{"id":5556,"date":"2012-11-24T08:18:11","date_gmt":"2012-11-24T15:18:11","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/alannacoca.com\/blog\/?p=5556"},"modified":"2014-08-01T02:38:18","modified_gmt":"2014-08-01T08:38:18","slug":"saturday-status-3","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/alannacoca.com\/blog\/2012\/11\/saturday-status-3","title":{"rendered":"Saturday Status 11\/24\/12"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img data-attachment-id=\"5557\" data-permalink=\"https:\/\/alannacoca.com\/blog\/2012\/11\/saturday-status-3\/12019115_s-2\" data-orig-file=\"https:\/\/alannacoca.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/11\/12019115_s.jpg\" data-orig-size=\"400,267\" data-comments-opened=\"1\" data-image-meta=\"{&quot;aperture&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;credit&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;camera&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;caption&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;created_timestamp&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;copyright&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;focal_length&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;iso&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;shutter_speed&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;title&quot;:&quot;&quot;}\" data-image-title=\"12019115_s\" data-image-description=\"\" data-image-caption=\"\" data-medium-file=\"https:\/\/alannacoca.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/11\/12019115_s-300x200.jpg\" data-large-file=\"https:\/\/alannacoca.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/11\/12019115_s.jpg\" decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-5557\" title=\"\" src=\"https:\/\/alannacoca.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/11\/12019115_s.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"400\" height=\"267\" srcset=\"https:\/\/alannacoca.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/11\/12019115_s.jpg 400w, https:\/\/alannacoca.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/11\/12019115_s-300x200.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 400px) 100vw, 400px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Can you believe Thanksgiving has passed? I hope you all had a great one, and a safe Black Friday. We&#8217;re now officially into the Christmas season. Is it me, or did 2012 just fly by?<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000080;\"><strong>Work in Progress News ~<\/strong> <\/span>Back to work on my Bad Girl short story. I really wanted this one done by the end of November. I need a kick in the butt, but I&#8217;ve really only got about 6K left to go. I can do it, right??<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000080;\"><strong>Favorite Song of the Week ~<\/strong><\/span> I&#8217;ve begun listening to Christmas music which is my very favorite part of the season. So I&#8217;ll be sharing a Christmas song with you for the next four weeks. This is a very very short song. I love acappella music.<br \/>\n<object width=\"640\" height=\"480\" classid=\"clsid:d27cdb6e-ae6d-11cf-96b8-444553540000\" codebase=\"http:\/\/download.macromedia.com\/pub\/shockwave\/cabs\/flash\/swflash.cab#version=6,0,40,0\"><param name=\"allowFullScreen\" value=\"true\" \/><param name=\"allowscriptaccess\" value=\"always\" \/><param name=\"src\" value=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/v\/GF2BzUDeTkY?version=3&amp;hl=en_US&amp;rel=0\" \/><param name=\"allowfullscreen\" value=\"true\" \/><\/object><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000080;\"><strong>Industry News ~ \u00c2\u00a0<\/strong><\/span>A few weeks ago I mentioned the merger of Random House and Penguin. Now it looks like Newscorp, the owners of HarperCollins are looking to buy Simon &amp; Schuster. [<a href=\"http:\/\/www.mediabistro.com\/galleycat\/news-corp-ponders-buying-simon-schuster_b61219\" target=\"_blank\">source<\/a>] So now there&#8217;s a possibility of the big five becoming the big four? Simon Collins &amp; Harper Schuster? I just don&#8217;t know.<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000080;\"><strong>What I&#8217;m reading ~<\/strong><\/span>A new book by Dee Carney! A foodie romance based on those reality game shows we all<img data-attachment-id=\"5559\" data-permalink=\"https:\/\/alannacoca.com\/blog\/2012\/11\/saturday-status-3\/attachment\/15758918\" data-orig-file=\"https:\/\/alannacoca.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/11\/15758918.jpg\" data-orig-size=\"200,300\" data-comments-opened=\"1\" data-image-meta=\"{&quot;aperture&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;credit&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;camera&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;caption&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;created_timestamp&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;copyright&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;focal_length&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;iso&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;shutter_speed&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;title&quot;:&quot;&quot;}\" data-image-title=\"15758918\" data-image-description=\"\" data-image-caption=\"\" data-medium-file=\"https:\/\/alannacoca.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/11\/15758918.jpg\" data-large-file=\"https:\/\/alannacoca.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/11\/15758918.jpg\" decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignright  wp-image-5559 shadow\" src=\"https:\/\/alannacoca.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/11\/15758918.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"120\" height=\"180\" \/> love. \u00c2\u00a0Blurb Snippet:\u00c2\u00a0With a chance to win a cooking competition that will advance her career, the last thing food truck chef Pepper Joseph needs is a distraction. Except she\u2019s got a heaping helping of it in the form of fellow chef Darien Priest, the man who broke her heart. It\u2019s been years, and she tells herself she\u2019s over his betrayal, but to her irritation, she finds she still has an appetite for his steel-gray eyes, clean-shaven head, and sleeve tattoos.<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000080;\"><strong>Tweet of the Week:<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<div class=\"twitter-tweet\">\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" lang=\"en\">\n<p>&quot;Taco Bell bathrooms are an absolutely superb location to lie down and have a quick nap.&quot; -Alcohol<\/p>\n<p>&mdash; JRehling (@JRehling) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/JRehling\/status\/270937999158693889\">November 20, 2012<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<\/div>\n<p><script src=\"\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000080;\"><strong>Search Term of the week aka How People Found My Websites ~<\/strong><\/span> I&#8217;m not sure if I should be insulted by this, or if I should start preparing for a new drink flavor launch: &#8220;alana coca zero&#8221;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/alannacoca.com\/fine-print\" target=\"_blank\"><img data-attachment-id=\"232\" data-permalink=\"https:\/\/alannacoca.com\/blog\/2012\/11\/saturday-status-3\/fine-print-1romance\" data-orig-file=\"https:\/\/alannacoca.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/08\/fine-print-1romance.gif\" data-orig-size=\"195,300\" data-comments-opened=\"1\" data-image-meta=\"{&quot;aperture&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;credit&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;camera&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;caption&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;created_timestamp&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;copyright&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;focal_length&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;iso&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;shutter_speed&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;title&quot;:&quot;&quot;}\" data-image-title=\"\" data-image-description=\"\" data-image-caption=\"\" data-medium-file=\"https:\/\/alannacoca.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/08\/fine-print-1romance.gif\" data-large-file=\"https:\/\/alannacoca.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/08\/fine-print-1romance.gif\" decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignleft  wp-image-232 shadow\" src=\"https:\/\/alannacoca.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/08\/fine-print-1romance.gif\" alt=\"\" width=\"137\" height=\"210\" \/><\/a><span style=\"color: #000080;\"><strong>Book Snippet ~<\/strong><\/span> From Fine Print:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Derek closed the door behind him, and flipped on the lamp. He imagined Kara Bianchi, walking into her own home minutes ago, and cursing him. She would be the type to throw one hell of a fit. Did she take off those sassy shoes at the door and throw them across the room?<\/p>\n<p>No, too much feeling. She probably just marched into her bedroom and put those pumps right back in their tissue-filled box, and filed them alphabetically in her color-coordinated closet.<\/p>\n<p>And then she&#8217;d take off her skirt.<\/p>\n<p>Derek groaned, and landed on the couch, bumping the back into the wall with his exuberance.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Okay folks, have a great weekend, don&#8217;t spend too much money, and be nice to all those retail workers out there!<\/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>Can you believe Thanksgiving has passed? I hope you all had a great one, and a safe Black Friday. 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