Caterwauling

Just kidding — I can’t afford that brand yet!

Alternate entry title: ‘Wake me up when September ends’

I’ve never understood why we acknowledge “anniversaries” of epic, tragic events — whether worldwide or personal ones. Anniversaries should be celebrations of great things — marrying the right person, ending a war, stopping whatever desructive habit that keeps us from being greater beings who achieve greater things.

That said, September is an anniversary month for me, of sorts — this month last year, I quit two very bad habits. And both happened under auspicious circumstances — although admittedly, their absence brought more positive energy to my life. And today, I resolve to let go of the last piece of the puzzle so I can truly be free. So here it goes: Read the rest of this entry »

With NaNoWriMo coming up sooner than I’d care to admit, check out the list of writerisms of which we’re all guilty yet we somehow cannot fail to avoid. And despite my being (I think) a bona fide grammatical goddess (although it’s not so obvious on this blog! LOL), I should very well be stoned for having more interesting vocabulary than content. Mmm, being stoned. … 😉

And from Writer’s Weekly, World’s Worst Book Proposals. When submitting your finished masterpiece, I suggest using this line: “After all, hard work doesn’t necessarily get you anywhere in life. If anything, working hard is stupid, and theft seems a lot more intelligent.”

With seemingly everybody and their brother on the interview trail (and/or on a Doocing rebound), I saw this on MediaBistro: You can remove yourself from Google searches. If you try it, let me know if it works, ’cause I just got a big surprise the other day when I found that pieces of a website I killed are still very much alive in some parallel dimension. 🙂

On iTunes: Kelly Clarkson, “Behind These Hazel Eyes”