Getting Over Hump Day + My Addiction to TV Show Modern Family

11 Mar, 2010 in Quickies, Random Tidbits by K.C. 10 Comments

I like to refer to Wednesday’s as my gauntlet days. I’m in an out of meetings, desperately wishing that the projects on my desk would go away and I’m confined to a little room only to hear about the top 10 reasons why what we’re doing as managers falls short. After these heartening pep talks and a day that drags on until way past dinnertime I need a little pick-me-up.

Enter hilarious tv show Modern Family on Wednesday nights that features three generations of a family, each so vastly unique and funny that I roll on the floor laughing. Well, not literally, because I can’t eat my frozen yogurt with 1000 calories worth of toppings where the dogs can get me. {I can’t believe my healthy desert choice isn’t making my waistline smaller!!!…as I told my doctor when I got on the scale, “I DEMAND A RECOUNT!}.

Modern Family is shot in a mock-u-mentary style, similar to The Office, and When Harry Met Sally. What makes this show so hysterical is that each vignette of these three families is so relatable that you can’t help but be laugh and wince at the same time. You have the head patriarch that is married to the much younger Latina woman who also happens to have a young, chubby son who’s daydream’s rival the dramatics of a Danielle Steele novel. The two other families in the show feature his daughter who is married and has three children and his son who is in a committed partnership with the man who has otherwise stolen my heart…or Cameron as he is referred to in the show. You all know how much I heart gay men. So while I snuggle up with Mrs. Easy Peasy (Kindle) and try to decompress from my week this is what I do when when I’m not on Twitter.

Psst I have a major guy crush on Cam, my dream guy (yes my dream guy is gay).

Some of my favorite quotes from the Cam

(Committed Partners Mitchtell and Cameron)

Michtell : (Mitchell and Cam trying to befriend their adoptive daughter’s doctor so that according to Cam, they will have a friend on the inside who has access to Tamiflu)

“Take it down a notch. We’re just trying to make a friend not initiate a three-way.

 

Cam: My dream for him is that one day, he’ll be on the Supreme Court.

Mitchell: Why Cam?

Cam: So at parties I can tell people my partner is one of the Supremes.

 

Cameron: I got all medieval on the florists.

Mitchell: Cam, I heard you on the phone you said you were displeased, but that’s hardly going medieval.

Cameron: Excuse me, I said very displeased and I used my cowboy voice.

 

What do you watch while trying to getting over hump day?

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Pleasure Of A Dark Prince by Kresley Cole & My Love For Scottish Wolfies

9 Mar, 2010 in Kresley Cole, Paranormal Romance by K.C. 41 Comments

Genre: Paranormal Romance (448 pages)

Series: Immortals After Dark #9

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A DANGEROUS BEAUTY…

Lucia the Huntress: as mysterious as she is exquisite, she harbors secrets that threaten to destroy her — and those she loves.

AN UNCONTROLLABLE NEED…

Garreth MacRieve, Prince of the Lykae: the brutal Highland warrior who burns to finally claim this maddeningly sensual creature as his own.

THAT LEAD TO A PLEASURE SO WICKED….

From the shadows, Garreth has long watched over Lucia. Now, the only way to keep the proud huntress safe from harm is to convince her to accept him as her guardian. To do this, Garreth will ruthlessly exploit Lucia’s greatest weakness — her wanton desire for him.

 

It feels like we’ve all been waiting for Garreth and Lucia story’s since Hunger Like No Other (Lachlan & Emma). Well, at least I have. I was this close (pinches fingers) to becoming a stalker. I’m sure Kresely Cole is overjoyed with my exuberance, because let’s face it, isn’t stalking  the most complimentary form of flattery? Or is that copying? I’m sure it says something in my parole papers. Just kidding, or not… Muwhahahaha. Ok, now I’m scaring myself and my cat.    

Back to Garreth and Lucia. Folks, I’ve fallen hard for the brooding, delicious Scottish werewolves, or Scottie Wolves, as I fondly call them and Garreth is one more wolfy Scotsman I can add to my list. It’s not everyday that fictional characters with husky brogues beat out red wine and chocolate on my desert island survival list, but somehow they have. 

We begin Pleassure of A Dark Prince  with a bit of backtracking…all the way to  Lachlan and Emma’s story . Cole does a magnificent job of reiterating the pertinent points without completely re-copying scenes we have read from previous books (cough Bad Moon Rising cough). My hat is off to her, she must have a steel trap for a memory and one amazing timeline cheat-sheet. We learn just how Garreth becomes smitten with the frosty Lucia and what better way to have two characters meet than at a battle of man muscles and testosterone. Otherwise known as a Rugby match. 

We also learn a bit more about my favorite, character Regin, and how closely tied her past is with Lucia’s. And how Lucia’s gift for archery came at the price of her own sacrifice and free will. Left for broken and left for dead, a fifteen year old Regin carries Lucia to the Goddess and pleads with her to “fix” Lucia at any cost.  The Goddess agrees to this bargain but Lucia must devote her life to becoming the greatest warrior/Archer to ever live. Oh, and she must remain pure. i.e. no funny business. Now, if that isn’t a deal with the devil I don’t know what is. 

“I hope they’re in town. I want to face them!”Regin stood and brandished one of the two swords that she usually wore in sheaths crisscrossed her back. “I’ll lunch on their balls!”

That was Regin’s new threat : to lunch on enemies’ balls. “Reege, when you threaten males with that, I don’t think it has the result you intend. They think less Lunchables, more tea bag.” (Lucia)

 

What I liked:

Garreth’s awesome prowess on the Rugby field, and his first meeting with Lucia. I’ve even re-imagined the story with myself as the earnest towel-boy wiping the dripping sweat off their brows. I’m wearing peekaboo booty shorts, minus the cellulite, with a perky C-bust (no need to be greedy) and a cropped shirt that says “Save a Horse Ride a Cowboy”. 

I also, thought Cole did a great job of making Lucia’s ‘born again’ approach to sex, realistic and fun, without sounding preachy or distracting from their relationship. Sometimes when authors have these insurmountable obstacles, they are so believable that when the character of interest finally overcomes them it seems impossible and too forced. 

What I didn’t like

I found at some points I had a hard time connecting with Lucia. I’ve so enjoyed her previous femme fatals that I missed her other female’s character’s humorous side. I know not to expect each character to be the same, but Cole’s humor is so witty that I kept wanting Lucia to lighten-up a bit. Then again, not having sex for thousands of years would have made me a bit bitchtastic too. 

Questions:

Usually Kresley Cole will have a excerpt to her newest IAD book, instead we are given a very interesting epilogue with hints for her next book. Who do we think is next? Carrow (kick ass friend of Mari from Wicked Deeds on a Winter’s Night), Regin, (finally… will we get a Berserker story), or Lothaire…god anyone else having a Karen Marie Moning flash back here? Hint Click Link If You Want to Know. Hint: Don’t Click Link If You Don’t Want to Know.

Was anyone else imagining Michael Sheen shouting… “We can be slaves, or we can be… LYCANS!  Sorry, was that tacky?

What Cole character’s HEA (Happily Ever After) are you foaming at the mouth for?

KC: I really want the story of Sabine’s sister *mumbles* whatshername (from Kiss of a Demon King) and that scary winged dude that has been chasing after them. He kind of reminds me of one of the character’s from a Jaid Black book *trips down erotic memory lane*

K-Khan: I’m for Regin or Carrow’s story. Anyone who quotes the movie Aliens is worth reading about. Nuff’ said.

Rating


 

Favorite IAD Reads

Hunger Like No Other (Book 1) – Amazon 

Wicked Deeds On A Winter’s Night  (Book 3) – Amazon 

Dark Desires After Dusk 

Other Reviews

Queen B –  B 

Katiebabs-  A- 

Smexy Books  4.5/5 

Kresley Cole’s Website | Purchase From Amazon 

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Review – Be My Naughty Valentine’s Inevitable Surrender by Destiny Blaine

7 Mar, 2010 in Erotic Romance by K.C. 18 Comments

Inevitable Surrender by Destiny Blaine (90 pages)

Genre: Erotic Romance

Ebook Purchase Here

Book given to me for review 

A soldier may wave a white flag of surrender but a cowboy never concedes.

Luke McGregor knows how to protect himself. He’s a hard ass but he’s having a tough time dealing with the extra heartbeats he feels thumping against his chest whenever he spots one little blue-eyed darling. For the better part of twenty-six years, he’s avoided the one woman he wants to find in his bed but on Valentine’s Day, everything changes. 

Marcy Killian knows there’s only one man for her. She pretends to come off as a worldly woman, a gal who recognizes what she wants in the opposite sex and more importantly, understands what to do with the man she wants. Unfortunately, the cowboy she longs for most is someone who terrifies her. 

When Luke and Marcy bump into one another on Valentine’s Day, sparks fly. They immediately realize fate has a hand in bringing them together. Will they ignore the connection they’ve established over the years or will their inevitable surrender lead to more than one night of passion?

Inevitable Surrender starts out with Luke trying to hide from the tempting, blue-eyed, vixen Marcy. A soilder knows when to wave the white flag and admit defeat and with Cupid all around them, how can Luke continue to say no?

Since high school Marcy has known that sexy cowboy Luke McGregor was trouble with a capital T. She knew once he layed her down she probably never get up. Although they havent’ seen each other in more than two years she is getting damn tired of sending him signals. After asking him to drive her home on Valentine’s Day, things get a bit heated in his Chevy Silverado and they end up crashing. Talk about a buzz kill.

I never tire of the formula of the wholesome sexy rancher get’s weak-kneed for the aloof vixen, who has secrely liked him all along. Yes you can imagine I had lots and lots of high school crushes as a girl (Aaron M and his sexy black binder). I throughly enjoyed the the banter between Luke and Marcy and felt it added to the tension between the characters.

“I figured somebody snatched you up by now, Marcy”

“You Offering?”

His gaze drifted over her. Maybe, fucking hell, maybe. “No.”

 

The sexual build up between Luke and Marcy was well done in the begining. I also thought the dialouge was well written, no cheesiness or eyerolling in this story. It’s not everyday that a I get turned by a traditonal erotic-romance boo. But yeah, hot scenes here people!

This was a surpriing good read. I think I would have liked to have the story to arc a bit furher into Luke and Marcy’s relationship but perhaps the author has plans..mabye a Christmas story? Even though it’s past Valentine’s Day, Inevitable Surrender stands the test of time no matter the time of the season.

Rating

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WordPress Better Watch It!

5 Mar, 2010 in Book Reviews by K.C. 11 Comments

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Wedded Bliss My A**

3 Mar, 2010 in Book Reviews by K.C. 28 Comments

 

Today I turn the chair over *swivels chair* to K-Khan (other half of Smokinhotbooks) where we b*tch    discuss, calmly ,the cluster f that is called Wedded Bliss. What you think we were going to post about authors behaving badly on Amazon…

K-Khan-I think I need a T-shirt that states, I survived planning a wedding and all I got was this lousy T-shirt. Or at least a fricken merit badge. ! As most of you might know by now  I’ve  been planning my wedding to Mr. T for some time.  We are down to t-minus two months and counting and KC has already had to pry weapons of mass destruction from my hands.

KC-If I had to do it all over again I’d do it Mick Jagger style and just cohabitate and become a common-law wife. 

Remember that time I was sobbing on the phone with Mom during my lunch hour about my then groom-zilla…

Groom-zilla “I don’t want to work with THAT flower lady. She’s shifty eyed! I don’t trust her.”

Me : :blinks:: Uh, you are behaving like a bridezilla!

Groom-zilla “This is my wedding too!”

 

K-Khan- Whoever said that this would be the happiest day of your life, can rot in dirty, fire-spiting hell, because this just plain sucks big hairy ones. Now, it’s not as though I am not eternally grateful at the generosity of my family in trying to make this day the best. Scout’s honor, I’m touched. That aside, here are the reasons why I might need the representation of my friend who is currently in law-school.

K-Khan-MIL (that’s mother-in-law) has been given a copy of her invitation list of people SHE would like to have at our wedding. We are literally hours from the deadline in which the invitation people need our list and suddenly, I notice 20-50 invitations are being sent to her address. Seems that it’s too much of a hassle to get those pesky addresses, so why not pay for postage for a good chunk of people and she can hand deliver them! Oh, and let’s not leave out that a good portion of the names are spelled incorrectly, Mrs. who should be Mr. are reversed and so on.

KC-Just wait until you have to do the seating chart ::shudders:: I will bring Jack Daniels and chocolate when we do yours.

K-Khan- in the real world, this would make me laugh and say, ‘Silly little rabbit, trix are for kids’. Instead, my bride-to-be side comes out. Red horns spout from my forehead, my voice lowers to a demonic grunt and I crack my neck like the butchest badass you know. Poor Mr. T, he’ll probably never be the same.

KC-  I probably shouldn’t mention that one friend who project hi-jacked your bachelorette destination…

K-Khan- That’s right! That little minx. She professed how utterly dreary it would be to do ANOTHER bachelorette party in Las Vegas since that’s where we did KC’s. I got a little misty eyed that somehow I’ve become  a terrible bride-host that would force Vegas of all places, for my friends to come out and celebrate. Her suggestion, have it on the East Coast, conveniently in her city. We could just sleep on her hard-wood floors. Oh and she offered up my other friend’s place without having that friend know.  After we moved the b-party to a non-vegas location, she professes that she can’t possibly make it. KC was spittin’ mad at that one.

KC:  THERE ARE NO STRIP CLUBS IN UTAH. I think. We missed out on that. I had big plans for you in Vegas…big plans. (takes deep yoga breaths)

K-Khan- Again, in a world where I am not a crazed person in satin and tulle I would have laughed it off as another silly conversation and shrugged my shoulders. Somehow the bridezilla b*tch comes out and she looks a lot like this (looks at above photo):

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