Excerpt?

Soon, very soon, I hope to have an approved excerpt to post for Submissive.
Still going through the editting process I'm afraid...

I Sat Outside This Morning And Enjoyed The Sunrise

I find it rather remarkable that 30 years ago, when I was relatively young, the evening newscasters would go nuts if it hit 100F degrees during our Ohio summers...

This year we hit our first hundred degree mark in May (or was it April?) regardless that I don't have the exact date...it was early...pre-summer; then, summer hit with a hard-on and we haven't had much relief. Days of near hundred and hundred degrees one after another until I stopped noticing that it was so damn hot that I wasn't doing the things I normally do.

Then I started watching my granddaughters...Last Monday, I tried taking them to the arboretum to see turtles...Tuesday, we tried hiking in the woods...Wednesday, we went to a farm to feed baby goats...and each morning we were forced back indoors by noon because of the heat. That's when I realized that I haven't been doing the things I normally do...like going out first thing in the morning to enjoy the sunrise with a cup of hot tea...it just isn't as enjoyable when the humidity is 90+ and the temperature is right there too...

I realized then that the newscasters have been fairly subdued...like the heat wave isn't really a big deal...

Then I started wondering just who is controlling every thought and word that comes out of today's media sources...but that started to seem a little too "Hitler-era" even for me...

So, maybe it's a hoax...and the warmer summer is just a wicked coincidence because our leaders are convinced that over 100,000 scientists are lying. That's it...Global Warming is the fictitious undertaking of highly-educated people bent on striking fear into the average citizen...because...?? Oh, fill in the blank...

But whatever you do, keep your head in the sand, because damn...it's too hot to worry about who is lying to who...

Except this morning, it wasn't too hot, and I did enjoy my back porch, and my brain started working again...and I decided...I'm really tired of being lied to by the current government offices...ABOUT EVERYTHING...

Hell, if George W was a democrat...he'd have been impeached by now whether it was too hot to discuss it or not.

I'm going to go back outside now, with my second cuppa tea...and maybe I'll just enjoy watching the butterflies dance and the grasshoppers hop about in our knee high naturalized backyard...because I stopped Sir Hotness from mowing (yeah, I'm still doing my part to save the planet) cause I don't want my backyard to look like the photo below... READ ARTICLE

Help Me Sleep At Night...

So I've been doing some investing homework to try to figure out how to help my kids...not being born into mega-wealth myself...and not having earned my first million yet...I hate to think my kids are going to be left penniless when I move on

So the question is how to make sure my kids live well as they develop families of their own... and I move on to Summerland (although not wanting to make that trip anytime soon since I just fell in love big time and am happier than I've ever been...) Still, I'm a planner...thus my inquiries...

One financial advisor said Roth IRA's are the way to go because you can contribute as much as your child earns in a year (up to $4000/yr) ... my problem with this plan is that my youngest has no earned income and at the age my older two are it would take 40 years for them to accumulate a million dollars even with a good rate ... I'm using an average of 7% per annum... that means they'd be mid-sixties ... not the best plan ...so the next idea?

I gotta sell more books...

I'm pretty certain my writing heros: Diana Gabaldon, Laurell K Hamilton, and Stephen King do not lay awake at night worrying about whether they are going to have money to actually leave to their children post declining health old age costs...

Sells Pitch follows...

You will LOVE Sacred Secrets and Sacred Revelations the first two books in my Chronicles of Surrender series available from Liquid Silver Books; You are also going to be delighted by the anthology that is coming soon from Loose-Id...watch for it!!! And yeah, Click the titles...buy the books...help me sleep at night:)

Yeah, Whatever ... It's Monday

Last night we stayed up half the night to drive out to the fossil beds (big deserted field in the middle of nowhere...really) to watch the Perseids.

If you haven't done so...look out your window (prime time here is midnight to about four a.m. and yes we stuck it out for Prime Time viewing...camp chairs, blankets, Doritos...random chatter...laughing our asses off at how stupid other peoples conversations sounded...because we couldn't see them...but somewhere in that deserted field there were other people (read GEEKS) doing the same thing we were doing...craning our necks skyward to tally up the number of meteors we could see...

It was amazing
Boy, did I pay dearly today

(yes, still watching grandbabies...did they give gma a break and take a nap? Not a chance in hell...Goddess, I love those babies though...even when I'm tired, exhausted, and a bit on the crabby side...their kisses and smiles are medicine for the soul)

I told Sir Hotness it would be better if I just stayed up around the clock instead of going for that three hours sleep...I should have

No, I had to fall asleep...three hours is lethal...two I can do, four I can do...but sleep three hours and OMG...

so tonight...sleep tight...I sure hope I do...

We All Have Our Escapes

...in need of serious escapism...
...Of course sex is a great escape...
but when you've sexed it up all night and half the morning and you're still trying to run free of your body...
...it's time for some serious Hollywood action...
Good thing Friday was a major new release marathon because I'm hitting as many as I can shove in to a day...starting here...

STARDUST Trailer if embedd doesn't play

Then I know I'm going on to this one...

SKINWALKER Trailer you know how this works...

Now this next one was a bit harder to find...but I honestly believe it will be worth the trek to get to the single theater it is playing at...nowhere near the field in the middle of nowhere we're calling home...

BECOMING JANE Trailer

From there...who knows...
Have a wonderful weekend

Saving the world one petition at a time...

Looking at the calendar I just realized that I've been a BIO Defender for almost two years...what does that mean? I'm actively fighting to save our enviroment. The biggest help any of us can do is to be actively AWARE of what is going on and then actively TAKE ACTION ... like signing petitions and making others aware... This site make that an easy thing to do...
This is one of my pet projects.

China Is At Least Becoming Entertaining...

I'm not a big fan of the Chinese government...they like to censor people, torture people, and kill their beurocrats for their mistakes...therre isn't a lot to like...

Following their politics is Amazing Intrigue though..

For example...They banned VOODOO DOLLS from being sold in stores and created a CRAZE...think Beanie Babies with a sinister twist...Seriously...

Heres a partial of the article that you can read HERE:

Seems that he dolls have become popular among trend-conscious teens. The doll, photo above, even includes a pin with which to attack a note with the intendeds name and another to stab away at the doll victim...THey come with loads of different themes...The Stalked Doll, the Love Charm Doll, and a Good Luck Doll...

Quoted from article, "Authorities at Beijing's Industrial and Commercial Management Department claim the dolls encourage superstition and "promote feudalism and feudal beliefs.".....The toys were a marvel of marketing: told that one doll could not be used to harm multiple enemies, the youths who bought them kept coming back for new ones as their hit lists grew in length. Moreover, some stores offered protective dolls that could ward off attacks from other would-be witch doctors.....the Beijing Industrial and Commercial Management Department confiscated all dolls still on sale in the city and issued strict warnings to toy vendors. "We have been told we will be fined and even imprisoned if we continue to sell voodoo dolls," says Huang Xiaoli, a saleswoman in a toy store in the Xidan Mingzhu Market. "The police are serious," she adds. "This is not like pirated DVDs, where the authorities say 'Do not sell these,' and then look the other way while people sell them. Policemen have visited me twice since the ban took effect in April."

The Chinese Authorities stand is that the dolls are dangerous; however, maybe they are afraid if enough people buy them, they might curse the government???
Whatever their fear, their ban has created a craze:)