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I would in fact get thrown out of bed for eating crackers!  That is one thing my husband does not tolerate--food out of the kitchen!!    He would FREAK if there were cracker crumbs in the bed.

I see Jayne my sister put a little pic up for me!  Someone goose Jayne and ask her if she can swap the pink one in there instead . . . it's newer and I'm plumper and also wearing pink, and Fake Frenchie likes me in pink, lol.

I don't like the motorcycle jacket look--it's so dark, huh?

You know, if Jayne is sexy Jane Russell, then I will be Lucille Ball. 

Tina

You are an angel!!!

 Someone put up a pic for me . . . how hilarious and sweet is THAT???  All the good fairies know I am doing my best to use the new format and I'd never get to all the "goodies" of the site. 

Ellen, would you believe before Janet sent me Carl's blog, I didn't know what Chowder was?  I know I'd heard of it, but I don't watch a ton of tv, unless my kids are around and then we mostly watch the history channel or something.  Anyway, I forwarded your post to Janet and she said, "Cool!  I'm going to send this to Carl!", so now you can tell your kids you really are the bomb--you have actually sent a fan mail to "Fred."  As a creative type yourself, you'll appreciate how much they loved your kind words.

 I'm still having trouble picturing Carl as anything more than an adorable child . . . but his little sister is now 30!   Which means I am getting old.  lol

T

Aurelene, I agree with you--Jayne is kind of a sexy chick.  It's the confidence.  That's what's lacking with these movie star kids today--confidence.  Monroe had it--Hepburn had it . . .  or if they didn't, they faked it.  These young stars today are sort of messy, I think, a lot of the time. 

No, no I'M the nerd and Jayne is the crafty one.  She can sew costumes and do cool things.  She's also more outgoing.  But in spite of all her gorgeous talents, Mom always loved me best . . .   I'm teasing.  I don't even know how we got started with our sister act--we've just always done it.

My sister, Kim, has a picture on my website and I'm going to be putting up some more when my website is redone next month.  I'm so excited about that!

 

Hi, girl!  The best part is how Tim was such a reading advocate for his kids . . . I mean, he would GROAN when I took the kids in to B&N or whatever for the lastest Cliffords or Magic School bus, but he got up in bed with them at night and read to them!  He may never crack the spine of a book, but he sure feels reading is important.    So turning those pages must have been a good experience. 

Hi, Angel66!

I, too, wondered whether Janet minded the way he drew her, but since she forwarded the email, I decided she was simply proud.  It really is too funny.  His mom IS tiny, just like he says, but she's voluptous and fun, a bundle of energy and FUNNY!  She always had my mom in stitches.  And the funny thing is I remember Mom always saying, "Janet's got mahjongg tonight."  So for Carl to do a cartoon of it is true to life.  I've never watched the show, so now I'm curious!  For that matter, I've never played Mahjongg, but I feel like I'm missing something very fun!  Tina

So another DFW girl--how cool!  I love iced tea though these days I'm drinking it without sugar.  Rats!  We used to have quite the thing in my house for SWEEEET tea.  But I'm weaning kids/hubbie/self off sugar.    I'm sure you've met the other wonderful Candadians on here . . . Sapph, Cryna, Jayne, know I'm leaving many out . . .

Christa, nice to meet you!  Yes, Jayne is quite good about reaching out to get those of us who are not usually around much more involved.

Sadhbh, I was going to tell you that when my husband and I were in the first grade (yes, yes, I know, sounds so Brady Bunch or something), there was a reading contest that lasted all year.  I read and read and read because I wanted so badly to win.  We had to keep lists, etc., and then turn them in.  On turn-in day, much to my dismay, I discovered that Tim had beaten me by one book!!!!  Amazed (because I had worked really hard at this and thought surely I would win)! I asked him how he'd read so many.  Airily he said, "Oh, I didn't read them.  I just TURNED the pages." 

So I think it's quite fitting that he married me and now has to put up with me not only being a writer but having stacks and stacks of books hidden in every closet.  And do you know that I have never seen him read a book in all the nearly twenty years we've been married???

Lol.  I tease him about that all the time.

p.s. I will share a story about keeping up with bibliophiles tomorrow which may amuse you--some people on the boards probably already know it, but I do love to tell it!

I am the tortoise . . . and sort of a frenetic one at that . . .

Fake Frenchie, hello, girl--great to see you again!!  Pink?  Can I do this in pink?  Earlier I was puzzling over these cute little buttons that say things like DIGG and DELICIOUS--I dare not touch them (although they sound like fun!), but pink?  Can I do pink here?

I think Penn asked if Jayne and I are true sisters.  In fact, we are!  We are actually twins.  We were separated at birth, and she, the not-as-adorable-and-intelligent baby, was shipped away, whilst I was kept . . . oh, boy, my sister is going to thrash me for such "sisterly" behavior!!  It's the writer in me, can you tell??  We are in fact not blood sisters, though I love her dearly and have had Jayne to my humble abode several years ago.  In fact, I just threw away the silk pantsuits she once admired--gave me quite the pang, I can tell you, but I no longer fit into size 4's.    I am now a size 8, so you can tell it has been many years since I've seen my sister.

Hi, Sadhbh!  I am new to the challenge and cannot keep up with anyone, but must take baby steps to get my ten in . . . in fact, I am a book magnet and will be so slow that Jayne will know that she has truly invited the caboose to participate.  Yet it is the slow and steady tortoise who sometimes wins the race--maybe! 

I am on a deadline and so must remind myself that I can't start thinking about all these lovely books . . . it must be a treat when I finish.  Does anyone else get the best feeling in the world when they walk into a Barnes and Noble?  We have a Starbucks in ours (maybe they all do), and between books and hot cocoa, I could LIVE in there!  Oh, oh, and another great book thing I've taken advantage of over the years is ehar's little bill-me-later--so nice for that quick purchase--although then I'm racked with guilt and must send my check in as soon as I get my "fix" in the mail because I'm afraid ehar will cut me off!  The last ones I bought through ehar were The Briton and Homespun Bride, and I'm anxious to read them.  They make it too easy! 

And Walmart is great for hardbacks.  I have to push my cart very fast past the books in the grocery store because those books I can't seem to keep the receipts organized for, for my tax deductions. 

But as for keeping up with you--as much as I would love to do that--I must give you the crown.  My family would revolt and my editor would cry if I spent as much time reading as I want to . . . sweetly neglecting my duties while I lose myself in PRIDE AND PREJUDICE for the hundredth time . . . someone mentioned Anne Of Green Gables . . . ahhhhhh.

Off to Whole Foods for now--I must get something tasty and organic for the boys.  My daughter is off at college, and so I only have menfolk to feed, but they sure do like to come home and smell something cooking on the stove (and me reading a book, telling them to order a pizza, does not qualify).  *giggle*