In My Mailbox #49- the crappy excuses one

*mumbles some pathetic excuse about being demotivated and tired*
Dude I know I have no excuse, I have massively ballsed up these past two weeks and I have let people down - in particular Sasha Soren who has been so lovely to me and has been waiting on me to fulfil my part of the bargain in the Random Magic blog tour. I am exceedingly sorry for how royally I have buggered up and I hope you can forgive me dropping off the face of the earth when I had things I needed to do.

Right now this post is for a different reason and it's been two weeks since I last did one of these as well :S
In My Mailbox is a weekly bookish meme hosted by Kristi @The Story Siren and inspired by Alea @Pop Culture Junkie



Books Acquired in the Past two weeks
Ultraviolet by R.J. Anderson
Die for Me by Amy Plum (loving this so far!)
Forgotten by Cat Patrick
The Vespertine by Saundra Mitchell (also really enjoying this)
Outside In by Maria V. Snyder


Also bought but not entirely bookish - I bought the first season of the Gilmore Girls last week and I may have watched it all before the weekend was over :P What can I say? I am a sucker for quick-witted intelligent humour and I am practically in love with how GD Adorable Jared Padalecki is in this show. Rory is my kinda girl although her reading tastes put me to shame as I may own lots of classics but bugger knows I've not read many of them :S


Something else important you should know
Today is my good friend Ellie's birthday!! She is the darling behind the blog Musings of a Bookshop Girl which y'all really should check out not least because of the fact that she owns a second-hand bookshop with her mum. Seriously I wish I had her job every freaking day! Although there are sometimes crazy customers to deal with, she does share some hilarious stories from the shop on her blog and her eclectic reading tastes mean that there are reviews for almost everyone who drops by. Go say Happy Birthday and check out her fabulous blog!


So although I know I have some serious making-up to do it will have to be done later as this post is now at an end. I hope I've not put off all my followers with my flaky blogging and I am gonna be trying a lot harder in June. Starting with getting my review up for Random Magic - I think the lesson I can take from this is that I am seriously shit at keeping up with commitments and probably shouldn't participate in a blog tour again.

Have a great Sunday folks and let me know What's in Your Mailbox
LadyV

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Look! Still Sort-of Here!

Hey folks just thought I'd best put in an appearance before someone sent out a search party. I know I have been extremely lax with my posting of late but since I started my new job last week I have been so tired when I get home that I'm basically passing out straight after dinner.

Eventually I should be able to get a routine sorted so I can manage both work and my blog but at the moment that remains to be seen so y'all are getting short shrift and I'm sorry about that.

Coming up in May I do have some stuff going on for the Random Magic Blog Tour which I'm rather excited to be taking part in (pirate theme, hello? Awesome much?) so even if I totally flake on getting normal reviews and posts up I will be doing my damnedest to get my tour obligations met on time.

Although this weekend is a long weekend what with all the Royal Wedding hullabaloo going on (me personally, couldn't care less as I got bored stiff of all the media coverage months ago) I'm still gonna be MIA from the blogosphere because my sister and I are hitting the road for a mini-holiday away from the rentals. We're heading over to Warwick and the general area to hit up the Castle (cos we're super cool like that) and whatever else we feel like doing.

So please continue to be wonderfully patient and some sort of normal service may resume in due course although I think with my 9-5 working days my reading is gonna be substantially lessened (even with me taking a book to read in my car during my lunch break :P).

Love y'all to bits
LadyV

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Apologies for the hiatus! And News for the Future

Ok folks I just thought I'd re-appear real quick to explain why I've suddenly gone all quiet and whatnot.
Tomorrow I've moving into my new flat for my second year of University and like an utter idiot I left my packing far too late and today I'm gonna be working like a madwoman getting all my clothes and books sorted out (first I better decide what books I'm actually taking :S).
So that's why I've not been posting this week, partly because I'm lazy and I've also been doing other chores (ironing and watching ridiculous amounts of Stargate in order to finish my summer marathon).

Another thing, I'm probably not gonna get broadband set up at the flat until the end of September so posts are gonna be kinda sporadic on here until then. I am going to try and get some stuff typed up and then transfer it to Blogger when I go somewhere with free wi-fi so that the whole blog doesn't drop off the face of the earth.

So sorry again for the vanishing act and I hope y'all can be patient with me and I promise that once I have internet back that a reasonably normal schedule of posting will resume - for the first two weeks of October I'm gonna be doing a series of reviews of some Favourite books of mine - conveniently titled "Favourites Fortnight" so if other people want to get all nostalgic and re-read some of the *their* favs please feel free to link to reviews in the comments when I get the first post up.

Oh and once October begins, I will be starting down the scary, stress-filled road to NaNoWriMo and I'll try and do quick daily or alternate days posts updating on the planning stages. When we get to November then everything will go mad and normal blogging will be suspended while I try and juggle uni work and the intense writing mahem of NaNo. I will do update posts and try and figure out how the heck to get a word-counter widget on here so you can keep up with how I'm doing (hoping I don't flake out after the first week- I really want to do this). My reading in November will probably be very minimal so I may do the odd review *if* I read anything.

Don't Forget! My Birthday Bonanza Contest is still going until the 7th of October so you still have three weeks to enter! Fill out the form Here to enter!

I hope to be posting again soon (I have a couple of posts in draft atm so I'll try to finish them) but for now I better get packing!
LadyV

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