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Meme Fun

Sun, 21 Dec 2008 17:30:57 GMT

Your result for The Your SESAME STREET Persona Test...

Big Bird

You scored 83% Organization, 48% abstract, and 69% extroverted!

This test measured 3 variables.

First, this test measured how organized you are. Some muppets like Cookie Monster make big messes, while others like Bert are quite anal about things being clean.

Second, this test measured if you prefer a concrete or an abstract viewpoint. For the purposes of this test, concrete people are considered to gravitate more to mathematical and logical approaches, whereas abstract people are more the dreamers and artistic type.

Third, this test measured if you are more of an introvert or an extrovert. By definition, an introvert concentrates more on herself and an extrovert focuses more on others. In this test an introvert was somebody that either tends to spend more time alone or thinks more about herself.

You are very organized, both concrete and abstract, and more extroverted.

Here is why are you Big Bird.

You are both very organized. You almost always know where your belongings are and you prefer things neat. You may even enjoy cleaning and find it therapeutic. Big Bird is never sloppy and always under control... pretty good for a 6 year old bird living without a family.

You both are sometimes concrete and sometimes abstract thinkers. Big Bird can be quite dreamy at times and has no problem using his imagination. At the same time he is also practical and can be methodical in his search for answers to questions. You have a good balance in your life. You know when to be logical at times, but you also aren't afraid to explore your dreams and desires... within limits of course.

You are both extroverts. Big Bird gets along with everyone. He makes friends easily and always has a positive attitude. You definitely enjoy the company of others, and you don't have problems meeting new people... in fact you probably look forward to it. You are willing to take charge when necessary or work as part of a team.

Take The Your SESAME STREET Persona Test at HelloQuizzy

An option if the Republicans win

Fri, 24 Oct 2008 21:55:51 GMT

Quizzy poo

Fri, 17 Oct 2008 01:17:52 GMT

Not too surprising given I've been with the hubbie for 18 years. :o)

Your result for The Lover Style Profile Test...

The Devoted Lover

68% partner focus, 48% aggressiveness, 45% adventurousness

Based on the results of this test, it is highly likely that:

You prefer your romance and love to be traditional rather than daring or out-of-the-ordinary, you would rather be pursued than do the pursuing and, when it comes to physical love, your satisfaction comes more from providing a wonderful time to your partner than simply seeking your own.

This places you in the Lover Style of: The Devoted Lover.

The Devoted Lover is a wonderful Lover Style, and is perhaps the best Lover Style when it comes to developing a long-term, caring and rewarding relationship. The Devoted Lover is a treasure to find, though it is sometimes difficult to time establishing a relationship with one just right; usually, this is the last romantic relationship you'll need to find, so sow any wild oats first.

In terms of physical love, the Devoted Lover can be shy at first but gradually warms and eventually can be a thrilling partner who knows every need of his/her partner. Given a strong and loving relationship, and the right lover, the Devoted Lover can be a delight in bed.

Best Compatibility can probably be found with: The Suave Lover (most of all) or the Classic Lover, or the Carnal Lover.

Congratulations!

Thanks Again! -- THE LOVER STYLE PROFILE TEST

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So there's that

Wed, 01 Oct 2008 22:03:37 GMT

I just finished putting together next month's interview for GLBT Promo and one thing that never ceases to amaze me is how much I learn about writing from doing the interviews. There are a lot of really talented and smart authors out there and I'm grateful to have this gig.

In other news, I have an idea for a shifter story but for some reason I'm hemming and hawing and not actually sitting down to write. Sometimes I think what I need to do some creativity exercises to loosen everything up or maybe I still need to be on this semi-hiatus?

I am in the middle of second round edits on "Cast Away" and feel quite excited about it's release. It was fun story to write. I'm anxious for other people to read it and see what they think!

Super Supernatural

Wed, 17 Sep 2008 16:23:07 GMT

One more day until the season premiere. Can't wait to see what Dean's been doing in Hell all summer.

Interview

Tue, 26 Aug 2008 14:43:11 GMT

The lovely ladies over at Whipped Cream interviewed me and have my interview featured today. Also, I'll be stopping by their reader Yahoo loop tomorrow for some fun q&a.

Da funnies

Sat, 14 Jun 2008 16:10:25 GMT

I stumbled across a very funny cartoon site the other day. Part of what I like best about Natalie Dee's site is her pug cartoons.

Here are a couple of my favorite non pug ones:

And favorite pug ones:

I kind of figured

Tue, 10 Jun 2008 21:36:02 GMT

As a 1930s wife, I am
Very Poor (Failure)

Take the test!

Accepted!

Sun, 08 Jun 2008 15:35:54 GMT

After quite a lengthy writing hiatus, I went back to work on a story I'd written last year called "Cast Away". I really liked the story but I knew something wasn't working. With ameliajune's help and wonderful suggestions, I reworked the story and submitted it to Forbidden Publications. And voila! They accepted it. I just signed the contract this morning. Yippee yahoo!

"Cast Away" will be my first category length novel published. I'm super happy.

Thanks for the help Amelia!

Much fun (ganked from jenwrites

Wed, 14 May 2008 23:45:23 GMT

HowManyOfMe.com

There are
0
people with my name
in the U.S.A.

How many have your name?

There were 9,122 people with my first name (Suzan - my real name) and there were 4,348 with my last name.

There was one Veronica Arch listed. Is it me or someone else? I can't really be sure because according to my first search , I don't exist under my real name.

Sad, but true

Wed, 14 May 2008 23:33:37 GMT

I must admit I really like this song. It was on a mixed cd I'd made a few years ago and I was listening to it today. Funny thing, though, I'd never seen the video before. What's up with the Russian chick?

Because this makes me laugh

Wed, 14 May 2008 14:49:31 GMT

I found this on a pug blog the other day. Hilarious.

Some birdies

Tue, 22 Apr 2008 21:10:54 GMT

I'm feeling a little bummed today but these pictures my friend took cheered me up a bit (I actually read recently somewhere that looking at people's family albums can cheer you up if you're feeling down - even if it's not your own family album).

My friend is my old neighbor. There's a beautiful park by Lake Ontario where she lives. Swans have been nesting for a few years in the pond across the street. I wonder if it's the same swans...? I really don't know much about swans and their territories.

I like this little guy because he reminds me of spring growing up in Montreal. I know the sound of this bird (well not this individual bird - hee) so well. I like the second picture because it looks like he's breaking out into song.

Softies

Thu, 17 Apr 2008 16:08:23 GMT

I didn't mean to buy this the other day but I was in the craft store and they had a 50% sale off of anything you wanted...I saw this and thought it was so cute. I hope it doesn't matter that I'm not a great sewer and I have no idea how to embroider.

I was immediately attracted to the cover and then all was explained when I read inside that "softies" are a type of stuffed toy in Japan. I just seem to be in this Japanese cutie phase lately. Hey, there are worse things.

My only problem is I have too many craft projects on the go. I still haven't finished building my dollhouse I got for my birthday last year and recently I took up scrapbooking after a bunch of my old photo albums got ruined. Oh, well, I better cut back on other things then like doing the dishes and vacuuming.

Meme-ing

Sat, 12 Apr 2008 19:00:07 GMT

Your Score: The Basic Feminist

You are 81% on your way to being a Feminist!

You're a Feminist! Congratulations!

You have a good idea of what sexism is, how to avoid it, and how to stand up for women and/or yourself. You might have read some basic Feminist literature or thought in passing, and thought that it was pretty good. Sometimes you baulk a little at overtly identifying yourself as a Feminist due to the negative stigma. Don't be ashamed of being right! Just keep on doing what you're doing and exploring more ways to treat everyone with respect because of their humanity, not their parts, and you're helping to fix the problem!

Link: The Feminist Test written by proudfeminist on OkCupid, home of the The Dating Persona Test
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Stupidity Idol

Fri, 11 Apr 2008 17:23:50 GMT

I can't believe Michael Johns was voted off AI last night. He was one of the best singers. There were a few people I thought should go before him like Syesha and Kristy (I mean Kristy, really?!!! She should have gone a looonnng time ago). I even thought Carly should go before Michael. I didn't think he'd win but I was hoping he'd be around for a bit longer. Bum-mer.

Meme snurch from ameliajune

Wed, 02 Apr 2008 16:10:28 GMT

Take the 100 Acre Personality Quiz!

Meme time

Tue, 01 Apr 2008 16:16:36 GMT

Your Heart is Blue and Green

Your heart is open and dynamic.

You are flexible, optimistic, and expressive.

You bring honesty and intimacy to relationships.

You're good at expressing your needs to your partner.

What Are the Colors of Your Heart?

Okay, okay, I get the message

Sat, 29 Mar 2008 16:12:07 GMT

In October 2006 I submitted a short story to a horror magazine. I'd subbed to them before so knew they took awhile to reply. This time, though, they took so long, I wrote them off until I received a rejection in July 2007.

The reason for rejection: they thought my set up was too lengthy and should have introduced a certain character right off the bat.

I figured we were done. But oh, no. I got a SECOND rejection from them this week. What's that? 9 months later?

And what's great (or not so great depending on how you look at it) is they have a completely different reason for rejecting the story. This time they (actually "he" - same editor) said they liked the lengthy set up but they said the story lacked a strong, forward moving plot.

Rejections suck but confusing rejections - two for the same story from the SAME place - really suck. But it is kind of funny. Too bad it couldn't have been 2 acceptances.

Can't help myself

Thu, 13 Mar 2008 17:24:09 GMT

I probably shouldn't be whipping out the baby photos but I've got to share at least these three of my grand niece.

This first one cracks me up because they have about 50 feet in snow in Montreal right now. She's got to wear her snow suit!

My niece's hubbie says though this next one looks like she's yawning, she's actually belting out the Police's "Roxanne." Hmmm, good choice of song baby!

I chose this last one because her eyes are open and because she's got that funny baby expression of "I'm surprised to be alive!". Oh, and also there's a photo of our doggies in the top right corner. hee

We were supposed to meet her a couple of weeks ago but I was sooo sick with the flu, there was no way we could travel. Now that I'm better we're going to try to go up on Easter weekend as long as the weather cooperates.

A bad day gone good

Mon, 10 Mar 2008 17:40:26 GMT

Yesterday morning was bad enough because of the $%#$ hour change. I cannot tell you how much it messes me up. On top of it I also have raging PMS so my sleep was extra crappola.

But the really bad thing that I happened yesterday - well it didn't actually happen yesterday morning, I only discovered it yesterday after what had been going on for over a yeaer and thank God I did discover it now or things could have been worse.

Hubbie brought home a scanner from work and I got the idea to scan some old photos for my Facebook page. I have about 20 photo albums and I have been keeping them in the basement. I only started doing this when we moved to our house a year and a half ago. I was a bit nervous about putting them down there but I'd read you could add a desiccant to the containers to keep the moisture out.

Bad idea.

All 4 Rubbermaid containers where the albums are kept were DRIPPING with wet - I'm thinking from the stickiness and the soaking wet desiccant bundles I'd made, it was the desiccant! It seems it did its job of attracting moisture and then overflowed.

Many of the albums are ruined because they are soaking with desiccant juice and mold. Luckily most of the pictures are fine. It was just the other stuff I had in there - tickets, cut outs etc - are destroyed. I've never been a scrapbooker like people are now but I used to save a lot of stuff.

After realizing most of the pics were okay, I went to buy new albums in the afternoon and stumbled upon the scrapbook section at the craft store. I wasn't going to go the scrapbook way but there was a huge clearance. I bought a bunch of stuff and YAY, I now have a wonderful fun project. I was so excited redoing my old albums last night that I didn't want to go to bed. The only thing about scrapbooking is it could get an eensy bit expensive so I better keep an eye out for sales.

Ahh, now I get it

Fri, 29 Feb 2008 23:00:53 GMT

fuzzykittyhrt gave me the cutest, funniest card for my birthday this week. It has little hamsters all over it and when you open it up it plays this song. I couldn't get enough of the song. I played it like 20 times when I got home.

Curious I went online and discovered there's a WHOLE video and lo and behold my attraction to the song is explained - it's a LINE DANCING hamster song (you can see the little hamsters line dancing in it). I love me my line dancing!

What's hilarious about the video too is that this version of it was shown on Canada's Much Music - you can see the logo in the corner. Only in Canada, eh? We Canadians love our silly.

Rockin' the zombie look

Thu, 28 Feb 2008 17:30:32 GMT

Oh, man, this flu/cold/virus thingy is knocking the stuffing out of me. I look like the living dead only worse.

I've been sick for 3 weeks now. That isn't the weird part. My immune system is kind of wonky since I started having some chronic health problems about 10 years ago. It's not unusual for me for to have a cold for a month or even longer. But usually it's this low grade thing where I just feel like crap. I don't usually have problems with my upper respiratory track.

Not this time. And what really sucks is that things are getting worse, not better.

At least I know I'm not the only one. So many people I know are sick right now and it's lasting weeks. I would just like this $%@$ cough to go away so I don't have to sleep on 10 pillows.

Toys!

Wed, 27 Feb 2008 17:38:37 GMT

Here's one of the presents hubbie surprised me with yesterday for my birthday. I'd never heard of these before but I absolutely adore them. I love vinyl figurines and I think the black and white is very cool. To me, little figures like these are like art brought to life.

They come from Killer Panda Toys and this set is Series One of a monster set of figurines. My favorite is the vampire because he's just like the one from Nosferatu. Love that movie. The other two are The Invisible Man and I'm guessing Dr. Jekyll/Mr. Hyde since his name is "London".

Now I'm on the lookout for Series 2 which consists of Frankenstein, The Bride of Frankentstein and The Mummy.

Happy Birthday to me!

Great minds think alike...?

Fri, 22 Feb 2008 20:37:12 GMT

I've never been a huge Simon Cowell fan. He's too caustic for my taste but I've always admired his honesty. Given this I'm not sure if I should be disturbed by what I've been observing this season.

Here's what's been happening:

Contestant finishes. I give my ever loving hubbie my impression. Then the judges give theirs.

Randy (choose one):
1) Yo dawg! That was hawt!
2) It was pitchy
3) It was just a'right for me

Paula:
Bleep blorp kwa blorg fop beep my new single belip do blee dorp

Simon:
Insert EXACTLY WHAT I SAID TO MY HUSBAND

Okay, well, no not exactly. I don't use words like "hideous" to describe performances and I don't talk about cruise ship or cabarets, but I do have the same general feeling about each contestant as he does.

I'm not sure what this says. Either we're both highly intelligent, sensitive beings or I'm turning into Simon Cowell, hedgehog hairdo and all.