J.R. Ward's Black Dagger Brotherhood Series

Amazing books! Enough said.
The first book "Dark Lover" is the beginning of an incredible cast of complex and alluring characters. The Black Dagger Brotherhood are a group of five vampire warriors who are out to protect their race against their enemies known as lessers, which are humans who have essentially sold their soul to the devil known as the Omega. The lessers walk during the day as normal people trying to recruit more to serve the Omega. They are known to smell sickenly sweet like baby powder.

The Brotherhood warriors are Wrath, Vishous, Phury, Rhage, and Zsadis.
The books are written to concentrate primarily on one warrior as the lead character but all are included in each book.
Dark Lover = Wrath, falls in love with a half breed, Beth, daughter of Darius. Wrath is the King of their race.

Lover Eternal = Rhage, deals with his curse of the dragon, falling in love with a human woman, Mary.

Lover Awakened = Zsadist, scarred twin brother of Phury deals with brutal past as a sex slave, his connection with his brother, and of course falls in love with another vampire Bella.

Lover Revealed = Butch, a human cop that was trying to save Beth from being harmed by Wrath in the first book has become a major character. He's become best friends with Vishous, fallen in love with Wrath's first shellan, Marissa, and of course there's something about Butch that needs to be explained...

Lover Unbound = Vishous, a very kinky vampire who does some major self discovery is named Primale, only to turn it down for the love of a human doctor, Jane.

Lover Enshrined (Not yet released)= Phury, twin brother of Zsadist, is celibate but in love with his brothers shellan, Bella, but is now taking the role of Primale from Vishous. His role of Primale is to ensure the bloodline of future Brotherhood warriors by procreating.

This series is so fast paced, totally kick ass action packed. And of course there are some major sex scenes.

I'm totally in love with all of the characters. I cannot wait for the next book to come out. And I don't see that as being a last book either.

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J.R. Ward's Black Dagger Brotherhood Series

Amazing books! Enough said.
The first book "Dark Lover" is the beginning of an incredible cast of complex and alluring characters. The Black Dagger Brotherhood are a group of five vampire warriors who are out to protect their race against their enemies known as lessers, which are humans who have essentially sold their soul to the devil known as the Omega. The lessers walk during the day as normal people trying to recruit more to serve the Omega. They are known to smell sickenly sweet like baby powder.

The Brotherhood warriors are Wrath, Vishous, Phury, Rhage, and Zsadis.
The books are written to concentrate primarily on one warrior as the lead character but all are included in each book.
Dark Lover = Wrath, falls in love with a half breed, Beth, daughter of Darius. Wrath is the King of their race.

Lover Eternal = Rhage, deals with his curse of the dragon, falling in love with a human woman, Mary.

Lover Awakened = Zsadist, scarred twin brother of Phury deals with brutal past as a sex slave, his connection with his brother, and of course falls in love with another vampire Bella.

Lover Revealed = Butch, a human cop that was trying to save Beth from being harmed by Wrath in the first book has become a major character. He's become best friends with Vishous, fallen in love with Wrath's first shellan, Marissa, and of course there's something about Butch that needs to be explained...

Lover Unbound = Vishous, a very kinky vampire who does some major self discovery is named Primale, only to turn it down for the love of a human doctor, Jane.

Lover Enshrined (Not yet released)= Phury, twin brother of Zsadist, is celibate but in love with his brothers shellan, Bella, but is now taking the role of Primale from Vishous. His role of Primale is to ensure the bloodline of future Brotherhood warriors by procreating.

This series is so fast paced, totally kick ass action packed. And of course there are some major sex scenes.

I'm totally in love with all of the characters. I cannot wait for the next book to come out. And I don't see that as being a last book either.

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Cermak Christmas Lights

Mike and Heather Cermak, Mike is Patrick's boss, have decorated their home with music coordinating lights. They have the lights insync with a local radio station that plays Christmas music.

To get more info check out their website: www.heatherandmike.com

Our family will be visiting them soon to check out the show.

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Cermak Christmas Lights

Mike and Heather Cermak, Mike is Patrick's boss, have decorated their home with music coordinating lights. They have the lights insync with a local radio station that plays Christmas music.

To get more info check out their website: www.heatherandmike.com

Our family will be visiting them soon to check out the show.

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Thanksgiving

I had a great Thanksgiving! I took a whole week off and enjoyed staying home with Madison.

We had Shawna, Rob, and Efrim stay with us over the holiday. It was tons of fun. The kids played together very well. We took them to the park nearly everyday.

We had dinner at Uncle Dee and Aunt Nicki's house with most of the family. It was great. Patrick, Shawna, Rob, and I made TONS of mashed potatoes for the dinner.

We also had Ed and Kim over to our house to enjoy an evening of chicken corn soup, blueberry muffins, and board games.

We're ready to kick off for the next holiday: Christmas!!!

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Thanksgiving

I had a great Thanksgiving! I took a whole week off and enjoyed staying home with Madison.

We had Shawna, Rob, and Efrim stay with us over the holiday. It was tons of fun. The kids played together very well. We took them to the park nearly everyday.

We had dinner at Uncle Dee and Aunt Nicki's house with most of the family. It was great. Patrick, Shawna, Rob, and I made TONS of mashed potatoes for the dinner.

We also had Ed and Kim over to our house to enjoy an evening of chicken corn soup, blueberry muffins, and board games.

We're ready to kick off for the next holiday: Christmas!!!

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Depression

October 31, 2007
Mood: encouraged, slightly motivated

Entry:
Yesterday's meeting with Marianne and Davida just made my issue more of an issue because it's not only affecting me but my co-workers as well. Knowing this makes me feel selfish and unworthy and like a failure. All these things I know that I don't want to be but I feel trapped and unable to escape my current situation. The things I want i.e. to do a good job at work and at home are there in y mind but I can't communicate to my body. My body wants to sit, unfeeling, be left alone from others, not thinking, just being. I enjoy reading It is my escape from my life into a world that is 100 times better than mine. If I'm not reading I'm listening to my iPod or sleeping. I haven't been able to give 100% at work for a very long time. That alone kills me.

And after yesterday's meeting it cannot be ignored, which is what I'm best at. I've developed the mind set that I don't care! about anything. But the problem is that I do care, I just can't bring myself mentally or physically to cooperate enough to strive towards the things that need to be done i.e. cleaning, working cooking etc. and a major one has been sleeping. I've corrected that recently. I've been exhausted the past few nights and have gone to bed much earlier than normal. A normal bedtime for me has been 1:30 - 2:00 am w/ getting up at 9:00 am, getting to work at 10:30 - 11:00 am when I'm supposed to be there at 8:30 am. That is a huge issue. Since I've been going to bed much earlier this week I've been able to correct that.

My goals are to care. Stop feeling like I don't matter. Stop feeling tired, exhausted, unmotivated, and mopey.

I want to matter, want to be worthy and productive at work and home.

I want to be less snappy, tense, and irritable. I want to be happy but I don't want to fake it, which I'm pretty sure I'm good at faking; until now. I'm an open book now -- quite literally too.

I want to be excited to go to work and want to do a good job at what I do - not just do the minimum that is expected from me but to do as I used to, which was above and beyond what is expected. I used to enjoy working at 110% but now I find it a struggle to emit 50%. The same is true for home too.

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Depression

October 31, 2007
Mood: encouraged, slightly motivated

Entry:
Yesterday's meeting with Marianne and Davida just made my issue more of an issue because it's not only affecting me but my co-workers as well. Knowing this makes me feel selfish and unworthy and like a failure. All these things I know that I don't want to be but I feel trapped and unable to escape my current situation. The things I want i.e. to do a good job at work and at home are there in y mind but I can't communicate to my body. My body wants to sit, unfeeling, be left alone from others, not thinking, just being. I enjoy reading It is my escape from my life into a world that is 100 times better than mine. If I'm not reading I'm listening to my iPod or sleeping. I haven't been able to give 100% at work for a very long time. That alone kills me.

And after yesterday's meeting it cannot be ignored, which is what I'm best at. I've developed the mind set that I don't care! about anything. But the problem is that I do care, I just can't bring myself mentally or physically to cooperate enough to strive towards the things that need to be done i.e. cleaning, working cooking etc. and a major one has been sleeping. I've corrected that recently. I've been exhausted the past few nights and have gone to bed much earlier than normal. A normal bedtime for me has been 1:30 - 2:00 am w/ getting up at 9:00 am, getting to work at 10:30 - 11:00 am when I'm supposed to be there at 8:30 am. That is a huge issue. Since I've been going to bed much earlier this week I've been able to correct that.

My goals are to care. Stop feeling like I don't matter. Stop feeling tired, exhausted, unmotivated, and mopey.

I want to matter, want to be worthy and productive at work and home.

I want to be less snappy, tense, and irritable. I want to be happy but I don't want to fake it, which I'm pretty sure I'm good at faking; until now. I'm an open book now -- quite literally too.

I want to be excited to go to work and want to do a good job at what I do - not just do the minimum that is expected from me but to do as I used to, which was above and beyond what is expected. I used to enjoy working at 110% but now I find it a struggle to emit 50%. The same is true for home too.

Continue Reading...