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Angel, demon, hero, villain
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Yay, Kitty!
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careful...you'll end up in my novel
Join Date: Jun 2010
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Good for you, Kitty! You will be a wonderful teacher. And you already know what you're getting into, so there will be fewer nasty surprises.
![]() And congrats on the sales, Mike! I'm glad to hear people are noticing an upswing in sales of children's books. Seriously glad. My agent just forwarded a nice full request from an editor. She said it sounded great and she liked the title. Cross your fingers for me, pleeeze!
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practical experience, FTW
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Ooh, Ruth! Crossing all fingers and toes...
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Reads more than she writes.
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Yay, Kitty!
Fingers crossed, Ruth! Bouncies for all.
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Oh, Ruth! Super Congratulations. I hope she loves the whole thing. Or he.
I'll keep my toes crossed. I'm using my fingers.
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i luv you giant bear statue
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Today at work something quite gross happened. I won't say what but it necessitated a letter home to a parent. Then I did a bunch of schoolwork when I got home, so some of the glamor has worn off
I'm ready for Friday! I had a really good job interview for a summer camp gig today--small, high paid day camp at a country club. I'd only have to work half the weeks of the summer, and earn the same as I make during the year. I have another interview with them in a couple days. Fingers crossed!
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Good luck, Kitty!
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Kidlit gang, Junior member.
Join Date: Jun 2008
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Kitty, Best of luck with the job!
Ruth, That's great news, now the waiting begins (again)! Sage, Congratulations on your new Release!
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I wish all of you would bounce really high for me today. We're burying my mother-in-law this afternoon. My little Aspie isn't handling it too well, but better than I expected. It's been a pretty long week.
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Awww, sissy, I'm so sorry. Many bouncies and many hugs.
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New kid, but determined!
Join Date: Sep 2010
Location: Texas
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*hugs* for Sissy. I'm so sorry about the loss. Everyone will be in my thoughts.
Here's a bounce.
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Join Date: Nov 2008
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Congrats Mike!
Good luck Ruth and Kitty! And I'm so sorry for your loss, sissybaby. Bounces and hugs. I drive by a house everyday while taking my kids to school. Well, I drive by lots of houses, of course, but this small house has a teeny front yard with a giant metal T-Rex (like, 7-8 feet tall) taking up most of the space. What is great about it is that they dress it up depending on the holiday. At Christmas, T-Rex was eating Rudolph. For Halloween, it was dressed up as Barney the Dinosaur and had a pumpkin bucket in its tiny hand. Today, it was wearing a sombrero and holding a giant chili pepper. I just love the person who does this. It's so much fun to drive around the corner and see T-Rex. Oh, I just searched for a picture to share, and the dinosaur has his own facebook page. Here's Easter - Anyway, Happy Friday everyone!
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Does that dino have a chain-leash to keep him from wandering off?!
I can see the headlines now, Animatronics T-Rex Terrorizes Local Neighborhood. Quote:
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careful...you'll end up in my novel
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Thanks for the crossed fingers!
Sissybaby, I'm so sorry for your family's loss.
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Big hugs for you, sissybaby.
Sheila, that is the coolest T Rex ever! When I am old and rich, I'm gonna get me one. I have knitting to do this weekend... A friend who has been hoping to adopt got the call yesterday that there's a baby for her! 5 weeks preemie, but quite healthy--no machines, just needs to get his weight up and he can go home. So I get to knit a quick kimono--already have a hat ready.
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Reads more than she writes.
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I want a T-Rex!!
My nickname at work is actually T-Rex. It's a mean nickname, though. I'm short and therefore can't ever reach anything.
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Kidlit gang, Junior member.
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Are you sure it doesn't have anything to do with your temper? -J/K
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sissybabyHave fun with the knitting MsJudy. Something I always wished I could do, but never progressed beyond a shapeless, holey scarf ![]() Been away from the boards for a bit, trying to get a very nasty report finished for work, as well as getting my first attempt at a novel done. Now I'm having some kind of weird anticlimax. Although I've subbed it, I'm prepared to trunk it. I'm going to allow myself a little bounce though, because it's served its purpose in teaching me loads and proving to myself that I can finish, so hopefully, the next attempt will be a slightly less anxious!
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Aw, a baby!! MsJudy, your friend must be on
. Ditto with the knitting, Monkeymum. Me and yarn just don't get along. The t-rex is awesome, Sheila. We have some people down the street who decorate like crazy for every holiday. But we've got nothing as cool as that tyrannosaurus.
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Angel, demon, hero, villain
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Good luck, Ruth
*hugs* sissybaby Thanks, mware
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I'm so sorry for your loss, Sissybaby.
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Oh. My. Goodness. All those bounces and condolences have brightened my day. But the baby news is the very best. And those hand-made gifts are so special. I still have the green crocheted baby shawl my Mammy made me, plus a little dress, and they are very, very old, but I would never part with them. I saved special blankies that good friends made for each of my kids.
And I, too, want a T-Rex. That's wonderful. Some people are amazingly creative. Thank you all so much.
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Spent yesterday at out local mall for the annual Student Authors' Fair. Kids from local schools throughout the county displaying their hand-made books. This was the first time our table was near the microphone, so I got to hear the braver kids read their stories out loud.
Such fun! One of my favorites was a second-grade class book. They'd read "What a Wonderful World" (an illustrated version of the Louis Armstrong classic) and then each kid wrote their own version. "I smell chicken enchiladas cooking in the oven, and I think to myself, What a yummy world." really charming. I'm going to copy the idea. Then there was the first-grade girl's story about a mean girl. She was mean because her dress was really ugly... She was so mean, she killed a butterfly. But then she felt sad, so she didn't kill it.
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i luv you giant bear statue
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I spend 7 hours yesterday helping my friend clean her house. In that time my partner and I cleaned the living room and the kitchen, minus the kitchen floor and fridge. We also filled an entire small dumpster with junk and took an SUV-load of stuff to Salvation Army. It was a tour de force. I scrubbed so much grime and grease that I woke up in the middle of the night with my arm in intense pain. Today I am merely lazing about and doing schoolwork and being annoyed by the guy mowing the lot next door.
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Kitty, someday I want a friend like you. That's a lot of cleaning...
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