Birthday Mania!!

So as most of you know, yesterday was my birthday. Yup, this old fox turned 35. I am happy to say that I got many things I was expecting, not the least of which was my annual call from my mother telling me the story of the day I was born (which is pretty interesting, in my humble opinion, since she delivered me at home, essentially by herself, at the age of 19). But as is usually the case, it's the many things I was NOT expecting that made the day grand.

For example.....

Some of my favorite tweeple dressed up in foxy finery on twitter:



The Lemoniest Lemon Sister that there ever was wrote me a HBD post on TLS:



My beautiful Bewitched Bookworms wrote me a HBD post on BB,
noting my love of glitter text and complete with a Hendrix ode to, well, ME!



The AWESOMETASTIC Betti pimped a story I wrote for her for Christmas, prompting me to post it on FFn due to all the wonderful work she put into making this AMAZING banner for it!


Seriously I'm not worthy!!

My sweet, good morning, coffee girl, Danny,
sent me a loverly Beautiful Creatures inspired bracelet
from Mary Tippet Designs:

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The amazing erikasbuddy wrote me a sequel to one of her fics, Broken, that I adore!!

I cannot even express how humbled and touched I am that so many of you went out of your way to make me feel special on my birthday but I can say, heartily, "Mission Accomplished!!!"

No, no, really, much better than this!
I just couldn't resist! tee-hee!

Thank you, over and over, from the cockles of my little, vixen heart!!!

Beautiful CreaturesBook Discussion

Thank you Betti
of Betti.Music.Twilight
for this AWESOMETASTIC
book discussion button!!!!

I mentioned a while ago that I am participating in a book discussion on Beautiful Creatures over at afragilelittlehuman's blog.

Well this is the week that my lemon sister, uhyesplease, and I had our turn to lead the discussion. Please stop on by and show some comment love, not just for us but for all the other amazing women who are posting each week.

Thanks!!!

Dazzling Wins!

Yesterday morning, while I was running around the house like a chicken with it's head cut off, my cell phone rang with a 319 area code. 319? Who the heck could that be? Oh, it was uhyesplease. Now I had just posted my slash post to The Lemon Sisters and my first thought was, "Oh crud, I've offended someone." Nope, that's not it. My lovely, lemony UYP just called to tell me that the winners were out in the Love for the Unloved contest and Dazzling won!!!

I squeed! I jumped up and down. Mr. Foxy gave me a big high-five and he and the little foxes sang me a victory song (along the lines of "Foxy's so awesome! Foxy's so awesome, yeah!). It was quite a moment.

And I tweeted all of this (naturally) but I just wanted to take a second to thank a couple of people who went a long way to making this possible.

First ly: uhyesplease. Girl, how I love you!!!! Who told me there was such a contest? You did. Who encouraged me to enter? Yup, that'd be you too. Who read, not only countless drafts of Dazzling but also the other crud that I worked on before Dazzling became the idea that I ran with. Uh hunh, that'd be a big YOU! Everyday you encourage me to not only write, but write better. You are made entirely of awesomesauce.

Secondly: Betti. Not only did you read my story and review it, but you made it a one-of-a-kind, button-guru original button! And wrote about it on your blog!




And since I clearly can't stop at thanking just two people, let me also thank afragilelittlehuman and Mrs. Vanquish.

Fragile, you make me smile everyday, you push me to be a better writer just so I can keep up with you and you're so supportive it makes me want to cry.

Mrs. V, whenever I'm getting the inevitable "my writing sucks" blahs, you invariably pop up and tell me how much you enjoyed the last piece.

I know that's not everyone, but it's 5 a.m. here and rather than ramble on naming ever single person I love, I'm going to get some coffee. But before I do, I just want to add one last thing.

It is amazingly flattering to be supported by so many awesome women. I adore you all!!!

Could I be more flattered? No, I could not.

So today, I was all excited to be a-Twitter (ha, ha, ha) about the new site that uhyesplease and I launched where we will be writing about our favorite lemons, our own writing and other randomness. It's called The Lemon Sisters:



Then, I saw this tweet:







I adore Betti and I love the way Fanny and Artsie review, so headed on over and what did I see???


This:





and this:








*thud* I. AM. DEAD! Seriously. As a chronic self-doubter, I was all prepared for the flamers when I published both I Favor Fire and Dazzling, but I have been greeted with nothing but love and appreciation. If I haven't said it before, I'll say it now. I LOVE ALL OF YOU WOMEN (and any male lurkers out there, you're included too!)!!!!! Thank you, thank you, thank you to everyone who shores up my frequently spineless ego. You *points to all the girls in twi-land* complete me.

Oh, and if you haven't read Betti's post yet, there's a note on the bottom:






You can SO BET I'll be writing this for Fanny. In the mean time, I'm compiling a list of good Isle Esme one shots for Betti, so if you have any recommendations, please pass them along as well.

Could today get better? Buttons, porn and lemon-sisters

So, I think I mentioned that

I. BOUGHT. MY. TICKETS. BIOTCHES!!!!!

Yeah , so I'm pretty stoked about that.

Also, I've been working on two one shots for the Love for the Unloved contest which are coming along swimmingly.

The first is a canon piece about Kate and Garrett. That's done, been beta'ed by my absolute masta-beta (her term not mine *wink*), uhyesplease, and been sent off to Project Team Beta for the final check before I submit it. I will post some previews later, hopefully

The second is a super fluffy, seriously poronographic piece that I'm not entirely sure I'll publish because it embarrasses the crap out of me.

Note : uhyesplease, you know I'm sending it to you anyway because we lemon-sisters have to stick together!

Anyway, I'm getting all this done when my kids are sleeping in the afternoon when I get a little tweet-tweet from the fabulous Betti of Betti. Music. Twilight. What has she done?

SHE MADE ME A FREAKING BUTTON!!!!!!!!!!!!



How surprised am I? Well, as I told her, I squeed loud enough to make my baby cry. Seriously.

Well, I just don't know how to top this day. I'm going to finish my whiskey, write some more porn and then head to bed. I wish you all a seriously lovely evening as well!!