Shiny Things 6/14/2018 June 14, 2018
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Summer! The kids are off all-day school, though one is retaking a course in summer school. 🙄
Ranger is doing very well! We thought we might lose him in December, but adding enzymes to his food has restored his weight and I hope he’ll soon be totally off prednisone.
We took a family trip for our twentieth wedding anniversary and cruised to Alaska in the week before summer school started.
it was amazing! I gained ten pounds I didn’t need. We saw whales and glaciers and ate fresh caught crab. 
The first pic is Crab.
Second is Juneau from the top of the tram way.
Then we have some pix from the narrow gauge railroad in Skagway. It travels up through Canada (no customs so you can’t get off) then goes back. They have bathrooms in each car and it was fun and comfortable. My phone camera doesn’t do it justice. It is straight up mountain porn. 😜
After that are are pix from the ship of the glaciers. You can see how much they have shrunk.
I enjoyed  every moment! Fresh, hot pizza made in front of your face. Afternoon tea. Fine dining, talented entertainers. The jet-lag when we came back was hard (at one point it’s four hours ahead). It was cold (surprise! 🤓) and the wrong time of year for the Northern lights, but so gorgeous.
I’ve also been busy finishing up the work of my male/Male romance author alter ego Gage Lively. 
If you’re wondering who Kosei Press is, it’s me. This is my Indie project. Not many people read across genres, but this will be out in a few weeks (it’s at the formatters), so if you enjoy M/M romance please keep a look out!
Any M/M romance readers or Yaoi Manga lovers out there?
As for Chimera Book 6 draft title Her Sexy Beast (yes, it’s a loose take-off on Beauty and the Beast) I’m several thousand words in and climbing.
It seems increadible that I’m in the penultimate book of the series.
I wish I were a faster writer! I’m eager for the whole series to be out in the world. I may cry though, when I finish (full disclosure, I cried in the theater after the last installment of Harry Potter.)
(I’m not crying—you’re crying!) LOL Anybody else shed tears at the end of their favorite movie or book series?
Hope you’re having a stellar week!
Karin
Shiny things 1/02/14 January 2, 2014
Posted by karinshah in Uncategorized.Tags: authors, Chimeras, Christmas, demons, dragon-shiters, ghosts, librarians, lion shifters, New Year, Ninja 2, ornaments, resolutions, Scott Adkins, Shape-shifting, Tae Kwon Do, tae kwondo, vampires, weight loss, writing
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Things interesting me this week.
1. Happy New Year! I can’t believe it’s 2014! I actually made a resolution this year (normally I don’t since I figure I’ll only break it anyway).
Not being one to deny myself, this year I’m focusing not on taking things away, but adding things. I’d like to lose weight, but concentrating on that has never worked for me, so I’ve decided to add more fruits and vegetables and that’s it. I walk while I write and I do TaeKwonDo, so I hope eating better is the missing part of the puzzle. Besides, I read a study that said 20,000 new cases of cancer could be prevented if people ate just two more servings of fruits and vegetables per day. Better safe than sorry.:-)
2. We don’t take the tree down until after the girl child’s birthday party, so I thought it would be fun to share some of my favorite ornaments before it goes down. Some I think are just pretty, others remind me of people I love.
Well, my internet speed is in the toilet today, so I just posted one.:-( It’s at the bottom.
3. Www.thefussylibrarian.com I subscribed to this site as a reader and submitted as an author. Â They send you emails with recommendations of books you might like. You choose the categories, even down to level of violence, sex and profanity, then they send you matches.
4. Ninja 2 Those who follow my twitter know all about my Martial Arts crush on Scott Adkins. I’ve been waiting for this release for a while and was delighted to see it on Netflix. It’s pure action. Centered on a revenge plot, there’s lots of pure fighting sans CGI. I loved it. It goes up there with  Assassination Games as my favorite of his. He fluidly switches between Japanese and a credible American accent (he’s British), all while fighting his way through bad guys galore.
What’s shiny in your life this week? Streaming anything new? Taking down the tree? New adventures on the horizon?
A new one from 2012. We all went to the store and picked one special one. It reminds me of something we did together.
