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All Decked Out for Halloween
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It's a lot easier to deck out my Bebo page than my website for Halloween (wish my website was this easy! I'm sure there are easier ways to do my website but I'm not QUITE that web-savvy!). My house is all decked out for Halloween -- the first time ever this year. My kids are older so they talked me into a fake graveyard out front, complete with bones coming out of one of the graves, and lighted pumpkins (permanent ones, so we have them next year), a fog machine for inside the house, a wraith for in the window, cobwebs everywhere (real and fake, LOL).
Anyway, it's been great fun. Now to find a place to STORE all this stuff!
And in the meantime, I'm counting down the days until MIRACLE ON CHRISTMAS EVE is released. It may be in your store in the next couple days (some distributors load the new Harlequin Romances early) so look for it soon!!!
Shirley
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252 day ago
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Shoes are Like Puppies
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My conference at RWA is only five days long. Not even that for me this year, since I'm leaving a day early to go dolphin training.
And yet, I have already bought three--count 'em, three--new pairs of shoes. A cute little pair of sandals with cherries on them (oh, they were too cute to pass up!!). Some wine-colored Steve Madden wedge peekaboo toe platforms (wine goes with everything, right? :-) and black lace with crystal high heeled killers that I wore to my Dad's wedding that cost so much they have to be conference shoes, too. But they ROCK to no end, so I love them and can't wait to wear them. I wear them sometimes with jeans because they are shoes that ROCK, no lie. (There's a picture of them on my regular blog: www.shirleyjump.blogspot.com)
And yet, I walk through the shoe department at Macy's and salivate. LITERALLY. It's some kind of Pavlovian response. I see the new shoes and want to take EVERY PAIR HOME. They're like puppies and kittens to me. I love them ALL. Every single one. (Okay maybe not some of the Clarks and Rockports. I draw the line somewhere).
And so does my pocketbook. Sigh. Maybe there's a shoe lottery. Like if you hit it, you can have every single pair. Of course, I'd need to win it for both seasons of the year, because in a couple months, they'll be putting out the boots ;-)
Shirley
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373 day ago
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Hope I Don't End up on Animals Gone Wild!
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When I go to the RWA conference in Dallas next month, I will be ending that week of fun in TX with a REALLY COOL bang--
Dolphin training!
One of my readers works at the aquarium in Corpus Christi, so I'll be going down there on the last day I'm in TX to work with the dolphins. I am so excited, I'm bopping, which is very embarrassing to my children.
Let me explain. Bopping is when moms bounce their heads along to the radio. I don't just bounce my head. I sing. Out loud. In front of other people. I can't sing. Can't carry a tune if you put it in my hands and tape it down. And the bopping...well, let's just say that's not a very pretty sight, either. So my children are appropriately humiliated and constantly admonish me NOT to bop.
Since my entire mission in life, and my reason for being a mom, is to embarrass them, I continue to bop.
(Hold on...just saw some cool shoes on a commercial. Gotta pause to watch...darn. Lens Crafters commercial, not a commercial FOR the shoes, which means I can't find out where to buy them. What is wrong with Lens Crafters? Tell me where to get those shoes!).
Anyway, I will be putting a dolphin trainer in a book for sure, unless the dolphins go bezerk and attack me and I end up in an Animals Gone Wild video on FX or something. Since the chances of that are probably one in a gazillion, look for a dolphin trainer book in 2009 or 2010 ;-). [First I have to come up with the idea, propose it, and sell it, so it takes a bit to get that ball rolling].
And, I bought a VERY COOL NEW digital camera, which arrives tomorrow, to go with me to the dolphin tank. The new Olympus Stylus 770 SW, which can go UNDERWATER and take pictures. Is that not the coolest thing since e-mail? (I got the blue one). If you go to the Amazon page for the camera (which was the cheapest price, BY FAR for it, BTW), you can see some sample images that other people (click on customer images) took while they were SNORKELING and SCUBA DIVING. (on my regular blog: http://www.shirleyjump.blogspot.com, I have a pic of it and a link to the Amazon page...is there a way to add all that stuff in a Bebo blog?)
Okay, yes, I am just a tad pumped. Very cool.
I live in the Midwest, so there's no snorkeling here, LOL, so I won't get to try it out underwater for a while (and I don't have a pool) but I only have to wait a month for the Dolphin training (actually not exactly a month...29 days) so I'll post pics soon!
Shirley, who may be talking in squeaks only by the end of July!
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375 day ago
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Just kidding. Hope you get to do lots of shopping.
And shop all you want, just leave a Frango Mint or two for me.
