Nothing else matters ...

I seem to be losing days here. I mean... what? Where did today go? And yesterday? Well, yesterday was weird what with the torrential rain and all so that explains that. But today? No clue.

Btw, the rain yesterday... wtf? Isn't it the end of June? Where is this weather coming from? Seriously, it was raining so hard on my way home from work that I couldn't see the lines on the road. Which is not as fun as you might imagine. You know, what with the terrifying other cars all around you. Yeah.

Anyway. Books.
Book #257 - The Admiral (Fantasies of New Europa #2) by Morgan Karpiel - And even more sexy steampunk! I am loving this series. It's ridiculously fun.
Book #258 - Killing Perfection by Heather L. Anderson - I had a tough time with the beginning of this one but it really picked up at the end. Enough so that I want to know if book 2 ties up all the threads that were left lying around.
Teaser Tuesday (06/28/11) - Angels and mermaids. I've read both of these books at this point but I can't get into my Blogger dashboard to write up the reviews. Sadness.

Well, there you have it. I've done nothing over the last two days except watch the rain.
Later.

I mentioned yesterday that Blogger was down for most of the afternoon. Well, it ate 2 of the 3 posts I put up yesterday and 1 I posted the night before so I spent some time today getting all that back up. Fortunately, I post my reviews over at Goodreads as soon as I post them on my blog so I didn't lose anything. I just had to do some cutting and pasting to get things back the way they should be.

I know everyone was worried, but you totally don't have to be. It all worked out!

Cole has some friends over tonight. I've barricaded myself in my room and I'm considering gorging myself on mindless Zombie movies. Or possibly something of another mindless variety. I'm not difficult. I just want to zone out.

So. Yeah. That's all I have tonight. I'm off to be mindless and think up terrible things for the Zombies to do in my story.
Later.

I was all set to journal this morning and LJ decided to thumb its nose at me and refuse to load. *shakes fist* So, yeah. IT'S TOTALLY NOT MY FAULT THIS TIME. I mean, last night's non-journal is my fault but... oh, never mind.

I had a gloriously decadent day today doing nothing. I realized I was behind on writing up reviews on the books I read over the weekend (behind by FIVE books, thankyouverymuch) so I resigned myself to getting that done. And I did. Mostly. Four of them are done. I ran out of steam on that last one. I might do it later. I might wait until tomorrow. We'll see how the wind blows.

But other than review writing I was a lazy, lazy girl. I lounged. I spent some time listening to the birds chirping away outside. I thought about some of the changes I want to make to my epic werewolf masterpiece. I napped. I read. It was AWESOME!

So. Books. Lots and lots of books.
Book #132 - Skeleton Crew (The Underworld Cycle #2) by Cameron Haley - Fun, but I think it would have made more sense if I had read book 1 first.
Book #133 - Immortal (Clare Point #3) by V.K. Forrest - Another one that I came into mid-series. It makes it hard when you don't know some of the basics of the mythology.
Book #134 - The Abandoned (The Graveyard Queen #0.5) by Amanda Stevens - I really, really liked this one. It left me impatiently waiting to get into book 1 (which I'm reading now) and it was just the creepy sort of fun that I enjoy.
Book #135 - Handcuffs and Leather (Rawlings Men #1) by Kim Dare - My first time reading a non-paranormal m/m romance. I liked it far more than I thought I would. Because, you know, I'm not all that keen on non-paranormal contemporary books usually.

Pretty good for a totally lazy day, huh?
Later.

I am having a rip roaring headache. It's not enjoyable and it's totally cutting into my review writing time. Damn it, headache! That's enough out of you! I refuse to allow you to cut into my book time. *sticks out tongue*

So basically I've done next to nothing today.
I did post one little thing...
Book Blogger Hop, Follow Friday & Tagalong Friday - The BBH and FF sites don't have their weekly questions up yet, but I totally answered the one for TF. Yay, me.

My head really hurts.
That means it's time for me to go.
Later.

Rough night last night, guys. Roooough night. I got a few hours of sleep before I hauled my butt off of Lacey's couch and dragged myself home. Then I slept for 3 or so hours. I took a shower first, though, so I had a serious case of bedhead from falling asleep with my hair wet. Awesome.

Anyway, since I slept most of the day away, I really don't have anything fun and exciting to write about. I didn't even do much bookish stuff today. Well, actually I finished a book, but I haven't written the review yet, so... yeah. We'll just save that for tomorrow.

Book stuff:
In My Mailbox (01/16/11) - It was a slow week on the free download front. *is sad*

I'm done.
I'm thinking about getting something to eat, but that seems like a lot of work right now.
Later.

Umm ... just because it's 10 at night doesn't mean I won't find time to get a few hundred words in tonight. Right? Somebody hold me. I'm not doing so well on this writing resolution.

DO you guys want to know what sucked up a major portion of my time today? I'll tell you! I've been following Cassandra Clare's tweets (@cassieclare) as she updates us on the book trailer that's being shot this weekend for her upcoming book City of Fallen Angels. Well, hell. I want to borrow those pretty, pretty boys and pull them out every once in a while to pet. Oh, dear! I might have to write a story about that now. There's three of them. Rrrrrwwwr.

Okay. Bookish stuff. I have two more reviews to write if I want to be caught up but I don't think I'm going to get to both of them tonight. We'll see.
Book #14 - Stone Kissed by Keri Stevens - An interesting and fun little paranormal romance. Hey, it's not every day that you read about someone who can talk to statues. I mean, usually they don't respond, do they?
On My Wishlist (Week 17) - I have a bit of money left over from my Christmas gift cards and I can't decide what to buy.

I really have nothing more to say.
Later.

I had a remarkably unremarkable day. Sort of. The fam went over to my grandma's house for a big dinner, which was cool and everything. Good food and lots of it. My mom springs it on me on the way there that she wants to take a family picture for her Christmas cards today. Umm, what? Could you have warned me ahead of time so I could brush my hair or something? Arrgh!

Fortunately, she forgot all about it by the time we got to my grandma's house and none of us bothered to remind her. What? We're all getting together again in a few weeks, we can do it then.

I have two book reviews to write up and I'm feeling very unmotivated at the moment. How sad. But I did get my normal stuff done and posted.
30 days of books... Day 20 - I am a free book whore. I download so many free Kindle books it's ridiculous. Some of them I wonder if I'll ever get around to reading.
On My Wishlist (week 4) - Demons, Gargoyles, naughty fairy tales and dystopian futures - I try to cover all my bases.

I'm tired. I think I'll go read.
Later.

After several good writing days, today was a bit of a letdown. A couple hundred words. Boo. And it wasn't because I was having any problems with the writing, it's just that I'm so damn tired. I guess that'll teach me to only get 4 hours of sleep and no nap.

I have a book I finished last night (the reason I stayed up way too late) and one that's almost done and I'm too wiped out to do anything as strenuous as writing a review.

Perhaps I'll go watch something soothing and brainless. Like, Resident Evil or something. What? Zombies relax me.

I'm done in.
Later.

I am dead on my feet tired and I haven't even opened up Word today. That's no good. In fact, I haven't written more than a handful of words over the last 3 days. Between babysitting Ryan and making sure Cole's set up with all his school supplies, I feel like I'm grasping to find any time to do the fun things. Boo.

In fact, the only things of substance I did today were cleaning my room, vacuuming the upstairs and doing some grocery shopping. To be honest, that's not a whole lot of stuff. Especially when you consider that I was home all day and I didn't take a nap. For the record, I don't get the whole no napping thing so don't even ask about it.

I honestly have nothing else to talk about.
That's just sad.
Later.

This is going to be one of those nothing posts that people look at years later and go "Why? Why did you even bother firing up the computer if all you're going to write about is nothing?" The upside of this scenario is that people are looking at my journal years in the future and it's making them ask the tough questions. The downside? It's still a journal about nothing.

Yeah. Anyway. I finished the book that I've been belly-crawling over for the past few days.
Book #167 - Forsaken by Shadow by Kait Nolan - I ended up liking it, but I had a hard time connecting to the characters which is probably why it took me FOREVER to get through. Maybe it was the lack of explanation going in as to what paranormal/supernatural powers they had because once we hit the part where the other paranormals were teaming up with our mains and kicking ass, I found myself becoming much more interested. Cade has been living the last ten years of his life with a big fat hole in his memories. In fact, he remembers nothing prior to waking up in a hotel room with burned hands. For the past ten years, Embry believes the man she loved is dead and it isn't until her father is kidnapped and she has to mount a rescue mission that she finds out the truth. Finding him, giving him back his memories and convincing him to infiltrate a secure military base are just the beginning of her problems. Like I said, I ended up liking it, I just had a hard time plodding through the first half.

I'm putting myself on a strict "no new Kindle books that I have to pay for" regime for the next week. I seriously went a little out of control there for a while. Yeah. 100 books later. Oops. However, my one saving grave here is that Amazon does offer quite a few free reads that change often. Therefore I won't be totally hurting for new shapeshifting material. Awesome!

I'm off to do things that require very little brainpower. Or possibly to write, which requires large amounts of brainpower and a small, hand cranked generator to kick start my muse when she decides to lie down and take a nap.
Later.