Goodie Bag Winner for February

And the winner is .... Daun Ann!!! Congratulations, you are the winner of February's goodie bag. There are pens, postcards, bookmarks and lots more:)

Send me a message at tracey h kitts @ yahoo.com (without the spaces) and let me know where to send your prize:)

Thanks to all who entered and don't forget, there's another contest coming up for March.

Texting

I am amazed at how much can be communicated through text messaging. When “texting” first became popular, I thought it was stupid. I know, I know. I’m not calling people who text stupid, just the concept. I spent so many years in school learning proper grammar and now I can say things like FU and people don’t need the other letters in between? LOL

Suddenly the hilarity of the situation struck me. You can have an entire argument in text and if someone doesn’t know what you’re saying it’s even funnier. LOL Check this out. I’ll just refer to the people here as some random letters. Hmmm. I pointed to H and J on the alphabet so that’s what they’ll be. The following is a late night text session. LOL Be warned, some of it is vulgar, most of it is stupid, but all of it is funny. An interpretation shall follow.

J: U up?
H: RU? LOL
J: SMT Ass
H: LOL What RU doing? STM?
J: N Jail NBD
H: Wow. STBY
J:TFTHAOT
H: What DU want me 2do?
J: BJ?
H: !!!! ^URS
J: TDTM:)
H: RU kidding? I’m still mad at u.
J: 4what?
H: Uknow.
J: C’mon. It was funny. SICS
H: FU
J: F me?!
H: …
J: CRBT …
H: SIUYA How did U get N jail?
J: SH CUHMO?
H: EM
J: LOL IFIC
H: Seriously, FU.
J: No, FU!
H: STFU!
J: SMB!
H: SOB.
J: Thought U liked my SOH. Hee hee
H: ESAD SOI
J: HA! I’ll MIUTY
H : … SRSLY ?
J : I’ll B Out by Noon:) C U Then ?
H: WFM
J: ELNT

Interpretation of abbreviations. Use at your own hilarity. LOL And no they are not in order:)

CU – See you
WFM – Works for me
ELNT – Excellent
SRSLY – Seriously
MIUTY – Make it up to you
ESAD – Eat s*** and die
SOI – Self owned idiot
U – You
SOH – Sense of humor
SOB – Do I really need to spell this one out?
STFU – Shut the f**** up
SMT Ass – Smart ass
LOL – Laugh out loud
STM – Spanking the monkey
NBD – No big deal
STBY – Sucks to be you
TFTHAOT – Thanks for the help ahead of time
BJ – C’mon you already know this one.
^URS – Up yours
TDTM – Talk dirty to me
SICS – Sitting in chair snickering
CRBT – Crying real big tears
SIUYA – Shove it up your ass
SH – Shit happens
CUHMO – Can you help me out?
EM – Eat me
IFIC – If I could
SMB – Suck my balls

Hey, I told you it was vulgar. LOL

Bitten has just been released!

Check it out! I'm so excited:)

Sandra Ashton is a witch who suddenly finds herself dating three vampires. So, what do you do when you’ve got three immortal beings professing their undying or is that undead love for you? You agree to what they like to call, ‘joint custody’.

You can purchase a copy of Bitten here: http://www.newconceptspublishing.com/bitten.htm

Join my werewolf clan

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Have you ever wanted Bade to bite you? Well, now's your chance. LOL I've become addicted to BiteFight and would love for you guys to join my clan (Canis Romulus).

Click this link to be bitten: http://s5.bite-fight.us/c.php?uid=29946

And this is the link to my clan: http://s5.bite-fight.us/bite/ally.php?

I'm honestly not sure how to join the clan, since I didn't join one, I started my own. LOL

Here is the clan description. Some of you may recognize this. My son helped me write it. heehee

Wolf pack for members in the Deep South. (US) Though we are open to foreign members. We seek to maintain peace among werewolves, though any vampire is fair game. We shall fong them until their insides are out, there outsides are in, until their intrails become their ex-trails .... PAIN, lots of pain ...Come my breatheren, help us expand our teritory!

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I feel like crap

Great subject line, huh? LOL Seriously, this is the third night in a row that I haven't gotten any sleep. I think I've got food poisoning. Having had it before, I recognize the symptoms. It isn't severe enough to go to the hospital. It's just enough to piss me off and keep me from resting or getting much work done.

My biggest problems are stomach ache and nausea. That's not so bad. But after three days, it's Hell. The good news is that I've had time to come up with some interesting plot twists for my new story. Might as well since I couldn't sleep. The bad news is I've felt too crappy to write them into the book.

I've got bits and pieces on post-it notes, so they'll eventually make it there. So far I think that Wicked City is the best book I've ever written. I know, I know, I said that about the last three books I've written. But technically ... aren't I supposed to get better at this as I go?

I'm really getting into these characters. I wrote a scene a few nights ago that was just so intense. I immediately had to call my friend and read it to her. LOL I was thrilled when she agreed with me:) Trust me when I say that it wasn't to save my feelings. She's told me plenty of times when something was stupid and this was truly a great scene. There was just such ... emotion in so few words ... a lifetime of longing in just a touch. *sigh* It was beautiful. I'm very proud of myself:)

I don't mean that in an "I'm so awesome" sort of way. It's more like a "Holy crap you mean I wrote that?" sort of thing. LOL Know what I mean?

So, since I feel too bad to work on my book and it's after three o'clock in the morning, I'm reading stupid news headlines. I think that most news can fall into that category. Not that there aren't lots of important issues out there. They just aren't usually considered "news worthy," which is sad.

I just read something about an athlete who tested positive for using enhancement drugs. (No, not that kind you pervert.) Now the article headline said, "So-and-so has a problem with Roids." LOL My first thought was, "Why the hell is this guy's hemorrhoid problem major news?" hahahahaha Maybe it's because I'm such a prankster, but when someone says "Roids" I think hemorrhoids. *snicker* (Yes, I know they meant steroids. I'm not retarded, just sick and sleep depraved, um, I mean deprived.)

I've been up for a while so I also took an I.Q. test. I have taken many over the years, from standardized paper and pencil tests to online stuff just for fun. The highest I've ever scored is 162, the lowest (which didn't have as high a scale) was 134. On average I score 154. The test I took tonight told me that most people who got a similar score to mine were criminally insane. Yeah, just when I was starting to feel good about myself someone had to go and point out that I'm most likely crazy. Humph. Stupid test.

I think I'm gonna try to sleep again. I'm suddenly feeling less nauseous:) You've been a great audience. *takes a bow* Please remember to tip your waitress. (That doesn't mean tell her not to eat yellow snow.) Did I ever mention that I tell really bad jokes when I don't get enough sleep?LOL

Something cool

I just got a look at the cover for the March 2009 issue of The Brass Spectacle Magazine. And guess what? I'm mentioned on the cover! Pretty cool, huh? I knew that my short story would be featured in this issue, but I never expected it to be mentioned on the cover. Wow.

The story being featured is Bitten. As some of you may already know, this is the short story (originally written for Coffee Time Romance to share with their readers) that inspired the full length novel. Everyone liked it so much (including me) that I couldn't resist telling the rest of the story.

Bitten, the novel, is scheduled for release sometime later this month with New Concepts Publishing. I have to say, it's the hottest thing I've written to date:)