Friday Randomness

~~I finally read the MacKade Brothers books by La Nora and enjoyed them muchly. Interestingly, the two books that were Carolyn's favorites weren't mine and the two books that were mine weren't hers. I love me some Carolyn but I do question her taste. Heh.

~~I finally figured out one of the reasons I love the Isaac video (see post below) so much. That is besides the joy of sweetness and romanticism of it. It's that Isaac really isn't in it. It's not all a huge ego thing and look at me. Very awesome and about love and family. How can you not love it?

~~Why do so many people do so much complaining on Facebook? If your friends list was say, 30 people and you know them all since high school, okay, that's one thing. But when you have 2,637 friends and a bunch of them are authors and strangers (most of them in fact) then why are you posting about your horrible neighbors/bad breath/erectile dysfunction?

I see Facebook as a friendly tool but not a place to bemoan my saggy boobs or the fact that George Clooney got a restraining order on me. I've decided to unfriend anybody who annoys me now. I should be down to just me and Carolyn in a day or two. And soon it might just be me. Heh.

~~Regarding Carolyn, she's still very much alive, so those of you who are worried, don't be. The gag isn't too tight and we feed her once or twice a week. When we remember.

~~My current WIP is going well. Thanks for asking.

~~Some writer out there in cyberspace did a brilliant blog post about people not liking your book. She put it in wonderful perspective. Some people don't like bacon, some don't like chocolate, some won't like your book.

Carolyn and I had an interesting experience that was the flip side of that. There's a lovely young woman who on Goodreads rated both of our books 5 stars but gave some true classics less than that. I mean, she gave my upcoming The Stone Crow 5 stars and Robert Heinlein like, 3 stars. And I saw where someone gave Carolyn's Trials and Tribulations of a West Coast Southern Belle 5 stars but gave the brilliant Garden Spells by Sarah Addison Allen 3 or 4 stars.

Certainly I'm flattered to see my writing get 5 stars in someone's eyes but um... well, you get my drift.

~~Mollie and I are going to see Snow White and the Huntsman tonight. It's the first time we're going to a movie that isn't made for children. I'm very excited to see if she's going to be able to enjoy it (she wanted to see it more than me). I'm really hopeful. If this is the end of Alvin and the Chipmunk movies and Jack fucking Black, then my life just got so much better.