August 20, 2012

• Miss XangAmerica Round 1 – Introducing Me :)

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  ME.

  Well, hello out there! I’m Mouse, Mousie, Tater, Spudrat, Rodent, or just Susan, whichever takes your fancy.   I’m a Multiply “refugee”, as they’re shutting up the Blogging Shop and evicting us in December, just as Yahoo 360 did way back when. Is there anywhere that lasts forever?! I’ve found my new virtual home here at Xanga and am thoroughly enjoying unpacking my stuff and wandering around my new neighbourhood. Some very interesting peeps around, I see! And what better way to meet my neighbours that entering this competition, no sooner has my virtual coffee finished brewing? The timing couldn’t have been better! (Just please excuse the mess and don’t break a leg tripping over anything…

  I’m a gregarious, garrulous, 46 year old Registered Nurse – something I don’t regard as a job, but a profession, and I throw my all into it when I’m at work. On my days off I forget about it completely and spend my time chilling out to the point where I’ve gone for two days without even brushing my hair or getting dressed. I’m a voracious reader of practically every genre except Romantic Fiction, which I detest. I love to take my point-and-shoot out and about with me, then to spend time editing my “blah” photos into something more akin to “art”. (In my mind, anyway!). I will forever mourn the demise of Picnik.com. Arts and crafts have become a hugely therapeutic way of de-stressing, my current fad being making and selling handpainted birdhouses out of dried gourds. My living room is a plethora of multi-coloured paints and brushes and glitter and drill bits and Dremel tools – I told you to watch where you step!   I don’t know how my hubby puts up with it, but he’s a trucker and often away for several days at a time, so I don’t think it impinges on him too much. And besides, he indulges me.
  

  I love nature. I love people. I love living. My husband says I’m Dafter than the Recommended Daily Allowance, but I love him too, anyway   I have two dictums by which I live my life – firstly, “treat others as you would like to be treated yourself and tread lightly on the Earth”. Secondly – “do not make me throw a possum in your face”. Depends which side of the bed I get out of, and whether there’s still coffee in the pot.
  

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  MY FAIRY TALE
  

  
  It’s so difficult to know what to say here, without knowing what the next two challenges will consist of, lmao!! I have ideas floating in my head, very solid ideas – but I could fall flat on my face and find they’re completely worthless! But if I outline the characters in too much detail, then something I have in mind will already be “out there”. So I’ll try to keep it interesting, but succinct. God help me, lol!

  
  The two characters are not “imaginary” fairy tale people, but as real flesh and blood as you are. Through the power of their love for each other, they transcend bureaucracy, red tape and blue water with no outside help at all except for the support of friends they’d never met. A few decades ago, their story may have been dismissed as improbable Science Fiction – but these days, anything is possible if you want it badly enough. Even Romantic Fiction.
  

  (PLEEEEEEASE let there be a “creative writing” element to this!! )
  

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  Here’s the link to the Miss XangAmerica Round 1 entry site –

  please call over to @firetyger and recommend and vote on your favourite entry.

  Good luck to everyone!
  

   

   

   

   

   

   

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