Saturday, and it should be out soon. I'm really excited about this week's subject cuz we're FINALLY talking about slash! (One of my favorite subjects. Hah!)

The boyfriend's camping, starting tonight. I'm going to have three blissful nights to myself! (You'd understand that excitement if you lived with someone and you value your personal space every once in a while.) I'm hoping those nights will be spent writing and catching up with everything I need to do.

Here's to hoping!

Thank God That's Over

I finally finished writing Chapter 11 for Resident Geek. It's being looked over right now by my DnD expert, Dollegirl, and my beta, Jen, so hopefully it'll get back to me sometime tonight or tomorrow and then I'll post it for public viewing.

Personally, I'm just glad it's written. I learned so much about DnD and now I have no outlet to use it. It's kind of frustrating. I want to play just so I can use my newfound knowledge, but I certainly don't need another thing to become addicted to.

Rock, hard place.

I'm going to be taking a break for the rest of the week after I post from writing. I need a break. Besides, I've got awesome Saturday plans with my parents and boyfriend, and then the podcast to record on Sunday. And I might be the one editing it together if Caitlin is too busy with school and the play she's working on. Eek.

Later.

RG Love

So... my big news is that Resident Geek was nominated for the 'Edward you wish was your boyfriend' Bellie of the new Twilight awards, the Eddies and Bellies.

You can check out my reaction to the news in the 8th episode of the Temptation podcast. I still grin uncontrollably every time I think about it.

Let's see. What else...

I'm slowly writing the next RG chapter. But I accidentally stumbled into a new series of books from Laurell K. Hamilton, which I already read one of her series, the Anita Blake one. I started the Meredith Gentry series and just finished book 7 this morning. This is the main reason why you haven't heard from me in a while. A book or so a day takes up a lot of time. ...not that this is news to me since I've read a lot since the day I figured out what the alphabet was.

That's about all I got.