We have a busy day ahead of us, so I'm going to put this post up early today. Please accept my apologies if you meant to ask a question but hadn't gotten to it yet. There's always next week! But if I don't post now, I won't get to it until late tonight. And why am I explaining this? I'm such a dork. Ahem. Anyway. Genuine asks, in the book of my life, which chapters are the best reads? You've probably already read about that time when I was two and I fell down a mining shaft... riveting stuff.... (Fiction.) This may be perceived as a cop-out answer, but I hope that the best is yet to come. I...
Wow, I got lots of questions this week! Ordinarily I work on the post throughout the day and then publish sometime late afternoon... but out of sheer fear that if I wait there will be a couple dozen more questions, I'm putting it up early, today. Genuine asks, what would be my ultimate job? I've always wanted to be a particle physicist, on account of my deep love for math and small, sterile laboratories. (Fiction.) I've love to actually earn a living writing. Any publishers or wealthy, handsome men out there reading this? "Will write for...
I love how threatening to be even more pitiful than usual just draws the questions out of everyone. It doesn't make me feel like a melodramatic attention-demanding freak at all. Really. Let's get to it before I think about that for too long, mkay? Genuine asks, how can he keep one sibling from killing the other, or--perhaps more importantly--him from killing them both? Thanks for asking, Gen! I love when people give me parenting advice, and so will seize any oppotunity to dispense some, myself. Preferrably of the sort that makes me look like a cross between Carol Brady and Mother Theresa,...
Welcome again to another edition of Friday Facts and Fiction, where I address your questions by telling the truth, lying pathologically, or sometimes both. This is not altogether different than my blog entries in general, but I do address your questions in some way.... Anyway. Onward! Kym asks many things: ... how did my pits smell? Well, I did remember to put deodorant on this morning, but it's been a long day.... (Truth.) ... am I nervous about my surgery? No. (Fiction.) Yes. (Fact.) Shut up. ... what am I most nervous about? Hospital food. (Fiction.) Want it straight up? Dying. That's my...
"Just the facts, ma'am." (That seems cuter and less wordy than explaining that I am being dragged out on a girls' night, shortly, and won't have a ton of time to devote to this, and so will just be giving the facts today.) Janet asks: Harry Potter or Frodo, and why? Color me perplexed. Of course we know Janet is fond of elves, so the motivation for asking about these two is clear. But which one? For what, exactly? Sex? Companionship? High adventure? Freaky Friday-ish swapping? I'm not clear what the intent is, so I pondered this long and hard... ... and then I realized, whatever the...
For some reason this meme is bringing Dante's Inferno to mind rather prominently, but I'm sure that's a coincidence. Yeah. Seen everywhere, but most recently at Mindy's and Zoot's and you know I wanna be just like them when I grow up. LAYER ONE: Name: Miriam Birthdate: August 17, 1971 (gifts not required, but always appreciated) Birthplace: Ithaca, NY Current Location: Lost in New Hampshire Eye Color: Hazel Hair Color: Darkest brown, a color I used to hate but have since become much more fond of as I watch it retreating under grey! Height: 5'6" Righty or Lefty: Righty Zodiac Sign: Leo...
(Shamelessly lifted from Zero Boss, who gives a pretty good genealogy of the thing if you feel the need to trace it back a ways....) 1. Do you try to look hot when you go to the grocery store just in case someone recognizes you from your blog? Now that's just silly. I try to look hot at the grocery store so I can get a date. (No, it's never worked.) 2. Are the photos you post Photoshopped or otherwise altered? My profile photo is cropped and decolorized. Cropped because it was a photo with my son, and for right now I'm not sharing pics of my kids, and decolorized because in my...
Not as rousing a turn-out as we had for the first one, (note to self: threaten to pout again, next time) but enough to make a post, for sure. So here we go... more facts and fiction from your hostess based on your questions! Fraulein N asks: What's a book, movie or TV show I'm embarrassed to admit I like? I just loved Britney Spears in Crossroads!! (Fiction. Haven't even seen it, nor will I, unless you're holding a gun to the head of one of my kids.) I can't think of a book I'd be embarrassed to admit, as I tend to either love a book and evangelize about it or lose interest and never finish...
Awesome; you're game for this! Let's see if it's any fun. Julia asks: What's my ideal job? Where would it be and what would I be doing? I've always wanted to be a taxidermist. In Alaska. Something about all that time with dead animals in a place where this isn't any sunshine for half the year.... (Fiction!) I'm not sure I know what my "ideal" is, otherwise I might actually be working now (and working towards something). If I get to assume in my fantasy that I no longer have a short attention span, then by all means I'll take being a Famous Novelist for Gobs O' Cash please, Alex. I also think...
