While I was shopping around for yesterday’s Christmas Wish List items, I discovered a few things that had me chuckling, so I thought it would be fun to put together another list.  And when you see what’s on it, you’ll totally get why I’m calling it the “You Wish” List. :pumpkin

How about some maxi pad bedroom slippers (I’ve got a lot of this sort of thing left over after my surgery…a new money-making hobby for me to take up, ya think?):

Or some soap for that stinky hunka man you’ve got wandering around the house…

Also for the man in your life (& judging by the “you wish” dimensions, you’re a very lucky woman :cheers ):

This is one version of Dumbo you may not want your children to see:

They also come in g- (or hokey geez!) strings:

Or maybe something to keep just the twig & two berries warm:

So how many of these are going on your Christmas list, hmm? :turk

Christmas is only one short week away, & I’m just now starting to give some thought to what I’d like to find under the tree Christmas morning :tree :

Well, a girl can dream, anyway. :reindeer

And there really are some things I’d like, if Santa could see fit to drop them down the chimney. :santa

Like more DVDs to add to my collection…

Season 3 of Flashpoint

the complete Supernatural series  (I may have been late jumping on the Sam & Dean bandwagon, but am now thoroughly addicted)

Tangled  (My new uber-fave; I cannot get enough!)

The Princess & the Frog

The A-Team

Taken

House of Wax

Angels & Demons (Ditto what I said about Tangled; I can’t seem to get enough of both this & The Da Vinci Code—but I’ve already got Code on DVD,of course. :pumpkin )

The soundtrack of Tangled, too, please.  (I want to sing along to “Mother Knows Best”. )

A new Dream House might be nice.  I am kinda shopping around.  But it will have to be a really good Dream House to make it worth packing up all my junk & actually relocating.

And as long as we’re at it, add a team of brawny Hire-a-Hunk movers to the list to help with all that packing & moving, thankyouverymuch.

How about my very first e-reader?  A Kindle … a Nook … a Kindle Fire … a Nook Smoke … well, whatever.  I don’t have one, know nothing about them, & never actually thought I’d want one.  But I’m becoming more & more convinced that it’s time to dip my toes into the twenty-first (?) century, & that I don’t just want one, but need one.

And then there are some things I didn’t even know existed, but suddenly realize are Must-Haves, if only because they amuse me.

How about these great Big Bang Theory buttons:

I’m not even sure what this is, but it’s cute & says “Naughty” so I’m sure it’s meant to be mine:

The perfect gift for any writer—a keyboard handbag (I would totally use it, too!):

The perfect gift for the pirate in all of us—a giant octopus (or squid, perhaps) chair, a la Pirates of the Caribbean (I could rule more than just the Seven Seas in this thing! Mwhahahaha!):

Or a throne worthy of Mistress Heidi herself:

And of course a Sexy Santa shower curtain to complete the look:

Oh, yes, I want it all & I want it right now! :booby

How about you…what’s on your Christmas list? :xmas

Happy Sunday, everyone!

The last Sunday before Christmas…are you ready?  Are you almost ready?  Are you not even remotely ready?

I fall into the the last category, I’m afraid.  I am not even remotely ready.  But that won’t keep me from trying. :houhoh

So what’s making us boogey-down happy this week, hm? :turk

I AM HAPPY that I finally got the AAs (Author Alterations) for ON THE VERGE OF I DO (Harlequin Desire, April 2012) finished & turned in.  You’d think this would be an easy step in the production process.  AAs are sometimes also called galleys; it’s the last time an author gets to see her story before it gets put into book form, & sometimes they’re actually formatted to look like the book pages themselves.  (All but the pretty cover & filler pages.)  At this point, edits have already been done & the book is usually in pretty good shape; we’re all just proof-reading for typos & mistakes that maybe weren’t caught the other fifty-two times we’ve gone through it.  And I say “we” because I’m not the only person reviewing the story…editors, copyeditors, & Production folks usually have copies they’re going over, too.  It’s the six-pairs-of-eyes-are-better-than-one philosophy.

This time, though, the AAs were kind of rough.  Because ON THE VERGE OF I DO is part of a new continuity story, there were a lot more details to double-check & a lot more edits than normal, so the AAs had to be gone over with a fine-tooth come.  Took me almost two full weeks to go over, & those last couple days of making the actual changes were exceptionally intense.  But they’re done now & off my desk, so I can breathe again! :skate

And even though I got a bit of a late start this year…oh, who am I kidding?  I get a late start every year! :brr …I AM HAPPY that I got all of my Christmas gifts that needed to go in the mail wrapped, packed, & sent out on time.  Hopefully on time, anyway…they’re in the postal service’s hands now. :gift

I AM HAPPY that it’s time for Christmas music to play on every radio station every hour of the day again!  Yes, I get tired of it after a while, but I swear that until those tunes start playing, I can’t even believe it’s Christmas, let alone get in the holiday spirit. :xmas

And this year, I’m extra happy that I’ve re-discovered The Muppets’ Christmas music.  It’s certainly not the first time I’ve heard them, but it’s been a really long time, I guess.  So this year, once I became hooked on their “Twelve Days of Christmas,” I also jumped on iTunes & downloaded Miss Piggy’s “Santa Baby” & “The Christmas Queen” & Kermit the Frog’s “Have Yourself a Merry Little Christmas.”  I love, love, love them!

I’m sure there’s more, but it is the holiday season, & I’m still a little frantic trying to get ready.  Frankly, it would be okay with me if Rudolph got a little blitzed on Christmas Eve-Eve & ended up getting Santa lost.  Not forever, just for a couple extra days or maybe weeks to buy me some extra time. :hohoho

So how about you—how are things going for you this week?  What are you happy about or grateful for that you’d like to share?  It doesn’t even have to be Christmas related…but it helps. :butt

Now to announce the winner of our latest Free Book Friday giveaway, I’m Your Santa by Lori Foster…

:gift Tina Becker!!! :gift

Congratulations, Tina! :cheers   Please contact me with your full name (if necessary) & mailing information, & I’ll get your book out to you as soon as I can!