T-Shirt Thursday!

A doombox, the origin of the panda, a t-rex playing an asteroid arcade game, a hungry hungry hippo fighting for survival, and an uber cool black bear.  Thursdays are the bomb, y’all!

Doombox (Threadless): This doombox will play the music of your doom.  Wooh.

Ultimate Fusion (Threadless): By our powers combined, I am Panda!

Irony (Threadless): “Little did he know that this simple seemingly innocuous act would result in his imminent death.” That’s a line from Stranger than Fiction, one of my favorite movies ever.  It is so perfect for this shirt.

Hungry Hungry Games (SnorgTees): I imagine the games would be like a race to eat all edible things in the arena. Nothing about killing other hippos.

Black Bear (DesignbyHumans): This cool black bear’s all like, “Wassup?”

So, I’m making like a cool black bear.

Wassup, peeps?

Crime and Magic: The Day of First Sun by Sheryl Steines

Remember the world of Harry Potter? You know, the world of magic, wizards, muggles, wizard government, flying broomsticks, good and evil? Of course you do!

If you miss ‘ole Harry’s world and have already read your HP books to pieces, here’s an easy alternative, The Day of First Sun. It has all those fun things, too. This book feels like it was set in Harry Potter’s world, only it isn’t about Harry or any of his friends or any of the other characters we know. Obviously it’s about other people, wizards and non-magical folks alike, and non-human creatures, too. Oh, and it’s set in the U.S. not the U.K. so some of yous can give those British accents in your head a rest.  Well, you know, if you want.

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Gruesome Science: Generation by William Knight

About the book

A crime-thriller with an injection of horror

Journalist Hendrix “Aitch” Harrison links bodies stolen from a renowned forensic research lab to an influential drug company.

Aided by Dr. Sarah Wallace, a determined and beguiling entomologist, he delves into grisly world of clinical trials and a viral treatment beyond imagining.

But Aitch must battle more than his fear of technology to expose the macabre fate of the drugged victims donated to scientific research.

When I first heard about the book, I was a little hesitant about doing a review. I read the blurb, took one look at the muy creepy cover, and thought, “Oh man, zombies.” The blurb also mentioned words like sci-fi, crime and thriller, and I haven’t read a single crime thriller in a long time, so I wasn’t exactly in the mood for one. However, I decided to suck it up and give it a go as part of my personal reading and writing goals. WELL, I’m glad that I went ahead with it because it turned out to be even more interesting than I thought. Yes, it has sci-fi, crime, horror, and a little bit about the walking dead, and it was all gewd.

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Random book: The Golden Acorn by Catherine Cooper

I am a sucker for free Kindle books on Amazon.  Every once in a while I check the top 100 free books list and download the ones that seem interesting to me.  Most of the books I download fall in the young readers and fantasy categories.   I download too many of these books, but I have only read a few of them. Some of the ones I read were so-so, but one or two were actually good.  The Golden Acorn by Catherine Cooper was one of the nice ones.

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T-Shirt Thursday!

Pirate Droid Arr 2-D2 (RedBubble): Arrr!! Space pirate!

I Just Want to Hug (Loops and Pluto): What he’s really saying is, “I just want to hug and eat your head!! Rarr!! I love you.”

Dino Frenzy (Design By Humans): Hurray for non-cutesy t-rex prints! Rarrr!! Are you scared yet?

Velociraptors Love Cupcakes! (Design By Humans): Why, of course, they do! Who doesn’t love cupcakes? I think it’s great that they’re featuring other dinosaurs, too. T-rex is getting a big head from all that publicity. Gedit? Gedit?

Prototype (Threadless): This is just awesome. Cassette tapes were cool.

Book Lover (Threadless): In case you can’t see it clearly, it’s a giraffe hoarding alotta books!

Bacon Element (SnorgTees): Featuring one of my favorite all-day breakfast food. Mmm…

Do you have or know of a cool graphic tee that you want featured on T-Shirt Thursdays?

Please share! :)

Travel hacking, location rebels, and other new words I learned this week

I spent most of the week reading about people who quit their 9-5 jobs, packed their stuff and became travel hackers and location independent self-sufficient people. Really interesting and inspiring stuff. Really distracting, too. I haven’t been so focused on work this week. I really should do more if I want to get more monies. I mean, I gotta remember that I’m on a no work-no pay thing here. I have ongoing jobs but I haven’t finished them yet and I’m nearing the deadline. GAH.

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T-Shirt Thursday!

Behold, I give you genius or crazy (fine line, my friends, fine line) in the form of tees because T-shirt Thursday is the coolest day of all and every struggling freelance writer needs a break once in a while from furiously flushing words out of her ears.

Every time a cat cleans itself… (Threadless): I know, right?

We got him (Threadless): All those years evading eager eyes has taken its toll.

La Dolce Vita (Threadless): Skulls can be pretty, too.

Crayon Role Reveral No. 147 (Threadless): Just a tad bit disturbing, no?

Shufflin’ To Do List (SnorgTees): Incidentally, today’s Thursday. Let’s do this.

Skulltrooper (9 Fountains): George, is that you?

Of 30-day challenges and inspirational people on the net

30 Day Challenges

They say 30 day challenges can help you form a habit. I’m counting on this little pearl of wisdom to help me get my crap together. I decided to focus first on getting my work schedule and writing groove in order before I try anything remotely wild (like that infamous Insanity workout). That’s why I’m doing a two-part 30-day challenge for #2 and #3 of my First Five for 2012.

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