Asrai Devin's Blog, page 5

Updated books page, retailer delays and lice … oh my

Checking my stats and how people found my page. Amusing that I still get a good chunk of hits from “canning and FSOG“.

Anyway, someone came to the site looking for the order of the Up in Flames series and I realized I only had one page set up for any books and the only book on the page was Second Chance Romance. I’d love my own website, but until I have time to set one up, which will happen about the same time Sunshine Boy goes to Kindergarten, it’s just not going to happen. I know I could hire someone, but I”m not that type of person. I’m a control freak. Tho there is someone I know who might be able to help me …. cue the earwig of Sunshine boy whining ”help me help me”. I think he only does it a dozen times a day.

So I changed the page to contain all the books with descriptions (no covers because I can barely keep my eyes open right now) in the order they meant to be read.

I was mucking around in Smashwords and I found the following regarding new books being “shipped to retailers:

Shipment Schedules (updated October 3, 2012 to note that shipments are subject to retailer-imposed backlogs or delays)

This means it could be ages before Love Can’t Wait and When Love Knocks are on B&N. (Someone emailed the other day). Let’s see what happens first, LCW and WLK up on Barnes and Noble or this next novel gets written.

And last but not least, we had to run to the city to have my son’s teeth to be looked at it. (We get to have dental surgery in December). Princess had to go elsewhere after school and then she brought home the gift that keeps giving: lice. I’ve never had this before. Ever. Didn’t really enjoy it. This morning only she had, by the evening everyone else had some. So we doused ourselves, combed our hair til I think I rethinned mine 30%. (I have insanely thick hair). I think I washed 4 loads of laundry today. Hot water, hot dryer. Several more to to do tomorrow.

Now I’m going to see if I can fall back into the dream I had the other night when I climbed into Sam Merlotte’s bed. If the high school marching band hadn’t interrupted we could have a very nice second go around with him.

Don’t Call me Baby!!! Your friday video

I remember when Nick Carter’s little brother Aaron came out with an album.  I was never  Nick Carter fan, I always went for the bad boy, but Aaron Carter was such a sweetheart I bought the CD.

My daughter is a HUGE Carly Rae Jespen fan. But I think she might have a crush on this boy.

Tagged: Aaron Carter, Asrai Devin, Backstreet Boy, Carly rae Jepsen, Carly Rae Jepsen parody, children rapping, children singing, Fantasticks, Nick Carter, paraodies

What I really want

 

I always think I want to help  people. I want to give them advice and guide them to their right path.

That sounds nice, but what I really want is to tell people what to do and have them listen. Because, I think I know better than other people.

It’s probably not true, but it seems that way when I hang out on Yahoo Answers. I’ve written about it before, I hang out on the newborn board and the Toddler/Preschool Section. Stay away from Pregnancy where every third question is literally “Am I pregnant?” And then the details that follow are either a bunch of vague symptoms or some teen who had sex three days ago and is freaking out because they didn’t use protection, or started taking the pill three days ago or didn’t actually have sex. Every fifth question is asking which of two optional dates/men knocked up the particular asker.

There used to be a person answering under the name “K” who is my favorite person on Yahoo Answers. She just flat out says “you’re an idiot, if you bothered informing yourself you’d know this, this and this.” She’s kind of disappeared again and I feel the need to take her place a little, plus the repetitive questions are wearing.

“My son hits people. We spank, put him in time and throw his toys away as a consequences. He’s getting worse, what should we do?”

Well, smarty pants, hitting your child for hitting is you getting revenge. All punishment only brings attention the wrong he’s done. You don’t teach him what to do next time.  (I could rant on this stuff all, check out http://www.ahaparenting.com for the best advice in this regard).

It’s like you having a job and your boss stands next to you and watches you work. Every hour or so, your boss hits you over the head and says “You’re doing that wrong, go stand in the corner for five minutes.” Your five minutes is up, you return to work, you don’t know what to do since your boss wandered off. But he returns and hits you over the head again and says “you’re doing that wrong, go stand in the corner again.”

You have to teach your child how to express himself. And you have to listen to your child’s needs.

//End of answer

It amazes me how many people believe their children are trying to manipulate them via tantrums and crying.

And the thing I’ve learned most about people via yahoo answers, is that they are not willing to inform themselves. At least a quarter of the questions could be answered by people themselves by learning how to properly use a search engine.

It’s probably better that I can’t see if people take my advice or not. I’d probably jump down their throats if they choose something else. I don’t even check best answer (unless I win the contest and give the best answer).

 

Tagged: Advice, Asrai Devin, parenting, parenting advice, Question Answering, spanking, Yahoo, Yahoo Answer

Diva Cup

 

Well, warning to anyone who doesn’t want to read about the dirty details of my menstrual cycle, here are some other things you might be interested in.

Somewhat funny, mostly truthful review of FSOG. http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/340987215

I was looking for visual inspiration for my hero (who is a red head) and I fell in love just a little with this picture. (Eddie Redmayne) http://oi52.tinypic.com/2d0nw3m.jpg

And I’m also in love with Damian Lewis who played Major/LT Winters in Band of Brothers. 

He is exactly my Gabriel in my book. And I’ve been totally distracted for what I was going to write about.

So, I’ve wanted a Diva Cup for like forever. I needed to order some supplements, which I do mostly from well.ca and I wanted to buy more than just one thing, so I was shopping around and decided, what the hell, I added the Diva Cup.

It’s intimidating when I first got it and the first several times of inserting it, especially getting the twist done properly so it opens.

Best period I”ve ever had. I’ve been a mostly pad girl for ages. I use cloth ones and the occasional sea sponge. But I’ve never really been happy with any method, it always felt unclean and squidy. And I’m really lazy. The Diva Cup can be worn for up to 12 hours, two to four washings a day and we are good to go.

so, there you go. That is your dose of too much information from Asrai this week.

 

Tagged: Asrai Devin, Damian Lewis, Diva Cup, Eddie Redmayne, ginger men, Health, hot ginger men, Menstrual cup, Menstrual cycle, redheaded men, Sustainable living

Friday Fun: Moves Like Jagger cover

I love a dorky men. His range is amazing.

Tagged: Asrai Devin, cover song, Maroon 5, Maroon 5 cover, Moves Like Jagger, Moves Like Jagger cover, Peter Hollens

Life Lessons

This is in no way a criticism or jab at the very nice people who I now can call friends, but

Lessons Learned from Inviting An Entire Family (of 3+ a dog) stay in our house.

1. Don’t do it.

End of story. We thought it would be a short stay (all of us), mostly completed while the Asrai portion of the family was on vacation for 2 weeks. The rental market turned out to be tougher than we imagined and it turned out to be 2 months. but it’s all done now, I will not miss my two year old screaming “NO” at their four year old.

And I discovered, I am really a bitchy person at times. People think I’m nice and sweet and kind. I am a bitch. That’s okay. My husband is the only person that has to put up with it on a full time basis. Being pleasant all the time is EXHAUSTING.

Skyrim theme and the amazing Peter Hollens

The theme for Skyrim was done by 3 different people 30 times. This version is one voice and one violin, it took 120 tracks.

Peter Hollens also has an a cappella version of just him doing the song which is AMAZING. Okay does it help that he’s pretty good looking.

And you can find the lyrics at this link: http://elderscrolls.wikia.com/wiki/Skyrim_Soundtrack

Tagged: Asrai Devin, dragon born, Peter Hollens, Skyrim, Skyrim theme

Stats junkie (TMI editioN)

 

 

So, I wrote about 50 Shades and caning versus Canning and it got me a gazillion hits. And 3 comments. So thanks for that. But those page views and site hits are starting to dwindle and I’m feeling like I need a infusion of stats. I am no longer happy with 10 page views a day, I want a hundred.

I could write about all the 50 Shades of Gray “copy cats” or follow-ups being served for the masses. I feel sorry for author’s who get promoted as “if you loved FSOG, you’ll love this as well”.

I could write about the women who attempted to have FSOG lingerie parties, but received a cease and desist letter from James. But you could Google it yourself and boggle over a woman who published Fan fic telling people they can’t use her idea either. (Besides, I didn’t think titles could be copyrighted. At least in the US it cannot, but it can be trademarked, but FSOG has not yet? If they are pursuing it, does that mean it can’t be used by someone else?)

I think if could get those topless photos of Kate Middleton that would garner me a few hits, but they were destroyed I’d believe and Ii I was going to post photos of naked anyone, I would want the model to give consent. And the only person I’d be willing to ask is myself and I really have no qualms about it except my husband’s objections. I’m still nursing so half the population of the small city we live in has seen them in the past year. He’s always pulling them out for me to show off or unlatching and running away before I can pull up my shirt.

What do you think would “asrai topless” gain me more hits? I’ll add it to my tags and let you know if it does.

I’ve been looking on Amazon at some books I’d like to own for reference and every time I’m still shocked by Kindle prices being significantly higher than the paperback. It pisses me off actually and some of the time I’m tempted to not buy any copy of the book. I know it’s like not seeing a movie because of something the actor did in real life. No one is going to feel me not buying it, other people will and my silent protest, means NOTHING to anyone.

And the last thing? DO you have a belly bulge? That lower belly pooch. It may be from tight hip flexors are. and according to Pinterest, there is an easy way to combat the issue. http://woldfitness.com/2011/07/one-exercise-to-end-lower-belly-pooch/

From ovulation to menstrual bleeding, my hips shift to a bad place, they feel “out” of place and my entire body suffers. My family suffers, I am crabby and whiny (oh I whine A LOT). Right now my neck is sore on the right side and my shoulder is on the left (I did the above exercise but it made my shoulder hurt).

And last, but very not least, happy birthday to my favorite 10 year old.

If you have any ideas for how I can feed my need for hits, other than writing useful content, let me know in the comments.

 

Tagged: Asrai topless Asrai Devin, Catherine Duchess of Cambridge, consent, fifty shades of gray, FSOG, hips, naked photos, Pinterest, stretches for tight hips, tight hip flexors, Toplessness

Friday Fun: Cute twin baby dancing video

This week’s video comes to us via How to Be a Dad.

Tagged: Asrai Devin, cute baby, cute baby dancing, Friday video, video

Friday Fun: Enterprise destroyed by Apple

 

This one comes via the Passive Voice.

 

Tagged: Android, Apple, Asrai Devin, enterprise, Patent, Samsung, star trek, Steve Jobs