Word of the Week: Nerd-jacking — During a conversation, digressing into extreme &/or unnecessary detail about one’s passion (music, coding, gaming, writing *g*) to an otherwise uninitiated layperson, without awareness or acknowledgement of the listener’s rapidly waning interest or lack of understanding of the subject at hand.

Since we already talked about food & cooking movies that would fill the hours until HER LITTLE SECRET, HIS HIDDEN HEIR‘s release, I thought it would be fun—now that Marc & Vanessa’s story is finally here!  :chick —to also chat about food & cooking TV.

There are so many cooking & food-related shows on television these days, you almost literally can’t flip channels without stumbling across one.  And I happen to be moderately addicted, especially to the reality show variety.

So here are a few of my favorites, & then I want to know about yours!

Hell’s Kitchen

Kitchen Nightmares / Ramsey’s Kitchen Nightmares

Iron Chef America

Top Chef

Top Chef Masters

Ace of Cakes

MasterChef

I tend to like the ones that are competitions more than the ones where they cook & then eat because watching people eat awesome food I could never dream of creating just makes me hungry. And all I usually have in the house is pretzels, which is just despressing. :oucher

Your turn!  Tell me what kind of cooking/baking shows you like to watch & why!

I know we’re all women here, but we have fathers & husbands who are fathers, so gotta take a minute to say Happy Father’s Day!  Feel free to pass that along to the father of your choice. :howyoudoin

This Sunday, I AM HAPPY that HER LITTLE SECRET, HIS HIDDEN HEIR is out there, doing its thing.  It should be everywhere by now—bookstores, online, Wal-Mart, Meijers, Target, maybe even your local grocery store.

And do me a favor:  If you’ve read HIDDEN HEIR already & enjoyed it, please consider posting a glowing, 5-star review on the Amazon & Barnes & Noble websites.  Yeah, yeah, I know…nothing like trolling for reviews. :whistledev   But HIDDEN HEIR‘s pages are looking a little deserted right now, & the one person who did post a review said she loved the book, loved the characters, loved the ending…then only gave it 3-stars. :knock   This does not look good on my permanent record. LOL

I AM HAPPY that I finally got oodles of prizes packed up & in the mail.  You guys should be happy about that, too, since they were mostly for you.  Yes, it’s true—if you’ve won something here or on the HappyBookers loop in the last month or so, your prize may actually be on its way now. He he.

I AM HAPPY still about the news that KNOCK ME FOR A LOOP won Orange County RWA’s “Book Buyers’ Best” award in the Single Title category, & INHERITING HIS SECRET CHRISTMAS BABY received an “Award of Merit” in Virginia RWA’s HOLT Medallion competition.  Go, Grace!  Go, Zack!  Go, Secret Baby! :getdown

I AM HAPPY, too, that four different items I lost re-appeared this week, just like magic!Two credit cards (yeah, yeah—I was moderately panicked, but pretty sure they weren’t so much lost as seriously misplaced), a ring, & the ear broken off a cat figurine.  By a cat, no less.   Then, before I could get it glued back on, they ran off with the itty-bitty piece, too.  Brats. :kittylaugh

Last but not least, I AM HAPPY that the spider I just saw running across my office window is on the outside.

All right—your turn!  Tell us what you’re happy & grateful for this week.  Or maybe even consider sharing a happy Father’s Day story with us—something great & wonderful about your dad that makes you happy.

And now for the winner of this week’s Free Book Friday giveaway…a book I’ve tried to give away twice before :oucher …Stud Muffins: Luscious, Delectable, Yummy (and Good Muffin Recipes, Too!)

:getdown Jolene A!!! :getdown

Congratulations, Jolene! :claphat Now you had better contact me with your full name & mailing information to claim your prize or I am going to develop a serious complex & just keep this damn book for myself. Hmph. :humpf