That was the wedding march! Get it?

Yep, so today’s officially the wedding day which is good ’cause the in-laws are getting to be quite the little cranky pants!! I think that should be Reason #1 why Emma doesn’t like weddings. People get cranky!!

So the Hubster is off this morning to get ready with ‘the boys,’ leaving me to fend for myself.

Anyway, obviously I don’t have anything to say, but I don’t have anything to do either, hence my posting anyway.

Come play with me at Torrid Temptations tomorrow where I’m going to talk about - what else - Weddings (yes, again!). There will be questions and PRIZES (so send all your friends, too!)

Hope everyone is having a great weekend! And I apologize for not responding to comments left lately, while I do obviously have internet access here at the hotel, it’s not the greatest (plus there’s that whole lack of time thing).

Yesterday, since I didn’t post a blog title, it shows up in my little control panel thingy as “Post 299.” Which makes this 300!!!

WoooHoooo!!

Can you beleive that some of you have read 300 posts from a rambling me? I’m so not entertaining and half the time I don’t even say anything (like now). And those 300 posts aren’t even counting the Blogspot ones from before I went to Wordpress (I don’t think - they might be).

300 posts since June 2005. Wow.

I’ve made so many new friends and met so many people. Last summer I even got to meet a few in Reno! I’ve learned a lot from comments and even more from following other peoples blog links.

Sure, blogging is a great way to procrastinate (Wahoo!) but it really is also a great learning tool, way of networking, all sorts of good stuff wrapped up into one little web page.

So, tell me, what’s your favorite thing about the whole blog phenomenon? What are some blogs you never miss? Do you think you could quit blogging cold turkey right now? What does blogging mean in your life (ok, so that’s a lame question, but I’m trying)?

As you know I’ll be gone for the next four days, but I SHOULD have internet access and I hope to regale you with stories of Cleveland and/or more zoo pictures. Tomorrow = Pandas!!

Now, to celebrate 300, here are some more pictures from the zoo!

Why is it that the more stuff I have to do, and the less time I have to do it, the more I find ways to procrastinate?

I swear, this week when I cross one thing off the list I add two more. I don’t seem to be making any headway.

So, things to do today & tomorrow:
Finish edits on Hot Stuff (done, but I’d like one more read through)
Finish edits on Tempting Fate (about 1/2 way through)
Cover Request Form
Author Form
Come up with 2 interesting blogs for SEx and Torrid Temptations next week
Catch up on all emails (this is a big one - my inbox is very full)
Send emails to many people
Find and purchase ticket to Florida - WooHoo!! I’ll be spending 10 days in Florida the beginning of June!
Laundry (which has to be drip dried because we finally just taped up the dryer vent so birds don’t get in) - Though it’s still drying.
Pay Bills (yucky)
Wrap presents
Pack

And all of this stuff has to be done by tomorrow?!?!

And with that I think I have to be finished blogging for the day because obviously I’ve got too much stuff to do? What does your week hold for you?

Everybody should go wish Kendra a Happy Birthday!

Doesn’t this little guy look like he’s wishing on a star?

I awoke to a dark and dreary day.

Perfect for curling up under the covers with a good book, or maybe perfect for getting a whole lot of work done.

I’m afraid as good as option one sounds, I’m going to have to go for option two.

You see, I’ve only got a 3 day week this week. Why you ask? I leave on Thursday to head off to beautiful Cleveland, Ohio for my brother-in-laws wedding.

Now first of all, it entails going to Cleveland. Don’t anyone get down on me for not wanting to go to Cleveland. I lived there for 4 years and I am perfectly content with never returning (though the Hubster and I do intend to catch up on the old stomping grounds). But the simple fact that when I checked the weather yesterday, it was 20 degrees colder in Cleveland than it is here, is enough to make me not want to go.

And then there’s this. My deep dark secret. Yes, I know I’m a romance author, I loves me the Happily Ever After, but here’s the secret - I hate weddings.

All weddings. Can’t stand them. Didn’t really even like my own that much (although it was so damn simple there wasn’t much not to like).

And I’m not talking about the reception part of weddings (though I do have a profound hatred for the Hokey Pokey and Bunny Hoop), I hate the actual wedding part of weddings.

I just can’t take the stressing out and paying thousands of dollars for a dress you’re going to wear once. The stress for acheiving perfection in everything from flowers, to friends, to small children who don’t want to be dressed up, to archaic vows that don’t really even have meaning anymore.

I certainly don’t find them romantic in the least. I mean what’s romantic about standing in front of everyone you know, making promises that 50% of married couples don’t keep, while everyone whispers behind your back about how long it’s going to last and the rubbery chicken they’re going to have to force down at the reception.

Now, that said, on Thursday, I will put on my happy face. I will be happy for BIL and soon-to-be SIL. I will do the same in several months for the other BIL’s wedding.

But secretly inside, I will simply continue to hate weddings.

To end on a happier note, and since yesterday’s bunnies went over so well, I figured I’d share some pictures over the next few days. Have I mentioned how much I love my digital camera with super awesome zoom lens?

I took this at the National Zoo.

The birds are still trying to nest in my dryer vent. Some maintenance guy came and looked at it, assured that they couldn’t get in the house (not that I was worried about that, but now I am) and said he’d be back…eventually.

But the birds are still there, and now our dryer doesn’t actually dry stuff.

Oh, and the Hubster instituted his brilliant solution for everything - spray Clorox at the dryer vent. *shakingheadmublingdumbassmubling*

Anyway, now that the birds are out of the way - metaphorically anyway, I watched Brokeback Mountain last night.

Obviously people that liked the movie must have watched a different version than I.

After I watched the movie I watched the special features and they were saying “oh people call it the gay cowboy movie but really it’s so much more than that,” but really, I think something called “the gay cowboy movie” would be a hell of a lot better.

They say that it’s this epic doomed love story. Uh, I missed it. I mean it is epic, and it is doomed, but I missed the love story part.

These two dudes kept getting back together but I never once saw that they were actually in love with one another. Was the sex that good? I dunno, but I never saw that they were in love.

Like I almost felt like the filmmakers were like “we’re stepping outside the bounds, making a gay love story, but lets not actually alienate people by showing the characters, you know, in love.”

And totally, if this movie were a romance novel, the characters would have been TSTL.

And while I knew I wasn’t going to get a happy ending, I expected at last something semi uplifting. But no. Two years from now, someone is going to find Ennis’s rotting corpse alone in his trailer after his liver explodes.

And Jack Twist is just a man ho! Where’s the romance in that? And did I really need to see Princess Mia’s boobs? I don’t think so!

The only good parts (and no, I’m not a perv) were the love scenes between Jack and Ennis. I could really feel the “I do, but I don’t” feelings there. But the rest just kind of fell flat.

So, I know I’m way late on seeing this flick, but I’m dying to know what other people thought!

Isn’t it pretty?

It’s a Toyota Matrix. We haven’t come up with a name for him/her/it yet, but everytime I get in, I look at the Hubster and say “I know kung fu!” (Get it, from The Matrix).

The Hubster took it for a really long test drive. When we first got in it had 21 miles on it! When we got ready to take it home, it had 32 miles on it.

This is us going home! Note the cool moon roof! Unfortunatly we couldn’t have it open that day ’cause it was raining. Plus, it’s kind of chilly.

So, what did you do this weekend?

The Spring Fling Anthology released today from WCPT! 10 stores by ten fabulous authors! You can buy your copy here.

And check back tomorrow and every Sunday this month for fun author interviews with the ladies of Spring Flings.

Also, I’ll do a little bit of not-so-shameless bragging and tell you that Little Red is the #9 bestseller for March at WCPT and Winter Wishes is #5.

We’re off new car shopping today (yikes!) and then to Target for some errands. It was a beautiful morning here, but it suddenly got very dark.

What are your plans for the weekend?

I finally did it!!

I mastered MySpace!

So, now..uh…does anybody want to be my friend?

You can find me here.

And what’s the best thing about MySpace? Found via Sherrill I can find blinky Heffalumps…

Come on, how many websites can you go to that post sexy nekkid guys one day and blinking Lumpy’s the next?

My laziness must have carried over into yesterday because apparently I forgot to blog (and I could have sworn I did). Oh well, I must be beginning that descent into madness. Whataya gonna do?

And to top it off, I really don’t have anything to say either.

So I’ll just post a few pictures that I took at the Cherry Blossom/Kite Festival the other day. They prove that spring really is here!

Here are some cherry blossoms just starting to…well…blossom.

You can see that there weren’t very many trees in full bloom.

This one is one of my favorites. You can see lots of kites, plus the WW2 Memorial, the reflecting pond, all the way down to the Lincoln Monument. I was sitting at the base of the Washington Monument and the kites you can see in the sky here are only a miniscule amount of the total.

So, how do you know that Spring has arrived in your part of the world?

That was me yesterday.

I barely even looked at my computer yesterday. Only replied to the one fairly urgent email I got, didn’t read any blogs, any news - NOTHING.

We flipped open the futon and spent pretty much all day relaxing (well, we did go to the grocery store but I don’t know if it counts since we were home by 11). Napping and watching TV was the bulk of my day.

But on Saturday, we went downtown (to DC) because it was the first day of the cherry blossom festival! There weren’t many blossoms to be had but it was still a pretty nice day, slightly chilly when the wind blew, slightly too warm when the sun was out.

There was also a kite festival, so the sky from the Washington Monument halfway down the Mall was filled with kites. Very cool. So, we walked around the tidal basin from the WW2 Memorial, past the FDR Memorial, to the Jefferson Monument back to see more kites at the Washington Monument (I think its funny to give directions like that).

But anyway, I’ve decided that my blog needs more pictures so over the next few days I’ll be posting some (have to upload them first).

What did you do this weekend? Plans for the week?

EDITED TO ADD: If anyone is having problems commenting, could you please email me so I can try to figure out what’s going on. Thanks a bunch! Email is on the Where’s Emma page of the sidebar (I’d post it but i’m afraid of Spam)