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the upcoming week…

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It’s Monday, and of course, I’m blogging over at Fictionistas. Pop over and say hi.

I’m currently at Beaver Lake with my girlfriends having a very good time. Look, read about last year’s trip here: Tales From Beaver Lake
For a funny bit of trivia, I just got a pedicure this weekend and my toes are painted Lizard Green. I love them.

Apparently last year, before I went on this very same trip, I had my toes painted the very same green.

This year’s toes:

Last year’s toes:

I’ll blog lots when I get back–I’m sure I’ll have loads of material, just not sure I’ll be able to actually share any of it.

finish the sentences

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I stole this from @jennchristman because my brain is fried. See #7.

1. My ex is…from long time ago way back when.

2. I should learn to…sail.

3. I love…music.

4. People say that I am…funny.

5. I don’t understand…war.

6. When I wake up in the morning…I make coffee.

7. I lost…my revisions. No I don’t wanna talk about it.

8. Life is…unpredictable. See above.

9. My past taught me…that life is unpredictable.

10. I get annoyed when…I have to wait.

11. Parties…make me happy.

12. I wish…I lived at the beach.

13. My childhood pets…were named Checkers, Shingles, Amber, Big Red, Moose, Charlie, Sadie and Spike.

14. Tomorrow is….Wednesday.

15. I have a low tolerance for…apathy.

16. If I had a million dollars…I’d move to the beach.

17. I’m terrified of…becoming jaded.

18. I’ve come to realize…I love lottery math, but I may have to change my lottery numbers. They don’t seem to be hitting…

20. I am listening to…a playlist I put together.

21. I talk…about everything.

22. My good friends…center me.

23. I hate…not having it all.

24. My cell phone is…tied to my soul. Don’t judge me.

25. Before I go to bed…I chat with friends and watch the Daily Show.

26. The person most likely to re-post this is… who cares?

27. The person least likely to re-post this is…again, who cares?

28. My favorite pictures…make me smile.

29. I sing…very badly but all the time.

30. If I were a crayon…hot pink.

cracked up

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Last night, the boys and I were watching Family Guy together and goofing off. My kids crack me up. Both boys are able to combine typical sophomoric boy humor with some pretty adult thinking. It’s fun to hang out with them and listen to them crack on each other and crack on me.

When we’re being silly, they sometimes forget I’m the momma. Last night was one of those times. My 11 year old was on the phone with a friend from Oxford.

Me: Is that your girlfriend?

11: No it’s I.

Me: So it is your girlfriend.

Takes a moment to register

11: quick flick of middle finger. Then wide eyes and open mouth when he realizes he just flipped his mother off. Then bright red cheeks and so much laughter he had to hang up the phone.

Me: Um. Did you forget I’m the momma?

11: giggle. giggle. giggle.

15: Dude, you’re stoopid.

11: I can flip you off so you better shut up.

Then the threats of farting on each others’ faces began and it all went downhill.

Pretty much the perfect night. Stupid boys.

best ever

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I am a huge fan of Will Ferrell’s SNL Jeopardy skits, but this weekend’s was the BEST EVER. Watch the whole thing if you haven’t yet. And if you have, watch it again. It’s totally worth it.

My youngest son and I have watched this skit at least 5 times and I can honestly say, I have tears streaming down my face EVERY single time. This skit is made of awesome. It makes me laugh. I love anything that makes me laugh.

Maybe I should marry this video. hmmmmm.

TGIF

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So it’s Friday. And yes, I know I have no right to be happy about it since I just returned from Sungoddessville, but I don’t care. I’m happy.

Oh and it’s also May Day. Have fun wrapping up those May Poles today… (hmmm, I’m gonna let the safe sex euphemism go I think. Yep. This is me, letting it go.)

This will be a busy weekend. Tonight I have a soccer game to attend as well as a meeting with the lovely and talented Stacey Jay over a workshop we’re doing for our local writing group. (have you picked up her book yet? YOU ARE SO UNDEAD TO ME is such a great read. Go forth and buy it now. And while you’re there, pre-order BITE ME! <–shameless plug. Sue me. It's my blog!) Then tomorrow morning, I'm headed to Oxford (hey peeps! I'll be there 1 day and 1 day only! I'm up for lunch if you wanna holla!) I have a meeting with a Realtor at 2:00, we're going to put the HOUSE THAT WILL NOT GO AWAY back on the market. I know it will sell this time, but damn, I don't ever wanna go through this again. After that I'm meeting up with multi-pubbed hottie author ACE ATKINS who has been pimping me like the high class hooker I am to all the booksellers he knows. And he has some stuff to discuss with me. Which means I’ll buy him a beer and soak up whatever he has to offer. Then at 5:00 or so I’m having food and beverages with my friend Andrea who I’ve missed like a major organ. Then it’s a night on the square…or not. We’ll see.

Sunday, I drive home. Rest. And start over again on Monday.

Y’all got any big plans?

For today’s video, I Cure you…

pictures from RT

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Well, it’s hard when you have to return home. LOL

I had the best time last week. It was so great to see my friends and meet some new ones. I enjoyed myself tremendously.

Here, let me show you:


Me and Maria Geraci just before Deidre Knight’s Gods of Midnight party.


Deidre and her Spartans


A spartan…mmmmm


Me and Kitteh (aka Kristen Painter)


Me and one of my favorite people ever! Roxanne St. Claire


Me and Jane from Dear Author. It was great meeting her finally.


Me and Angela James (who is seriously one of the sweetest, cutest, and most genuine people I have ever met)


Will Belegon and Alessia Brio


Me and Terri Garey. How freaking cute is she?


Christina Cross vamping it up. *rowr*


Me and Deidre

I have not died

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I’ve been in Orlando at the RT Convention being a very good girl.

I have NOT stalked anyone. I have not been laying by the pool for endless hours. I have absolutely not had one drop of wine.

I also did not go to Maria Geraci’s Bunco Bash and help out. (If I HAD been there, I could tell you it was a raging freaking success, but you know, I wasn’t there.) A little birdie told me that Deidre Knight’s Gods of Midnight party was awesome, but I wouldn’t know, because I wasn’t there. I was too busy being a very good girl. Going to bed early. drinking only water.

Yup.

I will have pics later. I’ve been twittering, and posting some pics there, so if you want to know the truth (not that I’m lying, because I would never do that) head over to my livejournal page where I import all my daily tweets. You’ll get links to pics there and little snippets of my day.

I will be at the beach starting tomorrow for two days. I bet I’ll do better about catching you guys up.

Or not.

We’ll see.

I promise I will definitely catch y’all up next week. Just be patient.

Love you. Mean it.

haiku hatred

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Yesterday, while on twitter, I joked about having an all haiku twittering day.

I was unprepared for the deluge of Haiku Hatred replies that I received. Totally unprepared.

I had no idea that people hated Haiku. How can you hate Haiku?

My new TBF (TwitterBestFriend) @jenthegingerkid (visit her online at http://jenthegingerkid.blogspot.com/) threatened to unfollow me if I twittered in Haiku. Of course, this devastated me. How could she unfollow me over Haiku? Everyone loves Haiku.

But then the @replies continued to pour in. Only three of my Tweeps encouraged me to Haiku. (and that @amiestuart only wanted me to so that @jenthegingerkid’s head would explode)

So I gotta know:

Why you be hatin’
What has haiku done to you
Don’t be a hater

I will admit to having to stifle the desire to haiku all day today. I also will admit another little secret that I don’t think @jenthegingerkid picked up on this morning…my first tweet to her was a haiku. My oppositional-defiant nature couldn’t resist.

MelissaFrancis: @jenthegingerkid
good morning my friend.
Did u get a good nt’s sleep?
Have u missed me much?

Oh yes. I’m good.

Of course, now that I’ve outed myself, will she forgive me or will she unfollow me? We shall soon see…

music, music, I hear music!

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Before we get to my regularly scheduled blog below, I wanted to let y’all know my BFF and critique partner is blogging about how she came up with her Bunco series idea and sold it. Pop over (after you read my blog, of course) and check it out!

Now on to our regularly scheduled blog…
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This morning, I woke up singing Kokomo.

Does this happen to anyone other than me?

I wake up EVERY morning singing a song. Rarely is it a song I listened to during the day before or one that I go to bed singing. It’s always some random song that pops into my head as I’m getting out of bed. Trust me, I don’t sing Kokomo. Ever. Except when it pops into my head in the mornings.

I’ve noticed this phenomenon a lot lately and I’ve wondered WTF?

Tuesday when I woke singing Springsteen’s Land of Hope and Dreams, I didn’t think anything about it. That made total sense. Actually, my mind drifted between that song and another Springsteen song (Better Days) all day. My subconscious was there for me all day Tuesday.

But really, when I woke Wednesday singing Jessie’s Girl and I woke yesterdasy singing I Touch Myself (actually, I wake up singing that one quite a bit…) I wondered if I really WANT to know what my subconscious is thinking.

Other songs I’ve recently woken up to:

  • Witchy Woman (okay, I get this)
  • Gold Digger (yeah, I’m not even kidding)
  • Sweet Home Alabama (um?)
  • So Fresh, So Clean (okay, I do sing this one after I shower. Can’t help myself.)
  • Turning Japanese
  • Ain’t Missing You (Dude, I do love me some John Waite)
  • Where It’s At? (I got, two turntables and a microphone)
  • Controversy (yeah, Prince. Old Skool Prince. I did love that album in high school)

So there you go. Mel’s personal wake up playlist. It’s probably a good thing I don’t have theme music that follows me everywhere I go…

And today from The Universe:

Baby steps spark miracles, Melissa.

Miracles do not spark baby steps.

Ungawa,
The Universe

Damn skippy, U.

So, if y’all had a theme song, what would it be? Or even better, what would your playlist be? Happy Friday y’all!

What are you searching for?

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It’s been a while since I did a blog about the terms that people search to find my website. Apparently, the reporter/ex-Little House on the Prairie Melissa Francis has been busy lately, because I’ve gotten some interesting searches–and a lot of these are coming from financial institutions such as Dean Witter, AIG, Siebert, RBC Capital Investments, etc.

Anyway, here are some of the most recent ‘google’ terms. Let’s discuss:

melissa francis hot: why thank you.
melissa francis nude: not at the moment. Please come back later.
melissa francis breasts: I don’t leave home without them. Sometimes you will even find them on this blog.
melissa milf: working on it.
melissa francis sexy: you’re making me blush.
melissa francis cleavage: see breasts
melissa francis pictures naked: there may or may not be one or two of those floating around. On paper. Never on the interwebs. Sorry to disappoint.
melissa francis shut up: I hear that a lot.
sex sleeb: Do I even want to KNOW what this is and why it brought you to my blog?
melissa francis boobs: I know the girls are awesome, but wow. You folks are obsessed. See breasts.
melissa francis author: I love these searches because I know they are actually looking for me!
melissa francis feet: Is this what you’re looking for? Can you pick mine out?
why is melissa francis a bitch: you meant witch, right? People have been searching for this answer for as long as I remember. Maybe you’ll win a prize if you find out.
melissa francis gifts: always encouraged and accepted
fucking melissa francis: I have very high standards, I am afraid you’ve failed to meet them.
melissa francis has nice boobs: Thanks! I think so.
some thing naughty: you will find plenty of naughty on this blog. And some nice, too.
“melissa francis naked”: see nude.
Melissa Francis cheerleader: Rah Rah Ree. Or whatever. I don’t cheer. But I will wear the uniform if you ask nicely.
melissa francis birthday: March 14. See gifts
Melissa Francis legs: I have them, they’re attached to the feet in the picture.
melissa francis ugly feet: Uh, I beg to differ!
hot librarian: So I’ve been told.
Bite Me francis: Yay! someone looking for my book! Coming fall 2009. Check back often.
what kind of income does melissa francis make: Not enough.
melissa francis awful: I’m really not that bad, once you get to know me.
melissa francis annoying: I can honestly say, I’ve never been called annoying before. I’ve decided I don’t like it. You’re banned from my blog.

Happy Friday, y’all. I was supposed to have lunch with my boyfriend from high school today, but we rescheduled for Monday because he got called away to Nashville for business. So now I’m just going to write. And go running at some point. It’s supposed to be warm again today, so maybe I can run outside again, like I did yesterday.

Have a great weekend! What are your plans?