Chloe Jacobs's Blog, page 6
March 7, 2012
Domestic Bliss
My days are pretty boring ("What?" you say?) Well, sorry but when I'm not at the day job I have a 9 year old son, a puppy and a husband...all of whom seem to want things from me. Clean clothes, food on the table...ridiculous stuff like that.
But I get to a point (like right now) when if I have to look at another dirty sock, or hear "MOMMY!" I will absolutely scream.
And I have to go hide. It usually means I take off to Starbucks for a while.
Where do you go to get away?
But I get to a point (like right now) when if I have to look at another dirty sock, or hear "MOMMY!" I will absolutely scream.
And I have to go hide. It usually means I take off to Starbucks for a while.
Where do you go to get away?
March 5, 2012
Mondays
Normally, everyone hates Mondays, right? Well, I can't say that they're my favourite because let's face it, there's nothing like finishing work on a Friday afternoon and realizing you have a WHOLE weekend ahead of you!
At the same time, Mondays aren't all bad. I like the sense of renewal that I get when I start a new week because it feels like there's more possibility on Monday than on ... say ... Wednesday.
How about you? How do Mondays rate?
At the same time, Mondays aren't all bad. I like the sense of renewal that I get when I start a new week because it feels like there's more possibility on Monday than on ... say ... Wednesday.
How about you? How do Mondays rate?
February 29, 2012
Winner!!
Hi everyone!
I've picked a winner for my Goodreads giveaway of an arc of Tiffany Truitt's CHOSEN ONES and $20 giftcard, and she has been notified (Congrats Briana, I look forward to hearing from you!) but I'll be having another contest as soon as I hit 1k followers!
Thanks so much to everyone for the support and friendship!
Please also consider following me on Twitter too! http://twitter.com/#!/Jacobs_Chloe
I've picked a winner for my Goodreads giveaway of an arc of Tiffany Truitt's CHOSEN ONES and $20 giftcard, and she has been notified (Congrats Briana, I look forward to hearing from you!) but I'll be having another contest as soon as I hit 1k followers!
Thanks so much to everyone for the support and friendship!
Please also consider following me on Twitter too! http://twitter.com/#!/Jacobs_Chloe
February 28, 2012
Smooth
I got my hair done tonight! I LOVE getting my hair done. It's pretty much the only time my hair is super smooth and sleek. I only wish I had somewhere to go other than home again LOL
Usually my hair has curl in it since I don't have time in the mornings for blow drying and styling, but my hair dresser (a super-cute guy named Alex who loves Game of Thrones and likes dance music) gives me that sleek, over-the-forehead swoop.
Usually my hair has curl in it since I don't have time in the mornings for blow drying and styling, but my hair dresser (a super-cute guy named Alex who loves Game of Thrones and likes dance music) gives me that sleek, over-the-forehead swoop.
February 26, 2012
Walking Dead
Today is Walking Dead night!
I have been loving this show and I just bought the book with the first 12 issues of the graphic novels. I can't wait to read them!
http://www.bookdepository.com/Walking...
I have been loving this show and I just bought the book with the first 12 issues of the graphic novels. I can't wait to read them!
http://www.bookdepository.com/Walking...
February 22, 2012
Happy Everyday!
I've had a really nice day! Despite the fact that it's mid-week and nothing incredibly special happened. Ask me why it was so great and I can't even really tell you... but I feel energized and excited, and although I have a lot on my plate it's all great stuff.
So there you go!
How's everyone else feeling this week?
So there you go!
How's everyone else feeling this week?
February 20, 2012
Inbetween!!
I'm so lucky to be able to share in the cover reveal for another amazing YA coming this summer. And the cover is so fabulous! Go check it out ('cause I'm a loser and don't know how to post it here)
Blurb:
Since the car crash that took her father’s life three years ago, Emma’s life has been a freaky—and unending—lesson in caution. Surviving “accidents” has taken priority over being a normal seventeen-year-old, so Emma spends her days taking pictures of life instead of living it. Falling in love with a boy was never part of the plan. Falling for a reaper who makes her chest ache and her head spin? Not an option.
It’s not easy being dead, especially for a reaper in love with a girl fate has put on his list not once, but twice. Finn’s fellow reapers give him hell about spending time with Emma, but Finn couldn't let her die before, and he’s not about to let her die now. He will protect the girl he loves from the evil he accidentally unleashed, even if it means sacrificing the only thing he has left…his soul.
Paperback Available for Pre-Order from Amazon:
http://www.amazon.com/Inbetween-Tara-...
Add to your Goodreads TBR:
http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/13...
Blurb:
Since the car crash that took her father’s life three years ago, Emma’s life has been a freaky—and unending—lesson in caution. Surviving “accidents” has taken priority over being a normal seventeen-year-old, so Emma spends her days taking pictures of life instead of living it. Falling in love with a boy was never part of the plan. Falling for a reaper who makes her chest ache and her head spin? Not an option.
It’s not easy being dead, especially for a reaper in love with a girl fate has put on his list not once, but twice. Finn’s fellow reapers give him hell about spending time with Emma, but Finn couldn't let her die before, and he’s not about to let her die now. He will protect the girl he loves from the evil he accidentally unleashed, even if it means sacrificing the only thing he has left…his soul.
Paperback Available for Pre-Order from Amazon:
http://www.amazon.com/Inbetween-Tara-...
Add to your Goodreads TBR:
http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/13...
February 16, 2012
GRAVITY!!! (October 2012)
OMG Everyone!! I'm so pleased to be a part of Melissa's cover reveal for GRAVITY! This book is going to be the most awesome YA of the summer and you've got to put it on your TBR!!
BLURB:
In the future, only one rule will matter:
Don't. Ever. Peek.
Seventeen-year-old Ari Alexander just broke that rule and saw the last person she expected hovering above her bed - arrogant Jackson Locke, the most popular boy in her school. She expects instant execution or some kind of freak alien punishment, but instead, Jackson issues a challenge: help him, or everyone on Earth will die.
Ari knows she should report him, but everything about Jackson makes her question what she's been taught about his kind. And against her instincts, she's falling for him. But Ari isn't just any girl, and Jackson wants more than her attention. She¹s a military legacy who¹s been trained by her father and exposed to war strategies and societal information no one can know - especially an alien spy, like Jackson. Giving Jackson the information he needs will betray her father and her country, but keeping silent will start a war.
Pre-order from Amazon:
http://www.amazon.com/Gravity-Melissa...
Add to Goodreads: http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/12...
BLURB:
In the future, only one rule will matter:
Don't. Ever. Peek.
Seventeen-year-old Ari Alexander just broke that rule and saw the last person she expected hovering above her bed - arrogant Jackson Locke, the most popular boy in her school. She expects instant execution or some kind of freak alien punishment, but instead, Jackson issues a challenge: help him, or everyone on Earth will die.
Ari knows she should report him, but everything about Jackson makes her question what she's been taught about his kind. And against her instincts, she's falling for him. But Ari isn't just any girl, and Jackson wants more than her attention. She¹s a military legacy who¹s been trained by her father and exposed to war strategies and societal information no one can know - especially an alien spy, like Jackson. Giving Jackson the information he needs will betray her father and her country, but keeping silent will start a war.
Pre-order from Amazon:
http://www.amazon.com/Gravity-Melissa...
Add to Goodreads: http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/12...
February 14, 2012
Indulge
Indulge your senses with a book from Entangled Publishing! Lori Wilde’s new Indulgence line is launching TODAY! and you can win a Kindle Fire!
http://wildelori.blogspot.com/2012/02...
http://wildelori.blogspot.com/2012/02...
February 13, 2012
Valentine's Day?
Valentine’s Day is tomorrow, and I ask myself every year whether hubby will surprise me with something, but you know what?
He rarely does.
Some people would say he isn’t romantic, or that he doesn’t care. But I know the truth.
My big bad Italian hubby isn’t one for telling me he loves me. I may not get roses on Valentine’s Day, and we may not go out to an expensive dinner. But two weeks ago my husband, who has said for years that he will never get a dog because they’re too much work…told me I could have a puppy. And you know why he did it? Because he knew it would make me happy and he loves me so much he’ll put up with pee on the kitchen floor, and chewed running shoes, and that wet doggy smell.
I’m all for a day of romance as much as the next person, but even more important are the days when there aren’t any expectations yet the coffee is made for me when I get up in the morning, and the laundry has magically been folded while I was writing madly to make a deadline. My husband knows that my favourite treat is a cannoli (Mmmmm Cannolis) and one random day that really meant nothing in the grand scheme of things, I came home to find that he’d looked up a recipe, gone out for the ingredients and made some from scratch. Those were the best cannoli’s I have ever had.
So no, I don’t expect fancy declarations, or anything else tomorrow. And that’s perfectly fine. I probably won’t make a big deal out of Valentine’s Day for him either…then again, he’s going ice fishing next week and I know when he gets home he’ll really appreciate seeing a big pot of my homemade squash soup and fresh bread waiting for him.
What little things does your loved one do for you throughout the year to show their love, besides the big gestures?
He rarely does.
Some people would say he isn’t romantic, or that he doesn’t care. But I know the truth.
My big bad Italian hubby isn’t one for telling me he loves me. I may not get roses on Valentine’s Day, and we may not go out to an expensive dinner. But two weeks ago my husband, who has said for years that he will never get a dog because they’re too much work…told me I could have a puppy. And you know why he did it? Because he knew it would make me happy and he loves me so much he’ll put up with pee on the kitchen floor, and chewed running shoes, and that wet doggy smell.
I’m all for a day of romance as much as the next person, but even more important are the days when there aren’t any expectations yet the coffee is made for me when I get up in the morning, and the laundry has magically been folded while I was writing madly to make a deadline. My husband knows that my favourite treat is a cannoli (Mmmmm Cannolis) and one random day that really meant nothing in the grand scheme of things, I came home to find that he’d looked up a recipe, gone out for the ingredients and made some from scratch. Those were the best cannoli’s I have ever had.
So no, I don’t expect fancy declarations, or anything else tomorrow. And that’s perfectly fine. I probably won’t make a big deal out of Valentine’s Day for him either…then again, he’s going ice fishing next week and I know when he gets home he’ll really appreciate seeing a big pot of my homemade squash soup and fresh bread waiting for him.
What little things does your loved one do for you throughout the year to show their love, besides the big gestures?
