Monday, October 22, 2012

Post: Super Sweet Award, New Members, and Update!

   
Props go to Tammy Theriault for tagging me with the Super Sweet Award last week (not sure why anyone would bestow this honor on me - must be all the virtual crullers I give away ...?), and I'll take it!

Now, I'll have to answer a few questions about food, so if you're counting calories or haven't eaten yet this morning, you may want to skip to the next part of this post (I'm already starting to get hungry). Thanks again, Tammy, and these are my delicious answers:

1: Cookies or Cake? - What? No pie? Such an under appreciated dessert, I tell you. To be honest, I have to be in the mood for either, but I doubt I'd turn down either of them if they were handed to me.

2: Chocolate or Vanilla? - (This one's easy) ... Strawberry! :30


3: What is your favorite sweet treat? - If you haven't already figured that out, it's Lick'a Cricket, but crullers are easier to find.

4: When do you crave sweet things most? - When I'm hungry, or shopping, or hungry while shopping. They say when we crave sweet things, we should eat fruit, but honestly, where's the fun in that?

5: If you had a sweet nickname, what would it be?
- I'm stumped ... I'm really not all that sweet, more like 65% dark/bitter, and all the cool ones (sugar daddy, sweet pea, lemonhead) are already taken. So, how about we roll with Mr. Butterfingers? :35

Or ... maybe not ...

Now, to keep the sweetness alive, I'm passing this award on to the last three peeps who left comments. Those scrumptious peeps are:

Suzi
Susan Oloier
Nicole R. Singer

Thanks again, Tammy - let's keep this sweetness alive, yeah?

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This week's Shout-Out goes the these seven new members! Go on ahead and give their blogs a visit and make a few new friends:

and

Thank you for joining The Cosmic Laire - enjoy your virtual cruller!

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Update: I had a good editing bout last week and cut a few unneeded things, so it looks like my 20K WiP is down to 18K again. Give me a week and I'll return the word count to 20K, and then some. And believe it or not, I have nothing The Walking Dead related to say because we decided to skip a week so we can watch it on demand whenever (preferably after the kids are asleep - I'm not that evil).

This is gearing up to be another busy week here in the Laire with a very special book review. Click back later for the awesomeness!

What have you guys been up to? How did your weekend go? What's your favorite sweet thing to eat, and can I have some?

I'm David, and I was only kidding ... chocolate is my favorite!

38 comments:

  1. Be careful what sweet name you pick because it can come back to haunt you... I may never live down Stud Muffin.

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  2. What I've found really good lately is cake batter ice cream. You get ice cream and little chunks of cake. So that's like double your pleasure.

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  3. Good job on the WIP. I've cut so much from mine that I could have been done, but it would have sucked, but sometimes those cuts still hurt.

    Chocolate. Always. Acceptable when combined with raspberries.

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  4. Chocolate for the win! Way to go on the edits. I spent the weekend finishing up outlining for Nano--10 more days!

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  5. Thank you David for the blurb, and for making me laugh this morning! Erratic genius is highly entertaining. :) I'm going to make rounds to your other peeps, happy editing!

    Oh, and I make a bacon brittle (think peanut brittle only with cashews and bacon) that I can get anything I want with. (it enslaves people, seriously) Everything is better with bacon...

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  6. I think it's awesome that you greet your new peeps. I also am excited for Nano! You can do it. I'm so glad that we are writing buds. I seriously learn so much from you.

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  7. I really don't have much of a sweet tooth, so I get craving for berries & fruit instead of chocolate. That being said, I do very much like caramel in limited quantities. If I ever break my no-dessert-stance at a restaurant, it's 'cause there's something caramel related on the menu.

    Good weekend, lots of editing done. Also excited for NaNo

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  8. Your answers were funny. My husband would pick strawberry over chocolate too.

    I'm almost done with my revisions. Then onto reworking my query and back to the draft of a new book I'm working on.

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  9. Keep going on the WIP! We are ALL rooting for you!!!

    And LOL to everything. You are so funny :D

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  10. I think it's spelled "P.T. Dilloway" and not "D.T. Pilloway." I have no idea what lick a cricket is.

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    1. (whoops - typo) Thanks for spotting that. And as far as Lick'a Cricket goes, you don't want to know. :)

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  11. Mr. Butterfingers!

    I'm a cookie cake person, myself.

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  12. I agree. Pie should be on that list. Thanks for the laugh this morning!

    Allison (Geek Banter)

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  13. Last night my dad brought over 7 pies! And I am on a no sugar diet!!! Oh my gosh, I nearly died. I swear I only had one lick of whip cream off my finger as I was cleaning up for my kids. I deserve a medal or something!!!

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  14. This one would be tough for me. My teeth are sensitive to sugar!

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  15. Oh, isn't it nice to know you're sugar? You are sweet. Well-earned accolade.

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  16. Pie is under appreciated. Still I'm a grazer. I don't like to sit down to eat. I much prefer to grab things I can eat while walking, working, to doing something else.

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  17. Yes about pie! My dad requests pie instead of birthday cake every year. My own munchkins request brownies. Cake is just totally unappreciated amongst those with whom I share genes. Cookies, on the other hand.....

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  18. Such "sweet" answers :D I wonder about pie as welll. I too enjoy it!

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  19. Congratulations on the WIP progress! :) Oh, and I'm with you on the pie thing.

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  20. I'm just going to repeat the word "Carrot" over and over in my head for a while to get the thoughts of chocolate and candy...oh, who am I kidding?!

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  21. What a fun post- laughs and smiles! I'm gluten free, so I skip the cakes and cookies. But I love frozen yogurt and keep sugared up on Starbursts. Enjoy your pie!

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  22. Hey,

    Well done, you sweet little thang :)

    I am staying well clear of any crickets for the forseeable future :)

    Thanks for the smiles, Sugah :)

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  23. Ha! And I actually watched The Walking Dead on time last night because DISH and AMC are friends again. In fact, I watched it TWICE, just because I could. :D

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  24. Thanks for the fun award. I have to agree, I'd skip the fruit too.

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  25. I'm a fan of cookies. Actually, scratch that. I'm a fan of cookie DOUGH. Yum!

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  26. Congrats on the award!

    Good to hear your editing went well. :)

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  27. Aw, thanks for the shout out! I'm off to think up some sweet answers. ;)

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  28. I actually like strawberry better than chocolate. And I think you deserved the sweet award. Your followers list is growing like those weeds in my flowerbeds.

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  29. I don't care much for sweets, David. But Cloudy with a Chance of Meatballs is one of my all-time favorite movies. :)

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  30. Congratulations on winning the award! There is certainly fun in having fruit, I say as I take a bite of my apple. =)

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  31. Thanks For the shout out David! and I too would take pie.

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  32. great answers, david! u should have gone with the candy name "big hunk" for fun!

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  33. You always make me laugh, David. Hungry while shopping :-)
    Thanks for passing this along. I'll put up my responses next week.

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