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Books Needing Love

26 Monday Oct 2015

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Hey guys,

Today I’m taking a break from the usual programming to ask for your help. Yes, you.

As you may know, I’m a pretty new author. I have two books out, and I self-publish. I put in the time and money to make sure I did it right, too, and the end result is two books that I’m very proud of. Unfortunately, most people have never heard of them.

Calling On FireSo here’s what I’m asking. If you read my books and liked them, could you leave a review? You can leave it anywhere you like: the platform you bought the book from (like Amazon), or on other sites (like Goodreads). Reviews are SO important for new authors. When readers look at books, they want to know what it’s about, how much it costs, and how other people liked it. I can control the first two, but the last one is entirely up to you.

If you feel like sharing my books with your friends, that would be totally awesome too.

Fire Within fantasy book cover by DamonzaAnd if you’ve never read (or heard of) my books, please check them out. And The Wolves Danced is a free short story/teaser preceding my two novels, Calling On Fire and Fire Within. If you like fantasy, check them out!

And if you do check them out, or you do leave a review: thank you. It isn’t easy trying to make a go of it as a new author. Writing full time is my dream, and it’s one that you can help make happen.

Happy Thanksgiving

12 Monday Oct 2015

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Happy Thanksgiving, everyone! (Especially my fellow Canadians, since it’s actually Thanksgiving for us, but the well-wish stands for everyone else too!)

I was lucky enough to spend last night with my family and an abundance of delicious food. I ate SO much turkey.

Fat flat cat

I regret nothing.

Thanksgiving is a time to remember all we’re thankful for. In reality, we should be remembering those things every day. I am healthy, I am loved, and I have enough of everything to live comfortably. I may stress about money or future plans, because I’m human and I forget that serenity is found in being thankful for what I have.

How about you, readers? Any thoughts? Of that feels too serious for you right now, we can always go down to a simpler question: turkey or ham? Pick a side! (Turkey for me.)

The High School Cat

24 Thursday Sep 2015

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Bubba the Cat Has Become a California High School’s Star Pupil

Bubba lives near Leland High School in San Jose, California and he loves going to school. Every day he’ll venture out, get treats from his favorite teachers and hang out with friends until the school day is over and everyone has gone home. He started by following his owner Matthew to the nearby Bret Harte Middle School and graduated to Leland High School with him. He has since dedicated himself to getting a good education.

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Bubba the Cat goes to school

Bubba the cat in class

Buuba the serious student

cat treats at school

stays for after school sports

kitty makes school magazine and yearbook

bored in class

naptime

Hacked Traffic Signs

06 Thursday Aug 2015

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Thanks to The Tango for some cool traffic sign pics:

Hacked traffic sign kittens

zombies

thongs

pirate

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flying monkeys

wicked

expect rainbows

raptors

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hacked traffic sign

slow down

Nom nom nom

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What We Can Learn From Cats

06 Monday Jul 2015

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Sometimes it can seem like life’s problems are overwhelming. They’re insurmountable. The whole world is going to Hell in a handbasket, and there’s nothing we can do.

In those moments, we need to take a lesson from cats.

Any cat will take the silliest thing – a piece of string, a fluttering leaf, or even a figment of imagination – and make it the most incredible thing.

This cat has turned a bed sheet into a jungle gym:

Life isn’t just what happens to us – it’s what we make of it. So next time you feel overwhelmed, find something to get excited about: something little, something inconsequential. With just a little imagination and a little silliness…life can look a whole lot brighter.

Pet Store Shenanigans

04 Thursday Jun 2015

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Obvious Plant is at it again. This time he struck at a pet store.

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pet store captions customer
pet store sign plant
pet store joke rat
baby godzilla pet store sign

Check out more of his stuff at the link at the top. It’s worth the laugh.

The Evilest of All Evil Revenges

09 Monday Mar 2015

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Ship Your Enemies Glitter
(Warning, the above site uses foul language.)

No really, it’s a real thing. And it’s evil.

They advertise:
“WE SEND GLITTER TO THE PEOPLE YOU HATE.
Glitter as a Service: want to tick* off someone you dislike for only $9.99? Let us send them some stupid* glitter that is guaranteed to go everywhere.”
*censored

Glitter is something children like because children don’t care about messes; they don’t have to clean them up. The rest of us? The rest of us hate glitter, because, as mentioned above, it gets everywhere. EVERYWHERE. This site will send glitter to someone upon whom you wish to inflict a terrible, terrible fate upon.

I avoid greeting cards, Christmas ornaments, and pretty much any other item with glitter on it. Oh yeah, sparkles=yay and all that, but I don’t like glitter in the carpet, on my clothes, in my vehicle, nor in numerous other places the glitter will inevitably stick.

So if you hate someone, you now have the option to send them glitter. Use this power wisely.

Thinking In Wobbly Lines

23 Monday Feb 2015

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What do you blog about when you’re too tired to think straight? I have been tired all week. Thankfully, I pre-wrote last week’s posts. But now this week is here. …Oi.

I wonder where that saying came from, to “think straight.” I mean, yes, logical progression does seem, metaphorically speaking, to be more straight than crooked. Is that was it means though? Logical thinking? It seems to refer to something broader than that, to me. What about when you “think outside the box?” Are you still thinking “straight” when you think outside the box? Thinking outside the box is often applauded, after all, just like thinking straight.

Maybe there are advantages to not thinking straight. What would it look like if we thought in zig-zags? Would it be creative? Nonsensical? Just plain loony? What about in circles? That seems negative, as one would never get anywhere. Like circular logic, which is argued to be self-defeating or even nonsensical in and of itself.

The more important question may be, is this product of my sleep-hungry brain making any sense at all? Are my words making any sense, straight, curved, or otherwise? Am I writing, as well as thinking, in wobbly lines? Regardless, this is all I have to offer today. And it’s only Monday. We’ll see what Thursday brings…

The TRUE Meaning of Valentine’s Day: Candy

16 Monday Feb 2015

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I know it’s a little late, but Happy Valentine’s Day. Whether you rocked it solo or spent it with someone (or someones), I hope you had a grand time and ate lots of chocolate. After all, it IS one of the “Chocolate Holidays.” Valentine’s, Easter, and Halloween (and, to a lesser extent, Christmas) are all chocolate holidays. They’re all holidays that are, regardless of anything else happening, wonderful because they’re excuses to eat scads of chocolate and/or candy. Wonderful sweets litter the stores, just begging to be sampled.

Valentine's Day candy hearts

‘Scuse me while I go romance this candy.

I know break-ups spike around Valentine’s Day, but at least there’s lots of chocolate to console all the sad people. Could they have planned it better?

chocolate heart box

Flying solo this Valentine’s? Worry not, there’s plenty of chocolate to go around.

Or maybe you like healthier Valentine’s treats.

strawberry hearts

So if you find you’re bummed by the commercialism or the pressure or because you have no beau, just change your mindset.

Mmmmm, Valentine’s Day. Yum.

8 Lives Left

05 Thursday Feb 2015

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So there was breaking news in my town yesterday: a cat got stuck in an engine… and survived!

Now, I can’t say that I’m terribly surprised that cats occasionally get stuck in engines. I mean, an engine (when it’s not running) must look like a playground to them, with all those nooks and crannies to explore. One of my old cats used to come home with grease stains on her head after roaming around outside. Of course, climbing into an engine can end very badly for kitties.

Here’s the long and the short of this incident:

“She came in and said she was getting a new battery next door and noticed her belt was off and asked if we could put the belt back on,” said Mary Moorman with Car Craft.

“They went in to take a look and saw there was a cat stuck in there – couldn’t move and couldn’t get out.”

She said the cat wasn’t moving, scared, meowing or anything.

“We had to jack up the car and take parts off from the bottom to get the cat out. We locked the cat away until the SPCA could come and take it to a vet to get it looked over.”

Moorman said the cat had a big kink in its tail and some hair was missing, but, other than that, it appeared to be OK.

This isn’t the first time an animal has been found under the hood of a vehicle, but usually they are not found alive.

It’s safe to say lucky is now down to eight lives.

Eight lives indeed.