{"id":6388,"date":"2014-08-09T08:58:33","date_gmt":"2014-08-09T14:58:33","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/alannacoca.com\/blog\/?p=6388"},"modified":"2014-08-08T23:44:44","modified_gmt":"2014-08-09T05:44:44","slug":"saturday-status-8914","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/alannacoca.com\/blog\/2014\/08\/saturday-status-8914","title":{"rendered":"Saturday Status 8\/9\/14"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"color: rgb(51, 51, 51);\"><img data-attachment-id=\"6773\" data-permalink=\"https:\/\/alannacoca.com\/blog\/2014\/08\/saturday-status-8914\/711762_s-2\" data-orig-file=\"https:\/\/alannacoca.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/08\/711762_s.jpg\" data-orig-size=\"401,266\" 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\/2014\/08\/711762_s-300x199.jpg\" data-large-file=\"https:\/\/alannacoca.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/08\/711762_s.jpg\" decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-6773\" src=\"https:\/\/alannacoca.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/08\/711762_s-300x199.jpg\" alt width=\"300\" height=\"199\" srcset=\"https:\/\/alannacoca.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/08\/711762_s-300x199.jpg 300w, https:\/\/alannacoca.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/08\/711762_s.jpg 401w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\">Howdy! Wel\u00adcome back. If you reached this post via social media, you\u2019re one of the lucky&nbsp;ones!&nbsp;<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: rgb(51, 51, 51);\">No sta\u00adtus last week, since I&nbsp;was part of the JustRomance.Me blog hop. I&nbsp;know the three of you out there in the world real\u00adly missed my sta\u00adtus post. (Hi,&nbsp;Mom!)&nbsp;<\/span><\/p>\n<p><strong><span style=\"color: #333399;\">Work in Progress News ~&nbsp;<\/span><\/strong><span style=\"color: #333399;\"><span style=\"color: #333333;\">Back to work on Jack\u00adson. I&nbsp;don\u2019t know why, he\u2019s just the guy who start\u00aded talk\u00ading when I&nbsp;opened the <span class=\"caps\">WIP<\/span> fold\u00ader, so I\u2019ll keep writ\u00ading as long as he keeps talk\u00ading. This is a&nbsp;stand\u00adalone (at least for now) M\/M. It\u2019s actu\u00adal\u00adly a&nbsp;<span class=\"caps\">GFY<\/span>, and I\u2019m hes\u00adi\u00adtant. Hope I&nbsp;can pull it off. Luck\u00adi\u00adly I&nbsp;have a&nbsp;pletho\u00adra of M\/M authors I&nbsp;can rope into giv\u00ading me advice on this&nbsp;thing.&nbsp;<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #333399;\"><strong> Favorite Song of the Week ~&nbsp;<\/strong><span style=\"color: #000000;\">New coun\u00adtry duo, new label, new sin\u00adgle. I\u2019m gonna have to say these two are going to be pret\u00adty big. This song is great for many reasons:<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/_MOavH-Eivw?rel=0\" width=\"853\" height=\"480\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #333399;\"><strong> Tweet of the&nbsp;Week&nbsp;~<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" lang=\"en\"><p>Damn girl, are you an apos\u00adtro\u00adphe? Because you\u2019re real\u00adly pos\u00adses\u00adsive and always jump in at the end and change what I\u2019m try\u00ading to&nbsp;say.<\/p>\n<p>\u2014 seag\u00adull (@seagullski) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/seagullski\/statuses\/492401470093156353\">July 24,&nbsp;2014<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script src=\"\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" async charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><br>\n<span style=\"color: #333399;\"><strong>Indus\u00adtry News ~<\/strong>&nbsp;<span style=\"color: #333333;\">Ama\u00adzon has begun \u201csame day deliv\u00adery\u201d in very lim\u00adit\u00aded areas (and with very lim\u00adit\u00aded mer\u00adchan\u00addise options). I&nbsp;don\u2019t think they get to use drones yet though, so I\u2019ll hold out for that! I\u2019m still hop\u00ading Hatch\u00adette and Ama\u00adzon will work out their dif\u00adfer\u00adences before my favorite author San\u00addra Brown\u2019s book comes out lat\u00ader this month. If not I\u2019ll have to read a&nbsp;hard\u00adback copy like the old&nbsp;days!<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #333399;\"><strong>What I\u2019m read\u00ading ~&nbsp;<\/strong><span style=\"color: rgb(51, 51, 51);\">Oh, you guys. I&nbsp;read a&nbsp;hor\u00adri\u00adble book, and by chap\u00adter two I&nbsp;knew I&nbsp;was going to hate it, and I&nbsp;kept read\u00ading any\u00adway. By chap\u00adter five I&nbsp;had sev\u00ader\u00adal pas\u00adsages high\u00adlight\u00aded where the hero is such a&nbsp;<span class=\"caps\">JERK<\/span>! I&nbsp;mean rude and mean and lots of fill in the blank\u00adish\u00adness. I&nbsp;should\u00adn\u2019t have wast\u00aded my time, but this was writ\u00adten by a&nbsp;fair\u00adly well known author, so I&nbsp;fig\u00adured I&nbsp;must be miss\u00ading some\u00adthing. Any\u00adway, I&nbsp;won\u2019t be show\u00adcas\u00ading it here for you because I\u2019m pret\u00adty dis\u00adap\u00adpoint\u00aded that I&nbsp;won\u2019t get those few hours of my life&nbsp;back.<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #333399;\"><strong>Today\u2019s Tear\u00adjerk\u00ader ~<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/HuxejhBOCOo?rel=0\" width=\"640\" height=\"480\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #333399;\"><strong>Book Snip\u00adpet ~&nbsp;<\/strong><span style=\"color: rgb(51, 51, 51);\">From my wip Jack\u00adson, because I&nbsp;feel like sharing.<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Noah slouched over his whiskey, try\u00ading like hell to ignore the dry-hump\u00ading cou\u00adple on the seat beside him. He\u2019d get up and move, but the place was packed, and he had to hold onto this bar stool or he\u2019d end up stand\u00ading against the wall. Fac\u00ading the crowd. That would lead to eye con\u00adtact. Eye con\u00adtact led to conversation.<\/p>\n<p>Noah wasn\u2019t here for con\u00adver\u00adsa\u00adtion. He was here for nine\u00adty min\u00adutes and as much alco\u00adhol that his twen\u00adty dol\u00adlar bill would buy. Unfor\u00adtu\u00adnate\u00adly it wasn\u2019t much, so he nursed his drink until the ice melt\u00aded. He showed up fif\u00adteen min\u00adutes before this bus\u00adload of bar-hop\u00adping col\u00adlege stu\u00addents. If there is a&nbsp;God, they\u2019ll get bored and look for a&nbsp;club with dancing.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>All right, you guys. &nbsp;Foot\u00adball has already start\u00aded, and base\u00adball is still in full swing (haha!), but go out and enjoy these few remain\u00ading sum\u00admer weekends.<\/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>Howdy! 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