The Chronicles of a Wannabe Madame...

Pimping myself like a hooker

2009-09-27T21:48:35Z

http://www.facebook.com/group.php?gid=154892017632&ref=mf

this is a Facebook page for wrtiers. I am sure some of you are on there. If you are, please feel free to join, if you know anyone who would like it, tell them to join.

It is for wrtiers and their friends. With this writing thing I am going through right now, I realized that there has to be others going through what I am. From having a story that is demanding to be told to being a newbie with no idea on where to go once my story is edited...... I figured if there were enough of us, at different levels, we could all help each other out, I also figuered that it would be nice to have the family and friends be able to come so they can complain when we don't spend enough time with them because we are writing.

So, what do you say? You wanna join?

Hey everyone!

2009-09-20T18:37:06Z

Hey, on facebook I just made a group for writers and those that are around them all the time. Since I know several of you are writers, I thought I would share the link here just in case you all wanted to join it or suggest it to someone else.....

http://www.facebook.com/group.php?gid=154892017632

Writer's Block: Proven by Science

2009-08-12T10:30:42Z

Do you believe everything has a scientific explanation?

Submitted By mesnyder_92

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The simple answer is yes, I believe that everything has a scientific explanation. But, I also believe that science and faith/ belief in God can work together. I believe that just because you believe in God, doesn't mean that you can't believe in science.

ugh

2009-08-11T15:04:39Z

a whole, brand new mind you, thing of frebreeze spilled in my car today.... can we say too much of a good thing? I think we can! WOOO

crazy_tj @ 2009-08-08T10:40:00

2009-08-08T14:54:24Z

It discourages me how much some of the world hates America. The only thing that discourages me more is the fact that so much of it is warranted. I wish that so many Americans weren't complete and utter Douche Bags when we travel, or when people are traveling here. I really do. The last few years has been the least international in my life. I have been state side, with only a few trips to Canada, since August, 2005.

I miss my traveling.

Alot.

What I miss more, though, is seeing people's reactions to the fact that I am an American. That actually started when I frst started traveling back in high school. I actually had someone tell me something to the extent of "I wouldn't have pegged you for an American if you hadn't told me". Their basic reason was that I wasn't a beligerent Douche all the time. I was a little louder than they were used to, which I guess they ascribe to Americans, but that wasn't nothing major to them since they know most people cut a little loose on thier holiday. They said I wasn't as aggressive or dominate as most other Americans they have met/ witnessed.

Through College, I learned really quickly not to identify myself as an American. After first year, there were actually very few new people that I told. And, for the most part, that would only be friends that I was getting close to or fall term professors that I needed to let know that I wasn going home for thanksgiving. I didn't want the stigma attached to the nationality. I really didn't. I still don't like it and I still don't publicly annouce my nationality when I am out and about. Especially since, during college, I began to see what everyone hates about us. I lived for three years on the Canadian side of a boarder. The most in your face people? Always Americans. A Canadian I knew during college, in passing, was killed by an American because he happened to be in the wrong place at the wrong time. Towards teh end of college I often found myself telling other Americans to STFU. Most of the time it was because they were annoying me and ruining my good time. Other times it was because they were making us all look bad.

Americans have a really hard time with just being chill. I think that it is because our country's mentatlity is so based on aggressively doing *everything*. The acquisition of companies, sports, getting a job, what ever. Everything is aggressive and done hard. If you don't have some sort of hard shell, you need a very strong support system here or you get trampeled on. With that being said, I think it leaks over into other areas as well, like when we are holiday. *shrugs*

We also atuomatically assume that eveywhere else is like here when it comes to that. I don't know how much of that is human nature and how much is American cause I know that I figure on that alot.

A part of me still really wishes I could live outside the states and be an ex-pat. In a lot of ways I don't "feel" American. That isn't how I identify myself, even if it is a part of who I am. There is now doubt that it has helped to shape who I am, and my views, but I would like to think that just as much of my thought process has been shaped by the times I spent outside the boarder and my international friends. I don't know how true that is, but I would like to believe it. You know?

I hate that Americans are viewed as such aggressive, war mongoring, narrow minded assholes. Not all of us are like that. And, I have to believe, none of us are like that all the time. If I don't believe that, I cannot believe in anything. We are not all narrow minded douches. Some of us are compassionate people. The rest of us all have a little compassion in us somewhere, if it can only be found and reasoned with.

Maybe that is the real reason I have felt pretty content the last couple years? I am finally in a place I like and I am doing work with kids and the developmentally disabeled. It allows me the right to be more compassionate on a daily basis. For the most pat it also forces me to be less aggressive. I need that.

*sigh* sorry for the ramble.

Writer's Block: Bite Me

2009-07-28T01:23:59Z

From Dr. Polidori's Lord Ruthven to Stephenie Meyer's Edward Cullen, the annals of vampire lore are filled with attractive, charming bloodsuckers. Which one would you most want to be bitten by?

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With out any question, it would be Eric from True Blood. Actually, let me rephrase it. It would be Eric from the series of books that the show is based on. I am seriously crushing on the book Eric.

He is amazingly sexy, he has a pretty wry sense of humor that I find endearing, he is FIERCLY loyal for those he knows are in his corner and is an amazingly good screw. He is also smart very smart and, whether or not his views follow society's views of right and wrong, he has his own, very strong, sense of morals and beliefs. Plus, the dude is tall like WHOA and a blonde haired, blue eyed vikking. I LOVE IT.

So yeah, Eric Northman it is.

So, I realized something about this book that I am writing,......

2009-07-25T23:32:51Z

it is going to have tons and tons of sex. The only thing that will surpass the quanity of sex is the quanity of dialogue.

MMMMMM SEX

that is all

MEME!!!!

2009-07-21T22:52:38Z

Leave a comment and I’ll respond with 5 questions so I can get to know you better. Update your own journal with the questions, giving your answers. Include this explanation and offer to ask other people questions.

1. Where do you see yourself in 5 years? In 10? In five years I would like to see myself in my own classroom to some capacity. Whether it be in a public school or in a college *shudders at the thought of going back to school* I don't care.
In 10 years, I am actually starting to see myself writing in some capacity. Whether it is as a free lance journalist or in some small time publications I am not sure. I am also wanting to have, by then, my own house and a couple of kids. Even if it is as a foster parent. I want to be a parent in some capacity by then.

2. Where is the most special place on earth to you and why? There is this little nook by my house in the state property. It has the local river running through it and an out bridge. It is so peaceful to go out there and just chill. It is about as closs to becoming a recluse as I can see right now. It is just so peaceful to hear nothing but the river, wind and animals. I love to go there and think.

3. If you could be an animal, any animal (wild or domestic), what would it be and why? Wow, to be honest, I am not sure. Off the top of my head, i think I would have to go with a Gazelle just cause they are so graceful.

4. If you were able to stand face to face with "God" (in whatever form you see him/her), what would you talk about? I would have a lot of "why" questions to be honest. Mainly just in regards to some of the things I have seen through life, especially in the classrooms. Like, Why are some people allowed to be parents and not others?

5. You have a garden and it's a garden that you've worked on lovingly yourself. You've dug in the dirt, you've planted the seeds, you've watered and babied everything along. What is the most prominent flower (or vegetable, if your preference is for a food garden) in this garden and why? I would like to say lavander just for the simple fact that I have never been able to get that shit to grow and I love the smell. The second option would be a Lilac tree, but I am not sure if that really falls under here since it is a tree HAHA.

So there you go.... anyone wanna play along?

New Orleans, anyone know anything about it?

2009-07-16T11:18:14Z

Alright guys, here is the deal. I realized over the last month that I need a vacation.... bad.... even just a mini one. With that being said I think I have settled on the location. I am going to hit up New Orleans. Right now, it is looking like my brother, sister in law and roomie might be going as well. If we all do we are going to rent a cargo van and just go that way. It would be *much* cheaper than flying and, really since it is only an 8 hour drive, not much longer once you add in the time you have to get to the airport then you have to check the bags etc etc etc....

Anyway, does anyone have *any* suggestions for this city? I want to have fun and I want to experience as much of the "local flare" as I can. I don't really do touristy, at least if I can help it. I want to go where the locals go. While in Rome right? With that being said, there are a couple tourist things I want to do.... I do want to see the Voo doo Queens tomb for example so if you think there is something really cool let me know!

Anyway, any suggestions would be AWESOME....

Dude, I love me some smart ass.....

2009-07-11T21:32:17Z

Being a total fan girl I was looking for some pictures of Alex Skarsgard... he plays the character Eric on True Blood.... I found this chat log (who knows how authentic it is really) and I had to laugh repeatedly. If this was really him and he is always this snarky/ full of quips I think I would love to listen to him interact wtih people. I love me some smart asses....

Q&A

1)

skareb says: What do you think of the pope?

Alexander Skarsgård says: He seems pretty tired, but one can understand that, he has had to quarrel a lot with God.

billabong says: were you always this tall?

Alexander Skarsgård says: No, I wasn`t more than 1.70 when mother gave birth to me
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that second one especially got to me.... Especially with my brothers all being so tall.... My one bro is 6'6" (a couple inches taller than this actor) and he *always* gets this question.... Once you convert the 1.7 out of meters it would make him 5 ft 6 when he was born HAHAHA... smart ass.... my brother always wants to say sarcastic stuff too LOL

The real reason I was a lit major in college

2009-07-11T19:29:28Z

.... Maybe....

Anyway, I think I realized something today. The reason I stuck to Lit when I went to Windsor was, really, the ability of a good writer to pull me into a story..... Now, keep in mind, I did say good writer as opposed to Literary Genius (capital letters to impose the importance HAHA).

Literary Genius is often a category in and of itself and I don't always combine that with a good writer. For example, Herman Melville is a Literary Genius writing such masterpieces as Moby Dick, but at the same time I wouldn't nec. put him as a good writer. I mean, the writing was *amazing* and there were so many social issues that were dealt with in that book alone and so much to take away from it but at the same time..... I don't know..... when I put that book down, I was done with it. Never with another intention of picking it back up. Would I suggest anyone reading it? YES..... would I go to it for enteratinment though? NO.

Where, for me, a good wrtier would be someone like Stephanie Meyer, Mary Janice Davidson and Charlaine Harris. First off, yeah, let's get this out of the way, they all write Vamp Fictions/ Series..... but with that being said, they are not literary genius but I think they write the most amazing pulp fiction/ mass consumer driven stories. The kind of stories that, when you put them down, you are literally raeding just....one.... more.... word..... before you put it on your bedside table or whereever and you cannot wait to pick them back up. This type of author (even if you don't agree with my picks HAHA) have you squirming like a junkie until you can pick the book back up. Once you realize the story/ series is done you would give anything, anything, for one more hit... I mean story.....

Then there are the ones that manage to combie both. At least in my world, that would combine these two elements. The first being Shakespere, I mean, really. Can you not still get great joy out of his plays? They have been around for *how* long????? They are still mandatory reading and the best part is that once I get into the flow I find myself snickering all over the place and I love the stories. There is also Charles Dickens who I think combines the two, at least for me.

There are a couple authors that I think might have staying power over the years and that have come to mean a lot to me to put it mildly. Stephen King is the Big Shit in the horror/ gothic genre and I think he will be able to stick it out. At least some of his books anyway. I mean, Carrie was taught in my Female Gothic class for Heaven's sake. But the man, something about his writing just sticks in my head. The images he can paint with his words are amazing. I have had some nasty ass images in my head for *days* courstesy of Mr. King.

The other author that I think is all kinds of awesome is Christopher Moore. This dude pulls me in and has me cracking up every couple pages if not every page. Funny fucker. I would suggest to EVERYONE to read his stuff. READ IT PLEASE.....

OH GOOD LORD this turned longer than I wanted it to....Sorry, I lost my point. I will stop my drivel now..

I think I have a new fictional infactuation

2009-06-29T21:40:05Z

I have been reading the books that the TV series, True Blood, is based loosely off of..... I watched all of Season one yesterday. I think I am going to be in Smit with the character Eric by the time they start getting in depth with him.... the dude they have playing him is *amazing*, looks almost par with how I pictured him which ROCKS.... just as tall as he is explained which also ROCKS....

I hope the series totally steers this dude the way they books have cause that is why I like him....I mean, at first he comes across as a complete and utter controlling jerk with tons of power.... by book #9 (where the books are now) the dude is still a TOTAL Alpha Male (or VAMP, what ever) but you see a lot of class act stuff from him and he is actually pretty fucking hillarious. In a brutally honest, sometimes (alright often) sexual sort of way.... I just.... something about him is sort of endearing too.... once you can look past the fact that he can kill with the snap of a finger HAHA

anyway, that is all

crazy_tj @ 2009-06-13T17:15:00

2009-06-13T21:27:46Z

Back on Twitter Y'all....

ID is: crazy_tj

Writer's Block: In a Jam

2009-04-03T00:30:26Z

If you were in trouble or ran afoul of the law, which fictional detective or investigator—from tv, movies, or books—would you want to help you?

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Gil Grissiom.... even if it wasn't murder related I want *him* that man is a master mind.....

Writer's Block: Take Your Chances

2009-03-23T00:29:36Z

Do you think people deserve second chances?

Submitted By drea12301994

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This is a hard one for me to answer..... I have two hard core parts of me that are brawling out for being the thought process I use to answer....

there is the realist that says "Hell no.... people so rarely live up to being given that second chance and then you just wasted more time"

then there is the idealist which says "Hell yes..... Yeah, most people don't live up to the faith required to give an honest second chance but the ones who do make it all worth while since they often become indespensable friends and they also help restore your faith in people by showing they can change"

Writer's Block: Close Encounters of the Celebrity Kind

2009-03-08T13:06:48Z

Have you ever met a celebrity in real life? Who was it and how did your paths cross?

Submitted By klutzy_girl

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OMG yes.... and all of them were by the time I finished my first year of college.... although none are super fantastically A list or anything.....

I met all but a few of the 97-98 Red Wings (either at signings or the Charity Softball game they would do), I met Andrew Shue (when he was still experiencing his Melrose Place Hay Day, Sean Patrick Flannery (seen him at the detroit speed way but at the time I didn't really care who he was so I didn't fight to get his autogaph as it was WAY pre-Boondock Saints) and the dude had a sorta mullet at the time HAHA.... I also met 4 of the Barenaked Ladies.... I didn't meet Kevin Hearn... hmmm I think that is it...

Steven Page left the Barenaked Ladies......

2009-02-26T01:38:16Z

Wow.... just, wow........... I guess I don't even know what to say.... BNL was one of the first concert (of many mind you) that I seen with my closest high school friends. For me, I guess, this is another part of my youth just slipping between my fingers. I sort of thought they would be like the Stones or something you know? Plus, the man's voice is fucking AMAZING.... this band is one of the few that I have seen *repeatedly* because the musicianship and entertainment value was *always* there.

*sigh*

I am including a video.... This is from their "bathroom sessions"... part of the reason I am including it is cause, as Page comes out to meet his cue, he is zipping his pant and doing his belt.... he literally just came out of the bathroom.

HAHA... I love it

2009-02-08T22:49:00Z

I made some yummy dinner tonight.... I made kabobs with steak, green and red peppers and onion.... and baked potatoes.... my roomie thought that were so pretty that she seriously sent a picture to one of her friends HAHAHA...

Odd....

2009-02-04T20:31:25Z

so, someone added me today.... I don't get why, it isn't some one that I appear to know IRL..... so that isn't the reason why.... it has me a little nervous because they seemed to adopt a bunch of people off my friends list and it is people I know IRL.... I messaged them back to ask them who they are.... if they do not give me an adequate answer I am not adding them back. I am also going to let said friends know that I think they have been hijacked.... huh

Merry christmas everyone!

2008-12-25T14:06:53Z

I hope the day treats everyone as well as they deserve!

crazy_tj @ 2008-12-21T19:30:00

2008-12-22T00:36:31Z

Alright, I was fidgeting around on the internet.... looking for my "in 5 or 6 years" car..... the one that once this car is paid off, I save for a couple years and then get it while I have both cars..... I want something sporty, preferably a cloth top...... small....

what I am having a hard time with is finding something that is small, sporty and *fast*..... a lot of the cars that I like the style are 4 bangers.... I am sorry, if I wanted another 4 banger I would stay with my 4 door sedan thank- you- very- much...... Don't get me wrong, my 4 cylinder is working out just fine for me right now but that was also the biggest complaint I have with my car....

with that being said, I just want a fast car... I want a car that literally purrs when you turn it on... that, in turn, will make *me* purr every time I turn it on....

I will deal with a V 6 but I would prefer a V8.....

am I the only girl who thinks this way about cars????? Actually, let me correct that question, am I the only *person* that thinks that way about cars????? If not, I am in the minority based on the options I have when looking for a V6 or V8.... I do not want a corvette or a camero and I really dislike the ford through back model that is out right now (all I can hope for is that thier body will switch before I go to buy) and there just aren't a lot of other options....

*sigh*

Huh....

2008-12-20T00:20:00Z

So, I was thinking on something.... and find it a little curious... The general populus' (alright, girls/ women aged 8- late 30's) fasicnation with Robert Patinson (the dude who plays the lead vamp in Twilight and played Cedric Diggory in HP)..... I really just don't get it..... Don't get me wrong, he is all kids of pretty (the simple fact that he is my icon right now lets you know where I land).... but I just don't get all the crazy hype... I mean, like screaming, boy band style.... people going APE SHIT over this dude....

When he was in HP, I thought he was hot in that movie too, but I had a real hard time really digging him cause every picture i seen of the dude he looked so cracked out.... drunk, stoned or both.... eyes half closed etc etc..... They may normally be seen as bedroom eyes or whatever, but seriosuly he always looked some kind of inebriated.... that didn't fly for me... this time around I have seen more pics where he doesn't look like that... but still....

I guess I just don't understand.... are they all obsessed with the character he palys now, and are therefore projecting it onto him IRL, or is it really just his looks????? If it is the latter, then why wasn't there this crazy fasicnation after the harry potter movie that he was in? I mean, he wasn't one of the stars but he was still a lead, at least for that one...

Then again, you have him starring in a role that is based on a series of books explicitly geared toward girls..... and that makes all the difference in the world I suppose....

Do you guys have any input on this? Input other than it is driven by a bunch of hormonally overwhelmed girls/ women LOL.

so... got a new icon and it is AWESOME

2008-04-03T05:08:12Z

this pic was taken at an open practice by a detroit radio personality a week or so ago.... Fianlly was able to work out a way with him to get it so I can use it for this and for my desk top during play offs.....

I have to say, I find it kinda surreal that I got this pic from a detroit radio personality that I have been listening to on and off for the last 7 years of my life (mainly when I was home or visiting Michigan) I cannot tell you how many mornings I woke up with this morning show.... a lot like WHOA.... also, how many mornings I was listening to it right before I went to sleep... most of the no bed was insomnia, work or last minute studying induced though I swear LOL....

but, yeah, I am not sure how he would feel having this float everywhere.... especially since he was cool enough to take the water mark off for me.... he knows I am using it here, but maybe he is planning on exclusivity? so if you wanna use it (cause I know there are a few other wings fans on here) there is a website attached to it for the show and he has a myspace.... just ask him permission... cause that just seems right in this case.

the funny thing is, the title of the picture is simply "Guess who's back" on his flickr account. GOD I LOVE THIS PIC... especially uncropped on my desk top.

crazy_tj @ 2008-04-02T00:23:00

2008-04-02T04:31:05Z

OMG. I just had the longest post and it all disappeared. Whatever.. it was ramblie anyway but it was stuff that was cool....

I can't get over how nostalgic I have been lately.

you know.... I miss this time of year in the hockey season....

2008-03-31T15:12:39Z

especially in detroit..... here are a couple McCarty related articles that I HEART

http://www.freep.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20080329/SPORTS05/803290391/1053/SPORTS05

THE GRIND LINE WAS BACK..... OMG *SQUEE* I wish I could have watched that game. I would have prolly cried. Seriously, I may have cried.

and then there is this one

http://www.freep.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20080328/SPORTS05/80328039/1053

I miss playoff hockey in Detroit. There is a vibe that I have not seen anywhere else. I don't know how to explain it. The octupi on the ice (although after the rules where changed, that has diminished greatly but not altogther disappeared) and here is yet another link for that.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Legend_of_the_Octopus

the game where there were 30 something octpi on the ice? apparently the gooieness of the ice made it difficult to skate... haha. and the purple octpus Al? yeah, had a beanie baby one on my dash in my first car.... I seriously just remembered that when I was reading this wikki thing.

anyway, back to playoff hockey.... ahhh yes, maybe I will get *really* lucky and there will be a game on friday night that I can watch... that is pushing it since thier last game of the season is this coming Sunday... but still, one can hope no? NOPE.... just looked, apparently the games are on thursday (the day before I get in) and Sunday with a starting time about the time I am boarding my plane I think.... HAHHAHA THANKS KARMA... LMAO