Date:	2009-12-23 00:15
Subject:	I feel GOOD!
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Mood:	okay
Music:	silence

I have had a bottle of wine and three Irish Car Bombs! I feel Good! I'm waiting for a new game to down load from Big Fish Games.com, so I thought, why not post something?

I leave for Washington on the 24th with my parents. We are driving from Torrance CA all the way to Bellingham WA. 1200 miles, 18 hours. It's going to be a long trip.

I have been on this trip before. It's not that bad as long as I get to listen to my music. Music that my dad could do with out. Luckily my mom doesn't mind my music, so we can gang up on my dad.

I have already informed both parents that I get to drive first and most on this trip. I always feel better when I'm in control of the car. My dads driving scares me a little.

The game is done down loading so I'm gonna play it for a little bit then go to bed. Got laundry to do before we leave.

Date:	2009-12-08 20:55
Subject:	Success!
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Mood:	jubilant
Music:	the happy singing of my heart

I did it! I read 7 L.K. Hamilton books in 16 days! I finished Swallowing Darkness, the 7th book, at 12 pm today. Just after I bought book 8, Divine Misdemeanors. I knew I could do it!

My sister and I drove to Huntington Beach CA early this morning to get a wrist band that would guarantee a spot in the front of the line to have L.K. Hamilton sign her new book. I am so glad we were in the first group, because there where A LOT of people that came out to show love and support to an author we all very much love.

Laurell Hamilton is very gracious and giving. She said she would stay until the last person, of many, was gone. She is also funny and charming. A couple of happy moments I take away from meeting this lovely person is she liked my brown butterfly shirt, and second she recognized and likes my twitter name @bookwormgoddes. That was very cool!

I had her sign my book to bookwormgoddess because it is very much who I am. A complete bookworm, and as is every woman, I am a goddess.

I'm very happy to have had this experience. L.K. Hamilton is a great role model to not just women and young girls, but to everyone who has had someone in their life till them they shouldn't or couldn't do what they wanted to do. She is a strong women with a strong voice. We need more women like her in this world.

I'm off now to watch Lost with my sister, a thank you for my sister who on her day off kept me company during a long, but fun day.

Date:	2009-12-06 20:12
Subject:	One book in one day!
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Mood:	excited
Music:	The joy in my heart

I started reading A Lick of Frost, the 6th book, this morning at 11:30 am and finished around 6:30 pm. One brake to eat lunch and one brake to watch The Graham Norton show. Yea! I knew I could read a book in a day! So know I have a whole day and half to read Swallowing Darkness, the 7th book. Since it's my first read of this book it will be nice to not feel like I have to rush through too meet my goal.

I'm really excited to see L.K. Hamilton on Tuesday at the Huntington Beach Barnes & Nobel. What to ware, what to ware?

Off now to surf the wide world of the web. I'll start Swallowing Darkness later tonight. Happy Happy Me.

Date:	2009-12-05 21:56
Subject:	How did I do that?
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Mood:	amused
Music:	The call of wine

I was just re-reading my posts and realized I completely forgot to post when I finished book 4! All I remember about the day I finished it, I was tired and decided to write about it later. Totally slipped my mind! I did finish book 4 though. I'm not so tired I missed reading a whole book. I need bed.

Date:	2009-12-05 21:35
Subject:	So close to the End
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Mood:	drained
Music:	silence

I finished the 5th book this morning. Then I didn't read any of book 6 for the rest of the day. That gives me three days to read 733 pages. That's just 244.333333 pages a day. Not even a whole book. So doable!

Except I want to go sleep for the next three days. I don't know why I'm tired. Oh yeah, I just remembered why I'm tired. I spent two hours in LA freeway traffic yesterday, and an hour and a half today! That will drain the life right out of you. I think after I pick up my sister from work at 10:15 pm tonight, I'll come home and curl up with a large glass of wine and watch Lost with my sister. And go to bed earlier then my normal 2am.

We made a deal, I'd watch Lost and she'd watch Heroes. Only some how we're on season 3 of lost and the middle of season 2 of Heroes. to be fair though my 7 books in 16 days thing doesn't leave much time to watch Heroes. I miss Zachary Quinto though.

Date:	2009-12-03 00:04
Subject:	Tons and tons of words
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Mood:	sleepy
Music:	The Office

Tuesday I finished book three and went straight to bed. I slept for ten hours. Wednesday I started A Stroke of Midnight, the 4th book in the series, and I am a little over half way through it. After some sleep tonight, hopefully I will get all the way to halfway through Mistral's Kiss, the 5th book. I know I can finish my goal of 7 books in 16 days.

I've had some nice wine and am a little fuzzy on what else I wanted to say in this post. I'm tired but want to keep reading. Plus my sister is watching The Office on her computer and it's distracting me.

Date:	2009-11-29 00:55
Subject:	A little behind
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Mood:	sleepy
Music:	My sister lightly snoring

Just finished book two of seven that I want to read in 16 days. I am a little behind at this time. I have to read five books in nine days. Still possible.

It was more difficult to get in reading time this holiday weekend then I thought. Family always around wanting to do stuff and go places. Next week though my mom has two doctor appointments that I'm driving her too. So plenty of reading time.

Tonight I also bought the 7th book Swallowing Darkness! Super psyched to put it with the other books, in a nice neat row. Books love to come and live at my house, and I'm happy to have them.

Off to LA LA Land now, got to get an early start on Seduced by Moonlight, the 3rd book in the series.

Date:	2009-11-24 20:58
Subject:	1st book done
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Mood:	content
Music:	My sister on the phone with her friends

I've finished the first book on my list of seven books in 16 days. It took my half a day longer because I spent this afternoon watching TV. I'll start the next book tonight, and hopefully get ten chapters into it before bed. First though I have to finish season two of Lost, on my sister's request.
This reading was my 3rd for this book, and it still gets me pumped up with adrenalin, wondering whats gonna happen next. Its great! I also realized a little more about myself and my sexual fantasies. Things I was keeping in the dark. Now that they are in the light I am fully jealous of Princess Merry. Sholto. Enough said.

Date:	2009-11-22 12:26
Subject:	7 books in 16 days
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Mood:	optimistic
Music:	the wind in the trees

Normally I don't buy hardback books. I prefer paperback because they are easier to read on the go. Lightweight. It was hard reading 800 pages of Harry Potter for 18 hours straight, with the hard edge digging into my leg. Also I tend to forget to check when new books are coming out, so its in paperback by the time I get around to it. And they cost less.
That said, Laurell K. Hamilton has a new Merry Gentry book coming out December 8th! So I will be buying and hopefully having her sign Divine Misdemeanors, the 8th book in the series, on that day. It will be the first hardback out of 11 books I've bought of hers. And very luckily the 7th book in the series, Swallowing Darkness, which I don't have, comes out in paperback on November 24th.
So, I would like to reread the first 6 books of the series that I have sitting on my bed, and read for the first time the 7th book all in 16 days. That's a book every two days. So easy. My guess is about 2600 pages.

Date:	2009-11-09 00:14
Subject:	Wine and Chocolate
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Mood:	thirsty

I'm hopped up on wine and chocolate. Also some sexy stories.
I should go to bed so I can wake up earlier then 10:30 am and not end up wasting my day watching movie for hours. Most likely I'll be up till 3 am and sleep late and waste my life on nothing day after day after day, till someone comes along to slap me out of my downward spiral!
Time to open a second bottle of wine!
Cheap wine and mediocre chocolate truffles are zipping along my blood stream, giving me inspiration from a false Muse. Slowly handing me words and phrases to type out in an online journal that no one will read. Visions of paragraphs that seem to make sense in this late hour, but come the bright, blinding light of empty stomach and harsh sun, they are just a twisting path toward a sad ending of a story not fully realized.
Who do I follow? The Muse that leads me down an easy "happy" path? Or a Muse that takes me into the darkness and pain and sadness, into my heart and soul? Under my mask, to all that I keep secret from the world?
I want to explore all that I hide. The things that have never seen the blinding light of exposure. What will I find in my depths?
I need my muse. Where is my Muse? Why does she hide from me? Or is it I who hide from Her? Do I keep my ears blocked? My eyes veiled and my tongue deaden to my Muses song and color and sweet nectar? How can She find me in my dead life?
I think I heard Her whisper to me this dark night. Just a slight sound for a second, enough to to keep me searching for my Muse in the hard world around me.
Till we meet again, I will try to keep my senses open to all that we cannot see, hear of touch.

When I lay down to dream tonight, along with my childhood stuffed bear, I will have three books in my bed laying next to me. The first is a collection of Vampire tales from a multitude of 19th and 20th century authors entitled "Vampires, Wine and Roses". By the way, three of my favorite things. The second is a collection of short stories by Laurell K. Hamilton, Strange Candy. Third is a collection of 'Faerie Tale Weddings' with a twist, entitled 'Never After", also containing a story by Hamilton.
I have almost finished Strange Candy, I'm waiting to read Hamilton's first book, Nightseer, and her 10th Anita Blake book, to finish Strange Candy.
In between the pages of these books I have found mystery, intrigue, sex, and Vampires. What I have discovered about myself is I crave my fiction with fangs that rip and bite and bleed. I want my Vampire to come to me in the quite night, luring me toward a dark fate with the sweet promise of companionship through the rest of time.
What I want is the Vampire of old. A creature that cares only about what sustenance, I can provide it in the near future, be it food or sex. If you so happen to want to join it in the long, lonely walk of eternity, you are welcome to sign away your right to a God that will condemn you.
These new so-called vampires that have sprung up are not to my liking. They try to hard to fit into our world. Hunting four legged animals instead of the two legged kind that nature needs them too eliminate too maintain a balance.
When I first read of these new vampires I was intrigued. Cute stories, cute vampire boys, happy ever after. But as the call of the masses cried out in larger and louder voices for 'tame vampires' to hold them in the long cold nights, I remembered the Vampires I grew up with. They don't care what the public opinion of them is. They hunt, and corrupt young naive persons for their own pleasure's. They prefer the dark corners and decrepit houses on the hill, to the high schools and proms of teen life.
So let the youth have their 'sweet vamps' that keep them company at lunch. Give me the dark Vampires of my nightmares. Sweetly vicious, and most defiantly deadly. I sleep only so I may dream of the darkness and pleasure and pain that awaits me in his or her bloody embrace.