{"id":3737,"date":"2011-04-22T22:38:15","date_gmt":"2011-04-23T04:38:15","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/alannacoca.com\/?p=3737"},"modified":"2014-08-01T02:38:22","modified_gmt":"2014-08-01T08:38:22","slug":"the-year-of-the-rabbit-blog-hop","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/alannacoca.com\/blog\/2011\/04\/the-year-of-the-rabbit-blog-hop","title":{"rendered":"The Year of the Rabbit Blog Hop"},"content":{"rendered":"

Wel\u00adcome! If you\u2019re just hap\u00adpen\u00ading across this post, click HERE<\/span> <\/a> to get start\u00aded on a hop across the webosphere. I hope you\u2019re hav\u00ading a great East\u00ader week\u00adend. We like to use a loose inter\u00adpre\u00adta\u00adtion of East\u00ader Can\u00addy around here. Eye can\u00addy has a lot few\u00ader calo\u00adries than the oth\u00ader kind, so help your\u00adself to all the treats you\u2019d like!<\/p>\n

Here\u2019s how it worked. Blog\u00adgers went to http:\/\/justromance.me\/register\/scenemaker\/<\/a>, where a ran\u00addom selec\u00adtion of char\u00adac\u00adters, adjec\u00adtives, and a set\u00adting were gen\u00ader\u00adat\u00aded. Also, we were giv\u00aden the first line: Bloody foot\u00adprints. What a way to start the week\u00adend<\/strong><\/span>. and a line of dia\u00adlogue: \u201cMaybe you should take off your shirt.\u201d<\/strong><\/span>. After that, the sky\u2019s the limit.<\/p>\n

I liked our mas\u00adcot so much, I made a screen\u00adshot of my scene gen\u00ader\u00ada\u00adtor, so you can see what I had to work with, as well as drool a bit on that sexy tat.<\/p>\n

There you have it. My gen\u00ader\u00adat\u00aded scene. So here we go:<\/p>\n

\u201c<\/span>Bloody foot\u00adprints. What a way to start the week\u00adend.\u201d <\/strong><\/span>The Sous Chef scowled at the floor behind the crowd invad\u00ading his domain. His big flop\u00adpy feet and Cock\u00adney accent gave the man a car\u00adi\u00adca\u00adture feel. \u00c2 He con\u00adtin\u00adued mum\u00adbling about dirty feet as he con\u00adtin\u00adued through the kitchen.<\/p>\n

Well, her date gets props for cre\u00adativ\u00adi\u00adty. Cas\u00adsidy dried her hands, and threw the paper tow\u00adel in the humon\u00adgous trash can.\u00c2  She\u2019d nev\u00ader even been inside a restau\u00adrant kitchen before, but now here she was on a blind date, learn\u00ading cook\u00ading tips from one of the city\u2019s most famous chefs.<\/p>\n

\u201c<\/span>Do you like to cook?\u201d Scott\u2019s voice washed over her like a cup of warm syrup. Rich and sinful.<\/p>\n

Cas\u00adsidy looked up at her date. As a ski instruc\u00adtor<\/strong><\/span>, his gor\u00adgeous face was tanned, oth\u00ader than a clear shape around his eyes where his ski gog\u00adgles kept the skin a lighter shade.\u00c2  She could pic\u00adture him on the slopes, steal\u00ading the hearts of all of his female stu\u00addents. His grin was irre\u00adsistible. Along with the rest of him. It was a relief that Lara had set them up with\u00adout telling Scott that she was\u00c2 wealthy<\/strong><\/span>. Now she could just be a reg\u00adu\u00adlar ordi\u00adnary woman on a reg\u00adu\u00adlar ordi\u00adnary date.\u00c2  All he knew was that she worked in a bank.<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n

He didn\u2019t know that she owned sev\u00aden of them.<\/p>\n

She blinked a few times to remem\u00adber the ques\u00adtion. \u201cOh. Yes, I do. It\u2019s the clean\u00ading up after myself that I don\u2019t like. How about you?\u201d<\/p>\n

He stepped aside polite\u00adly to fol\u00adlow her to the prep table, where they stood shoul\u00adder to shoul\u00adder with the rest of the cook\u00ading class.\u00c2  She gave him points for manners.<\/p>\n

\u201c<\/span>I make a mean lasagna.\u201d The look in his eye promised many sin\u00adful things, Ital\u00adian food wasn\u2019t even in the back of her mind.<\/p>\n

Before she could men\u00adtal\u00adly undress him, Cas\u00adsidy focused on the emp\u00adty cut\u00adting board in front of her.<\/p>\n

\u201c<\/span>I don\u2019t see what the big deal is. Inter\u00adac\u00adtive Restau\u00adrant? That just means that they\u2019re get\u00adting paid for me doing my own cook\u00ading.\u201d \u00c2 Pete, the elder\u00adly<\/strong><\/span> guy on the oth\u00ader side of the table, growled. Pete was a retired postal work\u00ader who claimed to have been dragged here by his wife of six\u00adty years.<\/p>\n

\u201c<\/span>Will you light\u00aden up? Any\u00adthing is bet\u00adter than sit\u00adting in front of the boob-tube.\u201d His wife swat\u00adted his arm play\u00adful\u00adly. \u201cNow don\u2019t ruin this for the rest of us.\u201d<\/p>\n

Scott\u2019s laugh was as sexy as his voice.<\/p>\n

Cas\u00adsidy gave her\u00adself vir\u00adtu\u00adal slap in the face. This man was way too adorable to have a nor\u00admal per\u00adson\u00adal\u00adi\u00adty. No use falling for him on the first date, before the psy\u00adchot\u00adic side came out. There must be some\u00adthing wrong with him.<\/p>\n

She man\u00adaged to pay atten\u00adtion to Chef Ger\u00adald, and even laughed along with Scott as he spent much longer than nec\u00ades\u00adsary chop\u00adping his vegetables.\u00c2  His frus\u00adtra\u00adtion with the tedious tasks made the rest of the table laugh. Even Pete labeled him can\u00adtan\u00adker\u00adous.<\/strong><\/span> The high\u00adlight of the evening was when he leaned against the oven. His sleeve caught fire, he jerked back in reac\u00adtion, and poured a bowl of cold mari\u00adnara sauce over his arm to douse the flames. His shouts shouldn\u2019t have been com\u00adi\u00adcal, but sev\u00ader\u00adal of the ama\u00adteur cooks snick\u00adered behind their hands.<\/p>\n

Cas\u00adsidy man\u00adaged to keep a straight face as she came to his res\u00adcue. She unbut\u00adtoned his shirt, thank\u00adful that he wore a clean undershirt.\u00c2  She added more points to his tal\u00adly. \u201cMaybe you should take off your shirt.\u201d<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n

Nice chest. Mus\u00adcu\u00adlar pecs clear\u00adly defined beneath the tee-shirt. And he smelled real\u00adly good.<\/p>\n

She must have enjoyed the task a bit too much, because she was sud\u00adden\u00adly aware of a cho\u00adrus of jeers from the oth\u00aders. She hand\u00aded him his soiled shirt with an awk\u00adward grin.<\/p>\n

Still, once things set\u00adtled down, and they returned to work, she swore she didn\u2019t bump his hip on pur\u00adpose, and would nev\u00ader admit to reach\u00ading into his space just to get anoth\u00ader whiff of his cologne. The cook\u00ading class was a per\u00adfect place for a first date. No awk\u00adward silences, and the oth\u00ader par\u00adtic\u00adi\u00adpants gave her a cush\u00adion from the blind-date pressure.<\/p>\n

\u201c<\/span>Maybe you should think about quit\u00adting your cushy job at the bank.\u201d Scott nudged her elbow with his. \u201cYour bruschet\u00adta looks a whole lot bet\u00adter than mine.\u201d<\/p>\n

She smiled, feel\u00ading an insane amount of plea\u00adsure from the sim\u00adple com\u00adpli\u00adment. \u201cWell, the true test will be in taste.\u201d<\/p>\n

The heat in his eyes burned right through her clothes, and she had to stop her\u00adself from fan\u00adning her face with a spatula.<\/p>\n

\u201c<\/span>Tell ya what.\u201d He stepped clos\u00ader, until she could feel the heat com\u00ading off his body. \u201cIf it pass\u00ades muster, I\u2019ll make the Lasagna, and you can make the bruschetta.\u201d<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

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I always feel bad leav\u00ading the cou\u00adple just as things are heat\u00ading up. \u00c2 Oh well, on to the next blog post! Hope you\u2019re hav\u00ading a good time. I\u2019ll be chat\u00adting at Gem\u2019s Chat Room on Sun\u00adday evening 7pm EST<\/span>. Hope to meet you there! We\u2019ll draw the win\u00adners dur\u00ading chat, and one of you will win a copy of my con\u00adtem\u00adpo\u00adrary west\u00adern romance Retreat.<\/p>\n

Hap\u00adpy Easter!<\/p>\n

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