I will be announcing my fundraising efforts on my group within the next day or so, because my company will match my donations dollar for dollar, I will be collecting funds to go to charity. As a special thanks those who donate at least five buck will get a free download, I have thirty authors who have agreed to donate their books, even a couple of print authors who will give me signed copies of their books. I’m pretty excited about this. If you’re interested in the details, check out my website or visit my yahoo group for details. Every little bit helps.

I’ve read a lot of blogs and articles about what is going on in the Big Easy and Mississippi and there’s a lot of finger pointing going on. There will be plenty of time to play the blame game later because there’s a lot of blame to go around from the lowest municipal officials to the highest office in the country. I’m sure in the months to come some people will step down, one person will be made the sacrificial lamb so others can come out smelling like roses. Well I only have one thing to say. STOP IT.
What we need to do more than anything right now is pull together as Americans and do what ever we can to help the victims of this awful tradgedy by donating, money, services, goods, or just your time. Every little bit counts. The US is always helping other countries, lets pulls together and help ourselves for once.

I think I’m going to be like one of those homeless people on the street who holds up the sign saying “Will Work For Food” but instead, I will have an Ass for Gas sign. Sheesh. Short of selling my kidney, what’s a girl to do without going broke just to get from point a to point b. Really, gas prices are ridiculous, then I hear on the radio that gas will leap 20 cents by the end of the week because of Hurricane Katrina. Damn you Katrina. I’m sure this will probably get me in trouble with the environmentalist but if drilling in Alaska will get me cheaper gas, then move over caribou!! I don’t pretend to know how this all works, but hey, can’t a girl fill up her tank without digging in her coin jar. Yea, I know, it’s pretty pathetic. Some say it’s the war, some say it’s because the US depend on it so much, others say it’s because they won’t tap into the reserve. Well whatever it takes to not make me puke when ever I go to the tank, I’m all for it.

Howdy all. I’ve been a bad bad girl. I should be posting to my blog with more regularity, but I have been so lazy. Since I last posted, I’ve been on vacation. Gone to a family reunion that wasn’t really and family reunion and done took two big steps towards securing my future. What you ask? I’m not telling!!! :-)~ Only because I’m extremely superstitious and don’t want to jinx myself, but when I hear some news, I hope it was be the good kind. Anyway, I started a new free story on my Yahoo group called The Reunion which takes off where The In Crowd left off. To anyone who had read the first installment of the In Crowd on this site, I swear it’s a totally free story. The rest of it is posted in the file section in my yahoo group. It follows the life and times of April Johnson, my big beautiful heroine with a heart of gold.
For all of you waiting for the next installment of Blood Brothers, fret not. There is a light at the end of the tunnel. It’s being released next month!! Yea!! I still can’t believe the overwhelming response I’ve recieved for this book. I hope everyone enjoys Niccolo’s story as much. He’s a complicated character, but there will be more GianMarco and Maggie and ooh la la, more Dante. Yea!! For some reason I get lots of inquiries on him. Right now I’m working on Romeo’s story. He’s something else I must say. I’m also working on Descendants 3 which I hope to have finished within the next couple weeks. Also working on a contemp and an action suspense story. Can you tell how busy I’ve been keeping myself? Oh yea, I have one more project which is going to be a collab effort with a couple author friends of mine. Lately my left hand has been killing me. I’m pretty positive it’s the same thing that happened to my right hand three years okay when I had surgery on it. No, it’s not carpel tunnel. I wish. Going to get some more tests done to prove to the doctor it is what I told him it is. Hey I don’t need a fancy degree to know the kind of pain I’m feeling is the same kind I felt before. *sigh* Doctors. I guess why they say they “practice medicine” I fear that more surgery is to come but I’ve done it before.
Okay, I think that just about updates what’s been going on with me. Peace out!!

Okay, I’m being totally neurotic, but I’m going to pursue something I never tried before. Maybe it will work out, maybe it won’t. I’m not saying what I’m going to do because knowing my dumb luck it’s not going to happen. But, keep me in your prayers anyway.
Now on for the news, more bombings in London? Sources say they could be copy cats, but what kind of sick f**Ks would want to copycat something so horrific. Really? It’s just not funny.
My heart goes out to England. I can imagine how everyone over there is still trying to make sense of what happened two weeks ago and then just to have idiots make a mockery of it.
More sad news. Scottie from Star Trek died. God Rest his soul. He’ll be missed.
Well, I’m nearly finished my next MS hopely it will be ready to turn in by next week before vacation. Yea! Vacation!!!!

Okay, my friend Di won’t talk to me until I post to my blog again. Well here it goes. A lot has happened since Gary died. I’ve been writing up a storm, I’m getting ready for a vacation. Yah!! First let me tell you what I’m currently working on. I’m working on the third installment for the Blood Brothers series. Also I’m working on my second comedy which has light BDSM. I’m not really a hard core type of gal. , a new series with three kick ass heroines, and a contemp which I would like to shop to a new publisher. I adore all the pubs that I currently have, but I never want to put my eggs into one basket. Besides, I plan on providing lots of stories to Loose-id, Changeling Press and LSB.

Now in the news. I haven’t ranted in so long let’s see what I missed. The runaway bride. All I can say is die bitch die. I hope you enjoy the money you looney toon because wherever you go people will alway point and stare. What’s up with her souless eyes. Crazy eyes I say.

The missing girl in Aruba. This is a tragedy and I hope answers are found soon. But don’t boycott Aruba. The people on that island depend on the money from tourism to thrive.

Shasta Groene: God Bless this little girl. What she must have gone through was horrible. I hope that castrate the bastard who killed her family. I hope they castrate him with a rusty name and then let and then fry his ass. What a sick f**k

Angelina adopts another baby. What a great humanitarian he is. I don’t care if people think she’s wierd. So what. Really rich people are usually eccentric. So what if she walked around with a vile of Billy Bob’s blood. I say her only real mistake was being with Billy Bob in the first place.

Tom Cruise. What can I say? I think he’s lost his mind. Katie if you’re reading this, please walk towards the light. Don’t choose the dark side.

Last but definitely not least. The bombing in London. My thoughts and prayers go out to all the victims and families of this senseless violence. God bless England.

Well, it’s been a while since I’ve ranted. I don’t think I’ve had the heart to rant since Gary died. Yes, Gary is dead. I miss the little bugger. I don’t know whether to get a new turtle or a new pet or what. We all get so attached to our pets it seems as though they were real people. No, Gary wasn’t active like a puppy or a cat, but I took care of him, petted him, made sure he got the things he needed, and he still dies. *sigh* perhaps it has bummed me out more than I imagined. Oh well, my writing is coming along rather well. I handed in my BB2 MS to my editor and and I can put that series aside for a while. Descendants 2 is coming out and I’m working on a story for a summer series with Changeling which I think will be pretty hot. Especially since I got to do a scene with Kate Douglas and Stephanie Burke. It should be a hoot. Well, I’m going to eat some ice cream. Peace out!!

Okay it’s been a few days since my last rant, but I haven’t been in a ranting mood. Now I have something to rant about, porn. Now I don’t see anything wrong with it, hell I watch it. I was actually purchasing some so I could get the dynamics right for a story I’m working on and I came across the wierdest porn I ever saw. Now, I’m pretty open minded and I try not to judge, but someone tell me what the attraction of farting on someone is? Yes, there is porn for farters. People actually fart on each other to get off. Is it me or is that plain wierd. Now, I can live with the bondages, the little people, the extremely obese, the gay, even the granny porn but come on, Farting? You have got to be kidding me. Are those porns made specifically for guys like R. Kelly? Yuck I don’t think anything can top that. Peace out!

Happy Mothers Day to all the mothers out there!!! I hope everyone had a great mothers day. I went surprised my mom with a visit today, we so rarely see each other. We went out to a restaurant and since I was the first person in our party of 10 there, I went to the hostess to give my name and the number of the party. She rudely said 10? and rolled her eyes and said “well it’s going to be a long wait”, I replyed not losing my cool (I’m aware of that), then she repeated that it would be a long wait and I said, fine we will wait, then she asked if all my party was here. I said they’re all on there way and will be here by the time our turn comes. Then she rudely says to me well we’re not going to call you until all your party is here. I said they will be no problem. As I was about to walk away, she started again. Now mind you, this girl couldn’t be more than 16 so I excused her age. there was a back and forth and during this I didn’t raise my voice, not even when the other two hostess nazis jumped in. Then my husband got involved (god bless his non confrontational soul)At which point one said, We’re just doing what our manager told us to do. At which point I asked to speak with her. I spoke to the manager, cleared up the incident and she was apologetic but what kind of bothered me was when she said, of they’re young girls, you know what they’re like which brings me to the point of my rant. Since when should age excuse poor manners. I know when I was a child I was taught to say please and thank you and I worked in food service when I was in my teens and never once would I have thought to speak to a customer that way. Should age excuse bad manners. Hell no. And had I been calm and rational, I just may have broke those bitches in two. Peace out.

I was ready to rant about American Idol tonight about how Simon has it out for Vonzell probably because she turned him down or something or how Scott Savol looks like Miss Piggy’s little brother or how Paula and Ryan Secreat get on my damn nerves, but no! I have something else to rant about tonight. I have kept my mouth shut about this runaway bride until I saw something on CNN. Should she pay for what she did? Hell yea that bitch should pay. In the beginning I was thinking well, maybe she was scared and didn’t realize all the trouble people would go through to look for her so she made up the lie on the spur of the moment. She bought her Greyhound ticket a week before. If that’s not premeditation I don’t know what is. They she had the audacity to blame her kidnapping on a hispanic man. Really, why do people blame minorities when they get into trouble? I thought that was pretty horrid. Her fiance is an idiot because he still wants her, but he doesn’t think she should pay back the city of Deluth “because she has to go through life wondering what people think about her” Well, news flash buddy she doesn’t have to wonder because we all think she’s a crazy bitch. The asshole of the year award goes to this woman, but she will have to share it with her future father in law who says and I quote “I don’t think it’s necessary for her to pay the money back because the police department got some valuable training” Jackass. Tell that to the people who had real emegencies while the police were looking for that bitch. There’ s a special place in hell for people like you. Peace out.