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!
I hope your holidays have been filled with joy! May 2008 bring many wonderful things your way.
48 weeks agoThanks for the add, Shirley!
58 weeks agoAll best-
Steph Tyler
Hi Shirley - Didn't get to bump into you at National, so I thought I'd better stop by and say hello. Hope you're writing up a storm.
67 weeks agoLinda
Hey Shirley,
68 weeks agoHope you survived the dolphin experience and kept your new shoes dry. Hate to tell you that shoes and puppies, well, they aren't really the same. Last time I checked (unless you have a ghost or small child in the house) they stay where you put them, don't piddle on the floor, or scratch the door at 3:00 am to go outside! While I haven't bought myself any shoes in the past year, I got a cute pair of blue sequined sandals for my four year old. Wish they'd made them in a bigger size. Until then, I'll have to live vicariously through my daughter and scour the sale racks at Target for her.
Kim
Welcome to BEBO!
73 weeks agoGlo
Happy Birthday!
Just kidding. Hope you get to do lots of shopping.
73 weeks agoHope you have a great day tomorrow. What a mile stone. 7/7/07. Now if you were going to be 77, that would be really freaky
Kim
Shirley, you've found a fun place to hang out here at bebo, and it's not nearly as much work as myspace. I love being able to post our books, too. Have you posted your latest?
74 weeks agoHmmm. You're not in Chicago then. They have great ethnic foods, although I'd been known to stop at Taco Bell at 2 am for a crunchy taco or two. It's been a while but in Chi-town there's Greek Town for Greek, Little Italy for Italian-The Rosebud if you can get a reservation, Little Bucharest for Hungarian, plenty of Thai, Chinese, Indian, seafood. Looks like you'll have to take a drive. In Phoenix we have great Mexican food and steak and potatos, but not much else. Sigh. Okay, I just ate one of those horrible green salads for lunch and now I'm talking real food.
And shop all you want, just leave a Frango Mint or two for me.
74 weeks agoThanks for the hunger pains
Kim
I think Rascal was put on this earth to make me into a better housekeeper. She finds paper clips, rubber bands, things I don't even realize are on the floor. Then it's a chase to get them out of her mouth.
75 weeks agoMorgan
I wish I could get into my closet. Problem is any time I go near it, the dog runs after me and tries to grab whatever is on the floor, including shoes, tote bags, you name it.
75 weeks agoIt's usually a race to the room so I can shut the door before she enters.
Morgan Mandel
It's funny I have so many purses, yet I usually don't have time to change them.
75 weeks agoMorgan
Me shop? Shopping ranks up there with a root canal. Ugh. When I have the money, I can't find anyting to buy. When I don't (and that's quite often with two small children) I see everything including the kitchen sink
Of course I did have a shoe fetish when I lived in Chicago...but heels and a small town where the cowboys still ride horses to the bars and there are no sidewalks are a killer. Plus, after two kids, most of them didn't fit anyway. Somebody at the thrift store got lucky-especially with my lizard skin heels. Sigh. I don't like Macy's. I have no idea what Marshall Fields was thinking. But as long as they bring the Frango Mints back by July when I go back to Chicago for a family reunion, everything will be fine. For me the best part of traveling is the FOOD, with alcohol coming in a very close second.
75 weeks agoKim
Unfortunately, I can't wear the shoes I'd love to wear. That's what happens when you get old.
75 weeks agoAt least I can still buy purses - that's almost as good.
Morgan
My problem is if I have one piece of cake, I usually go back for another.
75 weeks agoMorgan
Hi Shirley,
75 weeks agoOne thing I know - I'll never get back to my wedding weight - that's too high a goal.
5 or 10 pounds off would really be nice, but I'm too weak-willed.
Morgan
Hi Shirley,
75 weeks agoSo far the day is going smoothly.
By the way, I just love your profile photo.
Morgan Mandel
Thanks for friending me
75 weeks agoThanks for adding me Shirley, and a wave for Anne too!
75 weeks agoThanks for adding me, Shirley!
75 weeks agoHi Shirley. Nice to see you here. Long live Kensington authors! See ya at RWA.
75 weeks agoLinda