Year End MeMe

Over at Bleeding Espresso there’s a year end meme that turns out to be a great summary of your year. Since Sognatrice let me know about it, I thought I’d do another bonus year in review for you.
1. What did you do in 2007 that you’d never done before?Been published in a guidebook. [...]

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Year In Review

Happy New Year’s Eve everyone! I won’t go into a long discussion of how I don’t celebrate this “holiday” (you can read more about it here) but I thought I would do an appropriate review of the year 2007.
To recap, in 2007 I wanted to:1. Read Middlemarch.2. Write 26 great query letters - [...]

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MAD MAD Me

I’ve been dealing with a backlog of email and it has come to my attention that not one but THREE people forwarded me this ad for MAD magazine, I assume because they think that I am immature/strange/just plain silly enough to be included in the Usual Gang of Idiots.

“We’re actively looking to expand our pool [...]

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Five Star Surprise

Well, my anniversary surprise was the perfect answer to these three questions:

1. Where can you take Beth that you know she loves?

2. Where can you take Beth that won’t leave her exhausted and/or jet-lagged?
3. Where can you take Beth that will leave her spoiled beyond all imagination?

Answer:

The Merrion!

Kudos to Laurence for arranging [...]

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Anniversary Surprise

Six years ago today Larry and I did the big white wedding.

And we cut a cake that neither of us actually got to eat.

And we cut a rug like we really haven’t since.

For the last five years we haven’t had much time to celebrate our anniversaries, usually because we either had guests staying with us [...]

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Happy Anniversary Sed

Nothing like a good cemetery picture for an anniversary post.
Happy Anniversary Sed!

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Christmas 2007

Hello again! Long time no chat. Larry and I are back from Waterford and because it is still the festive season and I am feeling charitable I will spare everyone my long plea to Irish Rail about maybe, possibly investigating high speed direct trains. Nope, not even going to mention the graffiti that involved ‘82 [...]

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Happy Holidays

We’re off to Waterford tomorrow and won’t be posting until our return next week.
In the meantime, Happy Holidays and I hope Santa’s good to everyone!

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Women Writers in the New Ireland

Any women writers in the new Ireland out there?
Join the network by the same name!

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Where’s My Photoshoot?

Well, as of this morning I’d like to welcome you all to my celebrity blog.
That’s right, I’m a celebrity. If I do say so myself.
This morning while waiting to buy some groceries I felt a tap on my shoulder. I was wearing headphones so I actually thought someone must have been trying to tell me [...]

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