Just when you think there’s nothing on TV, ABC has solved our problem. Why it was just yesterday I was thinking, those Geico caveman are so funny. Wouldn’t it be great if that one minute had 29 more! Yes, ABC is giving the intellectual cavemen their own show. Because Neanderthals have so much in common with Jack Bauer, Dr. McDreamy, and…okay, they have NOTHING in common with them. I just really don’t want to see the missing link dramatized on TV. Reminds me of boys I dated in junior high.

Paris Hilton. Oh, sighhh. Girl has a petition out for people to sign that will go to Governor Schwarzenegger, begging for her freedom. You know she is about to pee her pants right now. Mom Kathy says, “This is pathetic and disgusting, a waste of taxpayer money with all this nonsense. This is a joke.” Are we talking about The Simple Life here or Paris’s sentence? Either way, I smell another reality series coming on. Or at least a Lifetime movie. What I don’t get is why did Paris drive in the first place? Why didn’t she think, “Hmm…wish I knew somebody who had a limo. Wish I knew somebody rich enough to drive me and Tinkerbell around.” I mean Dad has his own personal jet, so I’m pretty sure at the very least he could’ve fronted you some money for a cab.

Speaking of TV reaching a new low—so have I. I am reading the book Sink Reflections. It’s for those who are “overwhelmed, disorganized, and living in chaos.” It says it will change my life. I’m only on page 47, but I’m hoping a man is gonna pop out by p. 102.

Finally, the net is abuzz with the sad story of Star Trek’s Scotty’s ashes. They are lost somewhere in the mountains of New Mexico. The Trekkies are STRESSED. I don’t know why. Didn’t they WATCH Star Trek? The crew was lost every single episode, so you’d think they’d rejoice that the tradition continues even in death.

You know, when the world just doesn’t make sense, when I’m stressed to the max and yearn for things to slow down, I take comfort in remembering simpler times. I turn to … Justin and Britney…

In honor of Mother’s Day, TitleTrakk.com asked some authors to share their favorite advice from Mom. I got to participate!
Check it out:
http://www.titletrakk.com/mom_advice_authors.html

There is a plague in the blog world these days. And I finally got it. New friend C.J. Darlington of Titletrakk.com tagged me, so I decided to play along. Plus, I have yet to process my feelings on the impending imprisonment of one Paris Whitney Hilton, so in the meantime, here it is.

The rules say, I must first post the rules. So, ahem, here they are.

1. Each player starts with eight random facts/habits about themselves.

2. People who are tagged need to write their own blog about their eight things and post these rules.

3. At the end of your blog, you need to choose eight people to get tagged and list their names.

4. Don’t forget to leave them a comment telling them they’re tagged, and to read your blog.

8 random facts/habits about me …

(insert whiny voice) I like the ones with questions better (less thinking) . But okay…

1. I couldn’t touch the gas pedal of my first “real” car. I still can’t touch the gas
pedal of my brother’s truck. (Know if you laugh at that, you are no longer my
friend. I will know. )

2. When I was a teen, I had the OCD-like habit of “typing” all car conversations.
So when in the car (and when I wasn’t driving), I would “type” whatever
someone was saying on my invisible keyboard. I wouldn’t even know I was
doing it. I took my junior high keyboarding class VERY seriously…

3. I have a student bring me boot-leg copies of Gilmore Girls because my
cable company refuses to carry the WB–still! And they now refuse to accept
my phone calls. My lawyer says to just be patient.

4. I love to decorate, but I painted my bedroom a horrible green, and I get
furiously angry every time I walk in there. I’ve slept on the couch for the last
three months. And I now shower outside–under the water hose. I think it’s
brought me and my neighbors to a new level of closeness though.

5. I can still quote some of my lines from my first grade play. I was
Mrs. Clause. “Tick-tock it’s twelve o’clock. Time for Santa to come!”
Hollywood called after that, but my agent said, “No, stick with
elementary theater. I think it’s gonna be big…” He was wrong. He now
works for Paris Hilton.

6. This summer my friend Kari and I are making ourselves read Pride and
Prejudice. It’s our own book club called “Girls Who Would Rather Be
Reading a People Magazine.”

7. I can eat a whole box of cereal in one sitting. For variety’s sake, I tried a whole
box of catfood, but it wasn’t quite the same. But I did shed less.

8. I’ve got a fever. And the only prescription is more cowbell!

Okay, I now tag: Salle, Heather, Kim, Tiffany, Jessica, Kari, Orlando Bloom, and Chris Tomlin.

Novel Journey had a great post on Dog Eared Design, who creates covers for many Christian books. They did the cover for In Between, and you can see a little bit of the process toward the bottom of the article. It was cool to see their inspiration compared to the final result.
http://noveljourney.blogspot.com/2007/04/novel-journeys-interview-with-dog-eared.html