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	<title>In the Middle of Nowhere - Blog of contemporary erotic romance author Karen Erickson &#187; Shia</title>
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		<title>Duuuude</title>
		<link>http://karenwritesromance.com/blog/2008/08/09/duuuude/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 09 Aug 2008 06:48:51 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Karen</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[I have issues]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Everytime I&#8217;m over my boyfriend he does something to make me go, &#8220;Awwwww.&#8221; Like the car accident where he crushed his fingers (and got a DUI &#8211; but hey at least that accident wasn&#8217;t his fault!). I&#8217;d nurse him back to health, had been my immediate thought. Sigh. Shame on me. But then I got [...]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Everytime I&#8217;m over my <a href="http://karenwritesromance.com/blog/2008/07/13/i-want-to-be-that-tennis-ball/">boyfriend</a> he does something to make me go, &#8220;Awwwww.&#8221; Like the car accident where he crushed his fingers (and got a DUI &#8211; but hey at least that accident wasn&#8217;t his fault!). <em>I&#8217;d nurse him back to health</em>, had been my immediate thought.</p>
<p>Sigh. Shame on me. But then I got excited about RWA and took off for San Francisco. Came home ready to write and threw myself into it. Got occupied with thoughts of school starting and the many things that are going on in my life this upcoming week (none of them that exciting, just appointments and stuff).</p>
<p>Then I found this:</p>
<p style="text-align: center;"><img class="size-medium wp-image-471" title="01" src="http://karenwritesromance.com/blog/wp-content/uploads/2008/08/01-213x300.jpg" alt="" width="213" height="300" /></p>
<p>Damn it he is handsome! Yes, me and three trillion other tweens think so, too. Gah. I am crazy.</p>
<p>But look at those eyes! I never realized just how purty they are. And they&#8217;re claiming he can&#8217;t get laid? Goodness. What is wrong with these young women of today? If I were younger and skinnier and not married well I just might&#8217;ve gone to L.A. and stalked his ass until I found him.</p>
<p>See? I&#8217;m a little deranged. I&#8217;m also high on diet Coke at the moment. So forgive me.</p>
<p>And yes I bought the magazine. Just shoot me. I might need to laminate it for fear of drool stains a la my <a href="http://karenwritesromance.com/blog/2006/08/19/this-picture-got-me-in-trouble/">Marky Mark photo</a>.</p>
<p>p.s. &#8211; Yeah that married to a porn star article was actually pretty interesting too. So see?! I didn&#8217;t just buy it for the sex-ay cover, I also bought it to read! Uh huh&#8230;</p>
<p>p.p.s &#8211; I will post more RWA photos tomorrow, I swear.</p>
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		<title>I Want To Be That Tennis Ball</title>
		<link>http://karenwritesromance.com/blog/2008/07/13/i-want-to-be-that-tennis-ball/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 13 Jul 2008 18:46:16 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Karen</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Random]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[I planned on writing a nice little blog post about my weekend so far. But then I stumbled across this video on YouTube and well, I became a little distracted. You see, I&#8217;ve been over my Shia obsession. I&#8217;ve moved on. Or so I thought. Then I saw him make out with a tennis ball.]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>I planned on writing a nice little blog post about my weekend so far. But then I stumbled across this video on YouTube and well, I became a little distracted.</p>
<p>You see, I&#8217;ve been over my Shia obsession. I&#8217;ve moved on. Or so I thought.</p>
<p>Then I saw him make out with a tennis ball.</p>
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		<title>Key Words</title>
		<link>http://karenwritesromance.com/blog/2008/06/17/key-words/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 17 Jun 2008 05:05:07 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Karen</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Random]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[hairy chests]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[key words]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[I&#8217;ve been obsessed with them lately. Blogged about them last week at Naughty &#38; Spice but those had to do with NAS key words (which are all just pretty much sick and wrong but that&#8217;s another story for another time &#8211; or you can just click the above link and check them out). Anyway I [...]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p style="text-align: left;">I&#8217;ve been obsessed with them lately. Blogged about them last week at <a href="http://www.naughty-and-spice.com/2008/06/11/key-words-part-deux/">Naughty &amp; Spice</a> but those had to do with NAS key words (which are all just pretty much sick and wrong but that&#8217;s another story for another time &#8211; or you can just click the above link and check them out).</p>
<p>Anyway I got a new stat counter of sorts and I love to see what brings people to my blog. The number one key word that gets me hits?</p>
<p><strong>Man nipple</strong>. That&#8217;s <a href="http://karenwritesromance.com/blog/2007/01/11/man-nipple/">this post&#8217;s</a> fault.</p>
<p>Today I got <strong>hairiest chest hairy men </strong>- that&#8217;s <a href="http://karenwritesromance.com/blog/2006/06/27/chest-hair/">this post&#8217;s </a>fault.</p>
<p>A new favorite &#8211; <strong>karen snake killer</strong>. How awesome is that? Ha! I <em>am</em> a snake killer. <a href="http://karenwritesromance.com/blog/2008/05/20/saturdays-visitor/">A pitiful snake killer</a>.</p>
<p>This one made me giggle. After being obsessed with him for ummm&#8230;too long I finally got hit by a <strong>Shia Labeouf</strong> search. Yay! I&#8217;m sharing the Shia love.</p>
<p><a href="http://s42.photobucket.com/albums/e335/kdid210/?action=view&amp;current=shia.jpg" target="_blank"><img src="http://i42.photobucket.com/albums/e335/kdid210/shia.jpg" border="0" alt="Photobucket" /></a><br />
Any excuse to post his pic right? I have serious issues&#8230;</p>
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		<title>Wednesday Means</title>
		<link>http://karenwritesromance.com/blog/2008/06/04/wednesday-means-2/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 04 Jun 2008 04:47:16 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Karen</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Books I Love]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Naughty & Spice]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Reading]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[I&#8217;m over at Naughty &#38; Spice. And I&#8217;m talking about my, ahem, to do list. Accompanied with photos. You know you wanna check THAT out. I might be gone for a couple of days. Forgive me. Son is graduating (eighth grade, sniff sniff, getting so old, sniff sniff) and I&#8217;ll be busy doing family stuff [...]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p style="text-align: left;">I&#8217;m over at <a href="http://naughty-and-spice.com">Naughty &amp; Spice</a>. And I&#8217;m talking about my, ahem, to do list. Accompanied with photos. You know you wanna check THAT out.</p>
<p style="text-align: left;">I might be gone for a couple of days. Forgive me. Son is graduating (eighth grade, sniff sniff, getting so old, sniff sniff) and I&#8217;ll be busy doing family stuff for the next couple of days. Oh and reading.</p>
<p>Because I bought this:</p>
<p style="text-align: center;"><a href="http://s42.photobucket.com/albums/e335/kdid210/?action=view&amp;current=rumors.jpg" target="_blank"><img class="aligncenter" src="http://i42.photobucket.com/albums/e335/kdid210/rumors.jpg" border="0" alt="Photobucket" /></a></p>
<p>I can&#8217;t wait to start it.</p>
<p>And just because&#8230;</p>
<p style="text-align: center;"><a href="http://s42.photobucket.com/albums/e335/kdid210/?action=view&amp;current=b88xlk.jpg" target="_blank"><img class="aligncenter" src="http://i42.photobucket.com/albums/e335/kdid210/b88xlk.jpg" border="0" alt="Photobucket" /></a></p>
<p>A picture of Shia. Damn it okay yes, he&#8217;s my <span style="text-decoration: line-through;">boyfriend</span> hero in my book I&#8217;m working on. And I love my hero! I love this book I&#8217;m writing! I think I&#8217;ll share a photo of the woman who has inspired my heroine&#8230;later&#8230;</p>
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		<title>Hodge Podge</title>
		<link>http://karenwritesromance.com/blog/2008/06/03/hodge-podge/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 03 Jun 2008 15:24:27 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Karen</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Home Life]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[madness]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Shia]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[weird dreams]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Today kicks off an insane rest of the week. My mom is coming today, my oldest graduates eighth grade tomorrow, my daughter has a preschool ceremony on Friday and the kids are going to a super cool birthday party on Saturday. Oh the madness! Megan Hart loves me by the way. She gets my Shia [...]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Today kicks off an insane rest of the week. My mom is coming today, my oldest graduates eighth grade tomorrow, my daughter has a preschool ceremony on Friday and the kids are going to a super cool birthday party on Saturday. Oh the madness!</p>
<p>Megan Hart loves me by the way. She gets <a href="http://www.meganhart.com/wordpress/2008/06/03/for-ld-and-karen/">my Shia obsession</a>! Love you Megan! </p>
<p>I dreamed a crazy dream again last night. The book I&#8217;m writing on, the heroine works in retail. And so I&#8217;m drawing on my own retail experiences. So of course I dream about all of those people I used to work with years ago. And I dreamed about a big giant motor home (my husband works at a RV dealership). How I had to drive that motorhome and I couldn&#8217;t figure it out. I was wrecking but not hurting anything, cos you know, it&#8217;s a dream.</p>
<p>So who came to my rescue? Shelley Bradley! Yes she told me, line that sucker up and she&#8217;ll drive it back to the hotel (yeah we&#8217;re at a hotel, I don&#8217;t get it either). So I line it up &#8211; in the stockroom of Target. What? I know! But Shelley drove it out of Target (she told me she had everyone move out all the racks!) and drove it right back to the hotel. And then I woke up.</p>
<p>What the hell is that all about? I bonded with Shelley at the Dallas airport last year when we were stranded on our way to RT so now she&#8217;s become an motor home driving expert in my mind? So weird&#8230;</p>
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		<title>The Jungle</title>
		<link>http://karenwritesromance.com/blog/2008/05/30/the-jungle/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 30 May 2008 16:38:39 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Karen</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Writing]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[A scary place. Evil creatures lurk there. Evil Diegos. Die Diego die! Cue the music &#8211; my hero has come to save the day! SHIA! Kill that snake with your mighty sword. Heh heh heh&#8230; The evil creature is dead. That&#8217;s right sweetie. Take off your jacket and stay a while. Flex those muscles. You&#8217;re [...]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p><a href="http://s42.photobucket.com/albums/e335/kdid210/?action=view&amp;current=thejungle001.jpg" target="_blank"><img src="http://i42.photobucket.com/albums/e335/kdid210/thejungle001.jpg" border="0" alt="Photobucket" /></a></p>
<p>A scary place.</p>
<p><a href="http://s42.photobucket.com/albums/e335/kdid210/?action=view&amp;current=thejungle002.jpg" target="_blank"><img src="http://i42.photobucket.com/albums/e335/kdid210/thejungle002.jpg" border="0" alt="Photobucket" /></a></p>
<p>Evil creatures lurk there.</p>
<p><a href="http://s42.photobucket.com/albums/e335/kdid210/?action=view&amp;current=thejungle003.jpg" target="_blank"><img src="http://i42.photobucket.com/albums/e335/kdid210/thejungle003.jpg" border="0" alt="Photobucket" /></a></p>
<p>Evil Diegos. Die Diego die!</p>
<p><a href="http://s42.photobucket.com/albums/e335/kdid210/?action=view&amp;current=thejungle004.jpg" target="_blank"><img src="http://i42.photobucket.com/albums/e335/kdid210/thejungle004.jpg" border="0" alt="Photobucket" /></a></p>
<p>Cue the music &#8211; my hero has come to save the day!</p>
<p><a href="http://s42.photobucket.com/albums/e335/kdid210/?action=view&amp;current=thejungle005.jpg" target="_blank"><img src="http://i42.photobucket.com/albums/e335/kdid210/thejungle005.jpg" border="0" alt="Photobucket" /></a></p>
<p>SHIA! Kill that snake with your mighty sword. Heh heh heh&#8230;</p>
<p><a href="http://s42.photobucket.com/albums/e335/kdid210/?action=view&amp;current=thejungle006.jpg" target="_blank"><img src="http://i42.photobucket.com/albums/e335/kdid210/thejungle006.jpg" border="0" alt="Photobucket" /></a></p>
<p>The evil creature is dead.</p>
<p><a href="http://s42.photobucket.com/albums/e335/kdid210/?action=view&amp;current=thejungle008.jpg" target="_blank"><img src="http://i42.photobucket.com/albums/e335/kdid210/thejungle008.jpg" border="0" alt="Photobucket" /></a></p>
<p>That&#8217;s right sweetie. Take off your jacket and stay a while. Flex those muscles. You&#8217;re so tough.</p>
<p><a href="http://s42.photobucket.com/albums/e335/kdid210/?action=view&amp;current=thejungle009.jpg" target="_blank"><img src="http://i42.photobucket.com/albums/e335/kdid210/thejungle009.jpg" border="0" alt="Photobucket" /></a></p>
<p>The jungle doesn&#8217;t scare you!</p>
<p><a href="http://s42.photobucket.com/albums/e335/kdid210/?action=view&amp;current=thejungle010.jpg" target="_blank"><img src="http://i42.photobucket.com/albums/e335/kdid210/thejungle010.jpg" border="0" alt="Photobucket" /></a></p>
<p>Witnesses to my madness.</p>
<p>And I watched an interview with him last night. He said the words, &#8220;I have a crush on Karen (well he&#8217;s talking about Karen Allen who&#8217;s in the film with him but I don&#8217;t care).&#8221; So yes, those very words have dropped from his lips. He&#8217;s crushing on me. Isn&#8217;t that just the sweetest thing?</p>
<p>Yes I really have lost my mind.</p>
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