Category Archives: Life in Motion

Edits and Idol and Dancing and Auction

Writing & Publishing, Life in Motion

Revisions and Copyedits for The Ties That Bind are finished, so another project off my desk. :cheer:

Back to Riding On Instinct. Smokin hot bikers…yummm… :sasmokin:

Don’t forget you can still bid on hundreds of items in Brenda Novak’s Auction for Diabetes Research, including mine, autographed copies of my Demon Hunter books plus an ARC of THE DARKEST TOUCH. Only 10 days left so get your bids in on the items of your choice! :boobie:

American Idol final performances were last night. It was…interesting, to say the least. I’m a huge David Cook fan. I thought he did well. Was it his best performance of the season? I don’t think so. Should he win? Yes, I think so. Though I’m sure there will be thousands who disagree, because David Archuleta was really good last night. I just think he lacks maturity and a genre right now. But I’m probably wrong, David A will win, and David C will make a smokin hot CD that will sell tons. Still, fun to watch and I’ll be glued to the finale tonight anyway.

I couldn’t help but think the judges were trying to manipulate the outcome with their comments last night. Maybe the producers already know how they want this to play out. David A with the win, David C already with the lock on making a marketable CD. But who knows. Entertainment Weekly’s Michael Slezak had a great writeup about the whole thing. You can read about it here.

So who do you want to win?

Dancing With the Stars finale was last night, and Kristi Yamaguchi won it all. Finally, after what–3 or 4 Seasons–a woman finally takes the prize again. Now Jason was one stellar hottie and a damn fine dancer, but Kristi was better and deserved to win. If she didn’t, I think they should have renamed the show Dancing With The (Sports) Stars. Fortunately, the show got it right and they won’t have to rename it now. Heh.

So…onto So You Think You Can Dance. Thankfully the networks keep me immersed in reality shows so I don’t go through withdrawals in the summer. :giggle:

This ‘n That

Life in Motion, General Stuff, Writing & Publishing

So the start of this week brought revisions from Berkley for THE TIES THAT BIND, my novella in the UNLACED anthology releasing in December. Nice to revisit Rick and Lisa’s story again. This one is a reunion romance with hawt sex. Fun stuff. The revisions are going very smoothly and I should finish them up today, which means it’ll be back to writing RIDING ON INSTINCT, Spence and Shadoe’s story, the third Wild Rider’s book for Berkley that will release next April. I’ve gotten behind so I need to pound out some word count on that book in the next month.

Our weather has climbed into the 90’s. Air conditioner has been turned on. Loving the heat again! :boobie: I planted white gladiolia bulbs in honor of my mother and they’re starting to poke through the ground, so I’m excited. We need to do a ton of yard work in the front yard (weeds! omg), so if the deluge of rain will just stay away, maybe we can get that started soon.

The Bachelorette premiered last night. Anyone catch that? There were some…interesting guys for DeAnna (who got royally screwed by Brad, so I’m glad she’s getting a chance to shine again). Is it just me, or were a bunch of the guys just…bleh? When Trista was the Bachelorette, there were a lot of really hot guys. Some of the guys last night were okay, but no one really hit my hot buttons. I guess it’s early and we’ll see how it goes. I’m sure some will grow on me (I really liked the chef. Cook for me and I’m yours :doglick: )

I got a peek at the cover for DARE TO LOVE yesterday, my July Samhain release. It’s awesome! As soon as I get the final cover I’ll put it up for y’all to ogle.

What’s on your agenda for this week?

There are honest people

Life in Motion

So yes, I’m starting to resurface from my busy week.

Biker Dude had a local conference this week, which meant me by his side for some hospitality suite events. The cool thing was the event meeting were at one of our local casino hotels (this event moves from district to district each year. This year it was in our town).

So anyway, Biker Dude and I took advantage of being at the casino, because we enjoy gambling. We don’t do it to excess, though. We take the amount of money we’re willing to ‘lose’ (because dude…we always end up losing it. heh) and when it’s gone, we’re done.

Anyway, last night I was working the slot machines (actually, they were working me, but that’s another story). I got up and moved to another one a few steps away. When I went to grab more money about 20 minutes later, I dipped into my purse and my stomach dropped to my feet.

No wallet in my purse.

My first thought of course was OH SHIT. I had my purse in my lap when I went to grab cash out of it, and instead of dropping my wallet back into my purse, I must have dropped it onto my lap or onto the floor. (Feel free to call me a flaming dumbass. I did. Several times :dumbass: )

In a blind panic, I jump from my seat and said in a loud voice that I’d lost my wallet.

A guy tapped me on the shoulder and asked me if I’d misplaced my wallet. I said I had.

He said he’d found it on the floor and given it to one of the floor employees who was filling up the machines. He pointed her out and I thanked him profusely and ran over to her. She gave me my wallet. I flipped it open. Everything was there. I had a good amount of cash in there, all my credit cards and my bank card.

Everything. Still. There.

The dude could have grabbed the cash and dropped the wallet. Hell, he could have grabbed the credit cards too. He took nothing.

I was actually stunned.

Just when you think the human race has gone to shit, you find there are nice, honest people out there.

So to the guy at Cherokee Casino last night who found my wallet and turned it in, you just earned some heaven points. :heart: