We Have Some Winners!

The Saints and LSU both take home huge victories this weekend, which put a big smile on my face :) Now, if Manning takes home a victory for the Colts, I'll be one extremely happy camper. But I know there's something else that everyone else is interested in! The three book giveaways ended today and the winners have been chosen, so without further ado, here are the winners!

Speaker for the Dead by Orson Scott Card goes to Booklogged!!! Congrats Booklogged! So glad you won this one. I think you'll love it!

American Gods goes to Susan! You're on a roll, huh? ;) Hope you enjoy this one, it's great!

And Scar Night goes to Kailana! This one couldn't have found a better home. I think this one's right up your alley Kailana. Wasn't for me, but I think you may enjoy it!

Send me your snail mail addresses and I'll get them right out to y'all. My email address is chrisa511@gmail.com. Congratulations to all the winners and thanks to everyone who participated. I really enjoyed reading everyone's favorite books and added a bunch more to my wishlist...like I needed that :p

No NaNo update today which actually puts me behind about 200 words, but I'll catch up tomorrow! Sundays are made for rest anyway...and for football and Family Guy :p

Saturday Night Thoughts

I just got off of work for the night and had to tell my boss that I'll be leaving in a few weeks....and it was sad. I call her my boss, but I don't look at her in that way at all. Those people are family to me. I've mentioned it here before, but I'm a personal care attendant and work with a family of 3 people in wheelchairs ages 23-30 who live with their mom and dad and they are all amazing people. All 3 of the people I work with are considered to have sever mental retardation, though I debate that in some areas...they understand and make more sense than the rest of the world sometimes. They all have a rare muscle degenerative disease called Mucolipidosis Type IV. Their mom and dad are some of the most incredible people I've ever met. The dad has multiple sclerosis unrelated to the children's disease, and the mom does more charity work than anyone I've ever met, all while taking care of her kids and husband. I never leave their house without a smile on my face and I've never met a more positive and loving group of people in all my life. They'll continue to be in my life as long as they're on this earth, but it will be hard after 6 years of working with them to say goodbye in that respect. They are the reason that I'm in this field.

On a different note, how about those Tigers?!! LSU is doing one hell of a job of making me temporarily forget the travesty that was the Saints game on Thursday night. LSU just went into half-time against Virginia Tech 24-0! What an amazing team. I'd kill to be at that game right now. My sister got 4 tickets to the game, and I could've gone...but I had to work. It's all good though, I'm enjoying it on TV. Now if only the Saints could take some pointers from the Tigers, we might be OK! What the hell happened to the Saints? I'm really hoping that the Colts are just THAT good. Which they are, and they did play one hell of a game, but we did play a pretty shitty game. Step it up boys!
And finally, there are only 3 left right now, which may be gone by the time I post this, but Lisa Snellings-Clark has posted little black poppets!!! Of course I bought mine already :p Here's the link to her current sale. If you don't see them up anymore, keep checking back as she may add more. I noticed she also added some more purple poppets and those really cool harlequin candle holders! Also check out her latest blog post as she has a preview of things to come for Halloween time...mwuhahahah! Now go buy a goth poppet!

It's Football Time!!!

It's that time of the year again :D That wonderful time of the year where many of you get to skip over some of my posts because they will surely bore the hell out of you! Football time! Tonight, the Saints take on the Colts and you'd swear that it's a home game for us. I'll have my Drew Brees jersey on and will fit in with the rest of New Orleans who has just about gone nuts. There's a sense of magic in the air right now. Everywhere you look in the city, there's black and gold, there are smiles on everyone's faces, there are fleur de lis' pasted on everything, people are screaming "who d'at"...the city has taken a day off from life.

The Saints have come to mean more than just football to our city. They are a break from the grim reminders of what life has become down here. During football season, the residents of New Orleans can rest assured that one day out of the week, they're going to have a good day, and they're going to be in good company, and they're going to unite with other fans and wear smiles on their faces, listen to jazz, dance, eat some good food, and watch one hell of a game. Then they go back home to the reality of post Katrina life, but it's just a little bit better than before, because their spirits have been lifted by that sense of unity.

Last year, the nation watched as the Saints took on the Falcons in one of the most memorable games in football history. It was magical..it was our first home game since Katrina and it was that game that started this uniting front. This year, even though our Saints are playing away for their opening game, it might as well be in our own backyards...the unity, the energy, and that same sense of magic can be felt everywhere. And the city looks a little bit happier today than it has in awhile.

Geaux Tigers and stuff

So I'm trying to get in a quick blog post during half time of the sugar bowl...and yes, LSU is winning 21-14. I hope we can keep it up! Geaux Tigers!

Ok, that's enough of sports fan chris....here comes dork chris again..

I've decided to keep a list of books that I read this year in my blog just for fun. I think it'll be interesting to see at the end of the year what I've read...though this will probably amount to about 10 books looking at my schedule this semester. But the first book I read was Stephen King's Lisey's Story..I usually don't like Stephen King, but this was such an incredible book. Very different than anything else I have ever read by him. It's the Story of Lisey Landon, wife of the deceased author Scott Landon and is told by flashbacks (very intimate flashbacks) of their relationship and through the strange world of Booya Moon. It really is a great book.

Finally, Nicole told me about a cool website for others (like myself) trying to loose weight. It's called Spark People and is totally free. You enter your info and it gives you the target calories and fat grams among other things that you need to eat to achieve your weight loss goals. It also tells you how many calories worth of cardio you should be doing. Check it out...it's free and has tons of tools to help you out.

Edit/Update: Tigers win 41-14!!! Problematic score for people with Dyslexia...woohoo!!!!