My Reading Addiction Anne Bishop

The Old Cover to the 1st Book in this series

I have a few authors that I love and will reread their series multiple times. Anne Bishop is one that I gravitate towards. I love her Black Jewels Trilogy.She created an intriguing, heart wrenching, romantic, world of darkness and social corruption. When I read it even now I yearn for justice from the society that has twisted the realms in the story. I know perfectly well the outcome and I still can't stop turning the pages. Her characters are developed chalk full of strengths and flaws. I genuinely care for the heroes and heroins. The villains are the peak of twisted, evil, and perverted . I highly recommend this series and the other novels tied to it.

The First Book in the World of the Fae

The World of The Fae starts with  Pillars of the World. Very interesting and a tragic world she created as well.I had a hard time the first time I read this picturing the Fae in such an unusual way(they are jerks).However,  I got over that detail and moved on. Wonderful story.

First book of Two

 This series is yet another dark setting but laced with hope. The second book is Belladonna which I thought was the end, but we get at least one more next year=)
Here is a link for more information.


http://www.annebishop.com/index.html

I am done obsessing for now.  Have a great day and I hope others find as much enjoyment out of her books as I do.

Halloween Fun! A great way to finish my day!

After work it is off to Shawna and Clint's  for grilling, carving pumpkins and handing out candy to Trick or Treaters.Eric and I arrived to help get food started and decorate a little. We all got our costumes a rolling. Eric was Shaun from Shaun of the Dead. We had a minor mishap with putting the fake blood on a stain resistant shirt(does not work..well). I had worked super hard getting work stuff ready. I wanted a fun and easy costume to spend the rest of the day in so I was Liz(Shaun's girlfriend).

Shaun and Liz from Shaun of the Dead

Shawna has wanted to be Belle forever and she finally got her wish=) Only she could get a kids costume and rock it like she did. So cute and way less slutty than most(close to all adult lady costumes).

Belle aka Shawna

Her husband Clint decided to rock a controversial but funny costume. Hipster Hitler which is a web based thing. He tells us it is funny and looking at the costume makes me believe him.

To Hip Hipster Hitler.

We had our friends John and Kensey stop by sporting two Tarantino characters you might recognize.

Mr Pink and Mia Wallace.

We handed out candy, ate burgers, and carved pumpkins. We watched the Great Pumpkin Charlie Brown twice.

Eric had never carved a pumpkin which is why we wanted to make sure this was fixed as soon as possible. I do not remember them being that much work...but they are=P Pumpkin carving action!

My Pumpkin didn't stand a chance=P

Never trust Hitler with a knife..even if he is hip.

Pumpkin Violence!

This face said to me that John might be sorry he killed it.

Shawna getting its guts out!

Our final products! I decided to carve the sorting hat! Eric did the repaper.

My pumpkin! I call him the Sorting Hat!

Eric's first pumpkin! the reaper.

Shawna's Cat Bat=)

Clint's pumpkin!

Johns Pumpkin!

Kensey's Pumpkin!

Cute!

We had a really great night! We all have had lots going on so it has been almost impossible to all get together.I am super grateful for my friends. and all the adventure we have together. On that note I say good day=)

Eric and I snuggling by the pumpkins<3

Halloween Fun! Part Deux!

Welcome Back!

We took lots of fun pics for this-P

I still have one or two more pictures form our branch but I also  wanted to share some photos from the other branches in Lubbock(I snagged from work). I wish I could have actually gone to see what everyone else cooked up for Halloween theme of villains but there are 12 other branches and our ops center. Needless to say I am super happy they shared these with everyone!


Lady X helped us out lots on decorations. She had fun making her own mark on our branch=)

Lady X left her mark!

The Boss and Lady X

No here are a few from around this crazy town of ours!These are from one of my favorite branches Boston=)

Some awesome Disney Villains!

I am told they had a spooky forest theme going on.

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Downtown branch! Scary stuff!Love the Henchmen 1,and 2=)

The Quaker and MSF Branch transformed their branch into an old west town!

Zombie Dungeon...scary.Not sure why the Count is there though...=P

We tied for First with Downtown,Quaker and Deposit Support! Though really everyone did a great job and seemed to have fun!Here are some more.

The Mall branch rocking some Disney Villains!

Covenant group where Hamburglars! Adorable!

I am pretty sure this group was from Main Bank=/ Love it though!

 These guys are from the Southwest Branch. They are cinema villains. Lots of variety from them as well.

Kill Bill Ladies! Love it!

Thelma and Louise..and yes those are men...

Terminater Fabian.

Creepy...

That wraps up my day at work. I had a very crazy day. After all that we had a date with little trick or treaters and friends=)

Halloween Fun! Work Edition Part 1

Our Sin City

So I adore working a company that loves Halloween as much as I do=) Our zany CEO gives us all a theme to make our own. My branch chose Mobsters and we did a bang up job if I do say so myself! 

Mobster Me!

Our Decor Rocked!We had A Skelton Card Dealer,craps table,wanted posters, spider webs,signs, hanging stars to go with our 3D city and skyline. It was a lot of work to pull off believe me! It was way worth it. I also have a few pictures form other branches and a glimpse of thier hard work. We tied for 1st place with three other branches this year=)

Bones our card dealer!

Craps Table

Our entry sign and wanted posters.

Foggy Branch

They ran the fog machine a little to much...mostly because it triggered the smoke alarms=P

Mo or Ace X

3D Buildings!

Crazy awesome
 branch=) Some more of our silly mobster fun.

Kensey, me and Summer.

Hanging with Mo aka Ace X

Looking tough..

 That is the wrap up of our branch. I will post the other branches in a few. Join me in part two of this epic Halloween work day!

Wisdom Teeth: An Adventure!

Greetings Friends,
Today is the first day since I had my wisdom teeth removed that I feel functional. Not top notch but functional. My battle with my wisdom teeth goes back maybe two years or so. They started acting up and giving me headaches squishing my teeth ever so slightly.I had plans way back when to take care of them but life had others plans for me. The point I am trying to make is that they are gone now!
Two months ago I got a nasty infection around my bottom right wisdom tooth so I went to a dentist my coworker recommended. Dr Colton Street got antibiotics and we set up a time for my wisdom teeth to be taken out. I got it all cleared at work for this weekend because it would give me a four day weekend to get over it...so glad I took that extra day.
Now for the fun of having them taken out. Dr Street prescribed me two Valium. One to take an hour before and to bring the other with me. I was amused by the warnings and side effects of this stuff.The one Eric teased me about was no important decisions.I have no idea where a tolerance for the stuff could have come from but they made me take that second pill because I was to "with it". I had a local anesthetic as well. They pulled out the top right one out pretty easily. The bottom right had roots all crazy under some of my other teeth..yay.The left side they pulled out the drill(or thing that made loud noises that I should have more scared of but was out of it so I just noticed they had it). The top one on my left side came out easily or it kind of looked like it did. The bottom left one was pretty tricky and I am pretty sure they dug around and stuff. I watched them use the string to stitch up two of them. They finally finished up and I was free to go. They gave Eric instructions and a prescription for  hydrocodone.
I was swollen and miserable. Eric not only took care of me but cleaned the apartment. I felt lazy but I was so miserable to care the first day. Friday flew by in a haze of drugged sleep.

Puffy Chipmunk Cheek

Puffy.

Kind of normal side

Saturday was my friend Vanessa baby shower and I was dead set and determined to make an appearance.  I feel bad that is all I could muster but at least I made it. I returned to my sleeping. I really owe Eric lots for putting up with all of my falling asleep during conversations and attempts at watching movies. It took two days to watch Spy Games.He bought me Emperors New Groove which I adore.
Sunday I had a rough morning figuring out dairy was not a good idea for my tummy. I did stay awake more but I still fell asleep on and off. I felt better about eating though it was still a painful affair..Eric got me Krispy Kreme donuts(totally squashy). I ate half of one with loads of problems but it was worth it.
That brings me to today. I had a hard time sleeping last night but I do not want to take any more of my hydrocodone. It makes me feel awful and I slept so much. Now I am just aleve and loving it.I had coffee and one of my donuts for breakfast=) My next big challenge will be chips an salsa! I could eat that stuff everyday=) The worst is over! This made me appreciate the little things in life for sure!