Zombie Apocalypse: Survival Kit & Crew Blogfest

Today is the day! In honour of The Walking Dead premiere on Sunday, we...

Jackie @Bouquet of Books
 

Mina @Some Dark Romantic
 

and myself...

Dani @Entertaining Interests

... are celebrating by hosting:



Zombie Apocalypse: Survival Kit & Crew!

(Since this bloghop is all about having fun, if you have kiddos, we can assume they are safely tucked away in a safe haven somewhere while we’re out in the world fighting off zombies so do not worry.)

Crew:

1 TWD character: Daryl Dixon (crossbow)

1 book character: John Snow; A Song of Ice & Fire/GoT (sword)

1 movie character: Alice; Resident Evil (massive firearms)

1 TV character (other than TWD): Ragnar Lothbrok; Vikings (sword/axe)

1 loved one: Justin; my husband (firearms)

1 friend: Jackie; soultwin, cousin (spiked baseball bat – cause she’s badass enough to pull it off)

1 freebie: 10k from Z Nation (sniper/slingshot)

Items:

1 comfort item: Picture of kids/family; to keep me going

1 weapon: Pickaxe; my other crew members have plenty of the other stuff

1 luxury item: My glasses

1 food item: Beef Jerky

1 medicine/first aid item: Inhaler

1 hygiene item: Deodorant

1 freebie: LifeStraw; water purifying straw

 

Background:

Outpost: My parents house. they have a stockpile of weapons and on a small lake. Also close to a distribution center. That is the meeting spot decided in our family. (Yes, we have a plan!)

Outbreak: Methuselah Virus(copyright)
Cause of the apocalypse: Scientists created a parasitic host to slow down the aging process when it went horribly wrong, creating mindless humanoids with only one thing on their minds – warm-blooded creatures. The virus spreads when host bites another victim, allowing parasite to inject eggs into the blood stream. Depending on the health of the new host, the eggs can take up to a couple of days to hatch and attack hosts system, slowly turning them.
Cure: N/A – temporary cures; destroy the heart and/or brain

1 item you NEED to find:  Pharmaceuticals/Pharmacy; yanno, for illnesses & an inhaler

1 item you WANT to find: Chocolate factory; What? Chocolate lasts forever, provides energy, and I LOVE it!

Method of travel: Sturdy vehicles and a surplus of gas/diesel from the air force base. If it’s been tapped out then we are screwed and on foot we will go until we can find vehicles to siphon.

 

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Zombie Survival Kit & Crew Blogfest

Our joyous excitement for The Walking Dead premiere on October 12^th has reanimated another blogfest idea for the vivacious trio:

Jackie @Bouquet of Books

Dani @Entertaining Interests

Mina @Some Dark Romantic

Zombie Apocalypse: Survival kit & Crew

Post date: Friday, October 10^th (cause no one wants to post on show day!)

To help build your zombie apocalypse dream team and survival kit, you will need to pick ONE person and/or ONE item for each of the topics listed in the below categories.

(Items you already have on your person: undergarments, shirt, bottoms, socks, tennis shoes & a backpack. If you want special shoes and/or boots, jackets, belt, etc.; those are extra and will need to be listed for one of your items below.)

And since this bloghop is all about having fun, if you have kiddos, we can assume they are safely tucked away in a safe haven somewhere while we’re out in the world fighting off zombies so do not worry.

*The Walking Dead character is the only one that needs to be from a zombie themed entertainment outlet, but please feel free to choose characters from your other favorite books/movies/tv. They may or may not be zombie related. It's all up to you. Just let your imagination flow!

With the characters below, please include the book, movie & TV show your characters are from.

Crew:

1 TWD character

1 book character

1 movie character

1 TV character (other than TWD)

1 loved one

1 friend

1 freebie

Backpack:

1 comfort item

1 weapon

1 luxury item

1 food item

1 medicine/first aid item

1 hygiene item

1 freebie

Background:

Outpost

Outbreak

Cause of it

Cure (if applicable)

1 item you NEED to find

1 item you WANT to find

Method of travel

Please display the badge on your blog and join us on Friday, October 10^th to build your zombie apocalypse dream team and kit.

And most of all HAVE FUN and BE CREATIVE as you want!

Express Yourselves all Around

Express Yourself is a weekly Meme dedicated to getting to know YOU better.

Jackie and myself what to know:

Who is someone you look up to? Even though he has been gone for 11 years, I still look up to the love my brother left behind. He left behind a community of people that loved him more than one man could ask for and that's because he loved people so much in return. And I look up to him for that.

I also look up to Jackie. She has never judged me even when I have done some stupid stuff. She has always been my steadfast, loyal friend.

And my kids. They show me everyday that great kids can still be born and raised. I love them with all of my heart. And of course I love my husband for helping me in life.


See who else is expressing themselves lately...

Father Dragon is honoring some of us with the Golden Scale Award...

and he even has a Dragon Hall of Fame!



Mina is also Giving Bloggy Thanks to some of her Bloggy friends today! 

 They smell heavenly Mina! Thanks!

Please go check out these amazing blogging friends! And have an awesome Monday and of course a relaxing Thanksgiving you are celebrating and if not, have a grand week anyways!

Resurrection Blogfest II

Today is the Resurrection Blogfest II hosted by Mina Lobo over at Some Dark Romantic.

I really like this fest because it gives me chance to flaunt a previous post w/o looking braggy.

Back in July I posted about blogging friends for IWSG. I had a lot of comments and feed back and I really appreciated the love and response. So today I'm going to share that post with you.


Originally posted July 3 of this year here.

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IWSG is brought to us by our local blogging friend Alex. Its a month meme that brings us insecure folks together and gives us a chance to let our freak flags fly and air out the smells of insecurity.

My insecurity I want to talk about this month is...

Are we friends?

That is the question I’m asking you. (The only blogger I don't worry about is Jackie. She's a part of both worlds!)

I follow tons of blogs I read weekly and maybe half of those I read daily. And a few dozen, I mention daily and a couple dozen I call friends.

Let’s see if I can explain this as fluently as possible… I try not to throw the term “friends” around lightly in my everyday life (I have my reasons) but in the blogging world it seems kind of “weird” to use the term friends to those who do not blog. Just like talking to non-writers about writing.

But I DO consider you friends. There I said.

And those outside of the blogging biosphere think I’m crazy calling for you friends. “Oh, you mean your virtual blogging folks?” *pursed face*

See, to them, you guys are SIMS characters or something similar. Like, I turn my computer on, play with you, turn my computer off, and it ends there. But it doesn’t. I take what I’ve read and think about it/you throughout my day(s).

     In a convo about movies I say, “My friend Suzi saw that! She said it was really good!”

     When talking about Juicing with a couple I know. They said they threw away their left over pulp. I shared with them what they could do with it from Mark's and Jackie's posts. “Oh my friend has this great page for this type of stuff!”

     I will share a funny post from Mina or a funny convo from Facebook we had.

     “Oh my gosh! My friend Jaybird posted the funniest thing about being at the store and…”

     “Sheena-kay likes skirts over… and she lives in Jamaica so she knows all about hot weather and clothes, I'm sure.”

     “DL is your age mom and he…”

     “Lexa doesn’t wear dresses anymore cause she used to work…”

     “Laura is so lucky, she is going on holiday to Spain and…” (My mistake was using the word holiday. I used it cause that's the word Laura used. Here we say vacation. But where I work, I'm used to talking to our sister-company in Ireland and they say holiday all the time. So for me it's not a big deal.)

     “Morgan totally agrees and anyone who calls me cool knows…” (I've only used this line once and it was to win my arguement against the Hubby.)

     “Bushman says to grow tomatoes in their own greenhouse you need too…”

I can’t help it, you guys just come up in my conversations. You are more a part of my everyday life then most of the people I hang out with. I “see” you more – almost every day.

But most conversations tend to lead to:

"Her/his name is Jaybird/Bushman?" *sigh*

"How do you know someone in Jamaica/Egypt/Germany/England/Hawaii/Australia?" *sigh*

"You know someone married to a Gold Medalist?!" *sigh*

"Wow, so you know someone who has a book out there?" *sigh*

And my answer usually begins, "Well technically I don't KNOW them, know them..." My point here is, they missed the info I was giving them and concentrated on the silly stuff.

And I know even more about you than I do people I work with or hang out with. Not necessarily linked to the people above…

• I know that someone’s son shares his name with a president.
• Someone’s son is on a trip in another country.
• Another has three daughters all starting with F’s and wants a pant-less summer.
• Another has 4 “ankle biters”.
• Some don’t want kids. Some do but it hasn’t happened yet. Some can’t.
• He has two dogs, chickens, a duck, and endless amount of yard work but also works 10hr days.
• She lives in Germany but would love to move back to the states and start a ranch!
• He takes care of his loving wife and still has enough time for his blogging community and his wife loves to help him.
• Even dragon’s, who are tough as nails, get sick and need a community to lean on. 

The list can go on and on.

So my question is: Are we friends? Should I be insecure about calling you friends like I’m insecure about my writing? Or should I just ignore my “non-virtual”friends and family critics and continue calling you my friends?

So what I'm really asking is, do I need a life; cause I really feel like I have one. I just like to talk about you.

Book Reveal - That Fatal Kiss by Mina Lobo

Mina Lobo has long held a passion for Greek mythology. The story of the goddess Persephone's marriage-by-kidnap to Hades, Lord of the Underworld, has particularly fascinated her, and thus came about Mina's debut novel, That Fatal Kiss. Coming September 2013, the revisionist tale features a fiery and noble heroine, a handsome and broody hero, and some heated, earth-shakin' lovin'!

Given Mina's self-professed neurotic nature, it took her and cover artist Steven Novak a few go-arounds before settling on the cover design for That Fatal Kiss. It had to be curiously compelling, slightly spooky, and yet super sexy—and so it is!

The Book:

Feared by mortals for his inexorable power, and loathed by his fellow Greek gods for the same, Hades rules the Underworld alone. A stark eternity looms before him until he discovers Persephone. Struck by the youthful goddess’ beauty, kindness, and spirit, he must have her. But Hades believes Persephone could never love him, and so he conspires with his powerful brother, Zeus, to take her by force.

Persephone too seeks a mate but her possessive mother, the goddess Demeter, frustrates her husband hunting. Then Hades abducts Persephone, tearing her away from the Upperworld she loves to reign with him in the dank depths below. Though outraged, Persephone cannot deny the desire ignited within her by the dark lord’s touch. And even as she hopes that Demeter will unearth her, Persephone aches to surrender to the heat in Hades’ immortal soul.

The Teaser:

“Enough,” Hades said, closing the distance between them. “I have taken you with your father’s consent, as custom allows. You are in my kingdom, under my rule, and if you have any care for your continued well-being, you will get into my bed. Now.” And with the removal of the pins that held together the black cloth about his waist, he stood naked before her.

The anger warming Persephone clashed with another fire that roared to life within her. She choked on a breath and turned her face from him. “Be warned; I will resist you with the full force of my being, through violent means, if necessary.”

His large, unyielding hands encircled the soft flesh of her upper arms as he said, “If you must. Though your surrender to me would prove more satisfying to us both.”

The Author:

Mina Lobo has a lot of Scorpio action going on in her natal chart, which makes for a rather sybaritic and lust-driven Sagittarian. She aims for a wildly successful future as a writer of dark and whimsical romance while dodging the slings and arrows of her outrageous teenaged son, who's buggered off to college (hence the "Lite" in her Twitter handle, below). She enjoys comedic horror and alt rock, goth, & new wave music, as well as quality Belgian chocolates.

Mina invites you to keep abreast of updates regarding That Fatal Kiss, as well as the development of any new neuroses, by stalking her at her usual haunts:

Her blog: Some Dark Romantic
On Facebook: mina.lobo.1
On the Twitter: @GothMomLite
And GothMomLite Will Tumblr For Ya as well

I Got Liebstered Again!!

Mina Lobo @ Some Dark Romantic nominated me for the Inspirational Liebster Blog Award! Mina is a very cool goth chick that gives tons of blogging love and is such an amazing support. We recently connected on Facebook and she cracks me up! She is definitely one to follow!!

Complete the follow steps to claim your award:

• Display logo in blog
• Thank and link back to your nominator.
• Answer 11 questions asked by your nominator.
• Share 7 things about yourself.
• Nominate 7 bloggers.
• Notify your nominees.

1.       What would you peg as an appropriate age of majority?

Oh gosh… this is so different all over the world. But personally, as a parent now, I would have to say 25ish. I know that seems “old” but it’s after college years and after all the “horsing around” is out of the system and maybe by then you have “sewn your oats”.

2.      What would win in a fight: math or science?

Well science has always been a love of mine but you can’t have science without math. Formulas are made of numbers.

3.      How do you feel about time travel as a narrative device?

Well, seeing how I’m currently using it in one of my WIP’s, I feel ecstatic about it. But I don’t worry about the whole meeting-yourself-thingy.

4.      If you were a crayon, what color would you be?

I always say green cause it’s my favorite color but this time I’m gonna say white. What? Too boring? Let me explain. White can supply redo’s, an empty canvas, a start over. Kind of when painters start on a new canvas, or when us writers start a new story. It all begins with a white background. Even a new blog starts out white and we change it to how we like it whether it is black, green, blue, red, etc.

5.      What’s the last movie you saw in a theater?

World War Z – it was intense!

6.      The power goes out. It will be out for several hours. What do you do with yourself?

Are my kids gone? – Find my husband ; ) If my kids are around… play a game by candlelight.

7.      Who’s your favorite fictional private eye?

Shawn Spencer from Psych

8.     What’s your greatest struggle as a writer?

Taking (quitting) breaks when I hit a snag.

9.      What one book do you think everyone should read?

It’s a series – Skinjackers  series by Neal Shusterman

10.  What song are you listening to right now?

A remake of Hurt done by 2 Cellos

11.   Where in the world would you like to be right now, and why?

West Virginia – cause I want to be white water rafting using Rivermen on a vacation with my husband, and a group of friends and family! I love white water rafting!!

Seven Things about Me

1.       I have a scar on my chin, right below my cleft, from falling on a nail when I was two.

2.      My cousin and I have matching birthmarks on our hips but on opposite sides. We also look similar to one another.

3.      Another scar I have on my inner right knee is from me kicking a soccer ball off a pier and getting my leg caught on a nail when I was 14. My boyfriend at the time had to pull my leg off the pole the nail was hammered into. My parents freaked!

4.      When I line my teeth up, my right front tooth touches my bottom teeth but my left does not. I can’t tell if my right tooth is longer or if my jaw is crooked.

5.      My eyes are hazel and tend to change colors with my mood or what I am wearing. My husband says I’m a walking mood ring.

6.      Like a few of my cousins and two of my kids, I am covered in freckles and I like them.

7.      I currently have 6 tats; one on each foot (1 for a friend, 1 for my family), one in between my shoulder blades (for my brother), one on my wrist (for my husband – not his name), one on my lower left back (butterfly), and one on my upper right thigh (for my family). Each one consists of a butterfly, Asian lettering, flowers, or abstract words. In my lifetime I’ve also had both Tragus’ pierced,  a pierced Labret (lip), my tongue pierced, I have 5 piercings in each ear, and I’ve had my hair dyed every color of the rainbow.

And there you have it, 11 questions and 7 random facts about myself.

I would give this award to more of my fellow bloggers but this has gone around several times in my neck of the blogging woods. So instead of me handing it out I would like you to tell me about a SCAR, BIRTHMARK, TATTOO, or PIERCING you have/had in a comment below!

Have a cool Thursday!