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Movies

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Th dh and I watched Paranormal Activity last night. I have to say, that house was gorgeous. Parts were pretty darn scary, but I HATED Micah, the boyfriend. Wanted to slam his head against the wall.
I actually enjoyed Angels and Demons more, though I wasn't a fan of The DaVinci Code. I really liked the insight to the pope elections and I liked the mystery much more, and I liked the heroine better.
We saw District 9, which the guys liked more than I did. And...

Goals--You Know I Like Them

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HAPPY NEW YEAR! I hope everyone had a safe celebration and has a wonderful, healthy, happy 2010.
I'm actually going to set fewer goals this year, and one is a goal to take a month off from writing. I thought it might be January. We'll see. I'm expecting edits any day now, and I have 40 pages to revise on the bodyguard book.
But you see goal blogs everywhere this time of year and I'd much rather talk about my contest.
I'm very excited about the contest I'm...

Movies I'm Looking Forward to in 2010

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Okay, before we get started here, I'm very excited about the contest I'm holding to kick off the release of my new book next Tuesday, BREAKING DAYLIGHT. The contest will run from January 1 to January 5. I'll pick the winners every evening at 8 PM CST, and the grand prize winner at 8 PM CST on Tuesday.

Here's the deal. I have a fan page at Facebook now, and every day I'll draw from people who join my fan page. That person will get a pair of earrings from

Books I'm Looking Forward to in 2010

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Books I'm Looking Forward To in 2010

Joss Ware's new series

The new Supernatural novels

Family Man by Trish Milburn--I read this in manuscript form and it is WONDERFUL.

Winter Longing by Tricia Mills---first Trish book I've not read before it was published

Elisabeth Naughton's new series, starting with MARKED in May

Disaster Status by Candace Calvert

Any you're looking forward to? Besides, you know, these two?

Best Books of 2009

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No way was I going to do best books of the decade...I couldn't whittle that list down!
So here are the best books I read in 2009. (NOTE: That I READ. I have a TON of books that I bought that I've not read yet. I didn't even read 50 books this year, how sad is that? Bought more, though. WAY more.) AND I bought 4 more yesterday--Joss Ware's first, Paula Graves's latest, Meg Benjamin's third and Courtney Milan's first.

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Forest of Hands and Teeth by Carrie Ryan

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Best Movies of 2009 and the Decade and How Should I Spend my Christmas Money?

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I saw Terminator Salvation last night and loved it. When it was over, I asked the dh whose story it was. He said he didn't think it was one character's story, but clearly Marcus had a bigger story arc than John Connor. I fully expected it to be John's story, but this secondary character swept him off the stage. Let that be a lesson to writers everywhere--don't make your secondary character's story more interesting than your hero's!

Top Ten Movies of the Decade

Best TV of 2009 and the DECADE

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I was so surprised to get my Entertainment Weekly talking about best of the Decade. I can't believe it's over! Seems like yesterday we were moving into our house, talking about Y2K. So much has happened! But I had to adjust my annual top ten lists to account for the decade as well as best of the year.

Top Ten TV Shows of the Decade

10) Alias

9) Grey's Anatomy

8) The Office

7) Veronica Mars

6) Gilmore Girls

5) Firefly

4) Lost

3) Friday...

Anti-Social

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I hope everyone had a merry Christmas! My favorite gift, other than the Supernatural hoodie I asked for, was this T-shirt, from the dh:


















I love it when people get me ;)
I'm figuring out what I want to spend my money on. I can get a Supernatural calendar, but it's $25 PLUS $8 shipping! And I'm looking at charms for my charm bracelet. I need one for the road trip story, but the closest model I can find for the car is a 1964 Chevy, instead of a 1970 Chevelle. And...

MERRY CHRISTMAS!!!

I hope everyone has a SAFE and HAPPY holiday! We'll catch up tomorrow ;)

Roller Coaster

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Today is the last day for the Samhellion contest AND for the Nobody Writes It Better contest.
I'm thinking of running to the grocery store to get the ingredients to make this. Am I nuts? A front blew in last night and it's rather chilly. Another is coming in later, the same one that has the midwest socked in.
We went to see Avatar yesterday afternoon. We got to the theater at 4:45 for what I thought was the 5:30 show, but it turned out they had a 4:50 show...