Not Quite What I Was Planning
Comments (8) Update: It is also radioactive girl’s birthday today! Happy Birthday! Wow… July’s the month to get busy!
There are four blogger birthdays this week (that I know of!). Today is Diane’s, so Happy Birthday Diane! (And feel better soon!) Friday belongs to Gina and sizzle. So… Happy Early Birthday Gina and Happy Early Birthday sizzle! And Lisa’s is this week as well… Happy Birthday Lisa!
And… I want to tell you about the book I bought Gina for her birthday. I have this little problem with thumbing through quite a bit of the books I buy for my friends… hey, it happens.
I read about Not Quite What I Was Planning: Six-Word Memoirs by Writers Famous and Obscure in some magazine I got in the mail in March. The premise of the book is, you guessed it, six-word memoirs of authors. Some of my favorites are:
“No shit I’m critical – you’re flawed.” – Elizabeth Koch
“I am awfully bored at work.” – Chris Ponchak
“Didn’t fit in then; still don’t.” – Bob Fingerman
“Asked to quiet down; spoke louder.” – Wendy Lee
Of course, I could go on and on… I recommend picking up a copy of the book, just because these memoirs really make you think.
Right before I bought the book I found out that another blogger – Freak Magnet – created her own six-word memoir on her blog! What a fun idea for us bloggers! Has this gone around all ready and I missed it? I’ve seen it a few other places since I originally wrote this post…
Anyway, here’s mine, which took a while to think up. Please share yours in your blog, or in the comments!
Always known as “the loud one.”
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Today’s Idiom: Pyrrhic victory – a too costly victory
Getting our neighbors to quiet down was a Pyrrhic victory – we now live in peace inside our home, but are uneasy being outside our home… and I feel guilty for being so spiteful and mean-spirited.
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