A Book with a Bonus

I am currently reading The Book of Lost Fragrances by M. J. Rose (and fully enjoying it) for an upcoming blog tour courtesy of Historical Fiction Virtual Book Tours and I wanted to pass along the info of a very exciting promotion going on. 

Don't forget to watch for my review next month.

Discover the perfume inspired by The Book of Lost Fragrances

Pre-order The Book of Lost Fragrances by M.J. Rose and they'll send you a free sample of Âmes Soeurs, the Scent of Soulmates. This exclusive fragrance, inspired by the novel, was created by Joya Studios and is not yet for sale. Joya’s Âmes Sœurs hints of Frankincense, Myrrh, Orange Blossom and Jasmine. It’s smoky uncommon finish suggests the past and the future, and lost souls reunited.

Just use one of the links at http://mjrose.com/fragrances/scent.asp and follow the directions there.

Offer ends March 1, but pre-order now since they have a limited number of supplies! US and Canada only.

O! M! G!

So.....you know how my blog has been all possessed and I have been working my hocus pocus on it.  Well, I fixed it...YAY!  And it was something really stupid...GRR!  The post that blocked up the system was "My Fave Books of 2011" and all the cover images and made the post too big.  How stupid is that!!

So my brain is Blogger fried but all is on the up and up now...I just need to re-post my faves without all the pics.  Lame! 

More from the "Technology Hates Me" series...

Well, we got our new router up and running in time for me to realize that my blog is having some serious technological issues.

Ever since I updated my layout my posts have been rebelling. The first one since decided it needed the homepage all to it's own. I tried to troubleshoot for a while and then decided it wasn't the end of the world it was just annoying so I decided to let. It throw it's temper-tantrum and once I had enough posts up after it all would be back to normal. Who was I kidding? It's never that easy!

It took me some time to realize it but all of those new posts aren't updating in google reader and who knows what else! S now I have to figure out what evil gremlin took over my blog and try to exorcise it. Does exorcism work on gremlins? Well I'm going to try!

I planned on spending last night throwing holy water at my computer and googling Latin chants but my Internet was down!! This time it was the cable modem so I went town (yes I live in the boonies and say things like "went to town") and swapped it out for a younger, more energetic model. We will see. If it works when I get home, so for now I am back to mooching free wifi from Starbucks.

Anyone know a good priest?

Mailbox Monday

Mailbox Monday was created by Marcia at The Printed Page.

This month's Mailbox Monday blog tour is hosted Alyce from At Home With Books.

Check out the blog and post all the new books you acquired last week.

The Obsidian Pebble: First in The Artefact Series by RA Jones (from author)

From author's website:

Oz Chambers lives in a haunted house. His mother wants to move, but Oz believes that the old place is too full of mystery to leave. When he and his friends hear ghostly footsteps, they decide to investigate the house’s eerie reputation. But what Oz hasn’t bargained for is that he’s not alone in his quest and that solving Penwurt’s puzzles will uncover a murky secret, and the chilling realisation that nothing is quite what it seems.

Technology Hates Me

Our router decided to die so I am mooching off free coffee shop wifi. I picked up the macdaddy of all routers(that Best Buy sells, that is), now I just have to wait until my husband is home from work for more than an hour for it to get set up. I know I could set it up if I really wanted to but I am also certain that I would find some way to screw it up and just cause him more work in the long run.

On a side note...I am LOVING this rain that we are finally getting!

And to show my happy spirit, please enjoy this lovely pic of me in San Diego back in November. We were determined to the day a Sea World and a little rain wasn't going to stop us.

I'm embracing the drowned rat look.  Feel free to mock.

We decided we had to go on the outside water ride before we left and this is how we all looked afterwards.  And no, I don't really know why I decided I still needed to use an umbrella.

It could be worse...

What I hate:
I gave myself extra time this morning to get coffee before work and apparently the woman wrote down my order wrong but I didn't have time to get it fixed.  As I was walking into work, grumbling to myself about my stupid drink, I put the entirely full cup on top of my lunch to open the door and spilled it all down the front of myself!  Argh!

BUT!

I also saw this little bit of awesomeness on Shelf Awareness which made me smile.

What Happens in Bookstores at Night

Facelift in progress

You may remember that post I wrote months ago about how I was going to update my blog.  Well...I finally got over my scardy-cat-ness of change and beautification is here!  Organization is coming...