Pseudotherapy

Making a stop at?the Wordle playstation. I fed it the first ten chapters of my in-progress novel (seriously, I should just change the title to In Progress). Here’s a graphic depiction of the 100 most frequently used words. Of course, being me, I had to tweak the offered colors to make them more appropriate. Because I always have to tinker.

Hmmn, wonder who the protagonists are? (Click image to view larger.)

Totally Related Aside: Statistics indicate that 62% of female bloggers are writing a vampire novel. Or they would if anybody was counting.

Previously done by Adena, Penelope, Kevin, Karl, Hilly, Bec, Suze and apparently, most of the blogiverse …

I love memes. I love photos. I love Flickr. Therefore, this may be my dream meme. If not, it’ll do for now.

The concept:
1. Type your answer to each of the questions below into Flickr Search.
2. Using only the first page of results, pick one image.
3. Copy and paste each of the URLs for the images into Big Huge Lab?s Mosaic Maker to create a mosaic of the picture answers.

The questions:
1. What is your first name?
2. What is your favorite food right now?
3. What high school did you go to?
4. What is your favorite color?
5. Who is your celebrity crush?
6. What is your favorite drink?
7. What is your dream vacation?
8. What is your favorite dessert?
9. What do you want to be when you grow up?
10. What do you love most in life?
11. What is one word that describes you?
12. What is your Flickr name?

The result:

1. suzi-tattoo-love, 2. tuna melt innards, 3. Poway High School - Witch Creek Fire, 4. Do I have enough pink electronics?, 5. Alex O?Loughlin 3, 6. Mojito Power, 7. View From Our Room, 8. two pumpkin pies, 9. I am Wise, Wealthy, Healthy and Strong, 10. May 28, 2008, 11. v2.196: September 12th (Insecure), 12. Mother’s Day 1956 AFTER

Yes, I cheated on #10. No matter how I entered her name, I couldn’t get a picture of Juli to come up. I refuse to have a photo of a total stranger illustrate what I love most in life. Feel free to report me to the Meme Police. And #7? That’s my sister’s timeshare complex in Las Vegas. Yeah, I get to have my dream vacation at least once a year.

Fun, fun meme! But definitely not a quickie.

I’ve been pseudotagged for the Six-Word Memoir meme, which means I wasn’t actually tagged by kilax, but I’m taking the meme and running with it. Mostly because I’m battling the Depression Demon right now, but also because I love the idea of condensing a life into six words.

Here’s my attempt:

Still trying to be “good enough.”

Or if I want to go for the funny:

Never as brilliant as I think.

UPDATE: Re-thinking this, realizing those are more personality traits than memoirs. Right, then, how about this:

First half, UGH. Second half, AHHHH.

Feel free to post your own in the comments, or assume the position meme on your own space.

I seem to be obsessed with memes lately. Besides all the ones I’ve published, I’ve got 7 more saved in draft form. I’ve been trying to avoid meme-overload, but the hell with it, I’m gonna run as many as I want! You know, they may be memes, but they’re still revealing. This little gem comes from Kilax, by way of Kapgar.

Ten seconds ago I took a big gulp of coffee.
Ten minutes ago I was apologizing to my cats because we forgot to buy a new pot of kitty grass.
Ten days ago I was trying to adjust to daylight savings time.
Ten weeks ago I was living each day in fear that Lynksis would die.
Ten months ago I was learning a whole new career, and hoping to be made permanent.
Ten years ago I was working at the job I’ve hated most in my entire life.

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Ten years from now I hope to be a grandmother.
Ten months from now I will be breaking my New Year’s resolutions, again.
Ten weeks from now I will be complaining about the excessive heat in my office.
Ten days from now I will be so thankful my huge year-long project at work is finally completed!
Ten minutes from now I will be reading blogs.
Ten seconds from now I will be hitting the Publish button.

A Meme In Pictures, passed along by Adena, Hilly and Karl

Here?s how it works:
1. Go to www.photobucket.com
2. Type in your answer to each question in the ?search? box
3. Choose an image from the first page of results only
4. Insert the picture into your blog
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1. What is your relationship status?

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2. What is your current mood?

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3. Who is your favorite musical artist?

It changes all the time, but these guys are always in my top ten.
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4. What is your favorite movie?

And this exact poster is hanging on my wall!
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5. What kind of pet do you have?

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6. Where do you live?

Hey, that picture looks familiar! Wait a minute … that’s MY photo! See for yourself:

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7. Where do you work?

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8. What do you look like?

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9. What do you drive?

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10. What did you do last night?

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11. What is your favorite TV show?

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12. Describe yourself.

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13. What are you doing today?

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14. What is your name?

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15. What is your favorite candy?

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