We don’t get a lot of real coldness in NE Florida. “Real coldness” in my world is defined as “probably should stock up on wood for the fireplace since the temperatures may drop all the way below 50.”

So 17 degrees below freezing? (I’m working in the Fahrenheit world here, you Swedish lurkers – Hej!) That just doesn’t happen in my world.

Which is probably why I found this short video of “17 Below and 1 Cup of Boiling Water” entirely too entertaining.

Entertaining enough to still be cool after three or four views, at least.

Stay warm!

Farewell, Michael Jackson. Thanks for the music.

Last week’s walk down the Crazy memory lane made me think of another song straight from my parent’s 45 collection. Little Blue Man – I drove my sister absolutely nuts playing this song. At the grand old age of 11, she thought this song just so … juvenile.

Of course it is. But that’s probably why I loved it so much.

I thought for sure there must be something at least a bit naughty about this song, since my parents didn’t like me playing it. These two things made me more determined than ever to play it over, and over, every time they left the room. I never did figure out what the naughty part was, and I think now that it must just have been that the singer tried to kill the Little Blue Man. Shocking! But he survived, even if his love did not.

When I was about 9, my sister and I were moved down into a new “kid’s room” my dad built in the basement. There was a new baby on the way that needed our bedroom, so we did what the most skilled of midwesterners know how to do, and built a bedroom in the basement.

Really, it was cool. First we got to help build it, then we got to pretty much do what we wanted as long as we kept it quiet and didn’t fight. (That last part was actually a lot harder than it sounds.) Except for the creepy loud pachinko machine I both loved and feared – you would not believe how many times I nearly peed my pants because I was afraid to go past that hunk of levers and metal balls lurking at the foot of the stairs in the middle of the night – I’ve got some great memories of our basement bedroom.

One of them was finding some treasures when we were cleaning out the basement before we began construction. Treasure number 1 was mom and dad’s collection of 45’s. And were there some classics in there? You tell me.

Release day is here!
Hunting the Huntress, my first release, from Samhain Publishing -

“Nilana has one night to make the choice of a lifetime: Accept the love of two men, or keep hunting—alone.”

View the book trailer at YouTube!  (It’s also on my site – click the Book Trailer tab at the top)  If you like the trailer, please rate it

I’ll be doing a giveaway at the end of the month for a Samhain Gift Certificate from comments  on the blog this month.  Every comment in January gets you a chance to win!  You can use the gift certificate to buy any Samhain book, so don’t think you have to wait – go on and buy Huntress today, then if you win you’ll be able to buy something new!

This little girl has an amazing voice. Hard to believe she’s only 7.

Has the usual little-girl-cute factor, but it’s also an amazing song.

Hope you’re having a wonderful holiday, white or not!

What a week. Not a bad one, just a long one. I think the 4 hour nap I needed (only 3 hours after getting out of bed) tells just how exhausting it was for me.

I’ve got 3 13 year old boys in the house tonight. And you have a dirty, dirty mind if you thought anything but “Why? You poor thing.”

Finally -
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