Beautiful Blogger Award?/ The Bean Counter

Well Well Hey there


I bring you the Bean Counter this week with my usual ups and downs but this week I'm hoping is mostly up.


Last Week's Tally: Whooping 115




Some Jack Ass did got a little too frisky with the mail box around the corner from my home.  He got away with some very important information and managed to commit check fraud using my payment to the VA: -100


Found out who the guy was on Facebook of all places. I compiled a packet regarding him and how I did damage control over my banking and credit information, the police didn't even look at it: -45


Rent is late again, no thanks to RFKAO, so Ms. Townes had to cash in a portion of my retirement fund just to keep me sheltered over the freaking summer: -45


Mom decided that she was coming to visit: -10


The second week of What Am I Reading Wednesdays was so good that people actually looked at the YouTube video: +25


Thanks to Gini Koch (the author of the book I reviewed) and twitter 1,176 people might know who I am Thanks Gini: +35


Even better Gini Koch is such an awesome person that she took time out her day to have a whole conversation with me. (FANGIRL) +15


Chewy has worms again: -10


But I have the treatment for it and I didn't even have to buy any. This chick came prepared: +20


The Celtics are moving on to Game 7 and all the guys that I know back home in Boston are all lamenting the fact that they could have killed the Heat tonight: -12 (honorary because I couldn't care less about Basket Ball)

Started Abraham Lincoln Vampire Hunter and I am surprised about how much I actually like it: +17


I have a date Friday, Saturday and the return of Karaoke on Sunday: +15 because all of a sudden I'm busy???


Chewy and I took a trip to the Polls and voted for the first time in like for EVAH. No more absentee or provisional ballots for this girl: +15

Got nominated for the Beautiful Blogger Award  earlier this week by one of the Fellow Flash Fictioneers: +25 I just don't know what to say about that. What a wonderful thing to pass along!!!


Found my next three books for What Am I Reading Wednesdays and frankly I think I might pull out my hair, because now I have to read them: +15


Sadly because sense I haven't been able to write I've stayed up late watching "Big Trouble in Little China" every night for the last three weeks. I didn't realize that until last night: -19 But Kurt Russell plays the best character ever in that silly movie...

Chewy found my Luchador Mask and tore it to shreds. I really liked that mask, now what am I going to wear when I dance to Lady Gaga in my underoos? : -11


Met some guy that appeared to be a very nice person online (why do I even bother?) After a week of messaging on OKayCupid, I give him my phone number only to find out that he can't speak English at all: -30


The Internet manages to always perk me up so the following at all pluses just because:

+10 Because Facebook is the ENEMY

+25 Because I could not have come up with that.

And then my inner geek creamed on herself because in 20 years there will be a Starship Enterprise. Someone figured out how to do that: +30

This Week's Tally: 80 Considering the week I'm having that's not bad.

Stay connected for the Friday Flash Fiction up in a few short hours.

What Am I Reading Wednesday - Alien Diplomacy by Gini Koch

So I had the utmost pleasure in reading Alien Diplomacy by Gini Koch this past week and I have to say I'm ready to go ape-shit over the book.

Kitty Katt and the gang are back for more Super-being extermination. Too bad that, that's not their job anymore. The new job as heads of the Diplomatic Corps pretty much means taking two really big fish out of little pond.


This story differs with EVERYONE adjusting to new positions.  At the end of the last book there was some kind of cosmic Jenga that had everyone taking on new roles. Well done Gini, cover the whole book with a thin film of morose suckdom. It actually works. Throw in not one, not two, but three births of more alien human hybrids and you've got another hit story in my mind.


Sol and Angela also return in this story, the four dogs and three cats in tow to make life easier or harder depending on which one you're looking at. Mamma Katt aka One Bad Ass Mother shines here with minimal mention just by being her.


I did get lost at one point in the story late into it. Right before the climax Kitty has an epiphany of epic proportions. I knew this because suddenly Kitty begins asking all the right question. Sadly she asked the right question to the right person and he gave the worlds most longest drawn out answer, that my little pea brain got lost.


Lucky me I saw where Kitty was going with this and kept it moving to the action.


I completely recommend this book to anyone who like Sci-Fi with a twist. I will say that these the Kitty Katt Series CANNOT be read separately. You can but you'd be lost. Plus why would you miss a Kitty-ism? Why? They are so funny. I advise against starting out of order. In fact I forbid you.


Here's a little extra: I made a video of my review and I'd like you to watch

I'm still trying to figure out how to rate the books so if anyone wants to give me input...


Don't forget to check back tomorrow for the Bean Counter and then Friday for the Flash Fiction.

Get out and vote in California

So I registered to vote like the minute I moved to this side of San Diego. I was under the impression that I'd already missed the Primaries but I was wrong. You know how I know I was wrong? I kept getting random recorded calls from politicians on my cell phone. This is what I get for not picking a party eh? 


Anyway that was today and you know I took my dog. He was very well behaved until someone else brought their dog to the polls and then all hell broke loose.  At least he didn't get pee'd on like the last time we met another dog in the neighborhood.


So anyway here's a picture of my super cute dog after I cast my ballot: 

Of course the minute we got back he plopped himself on the floor and ate the sticker. Gotta love dogs.

If you'e a resident of California go find a polling center and vote no on the extra taxes on cigarettes. It's to the point where I can barely afford them so do me a solid and say no, M'kay....

I'm kidding about the cigarette, but go out and vote though, I'm not kidding about that.

Teaser for Wednesday / Call the Cops-and the Post Office

It is my greatest pleasure to say that this Wednesday I am going to review Gini Koch's latest book in the Kitty Katt Series Alien Diplomacy. While this weekend I struggled with a weekend edition on dating and failed miserably, I did finish her book and got to ponder it at leisure.


Then comes Monday and with that the start of my next book for next Wednesday. Trust me anything after Gini Koch better be dam good. Thanks to Madison Woods' facebook page I find this written by Ms. Koch herself, in Science Fiction Daily, about why her science fiction is so freaking awesome. Because it's funny. FACT


She makes a valid point and then sells you on one her other series to the point that I really want to go clear a section of me already cluttered book shelf just for her. Lord help me I might have to get another shelf.






Call the Cops -and the Post Office


Kiddies this weekend while I was home alone the whole weekend (yeah that's bad) some jacktard decided to wash a check of mine and attempt to cash it. Lucky me or unlucky how ever you want to look at it, I'm broke. He re-wrote it for $675 I don't have that in my account. I have like $40. It of course bounced.


I tried to figure out how this happened and came up with mail box tampering. Thanks to my friends and their expert level skill on Google, we found the guy. I have his facebook and myspace page, I know what high school the guy goes to. I've manage to prepare a packet for whom ever decides to actually investigate. But here I should share with you how this made me really feel.

I'm pretty butt hurt about that. Frankly I feel that it's appropriate. I could be wrong though.


So I took the following actions: I called the bank, the Post office my Uncle Jack, the Police, the big three credit bureaus, the police again, the bank again, my brother Darryl, my brother Dana, the Post Office again, Dad to wish him happy birthday and finally Mom.


There are a billion things I could have done this weekend but this gross violation of privacy took front and center so I had to deal with that.


What I want to know is: Who steals from poor Veterans on meds? Seriously, the check was for meds, I need those. Have you seen me off my meds? It's not pretty. And I tell you what this guy should be scared if I go up there to get my refill and I can't get them. I might jut blow my top.


What I keep hearing from the parties not associated but still concerned is that the Post Office will probably be the ones to catch the guy as opposed to the Police. That does not bode well with me. My parents were both at one time Police Officers. I'm pretty cool with the ones I have to deal with and it looks bad to me that another agency might get all the glory on this.


But what can I do but keep my information organized and give copies to both.




I think I'll go start my next book Abraham Lincoln Vampire Hunter. Don't forget to check back on Wednesday for Gini Koch's review.

Friday Flash Fiction: Start The Day

Today's Flash Fiction comes to us as some really calm peaceful quiet thing. If I could see this every day, I think I'd be a very happy person.

Start The Day

"Hey want to make some coffee while I admire the view?" Will yawned. The hills called in a way that demanded Willy's attention this morning.

"I'd rather watch your face." Greg opened the small velvet box. "Wilhelmina, would you marry me?"

"You must be joking."

"I'm not." Greg hoped she wouldn't stall. She loved him, he knew this. Everyone they knew, knew this, except her.

"Greg, no."

"Why?"

"Because… I can't okay." Willy turned from the beautiful hills. They'd be forever ruined now. She placed her hands over her thickening belly. "This wouldn't be right, Greg."

"Because it's not my baby?"

She froze.

"I know it's not mine, Will. I love you anyway."

Can you freaking say no to that?


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