Echo Liz and Whoopi’s choices.

Never watched…wasn’t attracted to the show.

Marci, If you haven’t, google to find a Non-Profit credit consultant near you….I did a google search (make sure non-profit so not scammers) I did a quick search and came up with this: http://www.cccusa.org/ Run, don’t walk, and get advice if haven’t even try Acorn…because you just need one good idea to save your house. Best of luck. Praying for you.

I cannot believe it’s been 6 /12 months that I’ve been down with a shattered foot and then my brother’s death….and my book, which I worked so hard to complete in the UCLA writing program, and with so much terrific support, and to get edited by a literary agent/ace….has been set aside when was my driving force. I realized that my slight ambivalence is that I want to hop around the country selling it about as much as I was to let terrorists using jackhammers drill on my teeth. And the conventional wisdom is that you ‘must.’ I’ve already traveled 150K miles a year around the US and that is no longer my idea of fun. A week ago met this lady at Peet’s coffee, she was working on the same model Apple laptop that I have, and we spoke. She was an art buyer and did this blog on blogspot.com for free and as can see has advertising: http://www.sfgirlbybay.com/ Scroll down on the right side and you’ll see WWII-era posters she sells on etsy.com She got the posters off public domain and had a friend silk screen them. And she recommends a nicely styled IKEA frame and how to mat them. She’s made 85K on the posters in the last nine months. I’d never heard of etsy.com and checked it’s stats on Alexa.com…..it’s in the top 2,000 sites high-traffic sites in the world. Then I noticed (this is days ago) that they sell ebooks on etsy for $12. the seller keeps most of that. Hmm. If I sell a $20 book through traditional channels I make $2. a book and agent gets 10% of that. And I’m excellent at e-marketing. If I sell 8,333 books that’s $100,000 to me. I started looking at ebooks which have always dismissed and realized…that’s perfect for me. I don’t care at all to be a traditional author and all the work that goes with that….love to write and create, not go talk about it and be a ‘personality.’ More interested in making $$ and producing things that inspire/entertain/help. I immediately bought up some of the logical ebook domain names. This is a growing field and if anyone wants those particular domains they’ll have to buy them from me. Plus am doing another blog…and it’ll combine ebooks with wine and design….and create a Face Book group (besides friends group) to support it. So now am off to my friend’s on the beach and can work on just that…am finishing up current projects for wineries and then no more. They can advertize on my new site. I want my income to become 80% from passive streams. Ebooks will be a multi-billion business….I’m off to become an expert in this.

“And you––you were so close to me then, So fine, so proud, so unbelievably optimistic–– Where did you go to? Try as I might I can’t seem to hold onto what we’ve lost–––– That last touch––––– that last kiss, Ephemeral as breath on glass.” Made me cry…so true.

JB, I hadn’t thought of this until you mentioned it. My mother does that “I don’t care” bit from time to time. One Thanksgiving we were driving from San Francisco to Carmel and before we got to the divide in the freeway where you go right and down the coast route or stay left and take the highway most of the way down, I asked, “Would you prefer to drive on the coast route or down the highway, which is perhaps 15 minutes faster.” “I don’t care.” She responded. OK, I thought….I’ll go down the highway (when 95% of the time I take the coast) and we’ll be there sooner and it’s so beautiful in the fall. And we were going to dinner at Pebble Beach Lodge and would be by the water then entire time anyway. So I stayed on the highway and she looked at the turn-off and sighed, dramatically. Sheesh! And now it’s fall again in Northern California and so gorgeous.

“Having said that” is the one cliche that really makes me want to get up and Bitch slap the speaker back into their mother’s womb. Ane Palinisms “You betcha” etc. make me want to hurl my breakie.

E Flynn— Re MBTI. In my profession, MBTI is often used by companies once they have the top candidates selected for a position that invoves managing highly complex projects, high stress projects and hundreds of people. I’ve taken that test so many times could pratically write it. I like taking tests, and generally taking it got me the job. So I’m one who has a positive reaction to MBTI. Dumb me, I actually think it’s fun like those people who do the NYT crossword while hanging from a strap on the subway.

Kelly, I agree. I was the oldest of 5 and the one who did everything, the ‘strong’ one, ‘the ‘tough’ one. My grandmother would say, “She’s got everything done while the others are still thinking about it, “she has the house reroofed and the driveway waxed while everyone is still in bed,” I’m not ‘allowed’ to have feelings. It’s OK that everyone else in the family is devastated over my brother’s death. Not me, because I am ‘strong.’ It’s very dismissive.

Susan, I agree with that. My name is Suzanne, not Sue, Susan, Suzie (except to my parents). Although I don’t understand why Belinda and Whoopi object to “You are so articulate.” People have said that to me my entire life. When certain types of men say it, I think, but don’t say, “Imagine that…and with blond hair.” Because I know that’s what they meant.

Jennifer—‘Fat Bastard’ is the #1 selling French wine in US.

Not this trip Kryssi it’s packed…but France!! We’ll all have to sit around the pool and drink Fat Bastard and Bitch!!

ROTFLMAO!!! You guys keep a list of funny wines that you see….am doing a new blog ebooks, wine and design and will add those….hysterical.

Grammar Gurrls, Actually, I think it would be fun to have a grammar thread. One of my favorite books is Elements of Style…the redo. A really stylish and slim hardback addition with wonderful Maira Kalman watercolors added. Couldn’t find the hardback on line but here’s the paperback: http://www.amazon.com/Elements-Style-Illustrated-William-Strunk/dp/01431…

McHoover and Palin get plenty of press and they are evil personified. They are going down and good riddance to bad rubbish. My mother is a complete Obama supporter, by Dad is a die-hard Republican who does not like McCain but is holding his nose to vote…and while I disagree with Dad on hjis politics, he’s Dad so I love him and keep quiet. No use in upsetting him at his age.