Journalist Ethan Nahte wrote an awesome article for the Dallas Examiner about my upcoming signing this weekend, July 4, Saturday, 12 pm to 6 pm at Eerie Books & Collectibles in downtown Wylie, Texas.

Thank you Ethan!

I hope to see my faithful minions and potential new minions this weekend...there is always room on the Ghoul Squad for new recruits!

We went to the Star Wars Expo yesterday  where I scored some awesome Barbies for myself and the girl child. Christopher has been sick all weekend, so we didn't stay long, but caught up with friend Jim Jacob [the other half of Charlee Jacob]. We came home and I made some chicken vegetable soup, and we watched Nobody Loves Alice --which was absolutely awesome!

Then we watched The Orphanage...another awesome movie[that we are still discussing today...a couple plot holes that have nagged at us, but there were no deleted scenes on the DVD so we don't know if the holes ended up on the cutting room floor or if they were inherent to the script], and then made a late night run to the store to get cold medicine.

Today we slept in. Poor Chris is reading on the couch in between bouts of coughing. I made a pear & apple pie, churned the new scraps into the compost in the garden, and tidied up.

My hip has been killing me, as well as lower back, so not staying on "the puter" long. Have some sewing to do. Tomorrow is grocery store and kid school activity day, plus Chris is going to doctor....so full day.

2 tomatoes look like they're going red soon...there are about 20 others in various stages of green. Yay! Didn't have to cover the garden last night as it didn't get too cold, and it's 86 out there today [and sunny]...I've been keeping tabs on the lows for each night and covering the tomatoes,peppers, and cucumbers when it gets too cold. The carrots are out now, so been composting in that spot too.

New plan is to build a compost box as well as the temporary greenhouse. We shall see if that happens!

The last Baby Satyr is closing on ebay today...I probably won't make any more for at least a year. It was a summer whim sort of thing. They were fun to make, and it was fun being artistic in a different way, but man, were they time consuming! I have one more alien baby too, but I need to take new photos as this one has different hands than the others did.

Finally dressed Scootles [aka Snoodles] and she is now in Christopher's Man Room closet. I'm still trying to find shoes that fit her...it's turned into a bit of a Cinderella-Glass-Slipper game as her foot is oddly shaped. It would really be cool to find some original shoes on ebay, but so far no such luck. In the meantime, the girl child's Chore Prize Box is filling up with assorted doll shoes in the wrong size for Scootles, lol. [Chore Prize Box definition: In lieu of money, that my kiddos get plenty of from various relatives and their dad, I have a box for each child containing dollar store items, comic booksmagazines/books of interests to them we get at half price and conventions, etc, doll items, barbie items, handmade doll dresses that don't turn out "perfect enough for ebay", etc etc...each chore = 1 prize box prize. I have a separate stash of "nicer" items that I pick up at after christmas/holiday sales, online clearance sales, garage sales, consignment/thrift/resell shops, conventions, etc that are worth 5 chores. They have the choice to be instantly paid for their chore, or save up 5 chores. So far, I've found this box system works better than the money system...though they DO have the option of trading a "pick" from the box for a Quarter, or 4 chores = $1....they rarely take that option].

Okay...I've got 4 Roses in December Round Robin [from my BleuDoor Bleuette group] ensembles, plus 1 for me and 1 to sell to work on so I better go sew...nearly finished, but the hand-beading on the dresses takes a little more time.

And, the pie is cooling...Chris is trying to stay awake for pie!

Just a reminder: Christopher and I [Angeline Hawkes] will be at Texas A&M University -Commerce this Saturday, November 1, from 11 am til about 2 ish signing books on the West Lawn with the Book Signing and Art Show as part of the annual Homecoming Events. We'd love to see you there!

My book signing at Eerie Books in Wylie was a huge success. I had a great time talking with tons of readers! Thank you to everyone who came out to shop and say hi! Randy and company at the bookstore were delightful hosts and the whole day was wonderful! I greatly reduced our 2008 book inventory! Yay! November 1 is our last event, so hopefully we can sell the rest then and restock with a clean slate in January!

My Weird Dream:

This is what pain meds can do for you!

I dreamed that I was cleaning house and suddenly Cthulhu manifested from under the house. We had the under the floor heat vents like houses in the mid-west do, not the on the ceiling type we have here in Texas. Cthulhu started poking his slimy tentacles through all of the vents. Wind was blowing and household goods were flying around me in a whirlwind. The house was quaking on its foundations and the floor had an angry bulge in the center as if, at any moment, the old one himself would  burst through. The tentacles began slapping me about...then, a terrifying eye looked at me through a jagged crack in the wall.

I rebuked Cthulhu in the name of god.

Well, this angered him and he let loose many curses in his garbled Elder God speak....then he, surprisingly enough, began taunting me in English [who knew!]. He mocked my god and bellowed great, deep bass laughter.

"You rebuke me in the name of your god? Do you think this Hebrew god is a fearsome god that I should fear?" [lots of laughter, then a low, rumbling growl of anger] "I am [name unable to pronounce] and I was a god most terrifying when YOUR god was but a babe at his mother's teat!"

[has a bit of a comic book flair to it, doesn't it?]

At this point, Cthulhu is mightily pissed, and he morphs all of the ends of his tentacles into the Burger King King's head...first the tentacles were all yellow play-doughy and gushy, then they shaped into the scary BK king head complete with that freaky plastic face and smile and crown. So, these BK king heads are waving all over the place.

So, then I get really pissed, and go all pastor pointy at him [like in the cheesey ad for the new Billy Graham movie where he's at the top of the steps pointing/preaching at the trophy animal heads] and I rebuke Cthulhu in the name of Jesus Christ. The king of kings. The lord of lords.

Cthulhu got all screamy and his tentacles lost their BK king head-shapes, and as fast as possible slithered back into the vents in a great sucking gust of air. Paper and smaller objects sucked into the vent with the long, tentacles. Terrified screeches and shrieks followed and then the house was quiet and all was still.

And then Chris woke me up.

I imagine we had some major foundation issues after that.

And that's the wrap up on my Cthulhu-BK king- Jesus dream. Either it's the novel I'm writing or the meds....either way, the dream was creepily realistic!

I'll be signing & selling books at Joe Kryzan's THE BOOK FAIRE tomorrow at Scarborough Faire in Waxahachie, Texas from around 10ish am to 1 ish pm.  Come on out and say hello!