Wednesday, June 27, 2007

Eight random facts

      Crystallyn tagged me and so here I am, named and shamed! I don't usually do memes, but hey, it's a post so here it is.
      Here are the rules:
      1. I have to post these rules before I give you the facts.
      2. Each participant posts eight random facts about themselves.
      3. Tagees should write a blogpost of eight random facts about themselves.
      4. At the end of the post, eight more bloggers are tagged (named and shamed).
      5. Go to their blog, leave a comment telling them they’re tagged (cut and run).
      Eight Random Facts
      1. I like playing Spades, Hearts and Chess, but rarely have anyone to play with these days.
      2. Tonight I 've been reading Murder by the Acre, the sequel to Murder by Dewey Decimal. It needs a lot of work before it will be ready to publish. I wrote it before cell phones were common -- yeah, I'm that old -- and now some of the plot doesn't make sense. The first third is okay. The middle can be saved with just a little rewriting, but the end needs a bunch. Whee.
      3. I actually got upset when they cancelled Stargate: SG-1, so much so that I wrote letters to the network. I've never done that for a TV show before. Now, I don't have a favorite TV show. Which is good for my writing since TV is a huge waster of time. We'll all be better if we turned it off and got outside and walked around a bit or read a book or two.
      4. I am a Democrat in a mostly Republican family, but I'm not a very good Democrat and cheerfully vote for whoever I like.
      5. I love office supplies the way some people love chocolate. Always have. I don't know why.
      6. I have visited or drove through these states: Arkansas, Arizona, Colorado, New Mexico, Kansas, Texas, California & Missouri. I have lived in Oklahoma my whole life.
      7. I enjoyed my college years a lot. I'd like to go back and get my master's someday and maybe my doctorate. Those may be dreams for another life, though, because I want to write more, and writing takes up most of my time.
      8. I am a liberal Southern Baptist. Yes, that's possible. A lot of people seem to have a problem with it, but I just think they have little minds. I believe in a huge God who welcomes all His children.
      Tagging (if you have the desire and the time!):
      Trixie
      Frenzied Feline
      Erudite Redneck
      Rain
      Michelle
      Jean
      Joel
      & Gloria.

      And that's the post for tonight. Oh, this is cool. The mailman delivered the three writing books by Holly Lisle that I ordered a week ago. I'm really looking forward to reading them. And now I'll close. Have a great tomorrow. Talk to you then.

8 comments:

Anonymous said...

Lol, this is a good thing about anonymous, no tagging! I have no where to post responses! My life has no shame! I agree with the tv thing so i plan to get you hooked on computer games soon.
Roen

Anonymous said...

You forgot the Dante Club. I thought you were going to read it so you can tell me if it's worthwhile.

SBB said...

Hmm. Roen, you could post your responses in the comments. Next meme, you will be tagged! :)

SBB said...

Bummer, TL. I had forgotten it until you mentioned it just now. And it looked like a good book. I'll have to get it from you. Or have the lovely Melissa drop it by! :)

Anonymous said...

Tech, I would do your meme, but I've lost my password.

You do believe that, don't you?

SBB said...

Gloria, I did believe you until you asked me if I did. Now I'm not sure ...

Erudite Redneck said...

:-)

Eight random facts about ER

1. First job in the media: Gospel radio deejay, in the early '80s, at a station in the Arkansas Ozarks.

2. First job fired from: Gospel radio deejay, in the early '80s, at a station in the Arkansas Ozarks. (Played too much evvviiilllll contemporary Christian music to suit the Southern-country Gospel lovin' audience.

3. I am extremely nearsighted. I can get out of bed, but I cannot walk across the room without my glasses.

4. My favorite food is pan-fried steak, ribeye or T-bone, pan-fried by my own hand in my own pan on my own stove. Lawry's, garlic powder, fresh-cracked black pepper, thyme, rubbed on an hour before it hits a salted, dry piping hot pan.

5. My feet are size 13 in most shoes and boots, and size 14 in a few.

6. I consider "redneck" an ethnic group, soon-to-be minority ethnic group.

7. I was raised in a loving but conservative Southern Baptist church; a year ago, I joined a loving and liberal Congregational church; I may very well turn universalist before it's all said and done. God IS love.

8. I am not as redneck as some think I am. But I *am* pretty dadgum erudite for a farm boy from the Oklahoma Ozarks-Arkansas River Valley region.


Sassywho's book meme:

1. Total Number of Books I Own: 1,200-1,300.

2. Last Book I Bought: A trio: Wilma Ann Bailey, "You Shall Not Kill" or "You Shall Not Murder"? (Collegeville, Minn.: Liturgical Press, 2005); Marcus J. Borg, The Heart of Christianity: Rediscovering a Life of Faith (San Francisco: Harper, 2003); Marcus J. Borg, Reading the Bible Again for the First Time: Taking the Bible Seriously but Not Literally (San Francisco: Harper, 2001).

3. Last Book I Read: Marcus J. Borg, The Heart of Christianity: Rediscovering a Life of Faith (San Francisco: Harper, 2003).

4. Five Books that Mean a Lot to Me: "The Sins of Scripture: Exposing the Bible's Texts of Hate to Reveal the God of Love," by John Shelby Spong; "Rescuing the Bible from Fundamentalism: A Bishop Rethinks the Meaning of Scripture," by John Shelby Spong; "Jesus for the Non-Religious," by John Shelby Spong; "The Tao of Pooh," by Benjamin Hoff; "The HarperCollins Study Bible, New Revised Standard Version, with the Apocryphal/Deuterocanonical Books," Wayne A. Meeks, gen. ed., and Jouette M. Bassler, Werner E. Lemke, Susan Niditch and Eileen M. Schuller, assoc. eds.

Crystal said...

Definitely read the Dante Club, btw. GOOD stuff!

I'm also a sucker for office supplies!!