Ah, yeah, baby! My favorite time of the decade. Olympics time. The opening games are today for the Winter Olympics in Vancouver. This is the one time I watch more TV than the Mad Madam M, for which she gets obscene amounts of delight and joy. Summer Olympics, Winter Olympics, I don’t care. I’ll sit through hours of badminton and curling, just because it’s the Olympics. I’m glued to the television for two whole weeks, and I constantly check the medal counts online from work.
Check out the widget below…it’ll track the medals. I’m putting a little one in the sidebar of my blog just so it’s easy to look up. Woot!
So, over Christmas, the Mad Madam M said she wanted a desktop image of Treasured, which is her favorite cover of mine, and a book she help me come up with the concept for.
I emailed the super fabulous cover artist, Anne Cain, who I love like a fat kid loves cake, and said I’d like to commission her to make this present for M. Then I thought, why should just M and I enjoy the awesomeness of Anne’s work? So, she made me a couple of different sizes, and I’ve added these to my Extras page.
Here they are! Downloadable desktop images for Treasured. I want to hug them and squeeze them, pet them and call them George. Soooo preeeeetty!
I don’t know if I’ve mentioned this before, but I’m found a new love (all thanks to the Mad Madam M–and no, I don’t mean I’ve found a new heterosexual life-partner) in the form of No Pudge brownies.
There’s different flavors, but I’m all about the original fudge brownies. And they’re awesome. And they’re fat free. But they taste good. Like, really good.
If you’re on Weight Watchers like me, that’s a 2-point brownie. That actually tastes good. I am in love. I’ve fallen at last, my friends. Do I care that it’s with a food product? No, not really.
I’m back at work today after the holidays with family and friends. I also had a yucky cold the last week or so, which is just super unfair during a vacation.
I wrote like crazy, and can see the glimmering light at the end of the tunnel for this book, which means you may get fewer blogs between now and my deadline on the 15th. Sorry!
I also started coming up a list of conferences I’ll be attending and trips I’ll be taking this year and I’m already exhausted! I have the Popular Culture Conference with my fellow romance scholars in late March, a library conference the next week in early April, RT in late April, a vacation up to M’s new digs in May, RWA in July, and I hope another trip in July or August to visit the family in Texas.
I got nothing for ya, peoples. Seriously. I’m writing like mad to get my next book in on time (hope y’all like it!), planning another Romance Divas workshop for January (you must come hang out!), and getting ready for the holidays (you all know this pain).
So, I can only show you the one entertaining thing I’ve seen lately. M’s sent me some movie trailers that look interesting.
First, M and I are going to this the day after Christmas. For sure.
Then, we thought this might be fun. We both liked Gladiator, so we know this director has made something with Russell Crowe we liked before. Hey, why not?
So, the first big snow hit the Mad Madam M and her puppy Riley up in yonder Idaho, and that meant M had to dig her way out of her apartment in the morning with a rice paddle because it was the only thing she had remotely resembling a shovel. For those who don’t know (as I didn’t and had to ask her), this is a rice paddle.
Once free of their impromptu igloo, M took Riley for her daily morning stroll to take care of business. And here we have five minutes of Riley’s first experience frolicking in the snow. She liked it more than M did, but hey, someone has to like snow, right? Apparently, Riley also liked munching on the snow. Good water source?? Who knows, she’s a puppy! A cute puppy, but still a puppy.
The Mad Madam M has adopted a cute little puppy. And I helped, even from waaaaaay over in this other time zone. I found the ad for little Riley online and said, “M, this is the dog for you.”
M goes to visit, and poof! I get a call, “Crys, I have a dog.”
Yes! Today is the day! The day Supernatural season 5 premiers. The Brothers Winchester are back…and the Apocalypse has come! Lucifer has risen. And it’s the boys’ fault! Plus, they made an angel fall. A hot angel!
I’m not excited about this at all.
Neither is the Mad Madam M.
We haven’t been emailing back and forth about it all day at all. At. All. We’ve been very studiously working as the librarian and archivist we are, respectively. Uh huh. We are good little workerers.
To share the love (which starts at 9pm tonight on the CW…check your local listings for more details), here’s the awesome promo video. Weeeee!
