The Man Loves Me!

Hachette arrived in mass!!! With all this, I should get a lot of knitting done as my hands will be free. I am so excited...I don't even know which one to pick first! What? Oh, you want to know what I got? OK, here we go:

Thursday Thunks (2)

Welcome to the November 12th version of Thursday Thunks!
(which we always seem to post on Wednesday)

Where we make you think a little bit before you blog!

We pick a subject, and your job is to interpret it anyway you want. Write about it on your blog... simple as that. Maybe you can interpret it as a picture - we don't care!
Please only leave a link if you have written a Thursday Thunks post. Please mention us in your post, and link back to the blog here.
Don't forget to go visit the other participants' blogs. Read and comment about all their Thursday Thunks! Thats what all this is about afterall, isn't it? We'll have so much fun and become lifelong friends....

This week we will answer some

crazy questions brought to you by

Kimber & her fathead hubby Anthony, the color of chocolateand the number 2.

1. Thursday Thunks is written by 2 insane women (Berleen & Kimber) that have never met face to face yet are best friends. One lives in Minnesota and the other in Arizona. They keep trying to convince each other to move to their state. What color house will Berleen have here in Arizona? a very pale, pale yellow

2. Do you dream in black & white or color, and how do you know your brain isn't just playing games with you? i think in color and i know my brain makes fun of me...been doing that for many, many moons

3. Does bubble gum lose it's flavor on the bedpost? i don't know that it loses as much as mine picked up the mahogeny flavor. (that i have an excellent memory of! i even can remember what copper pennies tasted like .)

4. We're buying Underoos. Which superhero do you pick? not a clue...i know nothing of underoos...way after my time and no kids to teach me...so i guess i will have to figure it out when i get there.

5. Do you think if you yell loud enough while watching your favorite sporting event, it makes a difference in the outcome of the event? nononono...there is no yelling while they are skating! clapping to the music...yes, but no yelling! now after they have finished their program, then lots of yelling and clapping like made for you favs!

6. Is the word gullible in the dictionary? my dad seemed to think it was big in my personal dictionary! now if you are wanting me to check spelling...not going to happen! talking i can do, math and spelling are beyond me!

7. If you could pick any currancy to be the face on which currancy would it be? a german finning...it is the smallest piece of currency i have ever seen...so the picture could be of any one and not scare small children.

8. What was your imaginary friend's name as a kid, and did they ever annoy you or just us? i had no imaginary friend...didn't need one...i had sisters and we shared rooms forever! besides, i never needed anyone to get me into trouble...i mastered it all by myself (and took my younger sister with me).

9. Do you think it's ironic that the poop deck is in the rear of the ship? i've never thought about it and i don't want to now either...i just want to be a party pooper!

Thank you to my hubby for helping with insane questions when we are both sick, and you now know the crazy I married. No drugs, just insanity. And lots of laughter. Can't wait to read your answers.

Thursday Thunks (times 2) as I missed it last week

Welcome to the November 5th version of Thursday Thunks!
(which we always seem to post on Wednesday)

Where we make you think a little bit before you blog!

We pick a subject, and your job is to interpret it anyway you want. Write about it on your blog... simple as that. Maybe you can interpret it as a picture - we don't care!
Please only leave a link if you have written a Thursday Thunks post. Please mention us in your post, and link back to the blog here.
Don't forget to go visit the other participants' blogs. Read and comment about all their Thursday Thunks! That's what all this is about after all, isn't it? We'll have so much fun and become lifelong friends....

This week we will answer some

crazy questions brought to you by

Kimber, the color of sweet potato pie and the number B12.

1. Mad Cow disease, Bird Flu, Swine Flu...what barnyard animal will cause the next big outbreak of disease? owls never tell.

2. Sesame Street turns 40 this month. If you were to be on Sesame Street, which character would you want to be in a scene with? Grouch...he reminds me my dh's mood lately.

3. We are out shopping for a new laptop. Which one do you pick and why? a green mac pro. why not?! it's my mac!

4. Have you ever dried a flower in a book (pressing)? If so what was the flower and the name of the book? no

5. Do you think it's important to study other planets? If so, why or why not? not for me it isn't...because i like it right here on terra firma earth!

6. Have you ever walked out of a movie at the theater? What was the movie, how much was the ticket and why did you walk out? yes! night of the living dead. don't remember cost (it was 20 some odd years ago). the plot was missing, the dialog was worse, and i got tired of people biting and blood shooting out...it wasn't even laughable!

7. Does the city/town you live in have traffic enforcement cameras? Have you ever gotten a citation/ticket/fine from one? If so, did you pay or fight it? yes. no. but would probably pay it if i did it and fight if i knew i had not.

8. If your neighbor is having a baby would you buy a baby gift for them? no, but i would call one of the trashy newsie people 'cause they are too old to be having more babies!

9. How many questions are too many questions? if i get bored or tried of answering, that's too many.

10. Do you have a handwritten journal you write in everyday? no but i did have one that i would sporadically write in.

11. Have you already made plans for 2010? no, i am still dealing with 2009

12. Thursday Thunks has a huge party for all those who play along each week. Where is the party, how long does it last and does Kimber fall off the roof dropping crayons? If so, what color of crayon does she fall on? not at my house! i don't want to have to clean house before or after. it last as long as i am there because when i leave, it will just be in my memory. no, we will all keep an eye on her. green, it will match the grass stains.

13. We may have "blogger celebrity" questions in the near future. Are you excited? Woop Woop

COVER ALERT! Darkly Luminous Fight for Persephone Parker

OK, Babbling about books got it first...and I copied it from her site but...well, you know how much I liked THE STRANGELY BEAUTIFY TALE OF PERSEY PARKER! What did you expect!?! Dorchester release April 27, 2010. Will I last that long?

I also copied this for you as some of you have eyes as bad as mine!

Here's the synopsis blurb:

With radiant, snow white skin and hair, Percy Parker was a beacon for Fate. True love had found her, in the tempestuous form of Professor Alexi Rychman. But her mythic destiny was not complete. Accompanying the ghosts with which she alone could converse, new and terrifying omens loomed. A war was coming, a desperate ploy of a spectral host. Victorian London would be overrun. Yet, Percy kept faith. Within the mighty bastion of Athens Academy, alongside The Guard whose magic shielded mortals from the agents of the Underworld, she counted herself among friends. Wreathed in hallowed fire, they would stand together, no matter what dreams or nightmares—might come.

Monday Meyhem

Welcome to Monday Meyhem, the home of Meyhem on a Monday.

Every week is something different.

Have fun!

Today's meme- I Spy.

For each of the prompts, you may answer with an image, a sentence or however you want to.

Simply copy and paste this into a post on your site and answer the I Spy's.

Be sure to list your a direct link to your post.

I Spy something......Delicious.

I Spy something......Cute.

I Spy something......Stupid.

I Spy something......too much.

I Spy something......I'd like to do.

I Spy something......I'd like to visit.

Glasgow Cathedral

I Spy something......outrageous.

I Spy something......I would rather do than work.

Thanks for playing Monday Mayhem...see you next week!

Sunday Stealing

Welcome back to Sunday Stealing. Sunday Stealing originated on WTIT: The Blog authored by Bud Weiser. Here we will steal all types of memes from every corner of the blogosphere. Our promise to you is that we will work hard to find the most interesting and intelligent memes. You may have heard of the expression, “honor amongst thieves”. In that age-old tradition, we also have our rules. First, we always credit the blog that we stole it from and we will “fess up” to the blog owner where we stole the meme. We also provide a link to the victim's post. (It's our way of saying "Thanks!") We do sometimes edit the original meme, usually to make it more relevant to our global players, to challenge our players, sometimes to select that meme's best questions, or simply to make it less repetitive from either this new meme or recently asked questions from a prior featured meme. Let's go!

Today we ripped this meme off a blogger named Leo Maccool at the blog Butch Girlcat. It's a 50 question meme, so we decided do it in two parts. Today is Part 2. She explains that she stole meme from the ever-fabulous GREG. But, it was probably stolen there as well. So, of course, that will be as far as we go. Tracing back our theft's thieves might take some time. Link back to us at Sunday Stealing!

Cheers to all us thieves!

Sunday Stealing: The Strange Question Meme, Part 2

26. What color is your watch? Stainless Steel

27. What do you think of when you hear “Australia”? Red Dust

28. Would you strip for money? NO

29. Do you go in a fast food place or just hit the drive thru? Drive Thru

30. What is your favorite number? I don't have one.

31. Who’s the last person you talked to on the phone? My sister.

32. Any plans today? Watch ISU (ice skating)

33. In how many states have you lived? (TN, MD, CA, TX, KY)...5

34. Biggest annoyance right now? Good TV programs with sound levels that are either too loud or too soft!!! (MI-5)

35. Last song listened to? Sorry...can't think of it.

36. Can you say the alphabet backwards? NO! But I can sing it forward.

37. Do you have a maid service clean your house? I WISH!!!

38. Favorite pair of shoes you wear all the time? Black

39. Are you jealous of anyone? No

40. Is anyone jealous of you? Silly of them but yes

41. Do you love anyone? You bet chum, Red Rider!

42. Do any of your friends have children? Most all of them.

43. What do you usually do during the day? Watch TV, play on the computer, and read.

44. Do you hate anyone that you know right now? No!

45. Do you use the word hello daily? Oddly enough, no.

46. What color is your car? A beautiful pale green.

47. What size wedding ring do you wear? 4.5

48. Are you thinking about someone right now? Yes, those silly poker players that my DH is watching.

49. Have you ever been to Six Flags? I am in Texas in the DFW area...yep!

50. How did you get your worst scar? Doctors did it. And if they do it again, they better put in a zipper!

Thank you for playing this week on Sunday Stealing!Please leave a comment or link when you have posted. Feel free to stop back and visit other player’s posts. Have a great week. See you next Sunday!

Desert Rose Shawl by Renee Leverington

First I am going to show you some lovely photos of this beautiful shawl that Sandra Singh has up at her shop.

Get ready to "oo" and "aw"!

THE DESERT ROSE SHAWL BY RENEE LEVERINGTON

A CLOSE UP

A FRONT VIEW

A BACK VIEW

The beautiful Desert Rose shawl was designed by Renee Leverington of "Goddess Knits" exclusively for Sandrasingh.com and knit in The Alpaca Yarn Company's lace yarn Suri Elegance. Renee Leverington grew up in Arizona where the crystal Desert Rose is abundant, these beautiful rosette shaped crystals inspired Renee to create her elegant Desert Rose Shawl.

THE LUSHIOUS YARN IT WAS MADE FROM

Suri Elegance

The Desert Rose Shawl's beautiful knit fabric, with exquisite drape, is created from The Alpaca Yarn Company's 100% suri alpaca lace weight yarn Suri Elegance. Its knit from the top down and consists of two identical sections worked together with a dividing stitch and garter edge stitches, the pattern is charted.

Personally, I am in love (read "lust") with Falling Leaves and Middle Earth! Now if you want to try your hand at this project or am a "fiberholic" like I am, head on over to SandraSingh.com and read all about the pattern and yarn and everything! I just liberated some of the highlights from her site.

(Click on the posting title or any of the underscored words to get there in a flash.)

To Desire A Devil by Elizabeth Hoyt Book Review/Giveaway

Over at Seductive Musing, this book is up as a giveaway. To Desire a Devil is part of a four part series. I have not read this one or any of the others but from reading the reviews and an interview at Seductive Musings, I really want to read it. So to earn extra credits, I am posting about the posting. You might want to do the same to see if you might want to see if you too might want to read it. To get there, just click on the posting title.

Southern Women

We have not had a good laugh for a while so I submit the following as it was sent to me by my niece, Stacey:

Southern women know their summer weather report:

Humidity

Humidity

Humidity

Southern women know their vacation spots:

The beach

The rivuh

The crick

Southern women know every body's first name:

Honey

Darlin'

Shugah

Southern women know the movies that speak to their hearts:

Fried Green Tomatoes

Driving Miss Daisy

Steel Magnolias

Gone with the Wind

Southern women know their religions:

Baptist

Methodist

Football

Southern women know their cities dripping with Southern charm:

Chawl'stn

S'vanah

Foat Wuth

N'awlins

Addlanna

Southern women know their elegant gentlemen:

Men in uniform

Men in tuxedos

Rhett Butler

Southern women know their prime real estate:

The Mall

The Spa

The Beauty Salon

Southern women know the three deadly sins:

Having bad hair and nails

Having bad manners

Cooking bad food

More Southern-isms:

Only a Southerner knows the difference between a "hissie fit" and a "conniption fit", and that you don't "have" them, you "pitch" them.

Only a Southerner knows how many fish, collard greens, turnip greens, peas, beans, etc, make up "a mess".

Only a Southerner can show or point out to you the general direction of "yonder".

Only a Southern knows exactly how long "directly" is, as in: "Going to town, be back drekly (directly)."

Even Southern babies know that "Gimme some sugar: is not a request for the white granular, sweet substance that sits in a pretty little bowl in the middle of the table.

All Southerners know exactly when "by and by" is. They might not use the term, but they know the concept well.

Only a Southerner knows instinctively that the best jester of solace for a neighbor who's got trouble is a plate of hot fried chicken and a big bowl of cold potato salad. If the neighbor's trouble is a real crisis, they also know to add a large banana puddin'!

Only Southerners grow up knowing the difference between "right near" and "a right far piece". They also know that "just down the road" can be 1 mile or 20.

Only a Southerner both knows and understand the difference between a redneck, a good ol' boy, and po' white trash.

No true Southerner would ever assume that the car with the flashing turn signal is actually going to make a turn.

A Southerner knows that "fixin" can be used as a noun, a verb, or an adverb.

Only Southerners make friends while standing in lines, ...and when we're "in line", we talk to everybody!

Put 100 Southerners in a room and half of them will discover they are related, even if only by marriage.

In the South, "y'all" is singular, "all y'all" is plural.

Southerners know "grits" comes from corn and how to eat them.

Every Southerner knows tomatoes with eggs, bacon, grits, and coffee are perfectly wonderful; that red eye gravy is also a breakfast food, and that fried green tomatoes are not a breakfast food.

When you hear someone say, "Well, I caught myself lookin'," you know you are in the presence of a genuine Southerner!

Only true Southerners say "sweet tea" and "sweet milk". Sweet tea indicates the need for sugar and lots of it. We do not like our tea unsweetened. "Sweet milk" means you don't want buttermilk.

A true Southern knows you don't scream obscenities at little old ladies who drive 30 mph on the freeway. You just say, "Bless her heart" and go on your own way.

To those of you who are still a little embarrassed by your Southerness: Take two tent revivals and a does of sausage gravy and call in the morning, bless your heart!

And to those of you are still having a hard time understanding all this Southern stuff, bless your hearts, I hear they are fixin' to have classes on Southerness as a second language!

And for those that are not from the South but have lived here for a long time, all y'all need a sign to hang on y'all's front porch that reads "I'm not from the South, but I got here as fast as I could!"

Southern women know men may come and go, but friends are fahevah!

Now Shugah, if you're a Northern transplant, bless your little heart, fake it. We know you got here as fast as you could.

Monday Madness- The debut:::

hot or not »

Monday Madness- The debut!!!!

[ Sunday, November 1, 2009 | 2 comments ]

Thanks for joining us for the first week of Monday Mayhem!

This is the Monday meme that will differ from week to week.
Every Monday you can expect something new and different to keep you entertained.

Today's topic is hot or not.
Simply copy and paste this post into your blog post and tell us if you think each of the items are hot or not. Be sure to come back here and post a link to your post and visit the other participants.

Are you ready?

no...can i back out now/? o well, might as well continue...i got this far.

Hot or Not?

mom jeans can be great fun and look good but not when they taper down from a big butt or tummy!

The mom jean.

******

Hot or not?

When you drool over the keyboard like dh did, I get the opinion she must be.hot

Tara Reid.

*****

Hot or not?

I don't know...divorce is generally messy. I do believe he and Kate do love their children, they just can't get along with each other. From I have read, this raising of multiples is the cause of many of a divorce. divorce is never hot...it is just very sad for all involved. .

.John of John and Kate Plus eight

******

Hot or not?

i think not. this is what appears to be a heart attack on a bun. heart attacks are painful and pain is never hot.

The Hardee Thickburger.

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Hot or not?

I am not exactly sure what this is but it looks like it should be hot.

This is it.

**********

Hot or not?

i'm just not surer. i've not seen his movie. i have know some pretty hot nerds but don't know if he is one or not.,,humor is always HOT!
Napoleon Dynamite.

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Hot or not?

he is cute but i don't know about hot...can i abstrain until the magazine comes out?
Sarah Palin's almost son-in-law going frontal in Playgirl.

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Hot or not?

not...at least to me. but then i cannot see enough to read it...news can be hot!CNN's new homepage.

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Hot or not?

i think more "cool", after all, no one else i know has one!

Owning a large mylar balloon and that is your lively hood.

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Hot or not?

hot!

Hot.

Thanks for playing! We'll see you next Monday!

About Monday Mayhem

[ Tuesday, October 27, 2009 | 1 comments ]

Let's face it.
We love a great meme and it just seemed like Monday's needed one.
Some of us meme addicts got together to make one.
That's how Monday Mayhem was born.

What kind of a meme is this?
Can we say it's a meme about nothing?
We've decided to spice it up and make it fun.
Every week will be different. Some Monday's will consist of a fill in the blank meme while other Monday's may be silly questions.

How to participate.
Check here on as early as Sunday afternoon for the Monday Mayhem prompt.
Copy and Paste it to your blog post, publish your post and come back here and leave a link to your post. On Monday, come back here to see who the other participants are and visit their Monday Mayhem post.

The more you play the better your chances are at getting visits to your Monday Mayhem post!
Cool! Read the full story »

To read the full story, click on the underlined area or the posting title.