The Twitarded Meme Game comes to Foxyville

Woot! I got tagged!!! By now, you all should know the story behind the Twitarded Meme Game. BUT, if for some reason you're reading about it here first, I'll recap it for you: JJ and STY have asked every blogger tagged to answer seven questions and then tag four other blogs to answer those seven questions in turn. And so on, and so on, and so on.

I was actually tagged twice. Once by the excellent KG of I Heart Mythical Creatures and once by sjAimee of Straight Jacket Aimee. If you haven't read their posts already, please, please DO!

OK, so the seven questions are:
1) What is the craziest/most stupid thing you've ever done (that you would be willing to share!)?
2) One my personal favorite games: Fuck, Marry, Kill. With the Twilight cast.
3) What is your favorite band/type of music?
4) What is your favorite movie besides Twilight?
5) Do you RL life family/friends know you’re addicted to Twilight? A blogger?
6) How many hours a week do you spend doing Twi related things? You know, blogging, looking at pictures of the cast, reading fan fiction, etc.
7) Any random fact you might want to share. Big or small, it doesn't matter.

Here are my answers. Note, if you already read the Meme post on The Lemon Sisters, you'll notice that my answers are eerily the same. :)

1) What is the craziest/most stupid thing you've ever done (that you would be willing to share!)?
Wow! This is a tough one. Not that I haven't done crazy or stupid stuff, just that I'm not sure what to share without scaring all my twi-buddies off. Hmmm.....OK, how about this.:

After I graduated college I moved to California to live with my on-again, off-again boyfriend from high school. Despite the fact that it was THOUSANDS of miles away from anyone I knew or loved. Despite the fact that our relationship really wasn't going anywhere. DESPITE THE FACT THAT THE DOUCHE-WAD HAD JUST CHEATED ON ME!!!

I know, I don't fully understand it myself. The saddest part is that no matter how much my friends and family begged me to come home, I kept sticking it out. At least until he asked me to move out because he needed more space. I WAS STUPID!!

2) One my personal favorite games: Fuck, Marry, Kill. With the Twilight cast.
So easy. Fuck Jasper (I agree with sjAimee on this one, you know that boy's got some kinks!), Marry Edward, Kill Renesmee. What!?!?! Yeah, I said it. Something about that little tyke bothers me.

3) What is your favorite band/type of music?
I would say that if I had to pick a favorite band it would be Tom Petty and the Heartbreakers. I love rock in all it's forms but Tom's always been my boy.

4) What is your favorite movie besides Twilight?
Would you believe that it's Groundhog Day with Bill Murray? I freaking love that movie. I've watched it over and over and over again. It never gets old for me.

5) Do you RL life family/friends know you’re addicted to Twilight? A blogger?
Some do. The DH obviously clued in when I started to divvy up my spare time between the laptop and his junk. *wink* I recently came clean to my sister and my RL BFF, but only partially (they don't know about THIS blog, just that I have a twi-blog for my writing). No one else knows. And I'll be keeping it that way, thank you very much.

6) How many hours a week do you spend doing Twi related things? You know, blogging, looking at pictures of the cast, reading fan fiction, etc. Too many! I know, I know. Like the rest of you I wished I got paid for this. I'd be RICH! I'd guess that I spend about 6-8 hours a day blogging, reading/writing fanfic, keeping in touch with my twi-girls. Just writing that down made me feel a little pathetic. :(

7) Any random fact you might want to share. Big or small, it doesn't matter.
My BFF and I have been friends for 13 years. We're so close that when we were in our early 20's my mother thought we might actually be "together". We weren't but if she were a guy, she would have given Mr. Foxy a run for his money.

OK, now for the hard part. Most of the blogs I follow have already been tagged but here are a few gems that have escaped untagged as of yet:

House of Jackassery
Call of Duty Widow
An Insomniac Pisces Random Obsessions
Eyes of Amber

Dazzling Wins!

Yesterday morning, while I was running around the house like a chicken with it's head cut off, my cell phone rang with a 319 area code. 319? Who the heck could that be? Oh, it was uhyesplease. Now I had just posted my slash post to The Lemon Sisters and my first thought was, "Oh crud, I've offended someone." Nope, that's not it. My lovely, lemony UYP just called to tell me that the winners were out in the Love for the Unloved contest and Dazzling won!!!

I squeed! I jumped up and down. Mr. Foxy gave me a big high-five and he and the little foxes sang me a victory song (along the lines of "Foxy's so awesome! Foxy's so awesome, yeah!). It was quite a moment.

And I tweeted all of this (naturally) but I just wanted to take a second to thank a couple of people who went a long way to making this possible.

First ly: uhyesplease. Girl, how I love you!!!! Who told me there was such a contest? You did. Who encouraged me to enter? Yup, that'd be you too. Who read, not only countless drafts of Dazzling but also the other crud that I worked on before Dazzling became the idea that I ran with. Uh hunh, that'd be a big YOU! Everyday you encourage me to not only write, but write better. You are made entirely of awesomesauce.

Secondly: Betti. Not only did you read my story and review it, but you made it a one-of-a-kind, button-guru original button! And wrote about it on your blog!




And since I clearly can't stop at thanking just two people, let me also thank afragilelittlehuman and Mrs. Vanquish.

Fragile, you make me smile everyday, you push me to be a better writer just so I can keep up with you and you're so supportive it makes me want to cry.

Mrs. V, whenever I'm getting the inevitable "my writing sucks" blahs, you invariably pop up and tell me how much you enjoyed the last piece.

I know that's not everyone, but it's 5 a.m. here and rather than ramble on naming ever single person I love, I'm going to get some coffee. But before I do, I just want to add one last thing.

It is amazingly flattering to be supported by so many awesome women. I adore you all!!!

Yep, I'm crazy...

So with the holidays approaching and everyone in my family (except the insanely supportive DH) pretty much in the dark regarding the extent of my twi-sanity, what should I do?

Well, first of course, I'll definitely plan to do NaNoWriMo because I do that every year. It's this super fun challenge to write a novel in a month, no problemo!! But that doesn't feel like enough. Hmmmm.....what else can I do?

Oh, yeah, launch a new blog with my twi-BFF, uhyesplease, that requires me to read TONS of fanfic. Sounds good, I'll just squeeze that in right *looks around for a free time slot* ooh, here. *shoves "clean the bathrooms" out of it's previous timeslot*. Oh yeah, that looks good. Clean bathrooms are overrated. I mean, my kids are just going to shit all over that toilet anyway, right?

Oh, and I think I have some more time left. *eyes calendar entries for other chores* Yep, I think I'll also see if I can convince fellow bloggy friend, fragilelittlehuman, to start writing a collaborative fanfic with me. Cool.

And you know what will be awesome? If I decide not to outline it, so I can pretty much fly by the seat of my pants and write without know too much about what fragile's going to be writing. That sounds smart!

Ok, smart I may not be, but crazy I am in spades. So you know I totally signed up for both.

So if you haven't seen the tweets already, go and check out the blog I started with uhyesplease, called The Lemon Sisters. You won't be disappointed.

And if you like my writing, or even if you hate my writing but LOVE fragile's writing (and who doesn't?), please head over to the blog we set up under our combined moniker fragilefoxes for our new collaborative effort, In The Blood.

And if my DH buys me a sweet new jacket for Christmas that's a pretty shade of white and has lots of fun buckles, well, you'll know where to find me at least. :)