The Princess is here
Wednesday, July 29, 2009
Farewell Scotland!
9:45 AM | 
Posted by
Victoria
I didn't get the oppertunity to keep this and the Scotland blog updated while over there due to the lack of wifi at most of the hotels. Sorry. However, I will share some of my favorite photos with you here. The trip was 2 weeks starting and ending in Glasgow. We went up the West coasts and down the East coast to make it back. Highlights of the trip for me were the Isle of Staffa which had the Puffin colony on the top (yes I hiked my ass to the top to see the Puffins), the castles, Loch Ness, and Pete in Edinburgh. Only met him briefly, but I was smitten by his adorableness. And he wasn't even blonde...LOL
Here are some pics. When the big giant album is posted, I will share the link. I took over 1000 photos.
Tuesday, July 14, 2009
Scotland Awaits!
3:01 AM |
Posted by
Victoria
So it is midnight here. It is officially Tuesday. In 9 hours I will be boarding a plane in Jacksonville and flying to Newark, NJ to catch a connecting flight to Glasgow. This is my first venture out of the country and I am both nervous and excited. I am elated while scared. What did I get myself into? What on earth possessed me to watch LOST with my roomie yesterday?!!! My anxiety level is high, but seeing how I will probably never get to leave the country again...I plan on enjoying myself, damn it. Stay tuned here for info and pictures as well as the official Scotland Blog being updated by all of us on this trip:
Wednesday, July 8, 2009
Filming the Fever Trailer for the contest
2:13 PM |
Posted by
Victoria
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.
I am pretty sure I am not going to win, because:
a) I am having to rush due to the fact that I am leaving for Scotland next week while everyone else has a full month to prepare and film.
b) I can't hold a handheld steady so my shots are shaky.
c) It rained so our locations got altered to avoid ruining the wigs.
d) I had a limited time to get people to play the roles so didn't necessarily get the best people for the parts. V'lane is a good ole country boy with a big belt buckle and goofy facial expressions. Barrons is scrawny with black spray in hair dye. Yeah...and Mac is taller than he is with her boots on.
So yeah...to those who thought I was a sure thing to win, I hate to tell you but there is no way that I will. I am pretty much doing this for the fun of it. I don't plan to win.
Here is rather comedic scene of Mac nulling V'lane. Sorry for the quality. the camera was pretty clear, it is the blog streaming that decreases it.
(notice the goofy facial expression. grrrr)
Friday, July 3, 2009
12:48 AM |
Posted by
Victoria
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...
Sunday, June 28, 2009
Roommates and their FREAKING family members! UGH!!!!
12:24 AM |
Posted by
Victoria
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*
Sunday, June 21, 2009
Weekend in Atlanta
4:30 PM |
Posted by
Victoria
This weekend was the Bloodrush event in Atlanta, GA where there was lunch and a booksigning with Karen Marie Moning and then a trip to a recording studio where Karen's husband, Neil Dover, was recording songs for the Fever series soundtrack: Bloodrush. My roommate was originally going to go with me, but had other things come up. Instead, her sister, Christen, went with me.
We drove to Macon on Thursday and stayed the night with Catie and Christen's grandmother. The woman...omg. She told me not to use her pillows because she didn't want to wash sheets AND pillow cases. Then she made Christen and me sleep in the king sized bed in one of the guest rooms together because she didn't want to wash TWO sets of sheets. You think that was the extent of the weirdness? No. She wanted us to go through her tax reciepts from 2008 and record them into a notebook. I am not touching someone else's tax stuff. I just won't. If something goes missing or is wrong I am not going to be held responsible. (we didn't do it).
She also wanted us to keep all our bags in one corner to "not look like a band of gypsies." To dry off all the walls in the shower and the tub to make it look like we never used it.... yes. It was odd.
Anyway... so on Friday, Christen and I go to Downtown Atlanta for a day of sightseeing. We drove into Atlanta and parked in a parking garage for the Lenox Square Marta Station. We got on the Marta to go to the Hard Rock Cafe and got on the train going in the opposite direction. Got off at the next stop and got on the right train. Ate cheeseburgers, I bought a pretty t-shirt, and we were on our way to the aquarium. We read the map wrong and went from Hard Rock alllll the way past Underground Atlanta and had to turn around and find our way back.
We finally make it to the aquarium, and the penguins are not on display except through the special tour which they tell us is extra because they are making room for a dolphin exhibit and the penguins are in the area they are renovating. grrrr.
I got some great pics of the fish and sharks though.
After the aquarium we walked back the the Peachtree Station right by the Hard Rock Cafe and rode the Marta back to Lenox and went to the mall. Everything in there was expensive. Nice mall though.... we couldn't find the way we got in to leave and walked the whole mall (it is 4 levels high).
When we found the car again we spent 45 minutes trying to find our way out of Atlanta and failing horribly. We backtracked our directions in, but couldn't find a way to 75 South. Only North. We ended up taking north and turning around at the next exit after I completely broke down in tears at a red light.
*sigh*
Saturday we didn't have any difficulties following our mapquested directions to the Atlanta Airport Marriott. We drove from there to Joe's for lunch. The appetizer was really good; however, I ended up walking around doing the trivia quiz with all the tables and didn't even taste my meal. Not a single bite of it. oh well.
Jenn got my books signed for my friend and my mom, and we went to the studio for the recording. Whoever was following me to the studio got stuck doing the U-turn I did because the sign wasn't visiable (sorry. I am NOT the person you ever want to follow unless I KNOW where I am going). There were soooo many people in that recording studio that it got hot quickly. We sang the final chorus of a song on the Bloodrush CD, and took lots of pictures. I FINALLY got a chance to say hi to Karen ( I didn't get a chance at all at the resturant ). Sooo Karen said one of these days we'll get the chance to talk for more than a minute LOL.
Didn't get any tidbits myselllllf, but I heard from the others that the Bloodrush booklet has alternate POVs that couldn't be used and she hinted at one being V'lane's (squee!)
Monday, December 8, 2008
9:40 AM |
Posted by
Victoria
So....I lost my log in information and just got around to requesting a new password. OOPS!! Today is my last day of college classes. I have to complete 2 essays, a take home exam, and one in class exam and I am done! YAY!
I bet you are wondering about the wolf pic.
Yeah. That is Milo. Hailey Edwards named a character in her upcoming Legacy of Blood series after me, and she is mated to a werewolf named Milo. :) Hailey is awesome!
Alrighty, I must go get this class thing taken care of. ;)
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