April 25, 2010

Facebook Seminar

I took an all day seminar on the ins-and-outs of facebook last week. It mostly dealt with fan pages, or "Like" pages as they are now called. Anyway, I learned all kinds of new things.

Even though it lasted all day, it only touched the tip of the iceberg. But it was really helpful and I hope to incorporate some new stuff on my "like" page soon. What blew me away was all the applications there are for facebook. I was so overwhelmed!

Do you facebook? Do you have a favorite application? Tell us about it! (And if you haven't found me on facebook, go to facebook.com/IWantHerBook. I'd love for you to "like" me! LOL.)

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On April 11th, Bekie from Norton, OH won an ARC (Advanced Reading Copy) of MAID TO MATCH--my new historical coming out in June. Congrats, Bekie! As for the week of April 18th, we've now notified the winner. So we are starting the contest all over again. 

If you would like a chance to WIN a free advance copy of my new release, leave a comment here on my blog between now (April 25) and Saturday (May 1).  If you left a comment last week, it won't count toward this week's contest. So be sure to comment again. We will pick a winner on May 1st, then start all over again next Sunday (the 2nd). We will keep doing this each week until the official book hits the shelves!

posted by Deeanne on 04/25/2010 - 65 comments - Post a Comment    RSS FEED

April 18, 2010

Mary Poppins

Mary Poppins came to Houston, so Greg took the girls and I to see it. It was so fabulous! And I have to say, my jock of a husband has come a long way. The first time he took me to the theatre was in 1992 for our 10th anniversary. We had gotten all dressed up and driven into downtown Houston.

Before the show, I was in awe of all the ladies and gentlemen mingling about the lobby in their finery. Even the men behind the coffee bar were in tuxedos. We approached the coffee bar and my precious man asked the bar tender for some popcorn. They, of course, didn't have any popcorn.

Greg was appalled. "You mean to say I'm here to watch a show and you don't have any popcorn?!"

"I'm sorry, sir."

"Well, do you have any candy?" Greg asked. "You know, Junior Mints or something?"

The bar tendered pulled a box out from under the counter. "We do have a small selection that we keep just in case any children attend."

The selection was small indeed, but Greg picked out three different candy bars and I asked for an expresso. When we'd been served, the bar tender told Greg it would be $13.00.

"Thirteen dollars! For three candy bars and a cup of coffee?"

Needless to say, it took me another ten years to get him back to the theatre. But now, I have the girls as partners in crime. When told Greg I was ordering tickets to Mary Poppins, he gave me a pained expression, then had me order one for him, too. He just couldn't stand to be left out. LOL.

We had a WONDERFUL time (at least, the girls and I did) and the show was outstanding. Have any of you seen it? What about other Broadway shows? Any you'd recommend?

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On April 10th, Laura from Lancaster, MA won an ARC (Advanced Reading Copy) of MAID TO MATCH--my new historical coming out in June. Congrats, Laura! As for the week of April 11th, we've now notified the winner. So we are starting the contest all over again. 

If you would like a chance to WIN a free advance copy of my new release, leave a comment here on my blog between now (April 18) and Saturday (April 24).  If you left a comment last week, it won't count toward this week's contest. So be sure to comment again. We will pick a winner on April 24th, then start all over again next Sunday (the 25th). We will keep doing this each week until the official book hits the shelves!

posted by Deeanne on 04/18/2010 - 59 comments - Post a Comment    RSS FEED

April 11, 2010

How Many Aggies Does It Take?

How many Aggies does it take to change a lightbulb?  Just one, evidently.  We have 20' ceilings in our living area. When we built the house in '99, we installed 20,000-hour light bulbs which were supposed to last 10 years. They did. The first one burnt out last month.

But we had no idea how to get all the way up there to change them out. We couldn't use extension poles because our new ones weren't regular light bulbs. They were these newfangled LED  lights that last 50,000 hours and/or 20 years. They had to be installed by hand.

Since we were in the middle of having the house painted, we asked the painter to do it. But he couldn't figure out the LED lights. And, honestly, I think he was a little scared.

So I called an electrician. He was going to charge me $550 to change four light bulbs! It was $190 just to open his big ladder. Can you believe that??

I said thanks, but no thanks and began to call around to see if I could rent a 20' ladder myself. I called Home Depot, Sunbelt and United. Nobody had 20' ladders.

I looked on the internet. As far as I could tell there was only one 20' ladder for sale on the market. It costed $850. Not an option.

So my Texas A&M Aggie, whom I've been happily wed to for 27 years and whom had been out of town on a business trip, returned and said, "No problem." Next thing I know, he'd built an 8' platform. He recruited our daughter's boyfriend and they moved it into the living room, put the 16' ladder on top of it and up my husband went.

I know. That's two guys to change a lightbulb. But only one of them was an Aggie. So, it still only took one Aggie (one very smart, resourceful, good-looking and engineer-like Aggie) to change our lightbulb. :)

What about you? Have you ever had to change light bulbs in a really tall ceiling? Have you ever heard of these 50K hour LED lights?

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We've notified the winner of last week's ARC (Advanced Reading Copy) of MAID TO MATCH--my new historical coming out in June.

So we are starting the contest all over again. If you would like a chance to WIN a free advance copy of my new release, leave a comment here on my blog between now (April 11) and Saturday (April 17).  If you left a comment last week, it won't count toward this week's contest. So be sure to comment again. We will pick a winner on April 17th, then start all over again next Sunday (the 18th). We will keep doing this each week until the official book hits the shelves!

posted by Deeanne on 04/11/2010 - 54 comments - Post a Comment    RSS FEED

April 04, 2010

Crawfish Season

You know it's Crawfish Season when you go to the grocery store and they're having a crawdad race in the middle of the seafood section. Yep. They had them every ten minutes on Saturday and announced the winners over the loud speaker.

As it happened, I was picking up ingredients for a snack I was taking to our Block Crawfish Boil. The cooks bought 150 pounds of crawfish. We didn't waste any time digging in.

What about you? Do you do any seafood boils? Crab, shrimp, crawfish?

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Ashlee from Alabama was the winner of last week's ARC (Advanced Reading Copy) of MAID TO MATCH--my new historical coming out in June.

So we are starting the contest all over again. If you would like a chance to WIN a free advance copy of my new release, leave a comment here on my blog between now (April 4) and Saturday (April 10).  If you left a comment last week, it won't count toward this week's contest. So be sure to comment again. We will pick a winner on April 10th, then start all over again next Sunday (the 11th). We will keep doing this each week until the official book hits the shelves!

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