Amber L. Carter's Blog, page 49

Boom.

Proof copy.

And cue my whole day being eaten up by repeatedly watching the "Last Christmas" video by Wham! just because I carelessly mentioned it in this post.

For the first time since becoming a free agent, I'm sanctifying this Thursday and Friday as no-work zones. When you work for yourself, it's *really* easy to justify "just getting a little work in!" on a holiday, but I'm NOT doing it this year. I'm really excited to just put the laptop and phone away and soak in time with my parents, my little brother Dan, and my Best Friend Forever, Katy (who's coming up for Turkey Weekend! YAAAAY!).

However. This also means that today and tomorrow? Holy shit, you guys. Lots of coffee, a Totinos Party Pizza (cause work is a paaaartaaay), tons of new music (and old, because it's technically the justifiable time to break out "Last Christmas" by Wham!), a pile of Post-its, and my notebook are all at the ready for a two-day marathon of task completion.

There is also alcohol ready for the evening portion of this two-day extravaganza. Because sometimes, it's all just a little bit easier with a glass of wine in hand.

And I'm not complaining, nor am I glorifying the myth of busy...everything I'm doing is super fun, exciting, and awesome work that I want to do. And I'm setting my own goal of getting it all in before Thursday dawns, which I don't have to do, but want to, so therefore...complaining is non-legit.

Or, technically, the goal is to finish before 7 on Wednesday, when Adam and I are hitting Mooselips, which is open especially this Wednesday to help kick off the holiday weekend.

Did you know that, Adam? That we're going to Mooselips at 7 on Wednesday?

Well...now you do.

It's Called Gratitude, Day 18/19...and let's just go 20, while we're at it.

Things I've been grateful for these past few days:

Candy Cane Lane tea
Candy Cane Hershey's Kisses
Moonrise Kingdom! So great.
A hot dream about Mauricio from Real Housewives of Beverly Hills.
An awesome afternoon with my sister-in-law Becky!
The Twilight Saga: Breaking Dawn 2 soundtrack. (It's fucking GREAT)
The only-happens-about-thrice-a-year gift of watching Ellen with my mom and Becks.
Kyle DeLaHunt's new project, Math Is Hard.
Stumbling upon Nerd Nite Duluth, thanks to Math Is Hard.
A roaring fire in the kitchen fireplace, hot coffee, and tons of time today to blog and write.

Maybe Not Monday: The Twilight, Cats & Ke$ha (or should it be...the Twilight Ke$sha Cat, which gives it a WHOLE new meaning? Maybe even a cooler one?) Edition

For more Twilight amazingness, read this.
I'm posting a double-feature of Maybe Not Monday today, because...there's this thing called "timeliness." And in celebration of the last movie in the Twilight Saga hitting the theaters this past weekend, I give you...
This. 
(my comments in regular type)
My self-summary I'm a laid back girl. I like cats and twilgihtand stuff.
What I’m doing with my life I want to be a dump truck driver it's my life dream
I...don't...*sigh*...okay. 
I’m really good at Playing Sims 3
Do you ever get the feeling that sometimes people aren't who they seem to be? That they're different, sometimes, from who they pretend to be...
The first things people usually notice about me When people first see me they say I look like Scarlett Johansson
"...And then when they get to know me a little bit better - like, when they're standing closer than 500 feet - they say I look like a dude."
Favorite books, movies, shows, music, and food My favorite books are Twilight and my favorite movies are Twilight and I really like Ke$ha and cHinese food and True Blood
The six things I could never do without My bible my twilight books and cats
I spend a lot of time thinking about cats and twilight
Hmm. I'm starting to sense a theme...
On a typical Friday night I am Watching True Blood
The most private thing I’m willing to admit i really like vampires
What?! Really?
You should message me if you like twilight and true blood and kesha and cats
Are you this man? Are you any man? Are you any man in existence who might like any of these things, and then all of these things, together? Do miracle still happen? Is there a god? What about the afterlife...does it exist? These are the questions to which there may never be answers. 

Maybe Not Monday: The It's Actually Worse If It's For Real Edition

This is not her actual profile picture. But. It could have been.Since we gave the guy tribe a pretty hard bitch-slapping last week, I figured it was only fair that we shine a spotlight on the girl side.

I might just let this one speak for itself.

It should also be noted that this particular "doll face" put personal contact information in her profile (which I deleted before posting here, for both your protection and hers). So not only is her profile a nightmare, but she's also possibly a scammer, a prostitute, or a con artist. Thus, let this be a lesson to ALL of us - profiles like these are not only awful to read, but they could also result in you getting Craigslist Kilt.

Don't get Craigslist Kilt, gentle readers. According the Made-For-Lifetime Movie, it's not a fun time.

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My self summary


Hi there! Thanks for stopping by.

My name is angel razissah but you can call me doll face..,I'm 32 year old female, single , no kids, 5-6ft,130 lbs., ling brown hair color,,,I'm looking for a man that is honest, trusting, loving, kind, caring and faithfulness, because that's the best qualities in a relationship. Its have being a little over 3 years since I have dated anyone. With all honesty, I am looking for a very serious long term relationship without any head games.and I know how to treat a real man that is not into playing head games. I have to with all honesty I'm not into playing games.I'm from Louisville State: KY to visit my uncle..I lost my father when i was a young lady. I do not work but i do help my mother to sell cosmetics at the Super market.I would like to find a like-minded male where we can participate in activities together and encourage each other to pursue their interests as well.

I have an amazing life and want to share it with a great person. I work in a hospital lab and sometime part time at the Walmart, so I love anything that gets me out and about.

I enjoy trying new things and visiting places I have never been to before. I am all about trying new foods and exploring different cuisines mainly because i want to grow very good so that my soul mate will like my body always:) Although I have lived in in states and Toronto for nearly my whole life, I have yet to really explore the city even though I have made several trips around the world.

I love everything from a night on the town with dinner and the theater to a quiet evening with pizza and a movie. Although I may come off as shy at first, I am a really friendly person that is easy going. My friends would describe me as a down-to-earth, honest, responsible person with a great sense of humor.

I am looking for someone to share adventures with and hopefully the future with as well. A man with morals and values is huge in my books. I am interested in a relationship that is based on trust, respect, and keeping each other focused on our mutual goals in life. Bonus points if you happen to know your way around the kitchen!

I would like to meet a man with a happy personality. Someone to be best friend with where we can have mutual respect for each other, a friend that may develop into something else later.I do care about the inner beauty that's caring, honesty, loving, and the like. I'am a warm, caring, honest, faithful, sincere , simple and easy going person. Love to travel. Listen to music, watch movies with that special someone, love to cook .I am a happy, truely romantic , optimistic person who would like to share my life with that special someone. Sense of humor, friends, family and traveling are some of things I love.

My friends have told me the first thing they notice about me are my eyes and my smile.I'm shy at first (my friends don't believe me)until I feel comfortable. You will find me compassionate, caring, a good listener and I enjoy the small things that make a relationship special. I'm way out of my comfort zone being on here, but it will be worth it.

I enjoy live thereat, music, dancing (would you like to take lessons), spending time with family, friends and myself. Watching movies is always more fun with someone else, (I promise I won't talk). A game of cards or a board game is always good too.

I love to visit my grandchild, who lights up my life (Amber's Note: Note that she mentioned she was 32 YEARS OLD previously. But has a grandchild?! Either way, scary). I'm looking for someone to add to that joy, to explore and enjoy this life, someone who will accept the quirky things about me, as I would about them.If you see anything that interests you, please drop me a note, I will always reply and I hope all you gentlemen would do the same.

I love to laugh, smile and see the good in everyone even though sometimes it's hard to find.

P.S. My baggage is neatly stored out of site.

Food for Thought

Don't go for looks, they can deceive
Don't go for wealth, even that fades away
Go for someone that makes you smile
Because a smile can make a dark day seem bright
Find the one that makes your heart smile

I'm a young beautiful lady.I am a kind of woman who is sincere and loving and most of all honest. I am a one woman man. I love going around the mall, seeing good movies with a friend and having coffee and have a little chat with them.... shares ideas.I am looking for a man who is sincere and loving and most of all God fearing. One whom i can turn to in times of needs someone who is looking for a marriage and a lifetime partner i hope you are of them.

I am an active person, healthy habits, and working woman. I am a positive person and i try to see always the funny part of life. I like to laugh. I like dogs and to share time with them. i love to research about things.I am looking for a partner who can share hobbies and also the everyday life at home, like cooking, cleaning, etc etc.I love to listen good concerts, ballet, parks enjoy also the simple things of life.

I have a very easygoing personality. I'm patient, fun, sociable, kind, caring and sincere.I'm looking for a simple and easy going man, sensual, one-woman man, passionate, someone with whom I can wake up every day happy. A man who can share all things in life with me.

Angel doll face
What I’m doing with my lifeI enjoy trying new things and visiting places I have never been to before. I am all about trying new foods and exploring different cuisines mainly because i want to grow very good so that my soul mate will like my body always:) Although I have lived in in states and Toronto for nearly my whole life, I have yet to really explore the city even though I have made several trips around the world.
The first things people usually notice about meI respect everyone even kids
Favorite books, movies, shows, music, and foodI read everything. I read the newspapers and magazines online which is a great source of learning for me and the last book I read was Game of Thrones which is also a series on HBO which I really enjoy
The six things I could never do withoutI will tell you later
I spend a lot of time thinking aboutAbout how to get the soul mate i'm seeking for to spend life together
On a typical Friday night I amI go out with friends and family..i need someone to go out with as a soul mate
The most private thing I’m willing to admitI enjoy trying new things and visiting places I have never been to before. I am all about trying new foods and exploring different cuisines mainly because i want to grow very good so that my soul mate will like my body always:) Although I have lived in in states and Toronto for nearly my whole life, I have yet to really explore the city even though I have made several trips around the world.
You should message me ifYou have intrest in me and want to get to know me better

It's Called Gratitude, Day 17

I'm also grateful for visual motivators like this. Today I'm grateful for...

An awesome day with Sonia.
Sometimes, the best weekends with friends are the ones where you don't have to make any big plans - you can both just hang out and do whatever sounds fun at the time. It's been so super nice to just have time with Sonia all to myself - we realized this weekend that this is probably the second time that we've just hung out one-on-one for an extended period of time. Not anymore, though - Amber & Sonia time is now a mandatory thing, in my book. And I'm making it mandatory in Sonia's, too (even if she doesn't want it to be).

The safety and smarts of a good friend. 
Yesterday morning I woke up to an email from a dear friend of mine that kind of broke my heart. There were some tough decisions that had to be made on his end, but I'm so, so proud of him for doing the thing that will protect both his mental and physical well-being. I've been marveling at his inner-strength all day. I know that it all feels devastating and tough and slightly unbearable right now, but I have no doubt that he's going to come out of this winning. And until then, he's got a righteous crew of friends and brave companions who are ready to step up and do what needs to be done to help him down that tough road.

The last Twilight movie.
I started writing something for this here, but then it got so long and detailed that I'm just going to write a full-blown post about it. So,I'll just say - I'm grateful for the ridiculous and fun journey that has been Twilight. Whether we've loved it or hated it - or have done both at alternating times - it has definitely been fun.

It's Called Gratitude, Day 16

Word on the street is that the strippers at Rivers Edge look like this. Which means it's either going to be the awesomest thing ever, or the ladies are going to have to get really, really drunk before they're gonna want guys like this to strip. Which might actually be the most genius thing of all...whoa. Nice play, Rivers Edge.In case you didn't realize, the title of this series is lifted from a Beastie Boys song.

You know, just in case you haven't caught on to HOW EFFORTLESSLY COOL I am.

It's effortlessly cool to point out how cool you are, right?

Yeah. I knew it.

Anyway! Day 16:

Today I'm grateful for:

The Safety of Karah & Jeffrey.
Around noonish today, I slid into the chair at my kitchen table and kind of absent-mindedly scrolled through Twitter. All of a sudden, I noticed a series of tweets reporting that there had been a shooting at the Target Retek building. I flew off my chair and ran into my bedroom to get my phone, and rapidly texted Karah and Jeff, two of my best friends in the world who both work at Target HQ downtown, to see if they were okay. Two seconds later I got a text back from Karah telling me she was okay and barricaded in an office with others, and three seconds later I got a text from Jeff saying he was fine and hanging out in a storage space with coworkers while the police swept the building. And then I kind of wept a little bit with joy and relief, because that's just the kind of thing you do with stuff like that when it's happened before and hasn't turned out as awesome, yeah? Based on the last reports I heard, the police didn't find any evidence of a shooting - apparently it was a loud duct pipe bang that prompted five people to call 911. A., Better safe than sorry and B., thank god.

A Kick-ASS day of momentum.
You know those days when you just have it? When everything is rapid-fire and things are coming together and you're making connections and progress on stuff you didn't even mean to? Yeah. That's what this afternoon was like.

New totally awesome connections. 
Sometimes, the universe provides the thing that you've been asking for, and it does it in such a seamless way that you just have to sit back and go, "Whoa." Which I did. Because it was awesome.

Hunting Opener /Hunter Widows Weekend.
I gotta spill it - I feel the same way about winter in Hayward as Honey Boo Boo feels about the Beauty part of pageants...it's so booooorrrrrrriiiinnnngg. But for one beautiful, sparkling, crisp weekend, the town is jam-packed with happenings and everyone is out and in good spirits and ready to have a blast. If you look at it the wrong way, Hunter Widows Weekend can be kind of like a dicktease - have a super awesome time and then get ready to be super bored for the next four months! - but I prefer to look at it as an opportunity to store up the kicks so you can at least stick out the next few months of soul-crushing winter quiet.

Sonia.
My friend Sonia is coming up for the weekend! She is literally on her way as I write this. Which means that we're either going to have a nice chill evening of catching up in front of the fire with a bottle of wine or we're going to be dripping in Bud Light tap beer and musky male stripper sweat come bar close.

Stay tuned to see how it all shakes out...!

It's Called Gratitude, Day 15

I am also grateful for this beautiful piece of slightly homoerotic fantasy art  that I found on the internet because it makes me gleeful every time I look at it. Mainly for the very fact that it is homoerotic fantasy art that I found on the internet.Last year I took a page from my friend Keri's book and, throughout the month of November, participated in a daily status update about the things I was grateful for. When it came around again this year, I was super excited about it - one of the daily habits I try really hard to cultivate in my life is the spirit of gratitude and abundance. It's a mental switch - when you put yourself in a place of feeling grateful for the good things in your life, you start to see more good things in your life to be grateful for.

So I've been doing it on Facebook, but then tonight I decided that I wanted to start posting them on here, because this blog has kind of become a sort of digital journal for me, and I want to be able to look back and remember the great things that came into my life in this particular month of November.

So here goes:

Day 15:

1) Today I am grateful for a lesson in patience. No, really...this morning, unforeseen disaster struck with the production of my next book (really it was just a complication, but I like being dramatic and using "disaster" instead). I woke up expecting an email from my publisher telling me that the book was a go, we're ready for print...and instead woke up to an email that basically told me, "We don't do that kind of thing here." And I could literally feel the stress rising in my body, because I was SO excited to maybe finally be done with it, and this meant maybe having to go alllll the way back to the drawing board. Which is NOT. WHAT I. WANTED. TO HEAR.

Okay, guys? I didn't want to wake up to that.

So I got on the horn, and was pretty impatient to find a solution or get everything back in place, and then when I realized that I had done everything I could do about it today, I had to kind of force myself to switch off of that project and switch on to something else. Which is pretty hard for me - there's a reason why I'm the kind of person who gets a week's worth of work done in a day when it comes to a single project rather than spread that work out across the week. I have tunnel vision. I have lock-jaw type focus. Once I sink my teeth into something, it's not easy for me to let go.

But I did, because I had no choice. And now, tonight, I'm like, "Whatever, maaan. It'll happen when it happens, y'know?"

2) Also! I am grateful for big, huge historical dramatic romance and/or fantasy books. It's kind of like, once I smell snow, all I wanna do is bury myself under a pile of frothy historically-based novels or big, epic fantasy tales. And I forgot how fun it is, to climb into bed an hour or two early just so you can sink down into a book before you turn out the lights.

Or sink so far down into it that when you finally come up for air, it's 2 a.m.

3) I'm also grateful for new connections with old friends. Keeps life interesting.

The End.

Best Part of Winter.

It's eggnog season, bitches.

Oh yes. It is EGGNOG SEA-SON!

And it is especially delicious in my Stormtrooper travel cup.

I also like it with coffee.

Just for, you know, the record.

"You're Death Stars and we're an army of FABULOUS Luke Skywalkers."

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