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13 things I have to do

1. Bake 6 batches of cookies for two mother/daughter cookie exchanges.

2. Wrap presents. Lots of wrapping to do.

3. Watch holiday specials. I'm way behind on that.

4. Go look at Christmas lights

5. Go to the grocery store

6. Fold the mountain of laundry that's waiting for me *sigh*.

7. Clean the house. The youngest found the sugar last night.

8. Write. A new story is speaking.

9. Drop off our stuff for the Angel Tree person we adopted.

10. Either donate or find time to go to the SPCA and volunteer.

11. Pick up new books from the library and turn in some old ones

12. Figure out my schedule for Marscon, a convention I'm attending in January

13. Have some Christmas fun. I love this season!

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13 authors I want to read more of

1. Lori G. Armstrong

2. Elizabeth Lowell

3. Marissa Alwin

4. Melissa Lopez

5. Chelsea Cain (and I can...thank you my library!)

6. Laurell K. Hamilton (they've been getting better to me)

7. Sherrilyn Kenyon

8. Kinley Macgregor

9. Robin Schone

10. Karen Marie Moning

11. Elizabeth Jewell

12. Stephen King

13. Jenna Leigh

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Thirteen things I say frequently these days

1. Get off there! (to the kitten. I must toss him off of stuff 50 times a day)

2. I fed you already (to the kitten, Diva Kitty, and the dog)

3. Get out of the candy! (the kids and Halloween candy)

4. Are you listening to me? (the youngest gets involved in TV, the oldest in books, regardless I have to make sure they're hearing me)

5. Stop licking me (to the dog).

6. Get off my head (the kitten has started climbing up to the top of my desk chair and using my head or neck for a pillow).

7. Stop stomping on my keyboard (to either cat but mostly Diva Kitty)

8. Bring home everything from school even if you don't think you have homework (to the kids, a sore subject).

9. I need coffee (darn time change).

10. Stop doing that (to kids, computer, pets, phone, LOL)

11. I need a nap (darn time change).

12. Pick it up! I don't care whose it is.

13. Ahhhh. A quiet house.

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13 serieses my kids are reading by Lany

1. Junie B. Jones by Junie B. Jones (the youngest)

2. Remnants by Katherine Applegate (I think it scares the oldest a little)

3. Charlie Bone (oldest)

4. Encyclopedia Brown (nearing the end of the series, Oldest)

5. The Three Investigators (oldest)

6. Deltora Quest (oldest)

7. The Unicorn Chronicles (oldest)

8. Avalon (if we can ever find the next set of books, oldest)

9. Hardy Boys/Nancy Drew (I think oldest still has more to read on them but might be wrong)
10. A-Z Mysteries (Oldest, they take her like two seconds but she HAD to check out a bunch of them)

11. Warriors—(oddly enough the youngest found a manga version of this and really liked it)

12. fairy books (not sure who’s reading them. I never see the youngest, who checked them out but the oldest talks about them)

13. Fudge books (though youngest has been taking a break from them)

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13 things on my desk right now by Lany

1. laptop

2. Diva Kitty

3. Youngest's school pictures

4. little stuffed bat from Dark-Hunter K-con bag from 2006 (I think)

5. Large Nagshead Postcard

6. Two Snoopy knicknacks, one is a globe, the other regular, both have Snoopy on his doghouse typing on his typewriter, "It was a dark and stormy night..."

7. the album I started for my writing career and the stack of stuff to go in it (need to work ont hat)

8. Picture of two friends. One I've known since 2nd grade, the other since middle school.

9. Picture of the youngest

10. Halloween party invitation for the oldest

11. Girl Scout tickets for High Five for 95, which is Saturday and celebrates the 95th anniversary of Girl Scouting

12. Several books, including Angela Knight's book Passionate Ink, a book on bondage, Suncatcher (a book on Madeleine L'Engle), and Janet Evanovich's book on writing

13. note reminding me Neurotic dog has to go to the vet *shudder*. She hates the vet

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13 challenged books that also make the top novels list by Lany 1. To Kill a Mockingbird, Harper Lee 2. The Color Purple, Alice Walker 3. Beloved, Toni Morrison 4. The Lord of the Flies, William Golding 5. 1984, George Orwell 6. Of Mice and Men, John Steinbeck 7. Heart of Darkness, Joseph Conrad 8. Their Eyes were Watching God, Zora Neale Hurston 9. Invisible Man, Ralph Ellison 10. Song of Solomon, Toni Morrison 11. Gone with the Wind, Margaret Mitchell 12. One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest, Ken Kesey 13 A Separate Peace, John Knowles I had to leave in the first reason it was challenged *blank blinks*: Challenged in Vernon-Verona-Sherill, NY School District (1980) as a "filthy, trashy sex novel." Source: ALA

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13 things in Mel's purse I cleaned my purse out last night and look at the odd things I found. :) 1. A batting glove (Since it's all black it belongs to Rafe.) 2. A pacifier. (Little J's.) 3. Chapstick (Alys is addicted to the stuff. She got the habit of using it as a toddler from my dad.) 4. A spare key. (I'm supposed to give it to Nick.) 5. A CD. (I'm supposed to mail it to one of my aunts.) 6. Coupons. (My mom saves them for Nick. I'm supposed to give them to him. But sometimes I forget.) 7. A half a bag of chewy Sweet Tarts. (Left over from the last movie I saw) 8. My mojo bag. ( I never leave home without it.) 9. An S.L. Carpenter promo pen. (It's so cool. It lights up.) 10. My car keys. (Habit. I gave up driving last September.) 11. Yu-Gi-Oh! Cards (Rafe's always asking me to hold them.) 12. The October flyer for new movie video releases. (My mom's.) 13. A small packet of band-aids and Triple antibiotic ointment. (Can never be too prepared. ) Strange how most of them don't belong there. Until later~ ~Mel

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