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QotD: I'll Beat You

What game are you really good at?

Netropolis

Having grown up with every single gaming system known to man, this game Netropolis is the only one I managed not to completely suck at.  Not exactly sure what it says about me since the game is about destroying your opponent.

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QotD: Pants on Fire

Tell us two truths and a lie about yourself.

1. I have two different sized feet.

2. I have only ever kissed one boy.

3. I can't leave the house without lipstick on.

Guess which one is the lie...

Vox Hunt: Summer Reading List

Books: Show us your summer reading list.
Submitted by marvel is my pen name.

One Dangerous Lady: A Novel

Jane Stanton Hitchcock

Wicked: The Life and Times of the Wicked Witch of the West

Gregory Maguire

Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows (Book 7)

J. K. Rowling

Fast Food Nation

Eric Schlosser

*Fast Food Nation is a part of my professional development with work.

Short update...

Just realized it's been forever and a day since I've written. 

Everything for the most part is fine.  Work is keeping me busy.  I really do love my job!

Am nursing a bit of a broken-heart.  A bit is a lie.  My heart is completely broken in a way I have never felt before.  I have no idea what happened.  I don't understand.

QotD: Terms of Endearment

What is your favorite term of endearment? 
Submitted by lostdwarf.

Being called "Miss."

Nothing wrong with being picky...

First found on lemon's vox.

Shockingly quite accurate...

Your Love Life Secrets Are

Looking back on your life, you will only have one true love. You're a little scarred from your past relationships, but who isn't? You expect a lot from your lover - you want the full package. You tend to be very picky. In fights, you speak your mind and don't hold back. You know you're right, and you can get quite angry about it. Break-ups can be painful for you, but you never show it. You hold your head high.

Your Love Life Secrets, Revealed

Non-sense...

These past few weeks I have been very apprehensive to write for fear that I would jinx everything.  Because it has seemed to me that anytime I talk about anything in my life, whether it's on Vox or to a friend...the universe comes along and ruins things.  Most likely what happened is that by talking about things meant I physically acknowledged the good things and made myself aware...and I in turn ruined the good things in my life. 

For the first time in a very long time, I feel good about life.  To have a job that I am so excited to be doing. 

On the other end of the spectrum my heart aches.   I keep pushing the feelings down.  And trying to go about as though the feelings aren't there.  

Vox Hunt: This Gets Me Cooking

Book: Show us one of your favorite cookbooks.

Top Secret Recipes: Creating Kitchen Clones of America's Favorite Brand-Name Foods (Plume)

Todd Wilbur

For a girl who lives in a house with close to 200 cookbooks, this seems like a strange selection.  I have to tell you this book includes a chocolate chip cookie recipe that is hands down the best chocolate chip cookie I have ever baked.   Kicking myself a bit for not taking pictures of the batch I made this past Friday.  I consistently get told that these cookies are the "best I have ever eaten," usually followed by "and just why aren't you married?!"

And that Jasper, is more or less how it is in the hood...

Help The Police

I am overly amused by this clip, having watched it repeatedly for the past 10mins.  Maybe it's because I had no idea that Brits listened to "NWA."  Or the fact that the father in the clip does his own live edited version of the song adding in words as "biscuits," "bobby,"  and "selling bits of chocolate."   I doubt anyone would believe me if I said that in my younger days, I was known to play the unedited version of this song overly loud in my car and sing along.