THE LIST: A new #1... Paul Marron

Sorry Adam Lambert, my love, my obsession, its time to move over and make way... there's a new #1 on The List and his name is Paul Marron. I am so obsessed with this guy, its not even funny. What is funny is how it all came about. 


I was on the Kresley Cole website, checking out the message boards for her newest IAD novel, Lothaire. Someone mentioned in a thread the name of the cover model, the Enemy of Old, Lothaire himself, Paul Marron. 

Isn't he beautiful, in a scary-evil-dangerous way? Just how I like em!

So I clicked on the link to his website and sat there for half an hour, browsing through all his pics and drooling heavily. Then one particular picture caught my eye and I realized in that pic, he looked amazingly similar to the cover model for the IAD novel featuring Cadeon Woede, Dark Desires After Dusk. That's when I realized, holy shit it WAS him! Cadeon is my absolute favorite IAD character, and I'll admit that a large part is due to how freakin' hot he is on the cover of the book. Okay, his personality and charm are awesome too, but check out that clenched jaw, *swoon* just wanna lick it (and maybe some other things, heh).

Back to the message boards I went, to create my very own thread about Mr. Hotness himself, Paul Marron. Another reader replied that he's been on many, many book covers, started listing them and I was like, 'Holy crap, that was him? I OWN those books, they're my favorites, I have lusty dreams about those super-hotties all the time!' So here, my favorite covers have all featured Paul! He has a unique, changeable quality to him that makes each character on each cover look different, and yet if you KNOW its him and take a closer look, you can recognize him. 


He is Rydstrom Woede on the cover of yet another IAD book, Kiss of a Demon King (my 2nd favorite IAD book); it just so happens Cadeon and Rydstrom are brothers. 




He's Rehvenge on JR Ward's Black Dagger Brotherhood book, Lover Avenged.

He's been on countless Harlequin covers, historical romance novels, you name it. In my obsessive stalking, I mean research, I learned he's even been on a few of the raunchier e-books I own, only its been his body or back that was the focus, not his face.

There's WAY more, these are just a few.

The man is a GOD. I am in serious lust here. Could be because Hubs has been away for like ever but still, you can't deny it. 

So, back to Lothaire... Paul went on a book tour with author Kresley Cole across the US, visiting bookstores for meet & greets; ladies have been posting pics of themselves standing next to Paul (in full Lothaire character, down to the red contacts and black leather coat, yummmm). And they have their greedy, grasping hands and arms all over him, grrrr! That's MY man. I'm so jealous. Why can't KC come to Red Deer, Canada? Anyway, the consensus on Paul was that he was extremely nice and sweet, kinda shy (he blushed when KC's editor told him to open his leather coat and show everyone his abs, awwww), smelled amazing, was really tall, and took the time to talk to each lady and make her feel special. Now THAT definitely deserves the #1 spot on my List. Not many uber-hot male cover models would be so down-to-earth and kind. 

His career is not limited to romance covers though, oh no. My Paul is also the face of Undergear underwear for men (and omg how lucky are we that is a freaking Underwear Model), he does tons of magazines, he's even been in a movie! Ok, so it was one of those straight-to-dvd movies that the average person has never heard of (unless you're obsessed and happen to see some of the stills from the movie --- which I have posted below --- and become even more obsessed because oh-holy-freakin-god he's naked in parts of the movie, doing some chick, and where-oh-where can I get my pervy hands on that movie). 

BUT OMG YOU GUYS, GET THIS... to make my obsession even more fanatical, I mean fantastical, I learned that he created his own facebook page, after much prompting from fans and KC herself -- after his Lothaire cover -- and became a 'fan'. When I happened across his movie stills (the movie is called Playroom, I guess its pretty hardcore and not in the good sex-way, google it), I made a comment on his board, to the effect of: "Paul, you bad bad boy. Just saw the stills from your movie and uh, wow, where can I get a copy, wowza". A whole bunch of lady-fans 'liked' my comment and one in particular replied, we had a conversation, she said you can get the movie on amazon but I might want to fast-forward through the gruesome parts to get to naked Paul. Haha. SO THEN (and here's where I start hyperventilating)... I made another comment a few days later, asking if he ever modeled for Ellora's Cave books, but that they're pretty risque, not NYT Bestseller List fodder, def not mainstream, but that I'd love to see his face on the next EC book I download and, oh holy mother... HE RESPONDED TO MY COMMENT!!!

He said, "Negative, they are steamy tho... LOL"

This god of lust and washboard abs and rock-hard thighs and male perfection actually took the time out from his busy day to respond to MY comment. Little ole me. Maybe that means he even checked out my fb picture (which I have to admit, is pretty sweet). 

So I figure that him replying to my comment is like one degree of separation from us actually doing it, right? Haha. Shut up, that's what I'm going with. 

He's not just a pretty face, though. I feel I've gotten to know Paul (lol, I'm a loser) and by the videos he chooses to post on his fb page, he seems a very deep, introspective guy. And he likes Lamb of God, he's a self-professed metal-head. Which is cool. A person tends to think that super-hot male models are into techno and gay bars, right? 

Anyway, here's some more pics to make your day nice and steamy... and feel free to right-click-and-save for your very own fap-folder (haha, don't judge)...

Now for the really steamy ones, the ones that might give you heart palpitations...

Purple is my favorite color, how did he KNOW?! lol

I see a treasure-trail!

I wanna be invited to THIS slumber party! Who cares about the other lame pretty boys, I'm just lookin' at my boy's beautiful thighs and face (he's on the far left).

WARNING: the next few pics from his movie Playroom may cause the following reactions: dizziness, excessive drooling, racing heart, dirty thoughts, sweaty palms, feeling faint and lightheaded, a need for sudden and immediate privacy...

And now for the absolute show-stopper... brace yourselves, ladies...

'The Art of Being Cheap': Grown-Up Edition

Some of you may remember the 'Art of Being Cheap' essay I did back in highschool (the teacher, Mrs Berry, actually kept it to use as a model of "perfect essay-writing" for future generations... yes, my poor brothers had to endure "Your sister wrote that?" when they hit that grade, haha). Well, here's another thing to add to that list:

Taking clothes from arena Lost & Found boxes!

Omg, yes, I can't believe I do that, but I do. I'll admit it. And hey, why not? That stuff just sits there, no one comes back to claim it. And at least I'm not totally shameless about it, I have the kids root through the stuff for me. Who's going to say anything about little kids sorting through the stuff, "looking for toys", right?

Over the years we have taken home:

- a pair of girls figure-skates for Lena (perfect size, too)

- countless name-brand clothes  (the expensive brands, too!)

- brand new mittens and toques

- warm snuggly fleece blankets in amazing condition

- a pair of brand-new winter boots for Ryder (who forgets their child's boots at an arena?)

- toys (Barbies, toy cars and trucks, etc)

So the point of this post is because I want to brag about the BEST L&F find I ever made. 

We were in Olds last Friday night for Gunnar's game and during the second period, Ryder got a drink from the water fountain and ended up soaking his shirt. SOAKING it. The entire shirt. (How does that even happen?) And guess what? Stupid Mommy didn't bring the spare-clothes backpack! It was back home, sitting on the floor by the front door. Argh! So we had to go downstairs and check out the lost & found bin for something he could wear. One good thing about the bin's location is that its only player change rooms down there, it was practically deserted (no one to witness us rooting through everything! yay! lol). And in a streak of good fortune, I found a canvas grocery bag in the bin to put all our 'loot'. 

I found TWO American Eagle hoodies (both mens sizes) and a beautiful "vintage-style" (what it said on the tag) girls sweater. The only reason I was hyped about the American Eagle brand is because lately that is ALL Gunnar talks about, "Mom, I need you to take me to the American Eagle store in the mall, that's what everyone is wearing now, I have to some of their clothes, next year I'm only getting AE jeans, etc". *Sigh* The typical style-conscious, peer-pressured teen, right? 

I did actually take Gunnar to that store over Christmas holidays, he walked in, browsed, and was out in 10 minutes, telling me in a low voice "I need to save up more money before I can get anything", and considering he had a wallet with $100 in it, I KNOW that place is effin expensive. 

So the two mens hoodies I found have got to be worth upwards of $150 each, I figure. They're practically brand new! 

Anyway, I guess most people would be too embarrassed to go through a lost and found bin or at least admit to it. Meh, the way I see it... look who's going home with the AE hoodies, booya!

Outdoor FUN

On January 4th, Ty was home from Whitecourt long enough that we were able to have a fun family outing at the skating pond/sledding hill near our home. (Ardan was at a buddy's house, which is why he's not in the videos.) Ryder and I sledded for a while, Daddy even joined us for a couple of runs. Then the two of us joined Lena, Gunnar and Daddy on the skating pond (pond? ice surface? rink? whatevs) and Ryder tried learning to skate. He did pretty good, but after about ten minutes (way longer than he's ever lasted before) he put his boots back on and played hockey with the guys that way. 

Ryder's super-cool new toy

Ryder and Lena got to use their Toys R Us gift cards (thank you Gramma DeeDee!), check out what Ryder chose! (I had to throw in another $5 but it was worth it, this thing is coo-ell!) Lena got a Playdough icecream maker set, a giant coloring book (its seriously giant, like two feet tall), a super-annoying little critter-thing that makes annoying sounds (can you tell I'm regretting that purchase?) and a really cool blow-pen/stencil thing that makes designs on clothing (mom, you will love it). But back to Ryder's toy, its a Hot Wheels Wall-Trax set. You put it up on the wall! Even Ardan was enthralled with it. It pretty much does the same thing, over and over, but the two of them, Ardan and Ryder, played with it for a half hour straight! 

MORE additions to the family...

Gunnar and Ardan got a little aquarium each for Christmas, with the second part of the present the actual fish themselves, which we would pick out next time we were in Red Deer. The two little ones put up such a stink about not getting an aquarium as well, that I had to cave in and buy them each one. So we were in Red Deer Friday night for Gunnar's hockey game and afterwards, we went to Petland to buy the kids each a Betta fish (one of those chinese fighting fish). After much careful consideration, they each chose a fish; we also picked out some colorful gravel, plastic plants, and Betta food (teensy-weensy little pellets that are about a millimetre big). Oh, those kids were so excited! When we got home, they immediately fixed up their aquariums and in the fish went. Ryder has since named his (get this) Jalapeno Franks-Red-Hot-Sauce Kippers Kasha (not even joking, and what's with using the Kippers name again? *sigh*); Lena's fish is Daisy-Loo Lily; and the boys are still deliberating. 


Welcome to the family, little fishes! Let's hope the cats leave them be (they have so far, knock on wood!)

Ardan's fish is definitely the coolest, in my opinion. I think its a different kind of Betta because its fins are quite dramatic and spiky. Its color is a gorgeous dark reddish-orange. Its also extremely aggressive and will swim madly around in circles if you even tap its tank. However, in between mad dashes it just floats in place and seems to stare into space; Gunnar called it "the mentally-challenged psycho". Niiiice, Gunnar. 

Even though this pic is blurry, I HAD to include it. I had been trying to get Gunnar to smile for his pic (he's too cool for that) and Ardan came up behind him and tickled him. This pic makes me giggle. 

(This little smirk was the closest to a smile I could get. ) Gunnar's fish is super-tiny like Ryder's and is also a dark navy-blue. However, where Ryder's fish is really curious and constantly swimming and checking stuff out, Gunnar's little fish just likes to glide along and play in the plant leaves. 

Another blurry pic but by then the kids were all antsy, wanting to 'play' with their fishes and getting tired of posing. 

Lena's fish, Daisy-Loo, is the most beautiful one of  the bunch: a brilliant iridescent purpley-blue. She's also very shy and loves to hide amongst the plant leaves.

As expected, Ryder is obsessed with removing the tank's lid and trying to touch his fish, despite repeated warnings that it will contaminate the water and scare his fish. "Jalapeno likes it! He WANTS me to play with him!"

Ryder's fish is super-tiny, I don't know if its just a baby or is a different kind of Betta. Its a brilliant dark-blue, almost navy, and its super-curious, always checking everything out. It also is a huge glutton for those food pellets, sucking them in lightning-fast and always wanting more.