Deployment is looming

Like the tall shadowy figure that hung out in your childhood closet Deployment is looming... its the stuff of nightmares...and well I cant go on for fear of the trauma. Actually deployment isnt that bad, it really isnt for the one at home at least. yeah it gets lonely, at night especially, and 6 months plus being the only parent at home is completely draining but you find friends, you pick up new hobbies, and you get yourself busy...I swear the busier you are the faster the deployment goes by. Last night we had a predeployment brief. For you non military people thats a meeting with the command for married Sailors, and what ever wives decide to show up. It was entirely way too long and it was boring,yup wicked boring. I am glad I went though, you know playing the whole "supportive good little wife" is a good thing. But more importantly it has made one thing very clear, deployment IS coming, well maybe. If you didnt already know.... /center> Thanks Oprah, sit back down. So what does this mean? Well it can mean everything or nothing, it means he MIGHT deploy as scheduled, it MIGHT be delayed, it MIGHT be cancelled all together (doing what I like to call "pulling a Truman ;) ) or they even MIGHT go out on time but come back late. Its fun... yeah hurry up & wait has taken a whole new meaning.

June Cleaver can kiss my....

Yes I said it! June Cleaver kiss my neon white, fat rear end. I hate you and the false ideals you make me want to live up to! I try to keep my house as clean as you do but you know what I have a real family and you didnt have facebook. Or pinterest. In other words you had no freaken life ;) Another reason I hate you oh unattainable one... I went ahead and I made what sounded like a great dinner... Cheesy Buffalo Chicken Pasta... sounds great right? I mean one reviewer said it "tasted exactly like chicken wings"... she lied. I love chicken wings and who doesnt like cheese? And if you dont like pasta then get your Commie butt back to the mother land... this is 'Merica we eat our carbs here and LIKE IT. Well it tasted like none of those amazing things... it tasted awful. Even my husband, who eats EVERYTHING, barely scarfed down one bowl. :/ I cried a little...I'll admit it I cried. I made dinner, rather then call it in like I really wanted to, and it tastes awful. My son had a hot dog and my daughter had ham and cheese...as for mom... its tagalongs for me with facebook and pinterest while I ignore the mess calling for my attention.

Seriously I need to stop being lame

So I really do need to come in here more often. I dont think there is really anyone who notices but maybe someday someone will wander in here and be amused ;) Since the last time I have been here I have had a crisis of faith followed by an incomplete conversion. I have officially left the Catholic Church in search of something more accepting and will allow me to grow spiritually. Which is all a pretty way of saying I became sick of being told for 40 days God cared if I ate a cheeseburger on Friday and that a man in a dress with a FABULOUS hat was telling me that my best friend was going to burn in hell because he loved another man. So I have found a home within the local Unitarian Universalist Church and I have found a great group of people to hang with. A lot of them are Vegan and Vegetarian and well we all know its not a Church function without a potluck, so we have been trying a LOT of different foods. I have actually found that being a Vegan or a Vegetarian isnt as scary or hard as I once thought. My husband, however, does not share my new found appreciation for Vegan and Vegetarian cuisine. I am currently making a post about a weight watchers cookie recipe that my friend at the Vegan Virtuoso (http://theveganvirtuoso.wordpress.com/) vegan-ified for me, and lemme tell you they are AMAZING!!!! Oh new batch is out of the oven SQUEE!!!!

Contest bug has hit me....

Soooo remember that book I told y'all to go out and buy a few months back...well the Author did it again. Katie Salidas recently released "Moonlight" which while not directly following Alyssa and Lysander, it is an Immortalis novel. This one focuses on Fallon and her furry, hunky, boy toy Aiden; the Alpha of the Olde Town Pack in Boston. Not gonna lie, while I like Aiden and do like Fallon as his mate part of me wanted to see her and Nicholas end up together... Anyways Fallon needs to decide to become furry or see Aiden with another woman, well werewolf. My only real negative about this installment is it was too short! I didnt want it to end! You NEED to go read it...I mean it...go buy it, dont borrow it, buy it totally worth it! Oh and speaking of Nicholas.... he needs a mate and Katie Salidas is looking to us, the fan base, for a mate (but really I dont want y'all to enter cause well to qoute "Finding Nemo"...."MINE" ;p )but...if you insist on checking it out (or commenting on the blog post telling Katie I should win..hint hint) heres the URL http://www.katiesalidas.com/2012/10/become-character-contest.html

Book Review: Soulstone

So kiddies here it is...that book review I promised you about Soulstone by Katie Salidas. Well the latest installment of the Immortalis series was not a disappointment at all. I particularly enjoyed the continuing development of Nicholas, in this novel he starts to become more then a cranky, old solider who seems to only brood around, in this novel he has a sense of humor! Also the continuing love affair between our favorite human and a certain fuzzy, piece of eye candy :D I wont go into too much detail about this one in particular (I don't want to give too much away!) but you should pick up a copy...like NOW! Seriously...get the series :D DO ITTTT!!!!!

Book Review coming soon!

I have been reading the Immortalis Series by Katie Salidas and I am completely hooked! I am one of those people who get very involved with the characters in the books that I read so character development is very important to me. Well Katie does not disappoint! Set in Sin City the Immortalis Series centers on Alyssa, a newly turned Vampire, and her sire and mate Lysander. We all can see some of ourselves in Alyssa, a magnet for trouble who is having difficulties accepting her new life style and we all want a Lysander in our lives (a living Greek statue who is devoted to Alyssa). When Katie released book 4 of the series "Soulstone" she put an open call for bloggers to review her newest addition and of course I jumped at the chance! That is the book I will be reviewing here for you soon! Look for the review next week, and in the meantime do yourself a favor & go buy the series! http://www.katiesalidas.com/p/buy-books.html

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