Ok, sorry. I’ve been a big bummer!
I realized what a bummer my blog has become. Yes, it’s kinda sucking for calls lately, but that’s not YOUR fault. Well, maybe it IS your fault…maybe you’re one of the dudes who used to call me and now still reads my blog faithfully, but for whatever reason you haven’t called in 1,000 years.
Just kidding.
It’s not your fault. It’s summer! I get it. Everyone is out having fun, even me. So I’m gonna stop bitching about it being slow since I just had three awesome months in a row. I’m gonna start advertising in places other than Niteflirt and I’ll just suck it up and see what happens.
In the meantime, I’ll fill you in on what’s been going on in my life. It always amazes me how the littlest things can strike a cord with someone and generate interest. I can’t even count the number of calls I’ve gotten because I mentioned that Depeche Mode is my favorite band or that I like to cook.
By the way, if anyone has a good recipe for buttermilk pancakes, can you let me in on it? I tried Alton Brown’s recipe and though they tasted good, they never got quite brown and were too thin and flat for me. I know I could have added flour and thickened the batter up, but I figured I’d just try a difference recipe if anyone has a good one they KNOW works. I’m in the midst of trying to stop using boxed mixes for muffins, pancakes, biscuits, etc. because I’m trying to go completely organic.
I just spent two days pretty much reading non stop. I got this book “The Host” at Costco because I’d seen it around and I’d read something by this author before and enjoyed it. It is 619 pages and I read it in two days. I absolutely loved it.
Here is the synopsis:
“Our world has been invaded by an unseen enemy. Humans become hosts for these invaders, their minds taken over while their bodies remain intact and continue their lives apparently unchanged. Most of humanity has succumbed.
When Melanie, one of the few remaining “wild” humans, is captured, she is certain it is her end. Wanderer, the invading “soul” who has been given Melanie’s body, was warned about the challenges of living inside a human: the overwhelming emotions, the glut of senses, the too-vivid memories. But there was one difficulty Wanderer didn’t expect: the former tenant of her body refusing to relinquish possession of her mind.
When outside forces make Wanderer and Melanie unwilling allies, they set off on a dangerous and uncertain search for the man they both love.”
It sounds like a romance, but it definitely reads more like a thriller. I am not usually very fond of science fiction novels, but I’d bet that it’s likely you’d enjoy it even if you don’t like romances or “alien” books. This was the first time in years that I’ve literally not been able to put a book down. My cousin was getting pissed cause I took it with us when we went shopping and I read in the car on the way to the mall. I fell asleep with the lights on and it in my hands the first night.
I can’t WAIT for the movie to come out. I didn’t see anything about one anywhere, but I’m sure it will eventually happen. Click the graphic below to go to the book’s site. I just got stuck going through it for an hour or so, reading through the message boards and stuff. I personally hope that there are more books (of course), but I would prefer for them NOT to be from Wanderer’s point of view. I’d love it if she jumped to the guy who shows up in the last scene, Burns. That would be awesome.
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While I was reading that, I got an email from Amazon telling me that a book I’ve been waiting for for YEARS had finally come out. Book 12 of the Dark-Hunter series by Sherrilyn Kenyon. YAY! So I went and bought it before I even finished “The Host” and knocked it out in 2 days flat too. It was 728 pages. Phew.
These are action/romance books too, but might be a little too much on the side of romance for most guys. I’d say out of all of the books in this series so far though, Acheron was the most “Anne Rice”-like of them all. It struck me as a little more substantial…less like standard brain candy and more in depth like an Anne Rice or Stephen King novel might be. Kudos to Sherrilyn Kenyon. It’s fun to see an author advance and mature through the years and become better at their craft. I know she started this book a long time ago, but I’m glad she took so long to finish it.
So anyway, I don’t really have any plans for today except for maybe to go to the library and find something else to read. Hope you all are having a great week and we get to talk soon. Oh yeah, it would really help me out if you’d click and vote for me on Phone Sex Central right under this paragraph. I get good calls from that site when I’m listed high up enough to be seen. I’d really appreciate it!
Oh crap! I totally forgot to post about “Pineapple Express”! I did go see it. I laughed my ASS off, but I was high as a kite, so I doubt it would have been as funny if I weren’t stoned. It was WAY gorier than I thought it was going to be. EW. So if you’re a stoner, go check it out! If you don’t smoke weed, skip it! lol
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