Wednesday, September 30, 2009

Only five obsessions...Easy Peasy

I was very excited to be given this award by DJ.

The "Your Blog is Fabulous!" Award stands for: Integrity. Commitment to Excellence. Stubbornly Optimistic.

The Rules:

List five current obsessions:



1. Oh my blog; blogging. Completely and utterly can’t get over it. Even though I’m told blogging is so yesterday. Do you know what? I don’t care; I just do not care. Anyway, I always was behind the times. Twitter schmitter: not interested. Facebook, nah been there, done that. (Okay sometimes I do go and look and comment a teenie weenie bit…)
2. My mini race with Sheepish. The woolly one and I are both Novel Racers but we’ve got a private race on too. We compare word counts each Sunday and so far it’s two weeks to Sheepish; one week to me. (I MUST win this week.)
3. Family: from Son’s GCSE’s coursework and climbing mountains…to my poor elderly Dad who’s just broken his pelvis. I could worry for a living (Coo, if only someone would pay me for it)
4. Costumes for the Melbourne Cup. I’m only slightly obsessed.
5. Starbucks writing-my-novel sessions. I am thinking of asking them to sponsor me. At the moment it’s the only place I can write. It’s costing a fortune in tea and the muffins… ah, terrible temptation.

Pass the award on to five other bloggers: Queenie, Carol, Redders, Leigh and Sue.

13 comments:

DJ Kirkby said...

I really don't get the Starbucks writing thing but it's good that it works so well for you. Your poor dad, how did he manage to do that? x

Jenny Beattie said...

DJ, nor do I! If I'm at home, I have to have total silence and preferably an empty apartment. But when I come to Starbucks, there's loud music playing and lots of chatter. However, the chatter is in Thai and I can only understand 'please can I have a chicken fried rice?' which you don't hear much in Starbucks... (not really, my Thai is a bit better than that!) The music... well I quite like it but not enough to sing along to so I don't, whereas I would at home.

I just know at home I get side tracked and in Starbucks I don't. It's a mystery, and it'll be different in a week or so!

Rebecca said...

I wouldn't think too much on the starbucks writing mystery - just accept it as a good thing and go with it.

There is no Starbucks where I live and all I do is procrastinate.

Queenie said...

Great, thanks, that's my next blog post sorted out!

Rachel Green said...

Super answers JJ :)

Helen said...

I was thinking what mine would be as I was reading yours, so will definitely do this.(tho twitter might be one of them...)

Helen said...

ok just re-read and saw that this was a blog aaward and not just a meme. Thank you!

Sue Guiney said...

Great, and thanks. I'll be obsessing about this today and write it up tomorrow :-)

Amanda said...

Congrats on the award JJ. Great answers! x

Jenny Beattie said...

Rebecca, you're right of course. When the Starbucks magic runs out, I'll probably be happiest at home again!

Queenie, sorry I meant to get over to let you know...

Rachel, thank you.

Helen, Twitter? Schmitter. Okay, if you must and you're welcome.

Sue, LOL.

Amanda, thank you.

Deborah Carr (Debs) said...

Great answers.

I could worry for a living too. Hope your dad is on the mend very soon.

Carol said...

Congratulations on the award honey...tis very well deserved :-)

I loved your answers but have to say...where Tea??? *grins*

Awww, thank you for passing it on to me...I needed cheering up today and that has just put a big smile on my face!!

C x

Tamsyn Murray said...

You won the book giveaway over on my blog, honey. Can you email or DM your address please? x x