San Francisco and Oregon Pictures

I'm finally getting a chance to recap my Christmas and New Years trip. On Christmas Day, Nikki (my son) and I saw the 3D version of Avatar (super movie!), then went back to his apartment and made Tofurkey (vegetarian turkey) with all the trimmings. I didn't take any pictures on Christmas Day (my bad), but here are few other San Francisco shots.

This is the lobby of Nikki's apartment building in the city.

The ceiling in the lobby. I love the architecture in the Bay Area.

Nikki enjoying Thai food at a wonderful eatery a few blocks from his apartment. This was taken on Dec. 23rd, the day I arrived.

When I left San Francisco on the 26th, I flew directly to Oregon to visit my sister. One of the highlights of my Portland trip was when we went to see New Moon and came out of the theater to a blanket of snow. The weather forecast proclaimed clear skys, but that wasn't the case. In fact, the roads were such a mess, we were unable to get back to her house. Luckily we found a Motel 6 and stayed there until the next morning. We didn't have anything with us, but there was a Walgreen's Drugstore nearby where we bought some cheapy sweats to sleep in. Across the street from the motel was a Taco Bell where we had dinner.

I snapped this when we walked out of the theater.

Dinner at Taco Bell.

Me at the motel, wearing my Walgreen's T-shirt and sweats.

The Husband Store

As soon as I have time, I'll post a few pictures from my Xmas and New Year's trip. For now I'm posting something a friend (a yummy guy with a sense of humor) sent me that I think you romance readers will enjoy.

Here goes:

A store that sells new husbands has opened in New York City, where a woman may go to choose a husband. Among the instructions at the entrance is a description of how the store operates:

You may visit this store ONLY ONCE! There are six floors and the value of the products increase as the shopper ascends the flights. The shopper may choose any item from a particular floor, or may choose to go up to the next floor, but you cannot go back down except to exit the building!

So, a woman goes to the Husband Store to find a husband. On the first floor the sign on the door reads:


Floor 1 - These men Have Jobs
She is intrigued, but continues to the second floor, where the sign reads:

Floor 2 - These men Have Jobs and Love Kids.
'That's nice,' she thinks , 'but I want more.'

So she continues upward. The third floor sign reads:

Floor 3 - These men Have Jobs, Love Kids, and are Extremely Good Looking.
'Wow,' she thinks, but feels compelled to keep going.

She goes to the fourth floor and the sign reads:

Floor 4 - These men Have Jobs, Love Kids, are Drop-dead Gorgeous and Help with Housework.
"Oh, mercy me!" she exclaims, "I can hardly stand it!"

Still, she goes to the fifth floor and the sign reads:
Floor 5 - These men Have Jobs, Love Kids, are Drop-dead Gorgeous, Help with Housework, and Have a Strong Romantic Streak.

She is so tempted to stay, but she goes to the sixth floor, where the sign reads:

Floor 6 - You are visitor 31,456,012 to this floor. There are no men on this floor. This floor exists solely as proof that women are impossible to please. Thank you for shopping at the Husband Store.

PLEASE NOTE:

To avoid gender bias charges, the store's owner opened a New Wives store just across the street.

The first floor has wives that love sex.

The second floor has wives that love sex and have money and like beer.

The third, fourth, fifth and sixth floors have never been visited.

Happy Holidays!

Merry Chritmas and Happy New Year from my house to yours! I'll be out of town until after the New Year, so I'm posting this now.

Thanks to all of you who read/follow my blog, leave posts, and/or email me privately. It's nice to know you're out there.

Holiday Doggie

My baby boy waiting for Santa.


My baby boy thinking about getting a treat from Santa.

In Loving Memory

I'm sorry to say that my father passed away this week. He was strong and healthy for most of his life, but about four months ago, it was discovered that he had lung cancer.

Tomorrow, Dec. 11th, would have been his 83rd birthday. He was a retired truck driver and World War II veteran who enjoyed serving in the navy. He requested that his ashes be sprinkled at sea.

Rest in Peace, Daddy. Happy Birthday in heaven.

This is Dad and Nikki (my son) in November.

Me and Dad, also taken in November.

Dad hamming it up for the camera.

A New Month

Wow! It’s December 1st already. I’m going to San Francisco again this Xmas, so I have less than three weeks to finish proofing the typeset pages of MASQUERADE, polish the completed manuscript of PRIVATE DANCER and get a good start on some new proposals. Oh, and then there’s the holiday cheer…cards, gifts, etc.

At the moment I have a bit of a cold and all I want to do is curl up under my new electric blanket and read a good book. Hmm. Sounds like a plan.

The book? Nalini Singh’s SLAVE TO SENSATION. I’ve been dying to read her psy/changeling series.

Thanksgiving

I hope everyone had a wonderful holiday!