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Rita Reviews

The Tuck Your Skirt 2011 Blog Tour makes a stop at Rita Reviews . Rita interviews Lucy, asking tough questions, like how she gets away with writing about her friends and family in Tuck Your Skirt in Your Panties and Run .



Through the end of November, I'm visiting blogs around the country, participating in Q&A, sharing excerpts from Tuck Your Skirt in Your Panties and Run , and giving folks a chance to listen to podcasts and watch videos about me and Tuck Your Skirt . Some bloggers will be hosting giveaways so you'll definitely want to stop by.

I hope to see you along the virtual book tour trail. Meet the blog tour hosts .

I'd love to visit your blog, too. Email me if you're interested or check here for more details.

To Summarize

You've got to try Wordle, a word art site I discovered. I fed it the url for this blog and it compiled a word picture summary.

Another Hair Nightmare?

My hair, since the first time my mother pulled it into a ponytail so tight my grey matter bulged beneath my scalp, has been a source of constant angst. When the humidity is high, which in Georgia is 10 months of the year, my hair becomes a perfect isosceles triangle on my head. After my babies were born, it turned the same color as mouse fur.



Last night at Wal-mart, I discovered a product promising to cure my hair of its frizz and dryness and crazy curl: Organix Brazilian Keratin Treatment. The $14 price tag got it a ride in my buggy to the check-out and on home with me.



What seemed like a good idea in Wal-mart when I was alone after 9 o'clock, without children and running amok, in the bright light of day has caused me to pause. After more thought, I've recalled the times I tried to color my hair from a box and the resulting disaster of brassy strawberry blond that grated on the eyes like nails on a chalkboard. I looked as scary as this:



Then there's the time that I, oh she of the frizzy curls, decided to give myself a home perm. I ended up with something about like this:



I learned my lesson and the next time gave myself a body wave from a box. Egads!



As I read the directions for the home keratin treatment, my better judgement began to kick in. The treatment requires putting a liquid solution onto one's hair without over-saturating or letting it touch the scalp. Wait 30 minutes, then blowdry straight and flat iron each 2 inch section 7-10 times. For the treatment to effectively remove curl and frizz, hair must remain in this state for 48 hours.



Two days! Not only that, the directions also read that I could not disguise my gunked-up coif by putting it in a ponytail, twisting it into a clip, hiding it under a hat or even tucking it behind my ears.

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For two days, I would have to pick up carpool, go to the bank, clap like crazy at soccer matches and walk the dog looking like Phyllis Diller. And based on past experience, there's a good chance that these results might last much longer, even with a good washing. If I'm willing to do such a ghastly thing to myself to save money, what else will I try? A home facelift?



 For now my Brazilian Blowout in a box sits on the vanity calling me to action. And sisters, I tell you I'm weak. I think this time it will be different, that I'll get more than I paid for. The box promises the end result will be worth testing my social stamina by going in public with tricked-out tresses.



Oh my gosh! I'm going to have to go pick up my children from school early so they can drive me crazy and remind me that though I have eyes in the back of my head, I don't have arms back there. There's no way this will turn out well.

The Geeky Blogger

The Tuck Your Skirt 2011 Blog Tour  makes a stop today at The Geeky Blogger . Do you know how Tuck Your Skirt in Your Panties and Run got that title? Watch a video of Lucy explaining the inspiration for it. Enjoy an all new Q&A and learn a little more about Lucy and how she thinks . . . or sometimes doesn't.



Next week, The Geeky Blogger promises to post a review of Tuck Your Skirt in Your Panties and Run . Be sure check back to read The Geeky Blogger's thoughts. And if you're looking for new reading material, she can point you to it.



Through the end of November, I'm visiting blogs around the country, participating in Q&A, sharing excerpts from Tuck Your Skirt in Your Panties and Run , and giving folks a chance to listen to podcasts and watch videos about me and Tuck Your Skirt . Some bloggers will be hosting giveaways so you'll definitely want to stop by.

I hope to see you along the virtual book tour trail. Meet the blog tour hosts .

I'd love to visit your blog, too. Email me if you're interested or check here for more details.

NaNoWriMo

When that little voice inside my head suggested it, I should said, "Naaaaa, nooooo," but instead I clicked on the link and filled out my profile, registering myself to write 50,000 words in 30 days. Never mind that that I'm also obligated to celebrate Thanksgiving and ringmaster kids out of school for a week in the month of November. Oh, and then there's the Christmas shopping. And, I just remembered, freelance writing deadlines. I should also leave some room in there for the unexpected, a guest who always arrives around holiday time.



I guess I signed myself up for the annual NaNoWriMo for several reasons:

1) My clicker finger has an unpredictable twitch.

2) I feed off of a challenge. It's an incurable sickness.

3) I need some structure and a deadline to finish a project.

4) It'll keep me off FaceBook and Twitter.

5) I don't like to cook. This will give me a lame excuse to banter around.



For my project, I've chosen a book my sister and I began eons ago and have never completed. Love Letters From a Stoic is about the cut-and-dry WWII love affair between our third cousin and her Navy husband. It began with a sealed envelope on which he scribbled Open only if I do not return . In 1995 my cousin's husband, who had lived his last years in a nursing home, was dead and that envelope with those words was still on her dresser, unopened.



Don't go telling me I'm cheating because Love Letters From a Stoic isn't a novel. I can argue that it is a novel in the same way that Half Broke Horses is. Both are based in truth, but because the characters are no longer around to verify the facts, some of the details will have to be extrapolated from what my sister and I think we know. Therein lies the fiction.



To keep myself on task, I'm promising to share excerpts with you throughout the month. I'll be eager to get your feedback.

Momfog

Momfog hosts the Tuck Your Skirt 2011 Blog Tour  today. Lucy Adams answers some tough questions in a short Q&A. She reveals her first career choice, and why it didn't work out, plus she opens up about some her hidden talents. Listen to an entertaining podcast at the end of the post titled "98 Dog Years," an excerpt from Tuck Your Skirt in Your Panties and Run .



As a special treat, you can also read Momfog's review of Tuck Your Skirt in Your Panties and Run .



And that's not all. Be sure to enter to win the drawing for a Tuck Your Skirt tote:







Through the end of November, I'm visiting blogs around the country, participating in Q&A, sharing excerpts from Tuck Your Skirt in Your Panties and Run , and giving folks a chance to listen to podcasts and watch videos about me and Tuck Your Skirt . Some bloggers will be hosting giveaways so you'll definitely want to stop by.

I hope to see you along the virtual book tour trail. Meet the blog tour hosts .

I'd love to visit your blog, too. Email me if you're interested or check here for more details.

Who areYou on Halloween?

[image error] Everything imaginable comes to my door on All Hallows Eve. Children in every age group from newborn to nonagenarian trick-or-treat my house.











[image error] A national survey conducted by The Hershey Company, revealed that personal candy preferences may provide insight into Halloween costume choices. According to the survey:

About 30 percent of Reese's Peanut Butter Cup, Kit Kat Wafer Bar and Hershey's Milk Chocolate lovers will dress as a vampire, witch or monster.
More than 41 percent of Twizzlers Twists fans stated they plan to dress-up in period piece costumes from different eras of the 20th century.
Twenty-three percent of Jolly Rancher lovers plan to costume themselves as their favorite superhero.       
[image error]  Halloween isn't just about the costumes and the candy, Charlie Brown. It's not about the Great Pumpkin rising from the pumpkin patch. Halloween is about making sure my children bring home a bucketful of chocolate and avoid the houses that give away those hard nougat chunks wrapped in orange wax paper. And good gracious, Granny, who wants a penny? I need the good stuff.

Thanks to the Hershey's, company I can plan a route for my children that is certain to ensure they bring home the mother load :Houses with black shutters are 77% more likely to hand out Kit Kat Bars. 
Ranch houses are 37% more likely to give out Kit Kat Bars.
Reese's Peanut Butter Cup lovers should skip ranch houses and run from 2-story house to 2-story house, where they'll have a 26 percent greater chance of receiving Reeses Cups.
Houses with brown doors are 32% more likely to hand out Hershey's milk chocolate bars.


Now hit the sidewalks kids and re-stock mama's chocolate stash!

Meet Young Author, Stephanie Campbell

[image error] Stephanie Campbell is quite an ambitious 20 year-old. She published her first book, Until We Meet Again , at the age of 17, while still in high school.  She's now in the process of getting seven books out in the next couple of months (Whoo!). All of the books she wrote in high school have successfully found homes with publishers.



Stephanie says, "I've got really big dreams. I know that I sound crazy, but I want to be a New York Times bestseller, a USA Today bestseller, and I want to be on the Today Show." Actually, that doesn't sound so crazy at all. Stephanie sees where she wants to go and what she desires to achieve and she's working hard to get there.



Get sucked into another world with Stephanie Campbell's latest tome, Poachers :

Ronnie Toll has never played with other kids. He's never slept soundly throughout the night, turned a corner without checking first, or laughed for the sake of laughing. All Ronnie knows is a world of shadows and monsters. His mother and father, Marion and Leon, are the only ones by his side. But all that is about to change when his mother is murdered by the monsters that only he can see. With his only safe haven crumbling around him, Ronnie becomes a poacher for the other side to help protect human civilization as he knows it. The problem is, he's taking on more than he bargained for when he tangles with creatures that are larger than life—and himself.