Pee in a Pickle Jar

Author: Winter  |  Category: Marcus Monday, Marcus Schenkenberg, My Real Life, hotties, rants

I should probably tell you not to ask. But you know me. I have to tell! LOL I live in a condo. There are four condos in my building.  There are two connected garages for my building. Each condo gets ONE spot in the garages.  On each side of the garages is one parking space.  There are three people in the front condo, each with a car. There are two roomies in one condo, each with a car. There’s a couple at the bottom of my stairs and they each have a car. And… Rott and I each have a car.

So let’s do the math.  Six available parking spaces. Nine cars. Someone is gonna be ass out. The Asian couple at the bottom of my stairs seems to think that the parking spot next to our garage is their assigned space. They went out of their way to tell me this when I moved in. At the time, we only had the Intrepid so I didn’t give a rat’s ass, although I did point out to them that what they told me didn’t match what I read in the association rules. The bitchy Asian woman in the condo behind this couple thinks that the parking space next to the other garage is only for the condos whose front door is on that side of the building (her condo.) Again, that’s not what the association rules say. We’ve pointed this out too but the snotty woman just wants to be obnoxious about it.

Whenever I’ve parked behind our side of the garage (which technically isn’t blocking the fire lane because it’s NEXT TO the actual parking slot) the patrol puts a ticket on the Intrepid. My neighbors park behind their side of the garage all the time, but they never get a ticket. Weird, huh?

In January, new rules were sent around. It spelled out clearly that those spaces on either side of the garages (adjacent yanno) are for the people who live in that building. They are not assigned. It is first come, first served, and it doesn’t matter which condo you live in as long as it’s THAT building. When the new rules came out, the Asian couple who thought that was their assigned spot started saving it for themselves. Hubby goes to work right around the time I do. He gets home a little after me. Not by much. But his wife has started pulling her car out of the garage and into that space to save it for him. So I started grabbing the spot on the other side of the garage, right under my bedroom window.

My car got keyed. Then I started finding coffee tossed on the door so it dripped all over the handle. Or tossed all over the windshield and hood. The bitchy Asian woman and the people from the front whose SUV is too big for a space anyway (sticks out too far) always have those travel mugs for coffee in their vehicles. The bitchy woman has shoved Rott’s Infiniti SUV before too in order to set off the alarm inside the garage. Nice people, aren’t they?

Rott’s pissed as you can imagine. We’re probably gonna put a sign on the Intrepid indicating there is a camera in the window above (my bedroom window.) We’re looking for the long cable for the webcam. AND… Rott had me pee in a pickle jar. He says the bitchy woman better watch her step because head to head, her silver Infiniti sedan against his silver Infiniti SUV… Well, let’s just say the truck could drive right over her sedan. Yep. I do believe it’s war.

I dunno what’s gonna happen with the pee in a pickle jar. Nor do I wish to know. Thus far, the pee is still there in the jar days later. I’m not sure what Rott’s hatching in his head, but I wonder if that bitchy woman leaves her sunroof open a little in the garage when the weather is nice.

Now, on to a more pleasant subject than urine and keyed cars.  Marcus! Oh, it’s so nice to be able to look at his handsome face and forget my woes… Can I be his cellie?

If I happen to get any interesting video (if we can find the long cable) I’ll be sure to post it on my You Tube account and here too. Then you can all watch my bitchy neighbor vandalize my car before I turn the video over to the cops. Or should I just use it to get her to stop? How mean should I be? You tell me.

Have a great non-vandalized Monday!

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Better Late…

Author: Winter  |  Category: Marcus Monday, Marcus Schenkenberg, My Real Life, hotties, stuff I did

Oh, that old saying… I’m trotting it out because I was in a haze due to lack of sleep this morning and forgot (yes, I know, how the fuck could I FORGET?) that it was Monday. Oy to the vey.  So it’s still Monday here on the West Coast and I’m gonna post my Marcus Monday. Heh.

I was up late on Sunday (until almost 1 am) because Rott decided to spend some money. He blew out a speaker last week and since he cannot be without music, and cannot abide listening to music with crackly one-sided, sounds like shit busted speakers… he went to Frys Electronics. He went to buy a $479 Onkyo 5.1 Stereo Surround Sound Home Theater System. 600+ watts. Oooooh. He came home with a 1200 Watt Onkyo 7.1 Stereo Surround Sound Home Theater System for $499. Yep. Only $20 more.

He made me laugh because he said out the window to the neighbors (who like to eavesdrop), “The last stereo was only 200 watts. This is 1200 watts.  This is ONE THOUSAND times louder and I’m about to drown out your basketball bouncing brats, incessantly barking ankle biters, whining, screaming babies, and all the shit you talk about me on your fucking patio.”

Oh, I love it when he gets all worked up and then blasts Motley Crue or Tool at them. Now, he can do it one thousand times louder! Woot!

At any rate, we were up late watching Law Abiding Citizen and drinking Vampire wine. The buzz of the saw in 1200 watts of surround sound was surreal. I loved it.

Also this past weekend, I got Nookie. Not sex. Nookie. I bought a Nook ebook reader at Barnes and Noble. In the settings, you can name your Nook. Of course, I just named it Nookie. I like the play on words. I read sexy erotic romances on my Nook. What better name for it than Nookie. :)

It must be time for Marcus. Rott is tweaking on the speakers again and we might be watching Up In the Air if he finishes before it gets too late. LOL

I might have posted this one before, but damn. It’s so hot it bears repeating. ;)

Before I go I want to give a shout out to my friend Hilly who is driving back to California from Florida. She left here almost as if the hounds of hell were nipping at her heels, but she’s coming back better and stronger than ever and I just wanted to say how happy I am for her and ask you all to wish her a safe trip.

Hope you have a great Monday, what’s left of it anyway!

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Blech

Author: Winter  |  Category: Marcus Monday, Marcus Schenkenberg, My Real Life, hotties, stuff I did

I’ve had so much time off lately with the holidays falling as they did that I’m not very motivated to go to work. And the truth of the matter is that I’m not very motivated with a lot of things right now. I’m kinda in a BLECH mood. Here’s some of the things I’ve been doing. I think it will explain best.

I took down rottnroll.com so I could move it to new hosting. Cancelled the old hosting last night then didn’t bother to put in the nameservers to get rottnroll.com back up. Instead, Rott and I watched Taken. (Good flick BTW.)

I started to put the final scenes in a book for Cobblestone, stopped to make lunch, and then decided clean up my hard drive instead of write.

I discovered some of my books had earned silver stars at All Romance eBooks. I thought about putting the award banner on the book pages on my website and ended up chatting on IM to my publisher instead.

I went to the horse racing sim and set train for weeks for some of my horses. I pondered entering the ones that need to be entered in races for this week then decided to chat in their chatroom instead. (It was a funny chat too.)

So I procrastinated and dicked around. I did some stuff but not really the stuff I shoulda been doing. I was kinda BLECH. I think it’s a holiday hangover. (BTW Rott and I saw The Hangover on New Year’s Day. Very funny movie!) I even stood in the kitchen intending to make stroganoff for dinner on Saturday night and as soon as Rott said, “Want me to go get something?” I sent him to Burger King. Ahh, fries. Yum.

Speaking of YUM, here’s today’s Marcus.

This picture is in honor of the fact that I started Common Ground, book 5 of the Tales series. The prologue is Weylyn and his mate having sex out in the open in the Scottish highlands. They meet a female werewolf who’s been watching them get it on. She turns out to be the heroine of the story.  Chapter One starts off just bad. The hero is masturbating. LMAO Not sure where I got these crazed ideas from, but I think they are gonna work! Now, I just gotta ditch the BLECH and get to work on this stuff.

Have a great BLECH-free Monday and Happy New Year!

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Blink Blink

Author: Winter  |  Category: My Real Life, hotties, worries, writing

I was left blinking in a bit of shock at the annual company Christmas party on Saturday night. No, it’s not about who showed up with whom, although there was a bit of that kinda shock rippling through the room.  I got into a little discussion with my friend Liz (the one I jokingly call the “Evil” HR Manager after Catbert) and one of the VPs. A female VP. Who is reading Tales of the Darkworld Volume One.

I’ll admit to having a little case of the jitters over her reading my book. After all, the vampires own a cemetery! She’s one of my bosses. I kinda worried whether I’d said or done something that she might not like. So when she said, “You know, I’ve been reading your book…” I kinda felt like a deer in headlights. But her question to me was, “Are any of the characters based on real people? Because that hero sounds pretty hot.”

Whew! Felt like I dodged a bullet there. And I did say that some characters in the series share characteristics or names with people I know. But not Declan Antaeus. So I thought today in honor of her question I would show everyone who I envisioned in my head when I was writing my heroes. I know it’s a Marcus Monday but a plethora of hotness to replace him should be okay for one measly Monday, right? Okay, here goes.

(The images are clickable so you can drool over the full size image if you want.)

Shifting Winds

hero: Declan Antaeus, actor Victor Webster

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Hot Water

hero: Colin Granville, model Will Chalker

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Fire Season

hero: Holden Antaeus, model Andre Coelho

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Fire Season

hero: Garret Renquist, model Rafael Lazzini

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Ride the Lightning

hero: Vahid Delrey, actor Antonio Cupo

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Other male characters (some of whom have appeared in the series thus far) who haven’t had their own book yet:

Book Five – Common Ground

hero: Marius Granville, actor Daniel Craig

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Book Six – Sunstroked

hero: Corey Green, actor Forbes March

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Book Six – Sunstroked

hero: Seth Dylan, model Marco Dapper

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Book Eight – Thunder and Myth

hero: Ruan MacCallan, actor Paul Walker

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Book Ten – Force Majeur

hero: Sean Antaeus, actor/model Julian Fantechi

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Some characters aren’t really visualized in my head yet as far as appearance. The enigmatic Alfred Stone for one. Al is special so I’ve been giving him a lot of thought. Eventually, I will hit on his “look” and find a face to match it.

So that’s it from me this Monday. I’m all recovered from the Christmas party, the rain seems to have stopped here, and I’m looking forward to sending out holiday cards and a few gifts this week. Just waiting for the Fedex guy to bring me a box today. Sorry for a lack of Marcus, but I think I’ll try to post the female characters tomorrow with my video Holiday Card in place of a Tuesday Tune.

Have a great Monday!

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