Midweek Meme Madness

I am the last stop for Memes.

I just don't know enough people to pass them on. I should also, according to the emails, be spending an eternity's worth of bad bad luck for all of the emails I have not forwarded on. I have to admit, I consider that taking one for the team.

Here is Mert's slightly modified midweek meme, and Ash's will follow shortly....

Mad Madam Mim 7" Walt Disney Playing Record for Children
Originally uploaded by XNDR.

INSTRUCTIONS: Remove the blog in the top spot from the following list and bump everyone up one place. Then add your blog to the bottom slot, like so:

**okay I'll fix the links after work...**
1. BlondeMomBlog
2. Holly's Corner
3. Daddy Forever
4. Almost Somewhat Positive
5. me!
Next select five people to tag:
(I'm not taggging!)

What were you doing 10 years ago?
Living happily in a submarine apartment, finally out of sister-in-law’s house, blissfully unaware that my new marriage was already done.

What were you doing 1 year ago?
Wishing I had a new job, wondering what this voodoo HTML was, and blog-stalking Casual Slack.

Five snacks you enjoy:
1. Chocolate croissants, from a REAL bakery. The flaky…and the chocolate… and a cold glass of milk…mmmmmm.
2. Lemon Coolers…evil cookies covered in powdered sugar.
3. Watermelon with chile, lime, and salt.
4. Is it salty? We’re good, then.
5. Blocks of Crisco! Okay, not really, but fried foods in general are pretty high on my snack-y list and I need to think of them that way….

Five songs that you know all the lyrics to:
1. Bad—U2
2. Babyseat—Barenaked Ladies
3. Shotgun—Southern Culture on the Skids
4. Jamming-Bob Marley
5. Should I Stay or Should I Go—The Clash

Five things you would do if you were a millionaire:
1. Build a stone church on top of a mountain, no roof, and instead of stained glass, I’d have an empty window so you could see the valley below. It would be available to any denomination that does not involve animal sacrifice. (When I went to Glendalough in Ireland, I fell in love.)
2. Buy a new, larger house with 4 bedrooms and 3 bathrooms!
3. Invest part of it
4. College funds for each of the kids. If they don’t use it for college, It goes to a homeless shelter and they don’t see one thin dime.
5. Travel—er, this WAS a multimillionaire, right?

Five bad habits:
1. Eating late at night
2. Eternally late. Yes, I am one of THEM.
3. Thinking anyone else is going to do the dishes if I don’t. Hahahahaha—Wait, that’s not funny.
5. Leaving things partially finis

Five things you like doing:
1. Stupid crafty projects when I should be doing something else!!!! (see also: bad habits)
2. Reading, which I literally, physically, psychologically, cannot get enough of.
3. Decimating arbitrary numbers like budgets and allowances.
4. Lazy days with my family—nuclear and extended.
5. Target is my friend AND my enemy. What a bitch.

Five things you would never wear again:
1. Big Glasses
2. Feathered hair
3. Stupid Uni-boob sports bras that claim to be made for the well-endowed, but use the same support principles they used for the A cups.
4. Stirrup pants
5. My ex-husband’s ring

Five favorite toys:
1. My ATM card.
2. Big O’s Eye Toy for PS2
3. Other people’s high speed internet (as opposed to my own craptastic dial-up).
4. Magic Window by Wham-o
5. Stereo (car and home)

It's about the Spirit of the law, not the letter. Right??

Here's my Supa-star, holding her glove, rather than wearing it. But she IS implementing the step-and-throw combo we've worked on all season. She just likes it to be in slow motion, so she's sure everyone is watching her.

Here she's making her stately progression towards first. A Princess doesn't really RUN, you see...

I have decided that since you cannot see her face, it doesn't count as posting an actual photo of her. In fact, this is not my child AT ALL.

My girl is so freaking cute that it KILLS me not to post photos. It causes me actual physical pain. She is THAT cute.

Did I mention that I signed up to be team parent, and that I have no idea what that means? I took down names for snack, and I am faking cheesy gifts for the coach and his assistant. Was there supposed to be more to it? Oh, well....one more game to go.

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More amazing Meme Madness Later this week, kids!

On the book front?
Nora, Nora, Nora.
You don't have to put recipies at the end. It makes you seem very needy, and you are the bestselling women's fiction/smut/romance author EVER. You have to have outsold Danielle Steel years ago. Quite frankly, you're better than that. If you have a crazy gun toting granny who sets funeral homes on fire in your next book, I may have to break up with you. It was a great book except for that bit at the end.

xoxo,

Jen

Insane Meme Weekend, part 1

One of the Reader MEMEs. I copied and pasted from a blog into Word one day and have just dusted it off and answered. If I stole it from you, I apologize.

Hardback or trade paperback or mass market paperback?

Just like it says in my profile, I love cheap mass market fiction! One handed reading, no sharp corners or stupid dustcovers. Portable and practical.

Amazon or brick and mortar? Um, Hi, former bookseller. I need to touch, and I really really need to scan the shelves looking for something to catch my eye. I miss bookstores. I will totally hunt down sequels online, though!

Barnes & Noble or Borders? Barnes and Noble – I worked for them for more than a decade. I miss them still.

Bookmark or dog-ear? Hahahhahaha. Dog-ear. Books are consumed at my house. Then they are passed on!

Alphabetize by author or alphabetize by title or random? Author if I were that anal. Again, books are meant to be passed on.

Keep, throw away, or sell? Give away. I pass it on because I loved it, or smut because I am embarrassed to be caught with it. I buy several copies of a book that I love, because I give it away, then find another copy at the used bookstore, and buy it to pass on again. I have re-re-re-purchased several books.

Keep dustjacket or toss it? MMMM…keep it. Toss it…keep it.

Read with dustjacket or remove it? I like my books naked. I do not fuss with books. Do not lend me a book you love and treasure. I get down and dirty with my books.

Short story or novel? Full Length Novel, thank you. I read waaaaay too fast to have the patience for short stories. I want something to engage me for at least a couple of hours.

Collection (short stories by same author) or anthology (short stories by different authors)? I kind of think collections are good for Erotica and not much else. I guess it depends. See my answer above, but I like finding new authors…

Harry Potter or Lemony Snicket? Potter. Can I say also that I …enjoyed the Golden Compass when it came out, and WANTED another one, read the first three, I think (are there more now?). But I am not sure that I ADORE the Golden Compass, or think it deserves the hype it’s getting. There were some elements that rendered it kind of Madeleine L’Engle for me. Concepts almost too off kilter, but you like the characters so you persevere. Does that make sense? Did any one else get that sensation?

Stop reading when tired or at chapter breaks? When it’s over. I have to be truly exhausted to stop in the middle. Or my real life interferes and wants to be fed or changed. Is it bad that I was actually referring to the Honey?

It was a dark and stormy night” or “Once upon a time”? Once upon a time is more likely to be fantasy or smut, so definitely Once upon a time. I have enough dark and stormy nights in real life.

Buy or Borrow? Buy. Then pass it on.

New or used? I don’t care. A book is a book. But no library books, I never return them on time.

Buying choice: book reviews, recommendation or browse? Hours spent browsing is the beginning of my perfect day. With the advent of the freaking Thomas table, I see very little of the rest of the store, though.

Tidy ending or cliffhanger? Wrap it up for me! When Stephanie Plum left you hangin’ between Ranger and Morelli I though I was going to have to hunt Janet down and smack her. Whew!

Morning reading, afternoon reading or nighttime reading? Yes. You forgot mid-morning, late afternoon, early evening, and butt crack of dawn why can’t I sleep.

Stand-alone or series? A series gives me something to look forward to. A stand alone is so deliciously tidy…mmmm.

Favorite series? Hmmm… that’s tough. I don’t know that I could choose ONE.

Favorite Children’s book? Secret Summer of LEB, Gone-Away Lake, Wilfrid Gordon MacDonald Partridge, and Julius, Baby of the World. (I would totally consider a Lilly Tattoo.) All of the James Herriott books. Conversations with a Pocket Gopher by Jack Schaeffer. Narnia. Farley Mowat. Three Investigators. Frog and Toad. Are you my Mother?

Favorite book of which nobody else has heard? Skellig was a YA book that I liked, but the next book by that author was awful. Genellan by Gier was Flipping fantastic (Sci-Fi) or Keeper by Greg Rucka.

Favorite books read last year? I was poor last year. OOOH! I think I found George RR Martin last year, so I’ll say those. My best Jen also keeps me stocked with her leftover Sookie Stackhouse novels, which I enjoy—even though vampires are outside of my usual tastes.

Favorite books of all time? What kind of BS question is that? That list would go on forever. Animal Dreams by Barbara Kingsolver made me cry… um, At home in Mitford was a wonderfully peaceful book about nothing. I didn’t WANT to read anything for a while after that. All of the books listed above under Children’s. Sleeping Dogs by Thomas Perry.

Least Favorite book you finished last year? EWWWW, a Carole Higgins Clark someone gave me. Bad. Not my usual thing at all, but I was desperate, it was very.very.bad. . .

What are you reading right now? Just finished Valentine’s Rising by E. E. Knight. Wishing I had the fifth one.

What are you reading next? GRRRRRR. Little O carried off the Naomi Novik book I just got, Black Powder War, the third in the Temeraire series. You cannot scold a four year old into remembering where they left something. My fault for thinking it’s cute when she grabs my books and reads with her babies in her lap. (I don’t know WHO could have taught her that one. She has to have a Grown up book for that, not a little girl book.) oops.