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myjaxon November 23rd, 2008

And I’m not talking in the naughty vampire way either.

So I’m helping Dewey, over at The Hidden Side of a Leaf, come up with a Book Bloggers Top 10 Books of 2008 and we’ve have about 333 nominations in 16 different categories.  The problem I’m running into is that I’m not entirely familiar with all of the novels.  So I’m asking for some help.  Can you take a look at the nominations and see if any have been categorized wrong?  I’ll be taking corrections up until Wednesday afternoon since I need to have the polls for voting up before I leave for Thanksgiving.

If you’re like me and have no clue, damn, but if you know of anyone who might know, could you please pass on my plea of help? Thanks.

If you want to help us determine the top 10, make sure you head over to The Hidden Side of a Leaf for Weekly Geeks on Saturday.  Dewey will have the post with all the links up then.

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myjaxon June 22nd, 2008

This weeks Weekly Geeks is all about Challenges.

If you participate in any challenges, get organized! Update your lists, post about any you haven’t mentioned, add links of reviews to your lists if you do that, go to the challenge blog if there is one and post there, etc.

Towards the end of the week, write a wrap-up post about getting your challenges organized OR if you’re joining your first challenge, post about that any time during the week. Once you have your post up, come back and sign Mr Linky with the link to the specific post, not just to your blog.

I’m currently involved in about five different challenges and while I haven’t finished all of them, I’m doing pretty well.  Check out Literary Escapism to see which challenges I’m involved with.

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myjaxon June 16th, 2008

It’s Weekly Geeks time again and I’m a little behind. Last night was my 10 year high school reunion, so we’ve been out of town and just got back tonight. This weeks challenge is going to take some time too. We’re going on a scavenger hunt.

Our Weekly Geeks #8 theme is SCAVENGER HUNT.

I’m going to list below several keywords for you to find in other weekly geeks’ blogs. Your challenge is to find as many of the keywords as possible, in as many Weekly Geeks’ blogs as possible. Fun times!

So there’s a total of 49 keywords to find and each weekly geek adds their own keyword at the end. So while there is only 49 words now, there are already 10 participants who have added words, so now we’re up to 59 words. I need to catch up. I’m going to post this now, but I’ll keep updating it all week as I find the words. As I find the words, I’ll link them to the blog I found them at. It should be interesting to see what I can find.

Since the list is so long, I’m only going to post it once. So if you want to see all the words that I need to find and where I found them, then head over to Literary Escapism and check out the list.

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myjaxon June 7th, 2008

This weeks Weekly Geeks is Photo Week. I guess last weeks task was a little hard, so they are going easy this week. They say they are going easy, but I have no idea which picture to use. See, here are the instructions:

Decide what to illustrate and start taking photos: Most of you are book bloggers, so you may want to post photos of your favorite reading spot, your TBR pile(s), your local book store, your favorite librarian, your child reading, etc. You may want to post several photos of a certain topic (like all nine of your kids reading!) or a mixed bag of photos that are unrelated except that they’re bookish. Or you may want to post just one photo, it’s up to you. If you have a different type of blog, post photos of whatever you think is suitable.

First off, I should probably say I really don’t have a favorite reading spot. The one place I tend to read a lot is on the floor since I can get away with it with Ian. He’s not a fan of me sitting on the couch or in a chair where he can’t get to me. Yeah, he’s a little spoiled, but his an only child at the moment. I could take a photo of my TBR shelf, but there really isn’t anything special about it and it’s getting packed up tomorrow anyway (plus I can’t find my camera cable, so any pictures I do take won’t get on the computer in time to post this). I really don’t have any pictures that have anything to do with books. Well, I do have a couple from the LKH and Kim Harrison appearances, but they are not that special.

This topic is actually harder for me than last weeks. Afterall, catching up was easy for me; trying to decide on a couple of pictures to talk about when I literally have hundreds from this year alone is crazy hard. Of course I’m going to pick a recent one, but still, I go nuts when I get the camera out. I think what I will decide to do is talk about Ians’ favorite hobby….being outside. I know that really isn’t a hobby, but he loves being outside and he will drag me to the door so we can go outside any chance he gets. He lead Jesse there last night while it was raining and that didn’t even stop him.

At the moment, we live in an apartment complex, so letting Ian outside isn’t always feasible. We try to hit the parks at least once a week, and sometimes we’re lucky enough to hit it more often. This past weekend, Ian spent the weekend with his grandmother and she spoiled him rotten when it came to being outdoors. The grandparents live out in the country, so there was a lot of open space for Ian to run and play in. From the pictures I’ve seen, he had a blast.

We’re in the process of getting a house and I can’t wait until we get it. The backyard is a nice size considering we’re going to be in the city and Ian is going to have plenty of room to run around. I’ll be able to let him out more because I know what is on the ground. Plus I’m on the hunt for outside toys for him, so he should have plenty to keep him occupied.

I think that’s all I’m going to right for now about Ian and being outdoors.

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myjaxon June 6th, 2008

For the sixth week of Weekly Geeks, we were told to Catch Up on Reviews. However, I always write my review when I finish a book; otherwise, I may never write the review. Once I get into a new book, the old one can evaporate out of my head and if I tried to go back and write a review, then I really wouldn’t have much to say. Although, I did finish a couple of books this week, so I’ll include links to their reviews:

1. Dreams Made Flesh by A. Bishop
2. Twilight by Stephenie Meyer
3. New Moon by Stephenie Meyer
4. Eclipse by Stephenie Meyer

I have been told for months that I needed to read the Twilight series by Stephenie Meyer. I had bought the book last fall, but I ended up returning it for some reason without reading it. Yeah, that was a big mistake since I’m now going out and buying the books again. I’ve really been enjoying the series, but I am starting to get nervous about the movie coming out in December.

There is one thing that I did play catch up with. Packing. Our apartment lease is up at the end of the month and we’re getting ready to move. Hopefully into our new house, but we’re still waiting on the bank to give us an answer. Once we close, though, we want to be able to get right into the new house. Not that there’s anything wrong with our apartment (aside from the oh to occasional mouse), we’re both just really ready to have our own home. So this past weekend, our son was off visiting grandma and we went to town getting the apartment packed up. We’re now living in a sea of boxes, but at least we’ll be ready to move once we get the house.

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