48 Questions

48 Questions


I got this from Joleene Naylor at Ramblings from the Darkness. Decided to give it a run since this blog SERIOUSLY needs an update!


1. What time did you get up this morning?

6. Darn alarm clock didn’t go off at 5!

2. How do you like your steak?

Well done. <—ditto

3. What was the last film you saw at the cinema?

I don’t remember. But the last movie I saw was The Sandlot which I watched with Jennifer.

4. What is your favorite TV show?

Star Trek: The Next Generation. Dr. Who. How Clean is Your House? Supernanny.

5. If you could live anywhere in the world where would it be?

I like where I live now (except for the snow and ice – boo!) but I would love to live near the water. Even if it’s a lake!

6. What did you have for breakfast?

Toast and OJ.

7. What is your favorite food?

Anything BBQ.

8. Foods you dislike?

Raw meat.

9. Favorite place to eat?

McGrath’s Fish House.

10. Favorite dressing?

Ranch

11. What kind of vehicle do you drive?

A green Ford Contour.


12. What are your favorite clothes?

Jeans and T-shirt.

13. Where would you visit if you had the chance?

Ireland, Australia, Greece, Italy . . . oh, I can only pick one?

14. Cup 1/2 empty or 1/2 full?

½ full

15. Where would you want to retire?

I don’t think I’ll EVER retire. I’ll write books until I’m dead!

16. Favorite time of day?

Night time

17. Where were you born?

Glendale, CA

18. What is your favorite sport to watch?

More than one. Football, baseball and basketball. But I like PRO sports. Not into the college sports.

19. What is your favorite fragrance?

Jovan White Musk

20. What is your favorite face cream?

I . . . don’t use face cream.

21. Favorite baby/kids products?

Pokemon

22. People watcher?

Most def!

23. Are you a morning or night person?

Night owl at heart. Morning person out of duty. :/

24. Do you have any pets?

One dog

25. Any new and exciting news you’d like to share?

I’m starting an ebook project today. Yay! And I got the green light to do ANOTHER article for SIGNews, in addition to the one they assigned to me. Yay! (Now I wait and wait to get a response to my interview request. Sigh!)

26. What did you want to be when you were little?

A cowgirl.

27. What is your favorite memory?

Spending time with both grandmothers. How I miss them.

28. Are you a cat or dog person?

Dog person.

29. Are you married?

Why else would I wear a wedding ring?

30. Always wear your seat belt?

Yes!

31. Been in a car accident?

Yes, that accident that caused the burns plus a fender-bender. Plus getting hit by some drunk while at college. *grumbles at the memory*


32. Any pet peeves?

Ah, let me count the ways. People who abuse kids. People who abuse animals. People who discriminate. People who use drugs. (I have NO LOVE for drug addicts.) Drunk drivers. Computers that seem to have a mind of their own.

33. Favorite pizza toppings?

Pineapple and Canadian bacon.

34. Favorite flower?

The yellow rose, of course!

35. Favorite ice cream?

Mint chocolate chip.

36. Favorite fast food restaurant?

Subway

37. How many times did you fail your driver’s test?

Once.

38. From whom did you get your last email?

Someone who wants to review the charity ebook when it comes out. (Yay!)


39. Which store would you choose to max out your credit card?

I would not normally max out my card but for the sake of this question, I would say Target.


40. Do anything spontaneous lately?

It’s been known to happen.

41. Like your job?

I LOVE my job!

42. Broccoli?

Preferably fresh.

43. What was your favorite vacation?

St. Louis!

44. Last person you went out to dinner with?

Hubby.

45. What are you listening to right now?

The silence.

46. What is your favorite color?

Blue.

47. How many tattoos do you have?

None.

48. Coffee drinker?

Yes, please!

8 Things

Here are the Rules:

1)Post rules on your blog

2)Answer the six "8" items

3)Let each person you tag know by leaving them a comment


8 Favorite TV Shows:


1. E.R.

2. Law & Order

3. Law & Order: SVU

4. How Clean Is Your House? (I obsess over this show. I take notes as I watch it. LOL)

5. Nanny 911

6. Supernanny

7. Wife Swap

8. History's Mysteries



8 Things I did Yesterday:


1. Spent HOURS working on the Trimming the Fat manuscript. It started innocently enough: I wanted to fix up the sample chapters. Then I just went whole hog with it.

2. Helped Jennifer with her homework. (After missing a lot of school, she came home with a lot of homework!)

3. Returned books to library.

4. FINALLY saw the movie, The Dark Knight. It was pretty good. Heath Ledger was awesome as the Joker, though I didn't get that whole lip-licking thing he kept doing (it was kind of gross). I was disappointed by the ending, though. I have to wonder: Who makes the better Joker, Jack Nicholson or Heath Ledger?

5. Saw a GRUESOME movie clip on a website. I'd never seen the movie and was curious about it. WHY couldn't they put a warning on there saying the guy was going to get cheese-sliced and it was going to show his intestines and everything as he falls to pieces on the floor?? EWW!!!

6. Tried to call my sister Elizabeth but of course nobody answered the phone.

7. Instructed Jennifer's school and her teacher to text me IMMEDIATELY if she has an adverse reaction to her new antibiotics or if there's any emergency. (I was REALLY worried about her. She had an allergic reaction to the antibiotics the doctor prescribed for her pneumonia and we just started her on a new kind yesterday. So far, all is going well.)

8. Did the whole "should I get a job and put the baby in child care or continue being a stay-at-home mom?" debate again. I'm too paranoid with child care, but I feel bad that I'm not working and contributing to society as I know I should. Well, there's always volunteer work! Part of the reason why I'm such a sucker for charitable causes. At least I am giving back something!


8 Things I'm Looking Forward:


1. MY BOOK GETTING PUBLISHED! MY BOOK GETTING PUBLISHED!! (In August! Woo-hoo!)

2. Wrapping up this newest book.

3. Working with someone on her book project.

4. Finding an agent/publisher for Trimming the Fat or Shadow of Samhain. Whichever comes first!!! (Hm, Trimming the Fat is starting to sound like a diet book instead of a book about revisions. Maybe I should change the title...again.)

5. Getting a professional author site set up.

6. Being able to buy some Starbucks again.

7. Teaching the children advanced sign language.

8. Losing weight!


8 Favorite Restaurants ( in no particular order)


1. Jung's Mongolian Grill

2. Applebees

3. The Mission (THE best Mexican food I have ever tasted!)

4. Ring of Fire

5. Sweet Life

6. Golden Orient

7. The Olive Garden

8. Sweet Basil


8 Things on My Wish List:

1. A literary agent

2. A home that we OWN.

3. Winning the lottery

4. Perfect credit (sigh)

5. All my family members ACTUALLY communicating with me (that counts my nephews, parents and in-laws!)

6. More REAL LIFE friends, but the kind who I can actually see at least twice a month. Still, I am grateful for the real life friends that i DO have! I also love and appreciate my online friends. They rock!

7. Lifetime gym membership.

8. College fund for my kids that will pay for their ENTIRE college education.



8 People I Tag:

I tag none.

Book meme

Lifted this meme from Colorado Writer


What are the last five books you bought/were given/somehow acquired?

1. Rewrite Right! by Jan Venolia
Checked this one out at the library. It tackles two stages of editing your writing: Content and grammar. I had a good laugh over grammatical mistakes pointed out, prompting my daughter to wonder about what I was reading. Golden opportunity for me to explain to her why it's important to write correctly, or else people will misunderstand you. She had a good laugh over the picture of a man whose knee had somehow disappeared. Yep, that's kinda the idea a person would get from reading a sentence written incorrectly.

2. Revision by Kit Reed
O. M. G. WHERE has this book been all my life?? Seriously, I am devouring this book and writing down a bunch of quotes. It's definitely going to be quoted in my Trimming the Fat book. Yay! I do, however, have one complaint with this book: Some of the handwritten samples are too hard for me to read. Even squinting, I couldn't read most of the handwritten stuff. So I pretty much just glossed over them. Such a shame. I know that reading and comparing them would serve as a learning tool to see how revisions help the material. Still, it's made me take note not to include handwritten before-and-after samples in my Trimming the Fat book. I have been debating about this and now I know it's better to keep EVERYTHING typed. I also put together a bunch of quotes from this book on one topic I'm going to write about. That'll go onto the writing and MySpace blog, um...sometime today.


3. Poemcrazy by Susan G. Wooldridge
Haven't read it yet but I paged through it at Barnes & Noble. I got it from the library and I'm looking forward to reading it -- especially since I sorta live, eat and breathe poetry.


4. The Purpose-Driven Life by Rick Warren
This is a smaller version of the book. I keep it in my purse. I read the regular version of the book after I saw it mentioned as a favorite book on a friend's blog and loved it. It really changed my life. I am sad the smaller version only contains the 40 tenets that Warren instructs readers on but they are still important pointers to reflect on.


5. Psychic Shield by Caitlin Matthews
Bought this book after something happened that made me decide, 'OK, time to set some boundaries and establish a few ground rules here!' As someone who can occasionally be sensitive to paranormal activity and certain unexplained phenomena, I have had experiences where I've been vulnerable to just ANYTHING happening. I don't want to be in that position anymore. I haven't read this book yet but I am hoping it will help me learn how I can set those boundaries and protect myself from certain bizarre things happening.