WINNERS of the LadyLee 7th Bloggaversary Sweepstakes!!

The Sweepstakes is over and we finally have winners!

YAY!!

If you didn't participate, that's on YOU. YOU, honey, missed out of fabulous cash and prizes!!

But we have winners!

YAY!!!

The veterans of my giveaways know the deal... comment and comment often! And as a result, we had close to 80 comments, emails and texts that qualified as entries!

So... all those entries were placed in a cup...

I hired my coworker , the Good Lt. Commander By, to pull the winning entries!

There he is, expertly mixing up the entries!

Lt. Commander By... what nice hands you have. They're not even ashy. Your wife must make sure you put on your Ultra Healing Jergens lotion every morning before work.  (Thanks Mrs. By... us chickens appreciate that! Nothing worse than a dude with ashy hands!)

Lt. Commander By commences to pulling  the prize winning entries...

I was hoping his watch and ring would fall off into the cup... they look quite pawnable. LOL

He pulled the names and wrote the prize on the back of the slip. 1st name out won 1st prize and so on...

And the winners are!!!

1st prize - $77 dollar gift card - SASHA

2nd prize - book + $10 gift card - REMNANTS of U

3rd prize - cookies - ALI

YAY!!!

*throws glitter*

Congratulations to the lucky winners!

*grabs winners' hands and runs through a field of purple flowers*

Remnants already has a hardback copy of the book. I know because I met her at a signing. (What a surprise!)

Honey, we'll substitute some cookies for that book!

I may have to give that paperback copy of the book to Tayari to use in one of her giveaways. Everybody who reads this blog seems to have a copy of the book, whether won or bought on your own. (Yeah, I was pushing and advertising that book. I was her bootleg self imposed publicist, man!!)

Congrats to the lucky winners!  Get your information to me soon as possible (be specific about gift card and cookie types PLEASE). email me at oldgirl_1@earthlink.net or Oldgirlladylee@gmail.com.

Those gifts will be sent out around September 1st at the latest!

Thanks again for participating! It was my chance to give some of the lurkers a chance to come out of the woodworks! You can go back to lurking now!

Now Lt. Commander By was not only an excellent puller of winning tickets... he was also a great hand model.

Here's a better hand model... Lt. Commander Meek-Meek...

Yes. She is back from her wedding and honeymoon... I am happy to see her. She is my constant work partner... I have been in dire straights since she has been gone. Next time, I will just take off too... doggonit.

Pics coming up tomorrow!

Good Monday Morning - Silver Sparrow Winners

Time to announce the winners of the TEN signed copies of Silver Sparrow!!

*cartwheels*

Ten winners... hope you see your name!



*crickets*

Looks like Lil' Serenity Chicken had herself an... accident. Either that or she had a bad run-in with Oscar-Tyrone!

LOL!

But she hollered in her chicken voice...

"I'm alright LadyLee!! Even though I can't walk, I'm stillll a soldier!! Draaaaaag me by my wing over to the winners circle, LadyLee! Draaaaag me!"

Poor chicken. She will be alright. Her fragile butt is going to be undergoing major superglue today. If that don't work, she's gonna get some Now and Laters prosthetic feets.

If you can't see your name above? Here are the winners!

Traycee30
Mrs AKAtude
Unity Falls
Sayitlikethis
Stacie
Tiffany D
Adrienne
Ali
Monique
Rebecca

Do you see your name? Congrats!!

Email your address to Oldgirlladylee@gmail.com. You can also use the earthlink address. But I wouldn't do that. I am getting spammed outta control with the drug emails and the erectile dysfunction email over there. Pissing me off. So if you send your addy, PLEASE put BOOK GIVEAWAY in the subject line. That way I will know it's not spam.

Now you got a week to send me your address. Some of you aren't regular readers of House of LadyLee, and I can't contact you. If you don't send your info, then I kept the sack of names. New names will be pulled. Don't think I won't do it!

I don't know what to do about the gift card. A person who won a book, won the gift card too? How lucky is that broad!?

I asked Tayari how much the gift card should be for. I was gonna let her pick the amount.

She was like "Hunh?"

I still explained it to her. She was all O_o.

I finally told her... "Don't worry about it, Lil' SWATS girl! Don't worry about it!"

LoL!!!

Congrats to the winners!

This is the extent of my Monday Morning post... This week was suppose to be a food-for-thought week. We are pushing that to next week.

Have a great Monday! Have a great week!

On purpose!

Friday Freestyles: Frickin' Chicken. Silver Sparrow Giveaway

The other day, I had a nice soy hotdog on a wheat bun with black bean soy chili on top...

I sat it down on my desk. I went to the breakroom for paper towels.

When I returned, Lil' Serenity Chicken was standing there. Staring at my hot dog...

Frickin' Chicken.

Humph.

I don't know if she was eyeing that hot dog or the fruit, but she was one step from getting backhanded up and out of the cubicle area...

Frickin' Chicken.

I love Now or Laters. We called them "Nawl Latas" when I was a child.

I found those at a local Chinese restaurant.

But lo and behold, here comes Lil' Serenity... I caught her trying to make off with my Now or Laters.



Frickin' Chicken. Trying to make off with my candy! Even balancing the cherry flavored ones on top of her scarfed head. Knocked her over for that. Put her back over on top of the laptop, where she belongs, where she can guard the cubicle like she suppose to be doing.

Then the ultimate infraction occurred... ULTIMATE.

Lil' Serenity followed me home. I woke up early that morning to find her perched in the dining room... staring at me.



Frickin' Chicken was trying to either steal my new bombastic laptop speakers...

OR she was trying to steal my copy of Tayari Jones' Silver Sparrow.

*crickets*

*LadyLee proceeds to beat the cheese out of Lil' Serenity Chicken... then heats up HAWT grease and considers frying her up for dinner*

Lil' Serenity Chicken!

You can have my hot dog!
You can have my fruits!
You can even have my bombastic speakers.

But you CANNOT have my personally autographed copy of Silver Sparrow.

NERP!

You can't even have the TEN signed copies of Silver Sparrow that I'm giving away!

That's right:

TEN!!!

For those are in the laundry room, behind closed doors. They are sitting atop the washing machine, next to neatly folded washclothes...

And That Original Oldcat Oscar Tyrone is guarding them...



And he's hongry! Because I haven't fed him in a few days, so he WANTS you to try something, Lil' Serenity Chicken... He WANTS you to try something.

He will eat you! Red Polkadot scarf and all! Eat you alive!

LOL!!!

Yeah, Mon... Ten copies of the Sparrow...

I think I may be late on this one... Seems like EVERBODY got the book already!

That's alright!

Win a SIGNED copy. Give your copy away to somebody. Be a blessing, honey!

Comment to win. Anyone who has commented on the last 2 Silver Sparrow Giveaways and didn't win... well, your name is still in the bag. If you commented multiples times all week on any post, your name goes in the bag.

And if you have a book, you are entered for a gift card drawing.

You don't know how much the gift card is for. Last one was for $40 at the store of your choice. Blogger Chele won that one. She received a Target gift card, and she is STILL twirling 'round and 'round in her living room like Wonder Woman listening to the lovely Ipod shuffle she purchased.

*watching as Chele twirls herself dizzy*

So enter to win...

Why am I doing this? To support ol' Tayari...

I was in on this book when she was working on it... There were numerous discussions between us about it. I just remember the whole process, from seed to manisfestation!

Man, I wanted to write that chick a check when she was here. Put it in her personal offering plate! I love being around to witness something so special happen, with all it's trials, tribulations and triumphs!

I want to be a blessing to my friend, ya'll!

And shoot man... It's a TERRIFIC book!!! Tayari is the baddest writin' Diva in the Solar System!

So enter to win!

Ya'll have a GREAT weekend!

On purpose!!!

Crazy Convos, Part I: "Apricots"

I have had some interesting conversations in my lifetime.

And I've had a few with ol' Tayari.

Some have had me coming away like O_O. I've called my best friend LadyTee and I've said, "You know, Tayari is normal just like us. She got the same thangs on her mind, just like us."

"Well that's good!" LadyTee said.

"But she's Tayari Jones. That's just odd. She walks on water."

LOL

For years, I thought Tayari sat atop billowy clouds writing with her perfect pen. . . perfect words on perfect pieces of paper.

Uh, NOT.

I think we are friends now, because we can freely snap on each other... In a friendly way mind you.

Like for example, I mentioned here on the blog that Tayari has this interesting pink fur coat that she likes and she always wears the thing. I got to thinking... I've never seen her in another coat. I said that maybe I shouldn't talk about it so much because it may be the only coat she owns.

Well, I got an interesting phone call that night. "Lee, that isn't the only coat I own!!!" Then she gave me a rundown of all her coats.

LOL. I had to holla "Calm down, Man!" that day.

But one of the funniest convos came a year ago...

It was a year or so ago, a weekend morning. I can't remember if it was a Saturday or a Sunday, but for some reason, Tayari had called. I can't recall what we were talking about, but I was making out a grocery list for the Dekalb farmers's market. It was probably one of those calls where you just call to shoot the breeze about nothing. (However, I always manage to slip in some writing craft question, lol).

My sister Kentucky was standing at the sink washing dishes... I'd been walking back and forth talking on the phone.

I asked my sister if she wanted anything from the market. I continued talking to Tayari while my sister thought about it.

I asked my sister again...

"Hey girl," I said to my sister. "Come on now, tell me what you want since I'm going out there!"

"Bring back some of those cranberry muffins," Kentucky said. She rinsed a plate and placed it in the drying rack. "Not the big ones, but the little ones, the ones that are 6 to a pack."

I scribbled it down on the grocery list. "What else you want?"


"I like apricots. I want some apricots," Tayari said.

"Tayari, ain't nobody talking to you, girl!" I said, my voice raised and an octave higher than normal.

My eyes widened. I clamped my hand to my mouth.

This is Tayari Jones. I'm not suppose to talk to her like that. This is the great Tayari Jones. My writing idol. I'm not suppose to talk to her like that! I've always been sure to enunciate every word correctly in her presence. No ebonics, just my good Ph.D. english. (Ya'll who know me, know that I tend to be ebonically inclined).

Oh Lawd. Oh Lawd have mercy.

"I like apricots," Tayari said again. "The skin is smooth. Velvety soft."

"Uh, well," I said. "We don't eat those."

"I like them. They are velvety."

I didn't know what to say about that. I left it alone, and just stood there watching Kentucky wash dishes from breakfast. I continued scribbling out items on my list. Me and Tayari talked about other things, not sure what. I was still thinking about the apricots.

But let's just say, I was a bit more watchful of what I was saying to the great Tayari Jones.

Anyway I went to the Farmer's Market. Made sure to get everything on my list including Kentucky's cranberry muffins.

Then as I was walking to the cashier area, I walked back through the fruit section... and that's when I saw them.

The apricots.

And they were $1.99 pound.

I peered at them thoughtfully. Rolled on past them...

Rolled back past them.

I have to touch them, I thought to myself. I have to touch the apricots.

I rolled my cart past the apricots a couple of times more. I finally stopped there...

I looked to my left. I looked to my right. No one was looking at me.

I closed my eyes, reached my hands out... and felt the apricots.

And she was right... they were smooth as baby's skin. Velvety.

Now Tayari is a literary writer. None of that commercial writing. Literary. So if she say something, then I'm peering curiously at her, wondering, what does it mean? What is she trying to say?

Like she might say "I like that dress." I'm looking at her like, What does it mean? Is there a metaphor in that somewhere? Something deeper? A simile? What does she mean?

Hell... she might just mean she likes the dress.

LOL.

But I was standing there, rubbing my fingers over the apricots, and it occured to me, and I wanted to yell it to the whole store, but I only whispered it...

"She's gonna use this in a story. She's gonna use it in a story."

I thought she was going to use it in her book or a story or something.

I grabbed some apricots, shoved them in a plastic bag!

You know me. If Tayari put her hand in her pocket, I put my hand in my pocket, too, babes. Yes sir!

(That's what you call "indirect stalking". My stalker activity is complex like that).

I took those apricots home. Touched them a little more. I too was going to use them in a story.



I talked to her a few days later! "Hey, I bought some apricots! And you're right, the skin is smooth! Velvety!"

"I like apricots!" she said.

I was waiting to hear her talk about something deeper, like using it in something she was writing. And I was wondering how I could beg her to let me read whatever it was. (Yes, I have no shame.)

She didn't say anything.

Maybe she just likes apricots.

I ate my apricots. And wrote down the baby smooth velvety apricots thoughts. I looked for that in Silver Sparrow somewhere, but it wasn't there.

Maybe Tayari just likes apricots.

All I know, I'm going to use it in a story somewhere.

Just a funny story for you. I'm always having interesting convos...

You need to read Silver Sparrow! You won't regret it! It's full of interesting similes and metaphors! Tayari has a knack for such things!

And you can win if you comment this week. I'm giving away SIX copies. SIX!!

"But LadyLee," blog fam yells. "You said FIVE copies yesterday!"

Yes I did. Today I'm saying SIX!!!

You better enter to win, Mayne! I have SIX signed copies to give away! However many times you comment, that's how many times your name goes in the bag!

I'm not a comment whore. Just want you to have a copy of a good book.

And if you already have the book, enter for a gift card!

You all have a terrific Tuesday... On purpose!!

Good Monday Morning...The Sparrow Edition

Good Monday Morning to you ALL!

*backflips*

What a FANTASTIC weekend I had!!!

Hate it's over!!

You know what happened on Friday night, right?

Right???

I attended a Silver Sparrow event!!!!

I had been so GIDDY all day that I couldn't concentrate at work. I was just EXCITED. 7:30 couldn't get there fast enough that day. I was watching the clock tick... tick... tick... sloooowly.

But I left work, went home, kicked off my Nikes, put on something decent and headed out...

I was in the bookstore, Charis Bookstore, staring in utter AWE at the book display...



(Doggonit I wanted to just crawl up on the table and lay on it all, lol)

When I heard someone say "Dr. Parker!"

I recognized that voice: It was the great Tayari Jones!

*lee doing all she can not to fall prostrate on the ground and weep at her feet*

I gave her a hug. Some of us sat down in the back and talked.

When we text or talk I always slip in "Please drink your water." She may or may not comply. I know I got a text one day of her hollering "I'm feeling dehydrated!!". I was not happy about that, and scolded her by text.

Let's just say she had some water in her red cup!

The reading was GREAT! She read chapter 18, the Al Green/hot grits chapter! And she talked about her writing procedure and writing life. OHHHH JOY!

Blog Sista Tazzee was there, sitting in the front row. I wanted to sit with her, but I never sit in the front row. I like to sit in the middle. Plus I don't think Tayari would take to kindly to me snapping the pictures in her face... sort of like Raleigh does in the book.

The question and answer section was really great. Tayari embarrassed me good fashion by mentioning me. (You know I don't like attention. Most likely, I won't even ask a question, although I asked two, I think).

But it was great. Over much too soon. She could've talked 'til midnight, and I would've been good and happy about it.

We all lined up to get our books signed... and low and behold, a young lady walked up to me and introduced herself as one of blog readers and twitter sistas... It was Remnantsofyou! My goodness, I was NOT expecting to meet someone who read my blog that night. If I could've done a few cartwheels I surely would have!

Good to see you, Remnants!!

Tayari signed books.

And CowgirlCre, who won a book in the drawing, hollered on Friday at work "Take a picture of my book being signed, girl!"

"You know I will, Cre-Cre!" I yelled back.

There you go CowgirlCre!



(CowgirlCre went to highschool with Tayari. Tayari doesn't remember her, as Tayari was a Silver Girl. LOL) But I had to work hard to get her to sign the books of the winners. She signed my book, but when I heaved the box of books I'd brought with me up for her to sign, she told me to go to the back of the line.

*gas face*

You know... if I would've had a little liquor in me, I woulda cussed her good. But uh, we're both SWATS girls, Southwest Atlanta girls. Probably wouldn't bother her one bit to go toe-to-toe with me. It's probably been a minute since she's thrown someone in a headlock.

You can take the girl out of SWATS. But you can't take the SWATS out the girl. O_o

*lee slowly walking to back of the line with her box of books*

LOL!!!

Anyway, this was cool, because I had great convos with RemnantsofYou and some cute law school teaching brutha. (Ain't nothing like a good convo with an intelligent brutha! *cartwheels*)

But she signed the books for me, thetlast person in line...

And she signed my book.



"To Alesia- you are the audience. You are also Nettie. You are also my friend."

*hard lip quiver, fat tear drop*

*wailing hard*

Lawd have Mercy!! Makes a hardcore Oldgirl cry!!

*wiping eyes with tissha and rocking at the dining room table like Miss Sophia*

Celie, I was mighty tired that Friday, cuz I'd worked hard all week. I worked hard, Celie! But when I seent you walk in that bookstore, and I seent you drinking your water, and giving your reading... I knew it was gonna be alright. It's gonna be alright!!

And I knew I had to do something unprecedented!!

I'm giving away FIVE more copies of Silver Sparrow!

You heard me... FIVE!!

FIVE signed copies!!

FIVE!!

Not personally signed to you... Can't help you with that. That Oldgirl is catching a plane out of Hotlanta right about now. But nevertheless, signed by her.

If you entered the other drawings and didn't win, then you are still eligible. And however many times you comment, that's how many times your name gets entered!!

Sooo... comment to win! All week, since I will be posting all week!

Those who won the last 5 books... your books will be mailed this week!

Come on and comment! You may not want a book, but we'll do something GOOD for you!

Tell me why you loooooove the House of LadyLee so much!

Best comment gets a gift card...

Hmmm....

It was GREAT to see you Tayari! We talk on the phone and text, text, text, but it was good to see you in person. As you were reading, I took time to remember allllll that has gone on to get this book together, all the convos about it! I remember it all!

Felt good to hold that book in my hand! I hated when it was over! I want more from you!!!

Good luck on the next leg of the tour!

And don't forget! "Drink your WATER!!!"

*tayari rolls eyes*

LOL!!

You all have a great week! And comment to win!!!

Silver Sparrow WINNERS and QUOTES

So we have all been licking our lips in eager anticipation of announcement of the winners of the THREE copies of Tayari Jones' Silver Sparrow...




There you have it! The winners are

Cresha
Jennifer
Mzinspiredmind


Hoooooraaaaay!!! Congrats to the winners!

Just so you know that I DO pull names, here is the bag of names. You may see yours in there.



I'd drawn a grid, wrote peeps names and cut everthing up... placed them in a bag and shook it up... closed my eyes tight and pulled some names.

So Congrats! And your books will be signed by the great Tayari Jones, and I will get those out to you next week!

I will be attending one of Tayari's signings tonight... I am soooo excited about that. I text with Tayari, and yack on the phone with her occasionally (she's the only chick who can get the tomboy Oldgirl LadyLee to talk about girly things like lipstick and purses), but man oh man, it is a TREAT to get a chance to hear her do a reading and talk about the writing life. It is HEAVEN, I tell ya. Pure Heaven!!

I remember calling her one day last month... I read on Facebook or Twitter or something that she had gotten her tenure. I frantically dialed her cell phone number! (Yes, I am a true stalker. I got her numbers and her Mama and nem phone number too). I was so excited for her!

She was sitting in her office. She had some music going... I congratulated her, and wondered aloud why she didn't tell me. Then I asked her to do something.

"Read to me!"

"What?" she said.

"Read to me, Celie! Read page 5! Second paragraph, last couple sentences, Man! READ!"

She flipped pages. "I don't think that's what you want me to read, Nettie."

Humph. There was some discussion between us. I got a little perturbed. I knew this when I asked her to "Read it right!" through clenched teeth. (My cubicle mate Cowgirl Cre fell into a fit of giggles over this telephone exchange.)

So Celie, uh, I mean Tayari read the following passage:

"On that day, my mother would be called upon to do the talking. She is gifted with language and is able to layer difficult details in such a way that the result is as smooth as water. She is a magician who can make the whole world feel like a dizzy illusion. The truth is a coin that she pulls from behind your ear."

"Woooow," I whispered. "Wonderful! That is great! Read it again, Celie!!!!!!"

She read it again. I was happy. Would've asked her to read it a third time if she didn't have to get ready for class. (She would've probably hung up on me... after which I would have had to do some stalkerish power dialing.)

I think her reading to me that day made my day. I didn't do much of anything else that day. LOL

I will hear her read tonight. But I have been doing much stalker texting. Anytime I read something in the book, I'd throw the book down and text her the line that moved me. Followed by "That's CLASSIC JONES!" LOL

I went back through my text messages and pulled some of my favorite lines...

Here's a small taste of my favorite quotes from the book.

"I was as ordinary as scrambled eggs."

"His glasses were as thick as the bulletproof window at the liquor store."

"It smelled faintly of boy: sweat, fried chicken, and cut grass."

"She was like a pinball machine - all energy, lights, and percussion.

"The truth is a strange thing. Like pornography, you know it when you see it."

"The secret was mine, wrapped like a shiny present, lodged on a high shelf where Mother could see it but couldn't reach it."

"People say, that which doesn't kill you makes you stronger. But they are wrong. What doesn't kill you, doesn't kill you. That's all you get. Sometimes, you just have to hope that's enough."

*ladylee hugs self and exhales*

Aww yes... those are great lines. CLASSIC JONES! Indeed.

I must go somewhere and light a smallcandle and be quiet and reflective now.

Oh, I just hope I don't pass out from joy tonight.

LOL

Congrats to the winners! Get your info to me!

You all have a great weekend... I know I will! On purpose!!

Silver Sparrow Giveaway Part 2!

So, we had 2 winners of Tayari Jones' Silver Sparrow last week... LoveBabz and The Bball Mama!

I have THREE additional books to give away!

THREE!!

*church shouts*

All you gotta do is leave a comment. If you left comments on the other post, and didn't win, then your name is entered in the drawing. I will pull three names, and you will just have to email at oldgirl_1@earthlink.net or Oldgirlladylee@gmail.com . Now if you want your book signed, you BEST be getting your name and addy to me. I will leave this post up til Thursday night, and then I will pull names on Friday morning. SO, I will get them signed Friday night. Get your name to me.

Heck, some folk just send a straight email. FINE. Do that. Just enter to win. Three chances to win, babes!

I finished the book a couple of days ago. (I had read a rough draft a couple times).

One word: STELLAR.

Fine, FINE piece of literature. I mean very finely written. Multi-layered. Just a fine fine work on so many levels. And I aint saying that because I am her number one fan or cuz I stalk the cheese out of her. I am saying that from the writer in me.

The chick wrote this book. If she would've been standing next to me when I finished reading it, I would've thrown the book to the floor and hugged her tight... and cried my eyes out, Man.

That is all.

And I could even see where she used a couple of my suggestions! (*lee turning infinite number of cartwheels all around the room*)

And you know it's a GOOD thing (well for me, NOT Tayari), that I could just blow her cell phone text messages UP with quotes I liked, etc. Sometimes she even answered me. (This was a good thing for the stalker in me).

And the reviews are nice. Also, she was even on the Bat Segundo show. Click the link! A great podcast! You can hear an interview about Silver Sparrow for 30 minutes. Oh joy!!

Here's a review from the local Atlanta newspaper. I have it tacked up in my cubicle at work.

As you can see, Lil' Serenity Chicken is standing atop my laptop reading it.

Turn this way, Chicken! Fix your scarf on your head, and smile for the camera!!!


LOL. She looks pleased. She's smiling... on the inside.

You TOO can be pleased, just like Lil' Serenity Chicken! Enter the drawing to win a Silver Sparrow.

PLEASE leave your NAME. What is up with entering anonymously? Is your name John or Jane Doe? NOPE. Leave a first name, nickname, blog name... something!

Enter to win! You have 2 days! Win a GREAT free book :)

Furious Handclaps!

Okay, uh, yeah... I'm trying to sound smurfy for you today.

Yes indeed. LOL .

And it's time for me to sow something into someone's life. That's just something I loooooooove to do. I just get a kick out of it. It makes me cheese hard like Celie. It makes me do the high rockette kicks. It makes my heart beat extra fast!

It makes me break out with the furious handclaps!

It's just my way of honoring you for taking time out of your day to read my rambles. (I may do a post on honor. We will see.)

I just love that. Why?

Cause we living in a time when Ninjas always trying to get over on you. Seems like dogging people is the norm these days. You always gotta watch a sucka.

SIGH, man! Hard Sigh.

"I cannot stand that!!!" I holler through clenched teeth, with my fists balled up tight. "Makes me want to kick Oscar-Tyrone or kick a wall!"

But me...

I'm LadyLee.

Your Friendly Neighborhood Oldgirl.

I ain't like that, babes.

I wanna do you good! Make you feel a mite bit SMURFY!

And it allows me to step outside of myself, and think about somebody else!

So guess what? I did the drawing for the workbook by Priscilla Shirer, He Speaks to Me: Preparing to Hear from God.

Winner: Lisa B.

Alternate: Jennifer

Give our winners a strong handclap!!!

*ladylee standing up and clapping furiously*

I have an alternate winner because Lisa B, uh.. I think she one of Serenity's clientele, and she's a chicken that wanders over on over to the front porch of the House of LadyLee and sits a spell. So I don't know how to track her down. Honey, you better email me at my Oldgirl email: oldgirl_1@earthlink.net.

Holla my way if you want that book.

Alternate is Jennifer: I know Jennifer's email. So I can harrass her at will. LOL!

Jennifer is funny to me. She's a reader that showed up out of nowhere, and uh, I was talking about an interesting sermon I heard on depression, and she asked me to put up my notes. And I think it was anonymous, not sure.

My first thought was... "Who the hell is this?!?!?!"

(Scuse my language... I am working on that... inconsistently, I may add).

Then it was like... Uh, oh. Let me shut up. Let me zip it QUICK.

Why do I say that? Because there is a most interesting verse in the bible. Very interesting indeed.

Hebrews 13:2 NLT Don’t forget to show hospitality to strangers, for some who have done this have entertained angels without realizing it!

So instead of cussing hard, I shut up... and typed up my notes. Might be a frickin' angel jumping up out of nowhere. You never know.

And you know... there's a reason for everything.

Really though.

This was important. Because I think it was the first time I typed up notes over here. I'm funny about that, because this ain't a spiritual blog, even though that's what I think about most of the time. I use this blog to massage my creative writing skills. I have a batcave private blog, and it was for spiritaul things specifically. But I kept that seperate from the House of LadyLee.

So as Serenity touched off all my Food-For-thought series, Jennifer touched off the "Please post your notes" saga. LOL.

So when someone asks in the comment section to posts my notes that I mention that I found interesting, shoot man... I AM QUICK TO DO IT.

Why? Because it's helpful to me. I end up digging something extra out with it that I didn't see before. And then, it's helpful to you.

And we can all sit around and be blessed.

*lee throws flower petals in the air*

So she and I formed an interesting email friendship. Turns out she was going through something that I had been through, and we were able to talk about it.

So Ms. Jennifer is responsible for that.

Let's give Jennifer a handclap!

*lee clapping hands furiously*

Happy to know you, Oldgirl. You helped me more than I helped you. Believe dat.

And you're a twitter friend now. I remember seeing your twitter avatar and thinking... "So, she's real. She ain't a angel with a laptop afterall."

LOL

So, uh... hit me up on my Oldgirl email, Lisa B. Don't be lollygagging around now! If I don't hear from you, then you miss out, babes! Holler at me!!!!!!! I wanna do you good today, gal!

Jen, you got my gub'ment email. Holler at me. If Lisa B. drag her feet, that's your book! If she get it, I may throw a sack of cookies your way or something, Oldgirl...

That is alll for today. I am STILL trying to organize my vacay pics.

Stay tuned for vacation posts mixed in with my regular posts!

Book Giveaways

It's introspection time, once again.

'Tis a time to look at the important things that have happened in my life during the 2nd quarter of the year, from April to June, and how it has affected me.

I'm not posting anything today, just announcing some book giveways.

Like last time, if you comment, I will enter your name in a drawing and you have a chance to win one or both of the following books.

One of my favorite books, blogger Chele's Confessions of a Beautiful Woman.



And/or Write it Down, Make it Happen by Henriette Klauser.


This book was a staple of my old journalling group. If you need some direction in the proper goal setting, then this is the book for you. I think Serenity3-0 is rereading it again and setting new goals, and you know when that chick sets goals, she definitely makes it all happen. So, I have copies of this book on my bookshelf, and would love to give a copy away to someone who may find it useful...

I'm probably going to mix these posts in with my regular posts. We will see...

Stay tuned...