Thursday Thirteen

Thursday Thirteen: Reading Poll

  13 Genres: What’s YOUR favorite?   WordPress has a new toy, so I figured I’d try it out. And don’t think this means you get out of having to leave a comment either. Lemme know what your favorite author and book in your favorite genre are too. Links to other Thursday Thirteens! 1 Nicholas…

That New Car Smell

13 Things About DH’s New Camry He’s been off to London for a conference that didn’t quite happen the way the organizers planned. Apparently the venue doubles as a nightclub on the weekends or something and Scotland Yard was forced to close it for investigations after someone was shot there over the weekend. This was,…

Thursday Thirteen: Reading Habits

  13 Q&A On Reading Habits I found this on Wordtrix’s blog last week and she said to feel free to borrow! So I have! 1. What are you reading right now?I’m smack dab in the middle of this one:The Edge of Desire (a Bastion Club Novel). I’ve had it over a week, so you…

Thursday Thirteen: Habit Forming

  13 Things to Avoid When Changing Habits   As you can tell from Monday’s post, habits and routines have been on my mind alot. Leo Babauta from Guam has a great blog titled: Zen Habits where you can go see his comments on these pitfalls. He gives permission to reprint his posts, but in…

Thursday Thirteen: Morning Delays

  13 Ways My Kids Make Us Late   I hate to be late. I hate to feel like someone else is waiting on me. I hate to sit around waiting for someone else. My kids drive me nuts in the mornings before school. I’d had a nice relaxing stretch of sleeping in well past…

Thursday Thirteen: New Wheels

  13 Reasons DH Needs A New Car   1. The fabric on the ceiling is coming loose and attacking anyone in the back seat. 2. The rear passenger side door won’t open. This means he can’t easily drop the kids off at school. 3. It’s older than DD. (Ok. It’s always been older than…

Thursday Thirteen: Middle School

  13 Middle School Differences   My oldest child starts middle school in less than a week. I’m not a big fan of new situations or unfamiliar ones, but luckily DD is much more like her father in this respect. She spent yesterday morning at orientation camp, where they “played dumb, boring games” and took…

Thursday Thirteen: LB&LI

  13 Online Virtual Workshops   Romance Divas had their own Not-Going-To-Conference Conference last week during RWA Nationals and there was a lot of good information to be had, but I also found out Lynn Viehl hosts her own virtual workshop deal (Left Behind and Loving It) on her blog PaperBack Writer. Lots more to…

Thursday Thirteen: Diva-versary

  13 Things I’ve Learned as a Diva   I’ve been a member of the Romance Divas for a year now. I was looking for information on writing and found this place last summer as I was just starting to get serious about trying this writing thing again. I knew I had a lot to…

Thursday Thirteen: Grrrr!

  13 Things That Irritated Me Today   Sorry, no pretty pictures today. I’m stuck on my old, slow desktop and I now get why my kids complain when I tell them they can use it to look up something instead of commandeering my laptop when I’m trying to use it. *grumble* 1. My laptop…