Joshilyn Jackson's Blog, page 27
May 28, 2011
Happy
Happy
from Cake Wrecks: it looks like they needed a little more...cake room
It's our anniversary today. 17 years. Not a very exciting one, really. Scott and I are unmoved—We call it, The Meh Anniversary.LAST YEAR we were all kinds of excited about it. SIXTEEN! That was the year my marriage finally got old enough to drive. WHEE! We car shopped for our marriage, and picked it out a custom pumpkin orange completely restored karmann ghia with a black soft top convertible roof. It was a whole...
May 27, 2011
A Brief Note on My Obviously Rising Mental Illness Number
This is my brain. This is my brain on the sofa.
Okay, so my last blog left a few people head scratching in the comments. I apologize. Now, in plain, accessible English, for those who were lost in my sugar-crusted verbiage swamp, the main and salient point of the entry was this:I AM SUPER SUPER CRAZY RIGHT NOW.
Oh wait, no. That was the subtext. The main and salient points were actually these:
1) I really wanted to eat 17 pounds of candy corn.
2) I did not buy any.
3) But only because the...
May 24, 2011
Silly-Fox and How to Not
OKAY I promise we are done with contests for a bit! NO MORE. They require all one of my organizational skill to stretch to the limit, and then the skill snaps back and pops me in the face like an angry and overworked rubber band. Exception being, of course, winner of the silliest Fox Contest ever.
The challenge: The other day, Scott said to me, ""Mjǫlnir is not the hammer," And I all but fell over laughing. Explain the joke.
I got more than 30 answers, and 26 of them were correct. I failed ...
May 21, 2011
Onward to Abbott-Town
Firstly and most important, Karen Abbott, my whoodie and a member of the evil trio who make up my writing group (Abbott, Sara, and Lydia), is guest blogging today over at the THE LIPSTICK CHRONICLES, so make clickies here and come learn what secrets she exposed when I posed the question, "What's the trashiest thing you've ever done? Not the smuttiness, not the sleaziest, but the trashiest."
The answer is a doozy! Of course it is; this is, after all, the woman who pinned a book about the...
May 20, 2011
The Secret Language of Us
Today I am over at my group blog, The Lipstick Chronicles over-sharing some of my posse's vocabularies. Come tell me yours!
Meanwhile, for those willing but stumped for ideas to get into the Nonnish Foxery going on below, in the comments for the previosu entry, Mr. Husband and several of the Best Beloveds have listed some BRIL ideas to get you in the mix!
May 19, 2011
In Which Erin is a Fox Genius
The casts are pewter (dull silver) but they do not photograph well in that color---Hard to see the details in a photo of the silver ones. This is the original sculpture, called in my brother's industry a green. For obvious reasons.
So I asked you guys how I should give out these 22 FOX figurines I have left…and a long-time lurk-about Best Beloved named Erin sent me an email yesterday with a GREAT idea for fair Fox distribution. I think she is a GENIUS, and she gets one for coming up with ...May 16, 2011
Random Neurons Firing (Part 17)
WHOOPS! I forgot to push all that shame down! It's like our collective skirt is still flipped up and all our Freudian slips are showing. Let me just give that a tug!
LOOK UP! LOOK AWAY! LOOK HERE NOW! DO NOT SCROLL DOWN!!!!
LOOK AT….nothing! Yup. I have NOTHING to tell you except I have found a path into the new book and I have been sucked very far down it and am hardly breathing real air these days. YAY! It is weird to be working on a book with Backseat Saints JUST this second out in...
May 14, 2011
Confessional Dog Poet
Today we tell on ourselves. Today it's like we left the house in clean but TATTY UNDERPANTS like our mom told us NEVER TO DO, and this blog is our fender bender where we are hurt (but not TOO hurt) and the EMTs see them, grayed out and grannified, and we SO wish we had listened to our mothers.
It is SATURDAY, and no one reads blogs on SATURDAY. It is just us silly ponies here. So. We are telling. I will begin.
I have MM-Bop on my i-Pod. (Shut up.)
Worse: I did not put it there in 1997. I...
