Sunday Blog Chatter Hodgepodge

"Moonlit Shower" original drawing by
Frank Sirianni (see details later in this post)


Hello friends.

Lots of things happening in the blogosphere this week that caught my attention. Here are the highlights in no particular order.

Get some coffee. Relax.

(By the way....Just a reminder that Saturday Comeback Challenge Round 4 is underway. You still have until midnight Monday to send in your answers)

NaNoWriMo has come and gone. Fellow blog buddies are peacefully sleeping now and dreaming of edits and book deals with Random House. Congratulations to those who hit the 50,000 word count and to those who didn't (like me)! We all made progress with our writing and it was a learning experience. I'm glad I did it.

Ian at EDog's Everything Page posted a huge count of 57,003 words! He finished at 11:58 on November 30th and deserves a round of applause . His novel, Enter The Jackrabbit, can be be read here. Ian is also a WebComic genius! Read about this amazing talent at Ianthealy.com The guy with intense gaze. Makes you wonder......what literary gems are lurking there....?

And speaking of gems.....

• The lovely and lyrical Gale Martin has been smoking the keyboard all month writing her own novel. It's called Sewing With Mrs. Quimby. Gemmolina's word war with fellow author Adrian Lankford has been entertaining and real.  Congratulations to both!

While searching for Gale's book posts I got understandably sidetracked when I stumbled across this article on nakedness. Gale! Please! I can't take anymore.......now, back to the task at hand.

BIG NEWS! Gale has launched two new blogs!! Be the first to check out Pennsylvania: Elsewhere and Gem-Lets (I love it!) Who could resist a title that reads The Pithy Witticisms of a Perky Pessimist?

Speaking of wit...... The Comeback Champ) continues to rain down laugh-out-loud daring dating disasters. He's started a Sunday feature on dating. I like to think of him as the "antithesis" or male counterpart to my own Dating Profile of the Day site. It is silly spoofing at its best. From a guy's point of view. Priceless.

And congratulations, Bud, on writing your 200th post today. He is also a NaBloPoMo winner 

Ghostrose from Touched by The Wolf wrote Stuck in Red China With Jesus and A White Wine Spritzer - now that's an interesting title. Rose frequently "lost her marbles" through the process and confesses to drinking too much wine. Rose now has an official NaNoWriMo hangover to go with her award. Way to go, my friend!

A Christmas Meme is making the rounds. Please return all memes to Mimi. I will put them in one of my meme central sites with a short bio about author and a link back to your site.

Other blog happenings....

I've somehow mysteriously been linked to new2dating.com a site for men. Can you appreciate the irony in this? This week I had a silly epiphany on the phenomenon known as cuddling ....And now The Keys To Successful Dating for Men has linked Yours Truly as a source of advice. These guys are in trouble.

I'm speechless.

And cuddleless.

However, plenty of warm fuzzies await. I was honored this week to be named a Lifetime Sponsor on Frank Sirianni's site - as was Gale Martin and Rhys Postlewaight

(from A World of Bloggers)

It is a lovely tribute and I am touched. Thank you, Frank, for keeping the Peace Globe movement alive and my wonderful Papa's spirit in sight.

Frank has an INCREDIBLE new theme on Foxxfyrre's Black and White Art Blog. I plan to do an in-depth review of his work in an upcoming Karaoke Blog. For now, please do yourself a favor and take a look at the amount of work that has gone into this project. He's created a BLOGHUNT! A blogosphere scavenger hunt. What a great idea. It's awesome. I plan to participate just as soon as I find the missing files I've been hunting down here for days. Uhh....for all you competitors out there, take a hint. If I can't find my own files it's not likely I'll win a blog hunt (Sigh) so you have little to fear. However, I'm highly motivated because I truly want the prize he is offering. Get this!! Frank is offering one of his original pencil drawings to the first person who correctly identifies all 29 blogs and their post titles. I love this drawing. It's called Moonlit Shower.

So what are you waiting for?!

Now, if you'll excuse me, I have to write a letter to Santa.

Dear Santa.......I need a radar detector that finds little blue globes.