Showing posts with label love. Show all posts
Showing posts with label love. Show all posts

Happy Birthday/Christmas!

In the above photo you can see a Christmas decoration that depicts Emily and I kissing. This year we shared not a kiss, but coughing and hacking. (We're much better now, although there are other family members who would use good vibes.) Last year we shared Covid. Basically we didn't feel up to putting up the tree and decorations either time, so we didn't. However, I do have a Gilmore Girls "Luke's Diner" Christmas theme on the TV, so there's that.

Emily's birthday will be about the time you're reading this. She got her present early, but of course I wanted something to give her something that day, which seemed like a good idea at the time. Now I have reason to believe she's going to hate it. If I disappear, check in the big freezer in the garage.

She'll appreciate the effort, though. I hope.

Here's Emily with our house guest from earlier this year, Watson.

Between my Seasonal Affected Disorder and the way my brain naturally freezes when it comes to any kind of present shopping, added to the bronchitis/sinusitis thing, I have no confidence that I'll recover when it comes to the gift giving business, I'll try! Meanwhile, maybe I'll cook something for her. Or maybe that would just make things worse.


In any case, this will probably be the last blog from me until after Christmas, so I hope everyone has a great holiday. Our family get together might not come until after the New Year--but we'll still be together.


There's a nice Christmas tree at work, anyway!


Don't forget, we've got Coming Attractions and two other books for free until the end of the month, here:
 
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Remember: Reading is a great activity for Christmas break, especially if the kids are busy with their new boys.

 

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Valentines Day poem ... well, maybe poem

 


I love you more than chocolate, more than a cold Mountain Dew. (You know who you are.)
 
 
More than ice cold water on a hot day;
more than hot chocolate in January.
More than all the biggest library’s books.
More than the a three-book writing contract.
I love you more than the newest, most powerful Mac,
more than an all-astronomy channel on satellite,
more than a visit from the Prize Patrol,
more than another season of Firefly.
My love is taller than Everest,
wider than the Great Wall,
longer than a congressional funding bill,
and deeper than Bill Gates’ pockets.
My love is hotter than Mercury,
bigger than Jupiter,
brighter than Venus,
and longer than Pluto.
My love gets 200 mpg,
could heat 5,000 homes,
power the Las Vegas strip,
and make the Mississippi run backward.
And that’s a lotta love.  Enough to conquer
troubles,
worries,
sickness,
and distance.
 
 

 
It might not be able to crack politics, though.
 
 

 
 
 Remember, love is one thing that, when you give it away, comes back double.
 
 


 
 
 
 
 

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Buy Your Lady a Book For Valentine's Day. Or buy her nothing ... and suffer

My annual Valentine's Day book promotion also serves as a reminder to all you men that, yes, Valentine's Day comes every year.
 

As we approach the big Sports Bowl weekend, many men have trouble thinking of other things. If they thought really hard, they might remember Valentine's Day is coming up, and plan ahead for a special dinner, flowers, flowery dinners, and/or chocolate flowers at dinner.

But probably not.

Because they're men. So, for those of you totally ignorant of the fact that Valentine’s Day is an annual affair, the humor anthology My Funny Valentine is available in print and e-book. (I have a few copies on hand.) It's an anthology of humor pieces ... about Valentine's Day. It was really easy to title. (Note: One of the humor pieces is mine, but I would have come up with a lamer title.)
 
 

Maybe your loved one is allergic to flowers and chocolate, and how sad is that? Buy her a book. Women who read love books. So do men who read, but it's not so hard to shop for men ... or, to put it another way, women are better shoppers.

If your loved one has an e-reader, the Kindle version is just $2.99. If they don’t have one, don’t be cheap—buy them one. They'll know if you're cheap. Or, you could get the print version for $9.95 at Amazon:

http://www.amazon.com/My-Funny-Valentine-MyFunnyBooks-Writers-ebook/dp/B006JROL8K
 

 
I’d advise against getting them the book for the second or third year in a row, though—they’d certainly notice. But I suppose in that case you could go over to http://www.markrhunter.com/ (or Amazon, or Barnes and Noble, etc.) and grab one of my romantic comedies for the loving one you love.
 

 

Remember, when you forget to give your Valentine a gift, Cupids cry.



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