Categotry Archives: Thursday Thirteen
Thirteen Quotes from my Owner’s Manual
This is quite possibly the worst owners manual I’ve ever encountered. It isn’t merely “English as a second language.” It comes from a point of view I find frustrating at best. As my grandmother used to say, “If I didn’t laugh, I’d have to cry.” In the interest of sharing my pain, here’s a selection of what’s in the manual. 1.(From the very first page) This manual is one of the important accompanying documents. It would provide you accurate description […]
13 Things On My Mind
I’m going totally random this week. 1. Mom’s back from Africa! She’s been emailing pictures. Rhinos inches away. Giraffes with two necks. Yeah, I’m jealous. 2. The Girl wants a bead loom. She’s using one at school and loves it. Michaels doesn’t even know what we were talking about. Treasure Chest says they have it, but they close early and I have no idea where they are, even with a phone book and a map. The adventure continues. 3. The […]
T13: Things People in My Family Have Said
Yeah, I’ve done this before, but they keep talking. I gotta share. Warning, some of these are tasteless. 1. The Boy – “I found something I’m allergic to in my dreams. The clouds around the gates of heaven. Some of them followed me back and I sneezed, and sneezed, and sneezed.” 2. The Girl – After saying something to me while I was typing. “Oh sure, now you answer me. It was a 30 second wait.” The scary thing was, […]
13 Boxes of Cereal
I’m being lazy, but a few of you asked to see this in last week’s TT. So here it is, 13 of the boxes of cereal in our house right now. Ask again in a few weeks and it will probably be a completely different set. In order to get the permalink from this post you must both put your URL in the Mr. Linky thing and leave a comment More Thursday Thirteen participants can be found here And here. […]
13 Steps to Breakfast.
The Girl has a homework assignment in which she’s supposed to produce a random list of 24 things about herself. She doesn’t get much sympathy from me. I pointed out I do a list of 13 things about myself every week for Thursday Thirteen, and that I didn’t have one ready for this week yet. At the time she was eating a bowl of cereal. She suggested I list 13 of the boxes of cereal we have in the house […]
13 spammers
Does it seem to you like lately the spammers have been more creative? Check out some of the comments they tried to leave on my blog: 1. Left on the T13 I did a little while back about manga: Why is a square meal served on round plates? 2. A refinancing “service” left on one of Mr. Al’s Wednesday posts on history: punctilious post. simply one decimal where I quarrel with it. I am emailing you in detail. If the […]
A 13 Part Tour of the ShapeShifter World
Have you been over to the Meet and Greet, Susan Helene Gottfried’s blog? If so, then you know she posts these great little stories about her imaginary band, ShapeShifter. Here are 13 snippets I like from her blog and her first compilation book; The Demo Tapes Year 1. 1. It was sort of a bummer that Amy’s new dude wasn’t going to show up at the house. She’d been chasing around some pretty interesting guys lately. – The Demo Tapes […]
13 Recent Purchases
I swear the money simply takes wings and flies from my pockets these days. 1. Pencils 2. Three ring binders. (I kept telling the kids to pick Trapper/Keeper type organizers but they say the battered old ones will do.) 3. Jeans 4. T-shirts 5. Skateboard shoes. (What ever happened to good old tennis shoes?) 6. A truck 7. A bicycle. (Actually, I haven’t bought this one yet, but The Girl has been racking up cash-able points by doing chores, so […]
13 Events in the last 24 hours
1. I woke up to find my web site gone. 2. GoDaddy, whom I thought I was done with, had their parking/ad page in place of my blog. 3. I sent off to Blue Host to as what gives. 4. Before I got an answer I figured it out by going to my old account at GoDaddy. 5. My domain registration had expired. 6. I screamed for a little while. I had done so much work over the summer getting […]
13 Stray Thoughts
I have a couple of Thursday Thirteen posts in progress, but nothing is ready, so I’m going to bunt. Straight off the top of my head, thirteen sentences. 1. I’m thirsty. 2. I’m trying to get some kind of window on my blog over on Facebook. 3. So far it’s been mostly in one ear and out the other. 4. But I can do this. 5. Ahhhhh, that water is goooood. 6. Who know tap water could be so tasty? […]
13 Words
What my son says to me most often: 1. Is 2. it 3. my 4. turn 5. on 6. the 7. Playstation 8. yet? 9. Please 10. please 11. please? 12. Why 13. not? Sometimes there’s no reasoning with him. In order to get the permalink from this post you must both put your URL in the Mr. Linky thing and leave a comment More Thursday Thirteen participants can be found here And here. As always, I welcome the link […]
13 Moon Song Videos
Last week Heather featured 13 songs about the moon. It got me to wondering how many and what kind of moon songs are out there. So I did a search on YouTube. These are some of the ones I liked.
13 Manga
I have a thing for manga. Manga is what the Japanese call graphic novels. I call it manga, but I like the stuff from China and Korea too, and they have other words for it. Anyway, there are 13 I like: On the left there is Air Gear. On the right is Bakuman. Air Gear is about a young punk who becomes someone special when he puts on a special kind of roller skate that can get you airborn for […]
13 Random Things
1. My, it’s gotten awfully quiet around here since I moved the blog. 2. TWM, Dr. John, Kaye, Thank you! You stuck with me through everything. 3. I’m soooooo tired! I keep trying to fall asleep. Must be the release of all that tension now that my big trip is over. 4. It’s so nice to be home. I don’t have to worry about getting on line, or not being able to find my wrist brace, or what weird thing […]
13 Uninspired Catch Phrases
I’m at a convention for Romance writers right now. I’m expected to have business cards that include a single sentence summing up what I do. What I do is mostly a kind of light hearted Romantic Suspense that causes people to laugh more often than gasp, Historical Romance that tends to be silly and serious by turns, and this one book under contract that is what they call “sweet”, meaning there’s no sex, which is a contemporary and only a […]
