Funny lady from eBay has a blog!
Hope you enjoy.
Monday, September 3, 2007
Friday, August 24, 2007
HEE! When Ebay gets funny....
Now, I am not laughing at anyone's misfortune, really I'm not, but this woman did a really good job of writing this down. Reminded me of Carolyn. So hope you enjoy. It's not just the product that did the selling, it was the text as well. http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&item=130144061675&ru=http%25
I am so fortunate to live in a metropolitan area that has home delivery available!
I am so fortunate to live in a metropolitan area that has home delivery available!
Thursday, August 23, 2007
Weird Thoughts
You know, you know you're a writer when you're more interested in how this can be material or observing what is happening than participating in the action. We're funny that way. My friend Karen had this experience recently that you can read about here. Rhona shares her experiences on a regular basis here. And then Mike talks about watching a mosquito on someone else here. And it made me think about the time I was entranced with watching a fly shit on the hand railing on my porch (yes, I washed it off afterwards) or the time I was more concerned with watching the Daddy Longlegs crawl down my friend's dress than I was with actually telling her about it (well, she was busy talking and I didn't want to interrupt you understand. I think I was 10 or 12 at the time). It was kinda funny to watch how she reacted when I finally told her. She probably still hates me.
But this all points to this quirky sensibility that writers tend to have to be observers. Depending on what we write, it's funny what we observe. From the probiscus of a mosquito (horror and weird fiction), to how to use a fainting spell and being knocked unconscious (Urban fantasy and YA), to the everyday Lucile Ball comedy of life (YA fantasy). Jane Austen did it from her drawing room. Louisa May Alcott did it while caring for her family and doing housework of other people. Emily Dickinson even did it from her reclusive home (remember, "A fly buzzed when I died...").
Celebrate your quirkiness.
But this all points to this quirky sensibility that writers tend to have to be observers. Depending on what we write, it's funny what we observe. From the probiscus of a mosquito (horror and weird fiction), to how to use a fainting spell and being knocked unconscious (Urban fantasy and YA), to the everyday Lucile Ball comedy of life (YA fantasy). Jane Austen did it from her drawing room. Louisa May Alcott did it while caring for her family and doing housework of other people. Emily Dickinson even did it from her reclusive home (remember, "A fly buzzed when I died...").
Celebrate your quirkiness.
Thursday, August 2, 2007
Two Things That Make Me Cackle
That I am posting everywhere:
http://www.miskalex.org/LJstuff/chick-cthulu.jpg
(Cthulu loves you and has a wonderful plan for your um life...)
http://www.progressiveboink.com/archive/peanuts-by-charles-bukowski/
(Peanuts by Charles Bukowski)
http://www.miskalex.org/LJstuff/chick-cthulu.jpg
(Cthulu loves you and has a wonderful plan for your um life...)
http://www.progressiveboink.com/archive/peanuts-by-charles-bukowski/
(Peanuts by Charles Bukowski)
Thursday, July 19, 2007
Blog, blog, blog, blog, blog...
Been feeling like a lump of blog lately, boiled then left to cool and then mold on the stove.
Ugh.
Ugh.
Monday, July 16, 2007
Tagged!
Eight Interesting Things Before Breakfast (or at least before I leave for work). Let me know some interesting things about you.
1) I had a huge crush on Peter Pan as a kid and left my window open for him all year round. I was just sure he was coming for me any day. Since my bed was nearest the window, my sister didn't have much say in the matter (we were in a basement - window up high - her arms were too short ;-)).
2) I've wanted to write since I was 8 or 9 years old and scrawled on one of those pieces of newsprint (with room for a picture on the top) "I want to be a author like Laura Ingalls Wilder."
3) I used to think that my mom was actually Mary Tyler Moore on TV. They had the same hairstyle and self-deprecating manner and MTM didn't come on til after mom came home from work.
4) I used to practice throwing and swinging my backpack when I was a kid so I'd have a weapon when the bullies followed me home from school. It was easiest to just avoid them altogether though.
5) Best way to avoid bullies is to either book out of school way before they do so you're nowhere in sight on the way home, OR wait until AFTER they leave and watch which way they take to go home and take another route.
6) There was a mountain behind our school that I used to talk to as a kid. Kind of a friendly looking mountain. Very maternal - I'm sure she was a she. Found out years later that my sister made friends with the same mountain.
7) I didn't use store bought soap as a kid, as Gramma used to make homemade soap and we used it for everything except washing our hair and washing the dishes. She even used to shave it into the washing machine.
8) First washing machine I remember was a wringer machine that stood in the middle of the basement floor. It had a tub where the clothes would wash and then Gramma would run the clothes through the ringer to get the water out.
There now. Not tagging anyone, but let me know fun stuff if you like.
7)
1) I had a huge crush on Peter Pan as a kid and left my window open for him all year round. I was just sure he was coming for me any day. Since my bed was nearest the window, my sister didn't have much say in the matter (we were in a basement - window up high - her arms were too short ;-)).
2) I've wanted to write since I was 8 or 9 years old and scrawled on one of those pieces of newsprint (with room for a picture on the top) "I want to be a author like Laura Ingalls Wilder."
3) I used to think that my mom was actually Mary Tyler Moore on TV. They had the same hairstyle and self-deprecating manner and MTM didn't come on til after mom came home from work.
4) I used to practice throwing and swinging my backpack when I was a kid so I'd have a weapon when the bullies followed me home from school. It was easiest to just avoid them altogether though.
5) Best way to avoid bullies is to either book out of school way before they do so you're nowhere in sight on the way home, OR wait until AFTER they leave and watch which way they take to go home and take another route.
6) There was a mountain behind our school that I used to talk to as a kid. Kind of a friendly looking mountain. Very maternal - I'm sure she was a she. Found out years later that my sister made friends with the same mountain.
7) I didn't use store bought soap as a kid, as Gramma used to make homemade soap and we used it for everything except washing our hair and washing the dishes. She even used to shave it into the washing machine.
8) First washing machine I remember was a wringer machine that stood in the middle of the basement floor. It had a tub where the clothes would wash and then Gramma would run the clothes through the ringer to get the water out.
There now. Not tagging anyone, but let me know fun stuff if you like.
7)
Wednesday, July 4, 2007
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