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HAPPY NEW YEAR!
YIPPEE YI YAY!!!
Did you have a good New Year's Eve? Mine was rather quiet--I spent it reading, with a couple of glasses of wonderful wine! I would rather spend it with a man, but he's sick and I don't want his koodies on me, bwahaha. You know how it is with New Year's countdown. Kiss, kiss, and then I'm down with another cold.
Then I slept in this morning instead of write so I'm running late...and it's just the beginning of 2006! Argghh! Will I ever be early for anything?!
Thank you for taking the time to answer those questions in my last post. Here are my answers:
1) What is your accomplishment this year (2005) that you're proud about?
I'm very happy that my house is looking more like a home instead of a nest ;-). I've been good this last year, trying to get the place to be less messy (let's face it, it can NEVER be NOT MESSY, so less is being realistic) as I've been ignoring this part of life while writing three books in a year and a half (with three hurricanes, might I add).
I'm also very proud of learning to be more responsible to my dogs as they grow older. It takes time and patience and I'm really short on both but Magic's condition has made me slow down to learn how to take better care of her (food, blood glucose checking, keeping an eye on how she's behaving) and to enjoy my furbabees time with me. I had been determined to have Magic make it through 2005; there were some hairy moments but she's a tough one, is my old Magic.
2) What is your favorite read this year?
My absolute favorite read this year in the romance genre is Marjorie Liu's A Taste of Crimson. Wow, that girl is such a good writer! And so young and pretty! Gah. My friends, Maria and Sadista, and I plan to kill her at a convention....just kidding, Marjorie ;-). We simply adore this sweet girl.
3) What is your favorite memory this year?
Not in any order:
a) confirmation of contract with MIRA books! That was such a cooooool feeling.
b) going to Low Country RWA in Charleston and visiting the submarine. Wow. And driving over their new bridge that just opened the night before. Wow.
c) meeting with the Australian booksellers that came all the way from Down Under to St. Louis for the Romantic Times Convention. They gave me Timtams, my favorite chocolate that I hadn't had in years!!! Sitting next to Laurell K. Hamilton in a photo op.--we were both small enough to fit into the big loveseat, heh.
d) 
Mardi Gras in Shreveport, LA. Meeting the friendly folks there, especially the Elvis Presley museum. Meeting Frank,
the old Southern gentleman who introduced the young Elvis at the hayride concerts was such a pleasure. Meeting Elvis' fantastic lead guitarist! Too kewl. Here are the pics: 
4) What are you grateful for this year?
I'm grateful that Magic is still here with me. I'm grateful for my furbabee's general health. Marlon Brando just turned 16! Wow, huh? He still tries to chase the young 'un when she's in heat except that he's too old to...uh...perform. As RB said, "Still could get it up but moving is a bit of a problem." Bwahaha.
5) What did you lose this year that you'd like to find?
TIME! Okay, that's impossible to regain. I'd like to find my lost innocence. Oh wait, that's impossible too. Hmm. Okay, I'd like to find that section of time during lunch when I could zip out two or three pages. Where did that go???!
That's it for 2005! So...let's think up of a few neat 2006 questions. Here's one for now:
1) What is your first read this year?
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6 comments:
Man, I guess I have to say my first read for 2006 is Kenyon's DRAGONSWAN because, though it's a re-read, it's the first one I started today.
Dee
Would you believe Incubus Dreams?!? I've had it for months but writing ate into my formerly copious reading time.
Happy New Year, Jenn! Like you, I had a quiet New Year's Eve celebration with my family. Spent the day shopping, then cooking, then stuffing myself. :-) Also spent some time buying music from iTunes to pass the time. Gotta spend those music cards I got from Christmas, you know.
I didn't get to answer your questions from the previous post so I'm going to now ...
1) The accomplishment this year that I'm proud of ... Becoming more active; losing all those body fat. I do hope I can keep it up.
2) Favorite read this year ... Or I should say the favorite of my favorites for '05 -- a toss up between Survivor in Death and Origin in Death. Can't go wrong with our gazillionaire couple.
3) My favorite memory this year was getting THE phone call -- THE CALL telling me that I got the job. Flashback May 5, 2005: I got a call to come in for a job interview. I had the interview the following morning and the persons who interviewed me (my would-be supervisor and manager) told me to expect their response in the afternoon. And I did, around 2:30. I remembered screaming the house down after I hang up the phone and feeling like I was floating. I started calling pretty much everybody to spread the news. :-)
4) This year, I'm grateful for my job and the group I'm with. There are 10 of us in the group including my manager and it's a pretty close knit group. I've been blessed this year so I'm really grateful for everything.
5) What did I lose this year that I'd like to find? Time!!! My God. I can't believe that I would lose so much time. It's all work and working out. Yikes. Oh and shopping too. Hehe.
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My first read this year belongs to Sherrilyn Kenyon's Sins of the Night. I have a pile of books on my bedside dresser and this book happened to be on top. So it was the first one that I grabbed after waking up this morning.
-Leah-
Hi Dee,
I'm so behind in my Kenyons that she's got a separate TBR pile of her own!
Hi Kathleen,
And...? Did you finish it? :-)
Hi Leah,
Busy, busy, busy is good! And with good friends as co-workers is always plus!
Hi Milady,
Happy New Year. Here's wishing you all those books you want!
On New Year's Eve, my boyfriend and I tried to go see "Walk the Line," but the theatre was closed, so we went to the cheapie theatre and saw "Rent." It was very so-so.
Then we went to a bar that was basically dead (how lame does a bar have to be to be dead on New Year's Eve?). They turned off the music 15 seconds before midnight and played the Times Square countdown on TV. And NOBODY in the bar even LOOKED UP FROM THEIR DRINKS. No kissing, no cheering, nothing.
Then we went home and basically passed out. Extremely lame night.
First book of the New Year: Lucy Monroe's "The Greek's Xmas Baby."
Yup, I did. Still a good read for me, although some parts -- notably the ones with BFD -- dragged IMO.
Haven't started a new book yet. I'm in the middle of whipping a proposal into shape. ;-)
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