OK.
Three things I hate:
·
Tooting
my own horn. I. Hate. It.
·
Dentists
(During a 1985 visit, the Dublin dentist who worked on me did so with a
cigarette hanging from the corner of his mouth J)
·
The Los Angeles
Angels of Anaheim losing (if you
follow baseball, you’re probably smiling… (shaking fist your way J)
However, we are a community that lives and breathes
successes and failures, so following a recent post I read by the great E.J.
Wesley, I’d like to share some mini successes this week:
·
I picked up a Silver Medal at the Olympic
Blog Relay this week.
Hosted
by the amazing Nicole Singer,
I was sandwiched between D.L.
Hammons who took Gold, and some dude named Alex. (The only Blogger who
doesn’t need HyperlinkingJ)
Nicole
awarded me an Olympic “London 2012” pin, which is the first thing I’ve ever won for writing.
I
now plan to proudly wear said pin the first time I ever do a book signing J
·
Also, this week, I made the finals of
the latest 100-word contest from Janet
Reid, Literary Agent.
For
anyone who’s enjoyed our 300-word What If? BlogFest
(runs through this Friday,) you must check in on her during the weekends, which
is when she normally runs these wicked word-prompt contests.
They
are so much fun to do, and you only get twenty-four hours, so it absolutely
stretches your mind.
Scratching
her legs – the damned mosquitoes would scar
her – Liz stared at her friend.
“Hamish,
what does ‘ken’ even mean?”
“It
means I ‘know.’”
Taking
in the wreckage strewn across the beach,
Liz punched the Scotsman in the
shoulder.
“No
idea. Dave was steering, but he –.”
Liz
interrupted him. She didn’t want to think about the stacked bodies at the base
of the tree.
“Do
you think they’ll send anyone?”
“No,
but I’ll have enough food.
I’ve
never had haggis using a human stomach. I’m sure you’ll taste just fine.”
###
OK, so that’s
more than enough Tooting for now.
Thank you very
much.
Got
“Toot?”
Please share!
PS… the “LAA
truth” as mentioned in the title?
 |
| My Future Derek Jeter (who will only play for the Angels :) |
Well, even
though my beloved Angels *SUCK* so far this year, I will remain forevermore an
Angel.
I love the
Angels so much that my blood even turns red.
29 comments:
I shouldn't have read your entry over breakfast! Good luck with the contest--Janet's the coolest.
Awesome you made the finals! Sorry about the Angels. No one likes to be the cellar-dweller.
And who is this 'dude' of which you speak...?
That's a bunch of great news! Congrats, Mark.
Congrats on all your good news!
I saw you over at Janet's blog, that's pretty exciting! And congrats on all your other news.
Congrats on your silver medal! :D
I used to run contents like Janet Reid's on an old blog, I may have to check this out! :D
I enjoy reading your successes. I also enjoyed reading that piece, and thankful I wasn't eating at the time. Lol
Congrats!!!
Congratulations on being a finalist! (Again, right?) Cool story. Good job!
Congratulations on making the finals and for Nicole's award! Your Olympic Relay post was excellent, and I really enjoyed your micro-story from Janet's contest!
I'm not much of a baseball guy -- for me there's only football season and football off-season, lol. But as a long-time Detroit Lions fan, I can certainly relate to hopeless causes and endles-bottom-dwelling-fandom. ;^)
Told ya you had awesome talent. I'm going to toot my horn and say, I can recognize greatness when I read it. :)
Congratulations Mark!!
ps...creepy, creepy ending...but I liked it!
Those 100 words are dark and icky and I LOVED them!
Congrats! That is an awesome 100 words. *I hate going to the dentist too. Doesn't everyone?*
Alex has become one who only needs his first name, too. Congrats on your silver medal. Awesome.
I have middle-graders. In our house, 'toot' means an entirely different thing. LOL
Congrats! You more than deserve it. ;)
Man, don't know about "great" (just nowhere to go but down from that lol), but I'll take it Mark! :) Appreciate the shout out.
Awesome news on Janet's contest! You know you're in some pretty amazing company in that crowd.
And your "medal" is in the mail! ;)
"Some dude named Alex" <----Totally laughing!
And Mark, that's HUGE with Janet's contest... Soooooo awesome!!!!! And I totally "ken" what ken meant... I read a lot of Scottish romance novels, LOL
And aren't EJ's posts awesome? That guy rocks.
Well this is awkward.
I'm a Yankees fan...
*ahem*
I liked your entry! I think the prompts where you HAVE to incorporate certain words are the most challenging, so great job!
Yay! Congrats.
Love this line: some dude named Alex. (The only Blogger who doesn’t need Hyperlinking :))
Haha
You've got plenty to toot about I see. I tooted for you with a tweet of the link to this post. Toot tweet.
Lee
Wrote By Rote
Many congrats on the horn-tooting worthy news! I love the twist on the end. I'm thinking maybe you should think about fiction for your second (or whatever number comes next after your current WIP) novel? :)
Best of luck with the contest Mark. Cute kid. Congrats on your pin.
It sucks supporting a team that losses too often. My heart goes out to you...but not too much as you won a silver medal to make up for it.
Dude.....congrats!!!
And I had the best intentions towards this blogfest, but I got swamped between WRiTE CLUB and work and was unable to devote the necessary time. :(
What a twist in your last line! Love it. Sinister, but made me smile (I can't help doing so at the mention of haggis). Congrats on the medal. I'll have to check out Janet's contest, it sounds great!
A finalist, huh? That's awesome, dude! Best of luck to you there. :)
haha. sweeet! Looking forward to more posts by you,
I followed you btw :)
That was good. A deserted island, and new unusual food to try. Cannibalism sounds tasty.
......dhole
Congrats Mark!
I can certainly see why you made finals... Well done!
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