So.... You would think the maniac who posted on Eric Etebari's facebook that he was a fan fave for the role of Jericho Barrons if Darkfever, which has been optioned by 20th Century Fox & based on the book by Karen Marie Moning, and have him contact Karen and let her interview him would have pretty darned good luck, right?

Wrong.

Oh, how fate laughs at me. Let me count the ways....

1. Last night the toilet overflowed. Luckily, it was just toliet water, or it could have been worse, but unfortunately the turny knob thing that can cut off the water should it begin to overflow is no longer attached to the toliet. So I had to stand in 2 inches of water trying to soak it up with towels and wring it out in the tub.

2. The US Post Office has misplaced FIVE packages that were coming to me from various parts of the country. FIVE.

3. Car has been acting up. The steering wheel has been all funky. Then the engine was smoking really bad since last Wednesday. Today the engine died on me in the bank parking lot. It let me pull out of my parking space only to promptly die. A few nice men helped me get the car into a parking space until I could get my friend to use their AAA to get me towed to a car repair shop. An old lady threw a fit that we were blocking her in even though we were pushing the car to get it out of her way. The irony? I just placed an order on a rental for the weekend to visit my dad. It is a camry. My piece of crap car that I killed is a camry. The fates are mocking me.

That is my rant for the evening. Let's hope that my luck turns at the start of the new year. LOL.

I hope to have more to post about soon, but as of now... I got nothin'

I am in love with a Selkie Prince. His name is Conn and I would love it if he'd come kidnap me and use me to make selkie babies with him. Yes. It would be nice. LOL!

Conn's story is book three in the Children of the Sea series by Virginia Kantra. There is also a prequel in the Shifter anthology. If you like paranormal romance, and hot shape shifter men.... check out the Children of the Sea!

Also, today was the series premiere of The Vampire Diaries on the CW. I read TVD back when I was in High School. LOVED all of L.J. Smith's books, The Forbidden Game and The Vampire Diaries being the reason I fell in love with reading. I read before finding those books, but I never truly loved to read until finding L.J. Smith. As for the series, with all the changes in character appearances and names and other things here or there I was concerned. However, I am happy with the show and will be watching religiously. Ian Somerhalder NAILED it as Damon Salvatore. I would let him bite me, that dirty dirty vampire! LOL!

I never posted it, but the podcast I was a guest on to talk about V'lane from KMM's Fever series was posted a couple weeks ago. You can listen to it on the Moning Clan Podcast page, or on iTunes. It is episode three.

So, Jordy and Karen (MacKalena, not KMM lol) have invited me to their Moning Maniac podcast. They wanna talk about the incredibly sexy beyond all compare V'lane. I am excited. Of, course they are gonna have to deal with lonnnnng lengthy answers. But I will so be into my element. I love the Fever series. Because it is all first person, the only way we are shown the other characters are through Mac's eyes. Therefore, to really know the characters you have to go back and really study them. V'lane's part in the first 2 books was rather small, but I went into detail on this on the forum. In Faefever, V'lane's personality starts to show more than it has. I am highly anticipating Dreamfever, well of course I am, but with his character....I am just over eager to see what he does.

And I get to talk, live on the air, about V'lane. Soooo in my element...despite sounding 12 years old when recorded. LOL!

So I was thinking about Halloween. No not in the books....well, maybe a little. I have this $250 replica of the Spear of Destiny. I guess it should go to use. Used it in the trailer contest (no results as of yet, sorry peeps) and I may have played with the spear a little last night, hence the photo. I guess I am a Sidhe-Seer for Halloween this year, yeah? LOL

We wait....for Dreamfever. For the Bloodrush CD. For the winner of the Trailer Contest to be announced.

And I never learned how to have patience. LOL

So My head is splitting open and my back is KILLING me because the only comfortable reading spot in my room is my bed and I can never get comfortable so i end up rollllling all around while reading. Well yesterday afternoon through the wee hours of the morning I was reading Bengal's Heart by Lora Leigh, and then early this morning I ran to the store and grabbed Sherrilyn Kenyon's Bad Moon Rising. I JUST finished reading that one. 2 days in bed with books. I hurt. but they were worth it! :) Between Cabal's licktastic stripes and Fang's yumminess (ok...I was on a major Dev high in that book, because face it. He was in a lot of it!) Yeah...good dreams tonight for me.


Now... Can I get a copy of Dreamfever before I die? Please!!! (I can do a triple book reading season. I don't need a working spine.)

I completed my entry to the contest. It isn't my best work, my hands are too shakey to hold a camera and I only had limited filming time due to my trip to Scotland. But I think it was a good effort. Special thanks to Catie who performed an original piece for the video, Tiffany (my sister) for being Mac, Matthew for putting on the blonde wig to play V'lane, Joe for being Malluce and letting us spray his hair with black hairspray to be Barrons. And Ingrid for wearing the Z-lo with class through an Edinburgh close for me. lol. The video is posted on youtube, linked at the bottom of this entry. Please watch it, comment if you want. Someone has gone through the contest entries and given them all bad ratings. None of the entries are over 2.5 stars which is kinda rude considering the time and effort everyone put into these things, regardless of if it is live action or artwork. Not many entries are posted and everyone did wonderful with what they had to work with. It irks me when something is rated low but no one who does so offers the constructive critcism as to WHY it deserves a low rating. *off my soap box*

Enjoy the trailer! and Looking forward to seeing the remaining entries pile up over the next couple of days.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-gFsk-bSlTQ

So...as some of you may know....I am filming a trailer based on the fever series for a chance to win a trip to Dublin.

(notice the goofy facial expression. grrrr)

Soooooo....I got props/wardrobe/and equipment ready for this fever trailer video thingy. I got Catie composing the music. And tomorrow I am tracking down the people I am sticking wigs on and squirting with fake blood. I think I have spent...around $500 on this thing and I only have one week to film everything before I leave the country. *sigh* is it wrong that I got a strange thrill out of wearing the V'lane wig? I know. I am a sick sick obsessed girl...

So I finally got my headboard out of storage, where I didn't want it to be in the first place. It is damaged in several spots because Stephen's brother's tempertantrums! grrr. He wanted 100 dollars for moving the headboard and he is sooooooo not getting it after the stunts he pulled. He dropped it in the grass...the wood is scratched and bent in places. hell. no.

anyway...See the vanity in the above picture? Where the historically inaccurate hat Mel and Tracey sent me is residing?

Well... Catie's grandmother is obsessively pestering Catie to tell me that I need to give her my vanity. She has offered to pay for it, give me a new bookshelf AND a comfy lounge chair in exchange, and other things. I am like... wtf. I don't have a dresser. I need my vanity!

WTH was she doing in my room anyway?!

*sigh*