I'm doing the booty dance! Booty, booty, boot-y! Hey! Booty, booty, boot-y! Hey!
No, that's not a Snooki dance.
(You are cut off from MTV for awhile, BTW.)
It's the dance pirates do when
they find treasure. Even the most
fearsome pirate who stumbles upon a hidden chest on a desert island is sure to
catch a serious case of all-night-dance-party-fever! (cue disco ball) Between you and me, I think this supports
the belief pirates are cowards, because you don't have to be very brave to
shake what your momma stole for you when there's no one around (which is often the case on a desert island.)
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| (chest by lockstockb via sxc.hu) |
A Motherload of Writing Books
A Gift Certificate to Barnes and Noble for a Motherload of Writing Books
A New Bookshelf which holds a Motherload of Books. When we set sail to the East Coast, I scuppered my
book collection overboard and became a loyal library card holder. But, arrr, a writer needs a bookshelf.
Handsome Journals Including
one with color-coded sections! Aye, I
wet me britches a little when I opened that gift.
"Just Write" Tote for Books and Journals Avast! I see you eyeing my booty you scallywag stepchild
son of a manatee! Avert ye eyes!
Net, I am very blessed, I will be reading every night for a century, and I love pirates.
But pray tell, what writing booty hath ye received?
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I can't tell if I'm jealous or inspired! I love your booty and I totally mean that in a Pirating way! I treated myself to a copy of Stephen King's, On Writing, which I have actually started reading, thank you very much, and a new journal. Very pretty with leather! Ummm, and I think I must say that you've missed your calling as a pirate!!!!!
ReplyDeleteOoh leather journal? Very sensory. I don't know how long it will take me to read all these, so maybe I'll bring some you could borrow to our next crit :)
DeleteYou struck gold!!! That's a writer's dream package right there. My birthday's coming up so I'm going to add your gifts to my wish list!
ReplyDeleteHere's the books I got: Creating Characters Children Will Love, Writing for Children and Teens, by Cynthea Liu (maybe I'll get a green light next year in RLGL!), The Emotion Thesaurus (this makes me salivate every time I open it), Children's Writer Word Book, Writing Magic, The Elements of Style, and the 2013 Children's Writer's and Illustrator's Market (which is awesome bc I only bought myself a cheap, used 2010 edition - so now I am up to date!). Whoo! I feel the booty dance coming on!
DeleteI have a total illustrated picture in my brain of you doing your Booty Dance, Lauri. And the gifts? How inspiring.
ReplyDeleteWe only know each other virtually and yet you know me so completely! And the gifts? Whew, I have some reading to do!
DeleteI want your booty. Yes, I know exactly how that sounds. :)
ReplyDeleteSeriously, though, you got some major goodies! I took in a haul of Amazon gift cards ... over $100 worth, ha-ha. The terrible thing for me is, the more I have, the less I'm willing to spend it, because as the amount goes down I'm afraid I'll realize I wasted it on something when there was something AWESOME I could have purchased! I need to use them to get some booty-licious bookie things!
Tee hee hee!
DeleteNice! A hondo of Amazon is a lot of Amazon. Spend it. Spend it now! Otherwise, you'll end up ordering toilet paper on Amazon one day (hey they have everything!) and you're money will be gone and you won't even have enjoyed it. Or at least put a plan in place. There are lots of used books in great condition. You can buy one per month all year! You got boot-y, boot-y!
Awesome! The kids/I got a tonne of picture books and poetry books, in book heaven too!
ReplyDeleteArr, my wee lads really hauled in the picture book booty! Luckily they are happy to share with me. It helps that they can't read yet.
DeleteI go crazy for new journals and notebooks too!
ReplyDeleteAnd I downloaded a lot of ebooks this holiday season. A virtual motherload. :)
Avast, ye be a cyber pirate! Nice virtual booty.
DeleteWow! I just got a broken toe and a lot of family members asking me "So! Are you writing another book?" Good times.
ReplyDeleteNo rest for the weary! Well, your book did come out way back LAST year, so I suppose you are due for another. I'll read it, if you write it!
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