Join me at The Popculturedivas today for 13 Words I'll be Living This Year.
Thursday, January 24, 2013
Thursday, January 17, 2013
5 on Friday - Set 154
Travis at Trav's Thoughts invites everyone to lay down a short set of music that takes their fancies for his 5 on Friday meme.
This week, it's time to get your groove on. Let's get funky.
1 - Funkytown - Lipps Inc.
I'm including a few disco tracks in this set, because disco is basically a popular off-shoot of hard-core funk.
2 -Love Rollercoaster - The Ohio Players
3 -Boogie Wonderland - Earth Wind and Fire featuring The Emotions
This one first appeared on 5 on Friday in Set 106 in February of 2012.
4 - Brick House - The Commodores
5 - Tower of Power - Loves to Do It
Wednesday, January 16, 2013
Thursday Thirteen - 262 - 13 Things I Discovered While Cleaning My Apartment
1 – My bedroom floor.
2 – A toony with dog hair clinging to it. Keep in mind that our dog passed away last January.
3 – A red blouse with the tags still on it. Yay, me! I need a red blouse for work. I guess that's why I bought it.
4 – A bag with eight envelopes filled with photos of my Toronto visits and my writing retreats. *happy sigh*
6 – My Rockettes Christmas Spectacular mug that I got last November at Radio City Music Hall. Woo hoo!
7 – My Hal-Con program.
8 – A chair.
9 – My late dad's navy-blue-and-tan puffer vest.
10 - Six blue stack-able bins to hold various and sundry items. Will come in handy right about...now.
10 - Six blue stack-able bins to hold various and sundry items. Will come in handy right about...now.
11 – Vintage (probably 70's) Batman drinking glass we picked up from a second hand store somewhere. It's a beauty.
12 – Brad's magic wish-granting wand which was a birthday present two celebrations ago at my mom's. Other people may have bought it as a dollar store knock-off lightsabre, but Brad's is definitely a magic wish-granting wand.
13 – The hanging stemware rack which will come in handy when I get kitchen shelving going on.
Have you reacquainted yourself with long-lost things when you did a major clean-up? Or are you a purge-and-toss kind of person?
13 – The hanging stemware rack which will come in handy when I get kitchen shelving going on.
Have you reacquainted yourself with long-lost things when you did a major clean-up? Or are you a purge-and-toss kind of person?
Thursday, January 10, 2013
5 on Friday - Set 153
Travis at Trav's Thoughts invites everyone to lay down a short set of music that takes their fancies for his 5 on Friday meme.
Time to celebrate! This is the third anniversary of Travis' musical meme, Five on Friday.
I believe I joined in on the second or third week and haven't looked back since. I'm often thinking about the coming Friday's set list as I scan documents at my day job or sitting sleepily on the bus.
Here's to Year Four! Anyone can join in on the fun. Just drop by Travis' blog, sign in and post your choice of five tunes on your own blog. For busy writers, this is an easy way to come up with a weekly post.
Just sayin'.
1 - Music! Music! Music! - Teresa Brewer
2 -Rock and Roll Music - Chuck Berry
3 -I Believe in Music - Gallery
4 - Play That Funky Music - Wild Cherry
5 - Music - Madonna
Thursday, January 3, 2013
5 on Friday - Set 152
Travis at Trav's Thoughts invites everyone to lay down a short set of music that takes their fancies for his 5 on Friday meme.
So let's get the 2013 party started with some January birthday boys!
1 - Tonight's the Night - Rod Stewart
2 -I Didn't Mean to Turn You On - Robert Palmer
3 -Let's Dance - David Bowie
4 - Kick - INXS (Michael Hutchence)
5 - Don't Stop Believing - Journey (Steve Perry)
Thursday Thirteen - 260 - 13 Highlights From My Amazing Year
1 – Having been born in the Year of the Dragon, 2012 turned out to be pretty freakin' fantastic for me, starting with the arrival of the hard copies of my debut release, SAINT SANGUINUS.
2 – My friend and fellow author Shawna Romkey gave me this first-ever moment: my first book signing during the Valentine's Hearts on Fire event for my writers' group at The Halifax Club.
3 – In March, I attended the Women in Film and Television conference with my producer and friend Tara MacDonald, and our friend YA author Renee Pace.
4 – Later in the spring, I attended a women's retreat at the Oak Island Inn with Tara and Shawna. A much-needed rest before a crazybusy summer.
5 – WAY, way up at the tippy top of my joy this year: directing the book trailers for my Scorpius series. Produced by Tara MacDonald and shot by Caroline Ruyle. Best time I ever had on set.
7 – The thrill of seeing your very own book for the first time never gets old! My second release BOUND BY DRAGONSFYRE arrived in the mail in early summer.
8 – The book trailer for SAINT SANGUINUS won two awards!
9 – In August I signed copies of my Dark Ages vampire novel and my dark fantasy novel in the Indie Artist Alley at Fan Expo in Toronto. Many, many thanks to my friend Tara for helping me navigate this venue, and to my husband Brad who worked alongside me.
10 - Easily, the most amazing moment of this year came when I finally made contact with a friend whom my sister and I met almost 30 years ago. We met Rashid Kamalov during the 1984 Tall Ships event in Halifax, while the Iron Curtain was still firmly in place. After writing about him here on my blog many times, his email showed up in my spam folder in September, which I only looked at because of the Fan Expo contest I held.
Rashid is now my Facebook friend!
Here's what he wrote after reading the tale of our summer together which I told to readers here at A Piece of My Mind:
"Dear Juliа, thank you for the wonderful story about our meetings and for good memory about me. I carried in my heart warm feelings to Michelle and to you through all life. I am glad to know that you are well, we can email each other. It is so well you are here!" - Oct. 2, 2012
10 - Easily, the most amazing moment of this year came when I finally made contact with a friend whom my sister and I met almost 30 years ago. We met Rashid Kamalov during the 1984 Tall Ships event in Halifax, while the Iron Curtain was still firmly in place. After writing about him here on my blog many times, his email showed up in my spam folder in September, which I only looked at because of the Fan Expo contest I held.
Rashid is now my Facebook friend!
Here's what he wrote after reading the tale of our summer together which I told to readers here at A Piece of My Mind:
"Dear Juliа, thank you for the wonderful story about our meetings and for good memory about me. I carried in my heart warm feelings to Michelle and to you through all life. I am glad to know that you are well, we can email each other. It is so well you are here!" - Oct. 2, 2012
11 – In October I attended my 10th writers' retreat with my writers' group. Already counting down the days until the next one.
12 – A few weeks later, I shared a table at Hal-Con with paranormal/sci-fi erotica author Lilly Cain. Signed more copies of my books and had a ball.
13 – To cap off the Dream Come True year, I went on my second trip to New York City, sat in the red booth at the Russian Tea Room and walked into the lobby of Radio City Music Hall to watch The Rockettes Christmas Spectacular.
That's my sister with me in the red booth, and my BFF at Radio City.
SO amazing.
I can't believe it sometimes!
Thank you to all my readers who have become friends over the years. You've made the world a much, much smaller place.
Here's to 2013! Hope you're off to a fantastic start.
13 – To cap off the Dream Come True year, I went on my second trip to New York City, sat in the red booth at the Russian Tea Room and walked into the lobby of Radio City Music Hall to watch The Rockettes Christmas Spectacular.
That's my sister with me in the red booth, and my BFF at Radio City.
SO amazing.
I can't believe it sometimes!
Thank you to all my readers who have become friends over the years. You've made the world a much, much smaller place.
Here's to 2013! Hope you're off to a fantastic start.
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