Well, I think it’s a cool contest, anyway!

As I announced here last week, my Official Big Time Author Fan Page has been launched over on Facebook. There was much hoopla, dancing about, mass cupcake consumption, and just a general damn good time. (And that was just me!)

So, imagine the fun YOU could have if you come on over and join me! And that’s what this week’s contest is all about.

To enter this week’s contest, there’s just a few simple steps….and you’re in!

First, head on over to my Fan Page and hit the “Like” button. (You Like me, you really, really Like me!/channeling Sally Field voice…) Then check out my wall post today, announcing the contest, and leave a comment. That’s it! (And, if you’ve already Liked me, Really Really Liked me…then you only have to do the comment-on-the-wall-post part!)

This coming Friday, I’ll pick a name from the pile of Likers/Commenters and what does that lucky Liker/Commenter win, Johnny? Well….a set of BOTH of the first two Cupcake Club Romances…SUGAR RUSH (avail to the rest of the hoards on 12/27) & SWEET STUFF (on sale 1/31/12)!

Seriously! I told you it was awesome!

So…go click links and buttons and comment, oh my….then head back on over here because we’re going to dish on last night’s tv offerings. Here’s my Morning After Commentary for Monday….

First, Amazing Race finale. So, I was bummed that Team NFL/Awesome Amani didn’t win. But they finished and were just so darn great about it, you couldn’t be upset. Of the other two remaining teams, I’m okay with the winners. Team Overachiever&Partner certainly did the prep work for the show and wanted it reallyreallybadly. And, frankly, they earned it. They were also good to each other as partners, so no matter how much the Overachiever part of the team annoyed the living daylights out of me…I have to give them a big ol well deserved golf clap on the finish. I think my only real big disappointment (and I imagine the producer’s as well) was not having all three teams dangling from the huge maps at the same time at the end. You kind of knew from the simulator onward what the final order was going to be. It wasn’t, perhaps, the most scintillating season, personality-wise, but I appreciated that there were no teams you loathed, and I think it was one of my favorites of all time in terms of destinations and tasks. So…I’ll be back for the next season!

Then….over on Good Wife. Wow, they just keep it coming. And I love that about them. Interesting case…and even more interesting developments on the whole investigation front. I’m liking (even though I want to hate it) how the writers are keeping the relationship between Peter and Alicia relevant and forward moving, even though it appears as if it should be over. Only…check the name of the show, folks. I think not. I was actually glad the Will thing ended and though I think Chris Noth plays a really great SleazyPete and want Alicia to run, run fast!….I won’t be entirely disappointed if they keep making the developments between them matter.

On The Next Iron Chef….so, I totally saw Chef Prissy Pants in the final. Sorry, but Jeffrey Zacharian seems like he’s perpetually sniffing something that’s just a little off. However, much as I don’t like the guy personally, I can’t deny he’s one hell of a chef. And he deserved the slot in the finals. I think Alex made it farther than she might otherwise have, given her often seat-of-her-pants, come from behind wins, so no surprise that she went out in the final four.

The nail biter, for me, was wanting, really badly, for Chef Faulkner to make the finals….and Chef Chiarello to head to the big kitchen Ponderosa that is NOT Kitchen Stadium. It looked touch and go there, and they both did a great job with the final showdown….but then victory was mine! Or, rather, Chef Faulkner’s. I love that she’s a trained pastry chef extraordinaire who came and played with the big boys and girls, and showed them what she was made of. Love her whimsy and think-outside-the-oven mentality. Alton summed it up best when, at the beginning of the final showdown he said that they all knew Chiarello would do something Italian. But they had no freaking clue what Faulkner would do. And clearly the judges were all pretty excited about that. That’s why I love her. Good on you, Elizabeth!

But…hands down, the highlight of the night was over on Once Upon A Time. Seriously such a guilty pleasure in all the ways it should be! I was a little thrown off by the suddenly zealous intent of the hot Sheriff Graham towards Emma. They could have led up to that a little more convincingly. (I mean, we knew it was coming eventually, but….) But I wasn’t at all surprised to find out he was the huntsman, it was what I suspected all along. But for all that he’s uber virile and hunky in the Enchanted Kingdom passages, they could have done with imbuing a bit more of that in him in the Storybrooke passages. I get that he’s a bit wild-eyed at the moment, but you can be wild-eyed and still manly.

Also, I’m glad that the writers have now said in numerous interviews that the mayor/evil queen knows that she’s in the alternate reality world that she created (because it would make no sense to me if she wasn’t…she wouldn’t have let herself get caught in her own web. Besides, it’s way more fun this way.) Loved the scene with her as loving Queen Mummy Step-dearest to Snow White in the Enchanted Kingdom scenes. Just gets more and more delicious, doesn’t it? What I’m not sure is…does Rumpelstiltskin know who he is in Storybrooke? It seems rather obvious that he does…but I’m enjoying the back and forth.

Mostly I wish they hadn’t spoiled that a main character would die…because you pretty much knew going in who it was going to be. But….it’s the Enchanted Kingdom after all. So whose to say how final that death really is… And just when the cracks between Storybrooke and the Enchanted Kingdom start to grow bigger….Now we have to go on Holiday Hiatus, along with a bunch of other shows! What? No fair! Poo, I say. Poo!

But hey….at least we get new NCIS tonight….. Yum!

So…what is your guilty tv pleasure this winter season? DISH!

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