Lori Sizemore

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I know, I know.  Lolcats are not the hallmark of an intelligent person.  I’m not proud of my lolcatz addiction.  And I do kind of worry about what it says for my sense of humor that, “Oh, hai,” never fails to make me snigger.  Blame it on ceiling cat.  Whatever.

I defy you to go there, now, and not waste an hour.  Go on, I’ll wait.

Okay, this? I love. I may have this printed on some business cards.

Since I’ve had to move from sitting anywhere I like on my beloved, yet broken, Mac, I’ve created a, well, creative space on my sun porch for writing.  I’m a little superstitious about the writing mojo.  If by little, it could refer to bordering on paranoia.  Anyway, I’ve tried to… not pretty up, but make it more me.  I’m not the crafty type, ordinarily, but I bought a cheap lamp, hot glued some fancy fringe and beads around it, and viola: I have a writing lamp.  I’ll try to take a picture and post it. Maybe.

Anyway, since this is the material girl category, I found one for you!  Etsy, of course (how much do I love Etsy?).  I don’t want to steal their picture so I’ll just link you to the custom lamp shade that caught my attention.

Have to add, if you look in lighting, I am so buying the trailer trash light switch cover.

Edit: Someone bought the shade I picked out for you.  Maybe it was you!  Anyway, the link now goes to a search page for lamp shades.

Given my sincere distaste for those capital-R-Rules, I found this highly amusing.

“There are three rules for writing a novel. Unfortunately, no one knows what they are.”

~W. Somerset Maugham

This is always helpful info for a writer, I guess. Pretty accurate.

My aunt–the teacher (well, one of my aunts who is a teacher)–sent me this link.  It seems this site* is giving one state 50,000 new books.  All you have to do is vote, once daily, for the state of your choice.  Optionally, you can also let them know what book got you hooked on reading.  Hurry, though, voting ends September 15th!

*Link is no longer active.

“If you notice, since Britney started wearing clothes and behaving, Paris is out of town not bothering anybody anymore, thank God, and evidently Lindsay Lohan has gone gay, we don’t seem to have much of an issue.”

– Los Angeles police chief William Bratton, linking a decline in problems with paparazzi to the good behavior of several high-profile celebrities, to KNBC-TV

From People: 10 Best Celeb Quotes This Week.  Although that was a couple of weeks ago.  I laughed.  I shared. Carry on.

I like to dance through my house. I slip on the ipod, and I shake my bootie while I load the dishwasher. It’s nothing for me to have the kids following me, conga style, through the house. So… I’m satisfied with this. Tres me.

I know, I missed the schedule this week.  I promise to do better next week, though I make no promises beyond that.  Except I’ll try to do better.  Really.

Instead of posting, among the day to day blah, I was reading Mirror, Mirror by Gregory Maguire (he of Wicked fame, linked in the Sites to See section, fyi).  I don’t know what it is about these stories of his, but he manages to take a story that we know so well, it’s part of our psyche, turn it into something completely different, and yet… the same.  The stories suck you in, and it’s not Snow White you’re reading about, it’s Bianca de Nevada, and her father, and the dwarves–Heartless and Mute, Mute, Mute, to name a couple–and the Borgias (real dead people, Lucrezia being cast as the evil stepmother/witch, jealous of “Snow White’s” beauty).

Anyway, all I can say is: if Gregory Maguire wrote it, you should read it.  Right now.