1. How many coats do you own? Do have a good coat? Casual coat? Summer jacket? etc. Do you wear coats very often? Or do you have a tendency to leave your coat at home whenever you go out? What is your favorite coat? Why is this one your favorite? Care to model it for us?
I have way too many, which is ironic, because I usually only wear one. I have a down SF 49ers jacket that I really never wear because it's TOO warm, but I can't part with it. I have a navy peacoat that is so completely worn out, but I LOVE it, and can't part with it until I find another one exactly the same (probably not going ot happen, but a girl can hope). I have a long down jacket that I bought when I was pregnant because it had a belt and would fit preggo or not -- and I do wear this for shoveling snow, but not any other time because it's too hard to get in and out of the truck while wearing it. I won't list all the others, but suffice it to say that I don't go coat-less.
But, man, I love that peacoat.
And, yes, I wear coats and/or jackets all the the time -- we have winter for 9 months here...
2. You’ve learned a thing or two about this thing we call blogging. Tell us one thing you don’t recommend to other bloggers. Tell us one thing you do recommend to other bloggers.
Don't: get too controversial, unless that's what your blog is for. I stay away from religion and politics for that reason, despite having pretty strong opinions in both areas.
Do: Blog regularly. If not daily than every other day. If you don't blog regularly, people won't show up. I like people (*G*), so I blog daily.
3. Is cursive writing a lost art? Should good penmanship be taught? Tell us about your handwriting - good / bad? Do you think your children have good handwriting (given their appropriate age, of course).
YES good penmanship should be taught. Sheesh... it's not like we can do EVERYTHING on the computer. My handwriting is actually quite good... big and loopy and easy to read. My DD's? Not so much. Her curriculum this year is on the computer and didn't come with a penmanship supplement. I noticed that her writing was getting worse, so I bought her a penmanship book recently to help her improve.
4. Have you ever struggled with infertility? If you haven’t, or if it wasn’t the hardest thing you’ve ever had to go through — what was?
Struggled? Not exactly. Took me forever to get pregnant, but that's partly because I had REALLY long cycles, so I only had a chance once every two months. The hardest thing? To be honest, I'm not prepared to address that here. Sorry...
But other difficult things? Being 3000 miles away from my mom. Losing my dog. Missing my best friend -- I haven't seen her in seven years. Hating where I live. Still, as "bad" things go, there are people who are far worse off than I am.
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It got into the 40s yesterday, with amazingly high winds. I'm shocked at how much snow melted... I forget, while I'm suffering through the winter, how quickly spring arrives here. It's not here yet, don't get me wrong. We'll most assuredly have more snow. But when it starts warming up here, it warms up fast and with incredible results (results called "MUD SEASON" here for a good reason). In no time at all, my crocus' and daffodils and hyacinth will be poking their heads out of the ground and blooming like crazy.
I.
Can't.
Wait.
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I finished Mary's "Hot Shot" last night -- one of the best books I've read in a while. It was already reviewed by someone else at LASR, so I'll just say this: it was well written, well edited (except one "till" vs. "'til" ... one of my personal pet peeves), well plotted and exciting.
Truthfully, I do wish it had been longer -- but that's something I'll say about every book I enjoy because I'm not ready to leave the characters. I did have the villain pegged, but it didn't affect my enjoyment of the book in any way. The H/H were good, strong protags with all kinds of issues (which made them interesting) and the hero was the kind of guy any woman would fall in love with. (Aside to Mary: I LOVED the scene in the hotel with the condom machine.)
So... going to have to go get "Where's There's Smoke" and enjoy Mary all over again.
Okay, gotta go write. I'm so far behind on JaNoWriMo! But... not for long.
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I had (maybe I still do) a leather bomber jacket that I adored. Bought it in the late 80's and wore it until the liner was in shreds, but it was warm and roomy.
Oops. I don't blog regularly. I've been forgoing it in favor of writing. Maybe I should give myself 20 minutes every morning.
SQUEEEEE! So glad you liked Hot Shot! The condom machine scene was one that's been in there since the beginning-hard to say in a book that's been revised that much.
And the Till thing....my cps get on me with that, but I haven't relearned it. As long as H/S books have it, I won't sweat it :)
I have 2 coats, one leather and one long wool. You can imagine I don't have much call to wear the long wool :)
I just went to my closet and counted 7 coats:
2 winter coats
2 fall coats
1 spring coat
1 summer jacket
1 denim jacket
Have a good Monday.
I have lots of coats as well, and agree on the penmanship.
I have a lot of coats. Just seems like I don't part with them as easily as other things. I only wear a couple of them thought.
Oh, JaNoWriMo. I need to post something!
9 months of winter.
Sigh.
Hugs.
I have 4 coats, one good winter coat, one leather, one that is waterproof and one that is fleece and good for fall nights. I also have my Mom's trenchcoat/raincoat that I can't seem to part with, but never wear. She's been gone over 5 years. *sigh*
9 months of winter? Yikes! I keep telling you, SC is pretty nice.....*G*
Beautiful weather here too. :) Great meme. :)
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