{"id":2688,"date":"2011-12-10T08:00:09","date_gmt":"2011-12-10T15:00:09","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/oliviabrynn.com\/?p=2688"},"modified":"2014-08-01T02:38:20","modified_gmt":"2014-08-01T08:38:20","slug":"saturday-status-121011-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/alannacoca.com\/blog\/2011\/12\/saturday-status-121011-2","title":{"rendered":"Saturday Status 12\/10\/11"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-4719\" src=\"http:\/\/alannacoca.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/12\/5865997_blog.jpg\" alt width=\"239\" height=\"320\">Wel\u00adcome! Are you in the hol\u00adi\u00adday spir\u00adit yet? It\u2019s slow\u00adly seep\u00ading into my&nbsp;bones.<\/p>\n<p>Slow\u00adly.<\/p>\n<p>I think the music is help\u00ading, and I\u2019ve got a&nbsp;believ\u00ader at home, so it\u2019s hard not to get sucked into the joy. Wow, sound so cheer\u00adful, huh? Maybe I\u2019ll try pep\u00adper\u00admint candles.<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000080;\"><strong>Favorite Song of the Week ~<\/strong> \u00c2&nbsp;<span style=\"color: #000000;\">Some\u00adone tweet\u00aded a&nbsp;link to this one a&nbsp;few days ago, and I&nbsp;read the copy. I&nbsp;did\u00adn\u2019t know that Bing Cros\u00adby died just one month after record\u00ading this song, and one month before it aired on tele\u00advi\u00adsion in 1977. I&nbsp;think this is one of my favorite cover\/mashups. I&nbsp;found a&nbsp;ver\u00adsion that left out the cheesy act\u00ading in the begin\u00adning, because I\u2019m nice like&nbsp;that.<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/ADbJLo4x-tk?rel=0\" frameborder=\"0\" width=\"640\" height=\"480\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000080;\">\u00c2&nbsp;<\/span><\/p>\n<p><strong><span style=\"color: #000080;\">Work in Progress News ~<\/span><\/strong> Work\u00ading dili\u00adgent\u00adly on Alan\u00adna\u2019s Wyoming Solace. Did you know the word \u201cokay\u201d was\u00adn\u2019t in use in 1894? I\u2019m using the online ety\u00admol\u00ado\u00adgy dic\u00adtio\u00adnary and find\u00ading lots of gems like this. I&nbsp;also dis\u00adcov\u00adered that Cody, the hero in Wyoming Solace is the strong silent type. I&nbsp;can\u2019t seem to get the man to say more than three sen\u00adtences at a&nbsp;time. I&nbsp;guess that\u2019s just how it\u2019s gonna&nbsp;be.<\/p>\n<p><strong><span style=\"color: #000080;\">Indus\u00adtry News ~ <\/span><\/strong><span style=\"color: #000000;\">I\u2019ve got noth\u00ading. You\u2019re welcome.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><strong><span style=\"color: #000080;\">Search Term of the week aka How Peo\u00adple Found My Web\u00adsites ~ <\/span><\/strong><span style=\"color: #000000;\">Well,<\/span> oth\u00ader than the nor\u00admal \u201chairy {celebri\u00adty} naked\u201d search terms, which I&nbsp;won\u2019t repeat here again, I&nbsp;got this one that made me smile: \u201csexy hairy trail\u201d. You got it, Googler. Wel\u00adcome to the sexy hairy trail that is Olivia Brynn.com<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/Mistletoe-and-Margaritas-ebook\/dp\/B005Z1CUK2\/?tag=alannacoca-20\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignright size-full wp-image-4717\" src=\"http:\/\/alannacoca.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/12\/mistletoe_200.jpg\" alt width=\"120\" height=\"190\"><\/a><strong><span style=\"color: #000080;\">What I\u2019\u00c2\u20ac\u00c2\u2122m read\u00ading ~<\/span><\/strong>I bought one of the Cari\u00adna Press Hol\u00adi\u00adday novel\u00adlas. This is a&nbsp;con\u00adtem\u00adpo\u00adrary friends-to-lovers sto\u00adry that I\u2019ve always been a&nbsp;suck\u00ader for, and I&nbsp;read it in between chap\u00adters of my west\u00adern rewrite. I&nbsp;love Shan\u00adnon Stacey\u2019s style.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Claire Rut\u00adledge still believes in love, despite los\u00ading her hus\u00adband. So, after two years, she\u2019s not sur\u00adprised by the steamy dreams telling her it might be time to start mov\u00ading on. But she didn\u2019t expect her friend Justin to have the star\u00adring&nbsp;role.<\/p>\n<p>Justin McCormick has loved Claire since the moment he first saw her, but his best friend got there first. Now that Claire is ready to move on with her life, Justin is find\u00ading it hard\u00ader than ever to hide his true feel\u00adings. And when they both get caught up in the hol\u00adi\u00adday spir\u00adits at a&nbsp;par\u00adty, their sim\u00admer\u00ading mutu\u00adal attrac\u00adtion boils over into a&nbsp;night nei\u00adther of them can forget\u2026<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>See? I&nbsp;read a&nbsp;Christ\u00admas themed book. I\u2019m try\u00ading folks! Mistle\u00adtoe <span class=\"amp\">&amp;<\/span>&nbsp;Mar\u00adgar\u00adi\u00adtas is def\u00adi\u00adnite\u00adly worth a&nbsp;read. Click the cov\u00ader to get to Ama\u00adzon and buy your&nbsp;copy.<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000080;\"><strong>Hero Quote ~ <\/strong><span style=\"color: #000000;\">I&nbsp;went through Cov\u00ader Sto\u00adry today, not sure why, but I&nbsp;found a&nbsp;typo and a&nbsp;plot\u00adhole that drove me crazy, I&nbsp;had to fix it and reu\u00adpload it to the ebook\u00adstores. I\u2019m so glad I&nbsp;have con\u00adtrol of them in order to be able to do that. While I&nbsp;was there I&nbsp;found a&nbsp;quote from Bo, the younger man in the May\/December romance. I\u2019ll have to set this one up though. Cate has just asked him if the dumb\u00adstruck women they just passed by was a&nbsp;com\u00admon occur\u00adrence for him. His&nbsp;reply:<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<blockquote><p><span class=\"dquo\">\u201c<\/span>I pre\u00adfer my women strik\u00ading. But not&nbsp;dumb.\u201d<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000080;\"><strong>Last but not least<\/strong><\/span>, you\u2019ll see in the post below that there\u2019s one hel\u00adlu\u00adva blog hop going on right now! Just click the ban\u00adner below to get start\u00aded. We\u2019re giv\u00ading away a&nbsp;brand new Kin\u00addle Fire, tons of ebooks, and you can meet some new authors and read some fes\u00adtive snip\u00adpets. \u00c2&nbsp;We\u2019ll also be chat\u00adting at <a href=\"http:\/\/gemsivad.com\/chat\" target=\"_blank\">Gem Sivad\u2019s chat room<\/a> on Sat\u00adur\u00adday night. Come on! Join the&nbsp;fun!<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/justromance.me\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-full wp-image-4699 aligncenter\" src=\"http:\/\/alannacoca.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/12\/jingle-bell-hop.jpg\" alt width=\"600\" height=\"265\"><\/a><\/p>\n\n<div class=\"twitter-share\"><a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet\" class=\"twitter-share-button\">Tweet<\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Wel\u00adcome! Are you in the hol\u00adi\u00adday spir\u00adit yet? It\u2019s slow\u00adly seep\u00ading into my&nbsp;bones. Slow\u00adly. I&nbsp;think the music is help\u00ading, and I\u2019ve got a&nbsp;believ\u00ader at home, so it\u2019s hard&nbsp;not&nbsp;[\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"wp_typography_post_enhancements_disabled":false,"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"footnotes":"","_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"twitterCardType":"","cardImageID":0,"cardImage":"","cardTitle":"","cardDesc":"","cardImageAlt":"","cardPlayer":"","cardPlayerWidth":0,"cardPlayerHeight":0,"cardPlayerStream":"","cardPlayerCodec":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p3WdCY-Hm","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"post_mailing_queue_ids":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/alannacoca.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2688"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/alannacoca.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/alannacoca.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alannacoca.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alannacoca.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2688"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/alannacoca.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2688\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/alannacoca.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2688"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alannacoca.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2688"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alannacoca.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2688"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}