Thanks to the always amazing beledibabe – THIS:

She added *blood* drops to the matte!!! How cool is that?

As always, my family and friends are teh awesome.

(btw, all crookedness, etc. is my bad photo taking w/phone)

…that birthdays are wonderful things. Especially, when like mine, it lasts and lasts.

Stopped by my PO Box today to find a lovely card from my parents and a beautiful card from my wonderful Q. Then stopped by to pick up package from my sis.

Inside was the usual assortment of fun items, including magnets, Texas style lollies (shaped like hat, boot, the state, etc.). Two items, though, made me laugh like a loon for at least a half hour.

Item the first: (click to see full image)

Item the second:(click to see full image)

DUDES, I got a MOUNTIE for my birthday!!!!!! And a fantastic bumper sticker that will immediately go on Simply Red. I’m still giggling!!

Ran errands all morning, sorting out the property tax sticker for the car, mailed packages (Wendy, your book is in today’s mail!) and sorted out more stuff for shredding. We authors (as do most folks) collect WAY the heck too much paper. I had print outs of my old stuff, other people’s old stuff, fan fiction stories, Gutenberg items (this was before I got the Kindle). I’ve now got 15 medium size bags o’shredding. A local firm, BudgetShred is coming on Thursday to pick up. VERY reasonable, too.

Next step in decluttering: finish listing the last set of books on eBay/half.com. I’m giving it until the end of October. If stuff doesn’t sell by then, I’m donating everything to the library.

Hope everyone is having a great back-to-business day after the long Labor/Labour Day weekend!

To my almost birthday twin, !!

Hope your day is fabulous and your year amazing.

Slipping in under the wire to wish the most wonderful sanj a very happy birthday!!

Hope it’s been fabulous, dear.

First off, let me wish my wonderful mom a fabulous birthday – even though she refuses to celebrate! HAPPY BIRTHDAY, MOM!!!!

Secondly, best news from other authors: matociquala and truepenny announced a deal for TWO sequels to A Companion to Wolves. w00t!!!!

I pimped that book out as much as I am pimping Bear’s Promethean series (in case you’re newish to this blog, for me, pimping a book/series means I tend to buy several copies of the first book and hand them to friends/family to read).

Happy Wednesday all!

Wishing the absolutely most fabulous of birthdays to two of the finest people ever.

First: to sister-of-the-heart and amazing crit-pal beledibabe . May today bring you joy, brilliance and everything you wish for.

Secondly: to the wonderful misspamela, whose prose and posts amuse me, entertain me and sometimes, just help keep me sane. May your day be as fabulous as you are.

Smooches and hugs to the both of you!!

Book pimping:
My buddy Cita Powers just published her first gay romance: Desperation Dancing via Lyrical Press. I helped beta versions of this and recommend it. The book just debuted yesterday and comes in all e-reader flavors, including Sony, Kindle, HTML and PDF.

Now, it’s off to the day job in the rain-turning-to-ice (EEP!)

A VERY happy birthday and best wishes for a fabulous day to two of the best and most brilliant women I know:

shayheyred – quirky, fun, full of the *best* kind of snark and always such a hoot to be around

and

reginagiraffe – quirky, fun, full of the *best* kind of snark and always such a hoot to be around…oh wait, I said that already – but it’s TRUE.

I love you both loads and am sad we see so little of each other.

Have a WONDERFUL day, darlings!

More fannish goodness!

I got a package today from starrcat – inside – a SIGNED photo of Great Big Sea. Yes, I squeed like the fangrrl I am.

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The fannish fun continues. I got home tonight to a package waiting for me. The package was from my wonderful cousins and co-owners of Mysterious Galaxy, Maryelizabeth Hart (allaboutm_e) and her darling hubby, Jeff Mariotte.

In the envelope:

A ginormous Tyvek CW tote bag from Comic-Con 2008–one side touting our boys from Supernatural, the other touting Smallville.

Inside the bag, 2 Middleman pins.

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