Dirty Little Secret

of Haiku Buckaroos and everyone who voted. Even people who didn’t vote for me. Because you know what? I won Most Disgusting and Most Erotic ANYWAY.

Uh, I mean, it was an honor to be nominated and I’m glad you voted for the best haikus, no matter whose they were.

Because no matter what YOUR feelings on the matter, I get to display this:

And let me also thank Leslie, who was able to pull off this contest while being pregnant, mother of the amazing Julia, Etsy goddess, fantastic baker and great blogger.

In addition to being a Haiku Buckaroo, I have also had the honor of being tagged by the wonderful Silken for the six word memoir meme.

Here are the rules:

1. Write your own six word memoir.

2. Post it on your blog and include a visual illustration if you’d like.

3. Link to the person who tagged you in your post and to this original post if possible so we can track it as it travels across the blogosphere.

4. Tag five more blogs with links. (And here Jerseygirl rebels by tagging no one. If you want to do it, join in.)

5. And don’t forget to leave a comment on the tagged blogs with an invitation to play!

My Six Word Memoir Is: Did You Really Just Say That?

My visual:

(I don’t know. This was hard. If you have suggestions for me, feel free to leave them in the comments.)

I have more to write about our trip to KC but I really wasn’t feeling it today. I wasn’t planning on writing at all today. And then I got this:

The fantastic and prolific Wordvixen tagged me with it. Probably simply because she knows that I need a lot of validation and that I thrive on awards and memes. I am flattered. Actually. . .wait, what’s better than flattered? Honored? Then I’m honored. Because this is a WRITING award. From the amazing Shameless Lions Writing Circle. After receiving it, I am supposed to give you three writing tips and then pass it on to five other bloggers.

I don’t feel qualified to give anyone writing tips, to be honest. But if I waited until I felt qualified to do something before actually doing it, Ironflower would still be in the womb. So without further over-explanation:

Writing Tips from Jerseygirl

1. READ. READ. READ. Read anything and everything. Magazines, newspapers, blogs, novels, essays, short stories, poems, comic books, graphic novels - they all count. Though I recommend finding the best of anything and everything.

2. Read your writing OUT LOUD. It’s probably better to read it out loud to other people, but since I have a hard time with that I don’t feel right suggesting it. So I’ll just say, read it out loud to yourself.

3. Read Anne Lamott’s Bird by Bird: Some Instructions on Writing and Life and Natalie Goldberg’s Writing Down the Bones: Freeing the Writer Within .

And now for the fun part. . .passing the love on!

1. Leslie at My Mommy’s Place. C’mon, you knew I was going to tag her, didn’t you? I think she’s an amazing writer. And she needs a little pick-me-up today anyway.

2. Anglophile Football Fanatic. She always makes me laugh. Her post about her in-laws? Hysterical.

3. Life As I Know It. More funny stuff that I love to read.

4. Karly at Wiping Up Snot. Yep, more funny. I like funny. And Karly’s attitude is VERY funny.

5. I can’t NOT tag Merry at Mom and More. Because she is a great writer. (and sometimes she’s really funny, too).

So I thought I was feeling better last night and that I was going to fight off this cold. Silly me. Not only do I feel crappier today, but now Ironflower has a runny nose and an achy body. I give Lovebug a day. I’m hoping that Hubby has been working too much to have been infected with our germs, but we’ll see.

Anyway, I’ve been hoarding these memes for just such an occasion. Because I am totally brain-dead. So thank you to Cynnie and Cathy. If you want to do the meme, please consider yourself tagged. If you leave me a comment or an email (thejerseygirl89 at yahoo dot com) with a link to your post, I will add it to this post. You can pick one or do both.

Now for the memes:

The Four Meme
Four places I have lived:

1. Kansas City, MO
2. Tigard, OR
3. Seattle, WA
4. Boston, MA

Four TV shows I love to watch

1. Ugly Betty
2 Friday Night Lights
3. Boston Legal
4. Rescue Me

Four places I have been on vacation:

1 Anchorage, AK
2. Chicago, IL
3. Amsterdam, The Netherlands
4. Iowa City, IA
(Iowa City is much cooler than you’d think)

Four of my favorite foods:

1. Chocolate chip cookies
2. French Fries
3 Pizza (only the kind I can get in NJ and NY, though)
4. Brie
(Gee, I wonder why I can’t lose weight)

Four places I would rather be right now:

1. Exploring Ireland with Hubby
2. DisneyWorld with Hubby and kids
3. getting a massage, facial and pedicure at Nemacolin in Pennsylvania
4. at a Chiefs game with my KC friends

The “How well do you know me?” Meme

1. WERE YOU NAMED AFTER ANYONE? Not really, though my middle name is my mother’s maiden name.

2. WHEN WAS THE LAST TIME YOU CRIED? Um, er, sometime last week when I had PMS? I don’t really remember.

3. DO YOU LIKE YOUR HANDWRITING? It works.

4. WHAT IS YOUR FAVORITE LUNCH MEAT? Turkey

5. DO YOU HAVE KIDS? I have a little girl who will be three in December and a little boy who is nineteen months old.

6. IF YOU WERE ANOTHER PERSON WOULD YOU BE FRIENDS WITH YOU? Wouldn’t that depend on what other person I was?

7. DO YOU USE SARCASM A LOT? Depends on what you mean by “a lot”.

8. DO YOU STILL HAVE YOUR TONSILS? Yes

9. WOULD YOU BUNGEE JUMP? Only to save the lives of my family. Or for a couple million dollars.

10. WHAT IS YOUR FAVORITE CEREAL? The only cereal I will eat is Rice Krispies.

11. DO YOU UNTIE YOUR SHOES WHEN YOU TAKE THEM OFF? Nope.

12. DO YOU THINK YOU ARE STRONG? Probably emotionally or mentally, but not physically.

13. WHAT IS YOUR Favorite ICE CREAM ? Vanilla Fudge.

14. WHAT IS THE FIRST THING YOU NOTICE ABOUT PEOPLE? Whether they laugh when I think I’m being funny.

15. RED OR PINK? Red

16. WHAT IS THE LEAST FAVORITE THING ABOUT YOURSELF? My stomach.

17. WHO DO YOU MISS THE MOST? The whole KC crew.

18. DO YOU WANT EVERYONE TO SEND THIS BACK TO YOU? I think it would great if all my blogging friends trotted this out when they were too brain-dead to write a real post.

19. WHAT COLOR PANTS AND SHOES ARE YOU WEARING? dark gray sweats and no shoes.

20. WHAT WAS THE LAST THING YOU ATE? An English muffin and a banana

21. WHAT ARE YOU LISTENING TO RIGHT NOW? An episode of Franklin on Noggin

22. IF YOU WHERE A CRAYON, WHAT COLOR WOULD YOU BE? purple

23. FAVORITE SMELLS? Chocolate chip cookies and the kids’ hair.

24. WHO WAS THE LAST PERSON YOU TALKED TO ON THE PHONE? Hubby

25. DO YOU LIKE THE PERSON WHO SENT THIS TO YOU? Yes.

26. FAVORITE SPORTS TO WATCH? NFL football (Go Chiefs!), college football (Go Penn State!), college hockey (Go BU!) and women’s soccer.

27. HAIR COLOR? My roots are medium brown.

29. DO YOU WEAR CONTACTS? Nope.

30. FAVORITE FOOD? See the “Four” Meme above

31. SCARY MOVIES OR HAPPY ENDINGS? Lots of humor with a happy ending.

32. LAST MOVIE YOU WATCHED? The Sword and the Stone.

33. SUMMER OR WINTER? Summer

34. HUGS OR KISSES? Hugs

35. FAVORITE DESSERT? Chocolate lava cake.

36. MOST LIKELY TO RESPOND? Whatever blogger gets sick next?

37. LEAST LIKELY TO RESPOND? All the lurkers!

38. WHAT BOOK ARE YOU READING NOW? I just finished a Margaret Maron mystery, I might start “The Valley of the Dolls” so I finally know what people have been referring to for years.

39. WHAT IS ON YOUR MOUSE PAD? The Roadrunner logo from our old cable company.

40. WHAT DID YOU WATCH ON T.V. LAST NIGHT? Flip That House.

41. FAVORITE SOUNDS? My kids laughing or saying “I love you”, the ocean and Led Zeppelin songs on the radio.

42. ROLLING STONES OR BEATLES? DEFINITELY Rolling Stones

43. WHAT IS THE FARTHEST YOU HAVE BEEN FROM HOME? Alaska or maybe Sweden? I don’t know which is farther.

44. DO YOU HAVE A SPECIAL TALENT? I think all talents are special.

45. WHERE WERE YOU BORN? Englewood, New Jersey

46. SHOE SIZE? 7.5

47. WHAT IS YOUR FAVORITE DRINK? Diet Pepsi

48. WHAT IS YOUR MOST EMBARRASSING CD? The Wiggles. (because I like it)

49. DO YOU KEEP A JOURNAL? I used to but I haven’t as much since I started blogging.

50. FAVORITE DAY OF THE YEAR? Christmas and my birthday (So? I like presents!)

51. WHOSE ANSWERS ARE YOU LOOKING FORWARD TO GETTING BACK? Everyone’s!

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