I neglected to answer commenter Raggedy's question today; I didn't notice til she brought it to my attention...she asked the question here, instead of here. Anywhere her question is: What do you like about writing?

Writing in my blog is relaxing to me, never stressful, nor do I have a hard time coming up with things to talk about or list in the Thursday 13. Life has so many little things going on in it at any given time, I just need to open my eyes and look around! I don't think writing is a strength of mine, though. Photography, maybe :-)

Writing notes, cards, letters, etc., is something I usually love to do, given the correct pen. After my Mom passed away last December, I had a photo of mine made into thank you cards, bought a quill pen and some ink to write the cards with. Despite that, I have yet to sent out most of the cards. I did 10...then kind of just ... let it be. It was hard to write about it over and over, and so...if you haven't received a thank you card, know that you will, and know that it's just hard for me.

Hope that answered your question, Raggedy!

On another topic, yesterday at work I went downstairs to the vending machine and saw Clamato Tortilla Chips in there!

Now, I will try just about anything once! And this combination sounded intriguing to me :-)

They were actually pretty good! But that red coloring...wasn't that banned??? LOL!

Last night I went to see Chrissie Hynde and the Pretenders up in Hampton Beach. MAN! She still rocks, and she fulfilled my fondest wishes by playing my two favorite Pretenders songs: "Precious" and "Tattooed Love Boys". Who wouldn't love a song with a name like that! It wasn't even too hot up there, apparently a storm front had passed through and cooled things off considerably, which is good because where they were playing isn't air conditioned LOL!

I ran into someone I hadn't seen since high school at the concert. It's surprising to me I recognized her at all because I wasn't close to her, but if I remember correctly, she dated someone I had dated and maybe that's why I remembered her. We spoke briefly and she recognized me, too. Small world :-)

Finally, this news item amused me no end:

J.K. Rowling, Stephen King and John Irving each recently read excerpts from one of their books in two performances at Radio City Music Hall in NYC; the evenings benefitted Doctors Without Borders and The Haven Foundation.

The author Salman Rushdie attended one of the performances and apparently asked JK Rowling something to the effect of whether Snape was good or bad; he asserted that Snape was intrinsically good. Of course, she didn't directly answer the question, but said something like "your opinion is correct." She also supposedly said to him: "I don't feel this is quite fair. You're better at figuring out plots than most."

That probably got a good laugh!

Ha! the first to leave a comment...finally!
Ah, for the love of pens. I am a pen fanatic, and I have certain fountain pens for certain journals, for certain topics, and for certain people. almost all of them are filled with inks of black, purple, or aqua hue...

CLAMATO!!! I have not heard that word in a long time. I don't remember where I heard it - I want to say maybe I had calmato sauce once?

You're quite brave, I don't think I could eat those things because of the color!

I think all the hysteria over the future deaths of HP characters is quite hilarious. The fact that best selling authors are begging her not to kill Harry just cracks me up.

c-c-c-clamatoooooooow. ew

Ok, do you mean you actually ate those Clamato things???? Then you're ready for some real Mexican food. When would you come over? :)

JK Rowling is too much! She must have so much fun living in the castle. Smart woman.