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Amanda is having a terrific end to 2007 - the Romantic Times Reviewers' Choice has nominated her debut book You Had Me at Halo as Best Contemporary Paranormal Romance for 2007. Congratulations Amanda!!
And Sara's debut YA, The Second Virginity of Suzy Green, is one of Chicklish top reads of 2007 - huge congrats, Sara!!
The weather is hotter than ever here - on Boxing Day it hit 110F and even with the air con going full blast it was an effort to do much more than collapse on the sofa. But at least it feels like Australia now - up until recently it was very much like England in October!
And Sara's debut YA, The Second Virginity of Suzy Green, is one of Chicklish top reads of 2007 - huge congrats, Sara!!
The weather is hotter than ever here - on Boxing Day it hit 110F and even with the air con going full blast it was an effort to do much more than collapse on the sofa. But at least it feels like Australia now - up until recently it was very much like England in October!
Rounding Up 2007
Step 1 – Find someone that has a sense of humor as sick as yours.
Step 2 – Plan ahead where and when you will meet.
Step 3 – Tell them the front of the mall is unacceptable and you’ll meet at Ruby Tuesday’s because they serve beer before noon.
Step 4 – Meet at designated rendezvous and order two ginormous beers for each of you.
Step 5 – Race to see who can chug their beer faster; this does not frighten you because your shopping companion is a young, single guy who has NO concept what-so-ever of what it takes to raise two teenagers.
Step 6 – Rag your shopping companion relentlessly because he’s a pansy and can’t keep up.
Step 7 – Make your way out into the chaos and destruction of shopping the Saturday before Christmas.
Step 8 – Run back to Ruby Tuesday’s for one more beer because it’s frightening out there.
Step 9 – Who gives a crap, you’ve just chugged three 24 oz. beers and LIFE IS GREAT!
Step 10 – Call your 71 year old mother and slur to her over the phone that “shou neeb a rad homeb”.
Step 2 – Plan ahead where and when you will meet.
Step 3 – Tell them the front of the mall is unacceptable and you’ll meet at Ruby Tuesday’s because they serve beer before noon.
Step 4 – Meet at designated rendezvous and order two ginormous beers for each of you.
Step 5 – Race to see who can chug their beer faster; this does not frighten you because your shopping companion is a young, single guy who has NO concept what-so-ever of what it takes to raise two teenagers.
Step 6 – Rag your shopping companion relentlessly because he’s a pansy and can’t keep up.
Step 7 – Make your way out into the chaos and destruction of shopping the Saturday before Christmas.
Step 8 – Run back to Ruby Tuesday’s for one more beer because it’s frightening out there.
Step 9 – Who gives a crap, you’ve just chugged three 24 oz. beers and LIFE IS GREAT!
Step 10 – Call your 71 year old mother and slur to her over the phone that “shou neeb a rad homeb”.
Christmas Shopping Made Easy
Just because we live in Sunny Oz where Christmas Day temps can hit 100 degrees, doesn't mean we'd do anything so sensible as have a seafood barbie on the big day. Oh-my-goddess-no. It's hot turkey with stuffing and all the trimmings, and mini plum puds for afters (even though none of us are lovers of plum pudding my dear husband insists, so he has the puds and the rest of us gorge ourselves on chocolate for the rest of the day!)
A few years ago I was very adventrous and ordered a turkey stuffed with a chicken which in turn was supposed to be stuffed with some other type of poultry from the local butcher. It looked like a huge disgusting maggot and although it tasted very yummy I've never quite got over the trauma of that sight.
So now I get a frozen turkey from Woolworths, one that doesn't have legs but has lots of breasty bits (because none of us ever eat the legs but we all love the breast) and it's currently defrosting in the bottom of the fridge. Only three sleeps to go!!
And I just want to say what a lucky girl I am, because I won a prize the other day over at the fantastico Shelley's party bash! It's From the Deep anthology and I can't wait to dive in *ha ha!*
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A few years ago I was very adventrous and ordered a turkey stuffed with a chicken which in turn was supposed to be stuffed with some other type of poultry from the local butcher. It looked like a huge disgusting maggot and although it tasted very yummy I've never quite got over the trauma of that sight.
So now I get a frozen turkey from Woolworths, one that doesn't have legs but has lots of breasty bits (because none of us ever eat the legs but we all love the breast) and it's currently defrosting in the bottom of the fridge. Only three sleeps to go!!
And I just want to say what a lucky girl I am, because I won a prize the other day over at the fantastico Shelley's party bash! It's From the Deep anthology and I can't wait to dive in *ha ha!*
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...and the Turkey's Thawing Out...
You have GOT to love the South. Recently my son’s football coach at school was fired after two years of coaching the team to the state Class 1A state final for those two consecutive seasons (Class 1A……we’re kinda small). Why was the coach, an alumni, Heisman Trophy runner-up of 1991, and NFL retiree fired? Well guys, it was “God’s Will”. Yup – that’s the reason this man was fired. No sexual misconduct, no abuse of the kids, no slander, harassment, or surfing of porn on the web. No siree, God told the pastor at the school/church (private Baptist school…..leave me alone) that our much beloved coach had to go. Hmmmm, as the daughter/grand-daughter/niece of very well educated ministers, this pastor must be awfully special. Never once did I ever hear my dad, grand-pa, or uncle tell us that they were special enough to talk directly to God. God must have some spare time on his hands to advise the head of the school who should and should not coach our football team. Maybe if He spent a little less time talkin’ to the pastor we could find the end to world hunger, war, and deviant behavior. WOW, wouldn’t THAT be something! HEY! If the pastor has an in with God, wonder if he could get me a heads up on who’s gonna win the Super Bowl and the name of a good bookie.
God’s Got The Inside Scoop In Football
I think I've finally done all my Christmas shopping (apart from the last minute veggies - including the obligatory half dozen sprouts my husband insists on having on his plate Christmas Day. No idea why, nasty disgusting little things!!)
I hit the local mall at 8 am this morning but unfortunately it seemed half the town had the same idea. I hate crowds. Anyway I got the ham and pickles and then went looking for Harry Potter goodies for my two little nieces, who are Totally Into Harry Potter!!
Annoyingly, there doesn't seem to be much HP merchandise about. I did find a great online store last night with lots of HP pressies, but it's based in Melbourne which isn't much good for me and I'm not trusting the post to deliver any parcels in time for Christmas.
Since Santa is bringing them the DVDs, I ended up with a trolley load of stationery items. Luckily they both love reading, and I've yet to find any book lover who doesn't also adore stationery items!!
And in other news, the talented Amanda Ashby has just won the Chicklit Club's Pink Thong Award for Best New Character (Australian) for You Had Me at Halo! Woo-hoo Amanda!
I hit the local mall at 8 am this morning but unfortunately it seemed half the town had the same idea. I hate crowds. Anyway I got the ham and pickles and then went looking for Harry Potter goodies for my two little nieces, who are Totally Into Harry Potter!!
Annoyingly, there doesn't seem to be much HP merchandise about. I did find a great online store last night with lots of HP pressies, but it's based in Melbourne which isn't much good for me and I'm not trusting the post to deliver any parcels in time for Christmas.
Since Santa is bringing them the DVDs, I ended up with a trolley load of stationery items. Luckily they both love reading, and I've yet to find any book lover who doesn't also adore stationery items!!
And in other news, the talented Amanda Ashby has just won the Chicklit Club's Pink Thong Award for Best New Character (Australian) for You Had Me at Halo! Woo-hoo Amanda!
Christmas is Coming
Amanda Ashby and Sara Hantz, two of my CPs and fellow Witches, are holding a joint Christmas competition on their blogs and MySpace pages for a lucky reader to win copies of their debut books, Amanda's You Had Me at Halo, and Sara's The Second Virginity of Suzy Green.
All you need to do is hop on over and leave a comment. Easy-peasy! Good luck!!
All you need to do is hop on over and leave a comment. Easy-peasy! Good luck!!
Win Brilliantly Cool Books for Christmas!!!
Shelley tagged me so here we go - and don't forget to pop over to Shelley's blog and join in her fabulous birthday bash all this month, with lots of brilliant author guests and prizes up for grabs!
Two Men I’d Love to Date if I Were Single (and they were single):
1. Clive Owen (I mean duh. This is a no brainer, right?!?!)
2. David Tennant (Tardis optional)
I Am Wearing Right Now…
1. Long Black Pants
2. Long sleeved scarlet top (it's cold and rainy today - I can't believe it!!)
Two Things I Would Want in a Relationship:
1. laughter
2. hot sex okay these are totally pinched from Shelley's meme, but on the other hand what's not to love about these things???
Two of My Favorite Things to do:
1. reading & writing
2. eating & drinking (and quite often I indulge in at least three of these activies simultaneously!)
Two Things I Want Very Badly At the Moment:
1. A fabulous agent
2. A fantastic book contract!!!
Two things I did recently:
1. wrapped up loads of Christmas pressies
2. did this meme!!!
Two things I ate today:
1. Pat's delicious boozy Christmas cake!!!
2. A takeaway Dome latte. It's a wonder I don't look like one with the amount I consume in any given week... oh wait on second thoughts I do kind of resemble a squat little polystyrene cup...
Two people I most recently talked to:
1. Daughters (both - while doing Christmas shopping)
2. Son (to wish him luck with his exam today - last day of school today, what are they THINKING???)
Two things I’m doing tomorrow:
1. MORE Christmas shopping *sigh*
2. Cleaning the house from top to toe... ha ha! Gotcha. As if!!
2 longest car rides:
1. from SE London the the Isle of Angelsey.
2. from Perth to Margaret River WA
Two Favorite Holidays:
1. Love the Christmas holidays
2. And Easter - since my dh generally gets some time off work then too
Two Favorite Beverages:
1. Coffee (but ONLY from ... well yes you guessed it!!!)
2. Wine (sans the pineapple juice I mean how could ANYone drink wine with pineapple juice, I ask you??)
Two Things about me, things you may not have known:
1. I have a worrying latte addiction, and the fact it does my health no good whatsoever isn't much of a deterrent!
2. I also have a weakness for Lindt white chocolate balls. Mmmmm!
Two places I have lived:
1. UK
2. Australia
Two of my Favorite Foods:
1. pizza (I'm a cheap date)
2. roast beef and Yorkshire pudding
Two Places I’d rather be right now:
1. Somewhere warm and romantic with my husband!
2. Catching up on all the gossip over Earl Grey and cream cakes with my lovely sis-in-law.
4 people I think will respond:
1. Sara Hantz
2. Amanda Ashby
3. Monica Cole
4. Philllipa Ashley
Dare ya!Now, here’s what you’re supposed to do…copy this and put your own answers in place of mine and post it to your blog!
Two Men I’d Love to Date if I Were Single (and they were single):
1. Clive Owen (I mean duh. This is a no brainer, right?!?!)
2. David Tennant (Tardis optional)
I Am Wearing Right Now…
1. Long Black Pants
2. Long sleeved scarlet top (it's cold and rainy today - I can't believe it!!)
Two Things I Would Want in a Relationship:
1. laughter
2. hot sex okay these are totally pinched from Shelley's meme, but on the other hand what's not to love about these things???
Two of My Favorite Things to do:
1. reading & writing
2. eating & drinking (and quite often I indulge in at least three of these activies simultaneously!)
Two Things I Want Very Badly At the Moment:
1. A fabulous agent
2. A fantastic book contract!!!
Two things I did recently:
1. wrapped up loads of Christmas pressies
2. did this meme!!!
Two things I ate today:
1. Pat's delicious boozy Christmas cake!!!
2. A takeaway Dome latte. It's a wonder I don't look like one with the amount I consume in any given week... oh wait on second thoughts I do kind of resemble a squat little polystyrene cup...
Two people I most recently talked to:
1. Daughters (both - while doing Christmas shopping)
2. Son (to wish him luck with his exam today - last day of school today, what are they THINKING???)
Two things I’m doing tomorrow:
1. MORE Christmas shopping *sigh*
2. Cleaning the house from top to toe... ha ha! Gotcha. As if!!
2 longest car rides:
1. from SE London the the Isle of Angelsey.
2. from Perth to Margaret River WA
Two Favorite Holidays:
1. Love the Christmas holidays
2. And Easter - since my dh generally gets some time off work then too
Two Favorite Beverages:
1. Coffee (but ONLY from ... well yes you guessed it!!!)
2. Wine (sans the pineapple juice I mean how could ANYone drink wine with pineapple juice, I ask you??)
Two Things about me, things you may not have known:
1. I have a worrying latte addiction, and the fact it does my health no good whatsoever isn't much of a deterrent!
2. I also have a weakness for Lindt white chocolate balls. Mmmmm!
Two places I have lived:
1. UK
2. Australia
Two of my Favorite Foods:
1. pizza (I'm a cheap date)
2. roast beef and Yorkshire pudding
Two Places I’d rather be right now:
1. Somewhere warm and romantic with my husband!
2. Catching up on all the gossip over Earl Grey and cream cakes with my lovely sis-in-law.
4 people I think will respond:
1. Sara Hantz
2. Amanda Ashby
3. Monica Cole
4. Philllipa Ashley
Dare ya!Now, here’s what you’re supposed to do…copy this and put your own answers in place of mine and post it to your blog!
