In which I talk about stuff and stuff
After years of frustration, which has increased over the past few months, I have finally got my hair permed, again. Lately, I have had to blowdry my hair for it to look good, and frankly I don’t like to spend more than a couple of minutes on my coif.
Here is me before:
And Here is me after:
Click Here for a fun Slideshow!
Hey, if you miss me over here, I am posting on my Jesterfest Book Blog.
This is the sight I see whenever I turn on my car. Whether I just got gas, or not. An Empty light. An Empty gas tank.
If you are missing me, I am posting over on my book blog, Jesterfest. Come join us!
If I don’t post in a while, that is why. Hey, I might be posting at my novel blog over here.
Oh, and I was featured in the Boston Globe today, regarding the very same thing! I am very jazzed about this!
My portion of the article. Click on photo to go to complete article!
(By the way, I said “Will it suck?” instead of “Will it [stink]?”)
What a busy weekend! Here is what we did:
Went to a party at Amanda & John’s house on October 29th. Pix Here:
Went to the NaNoWriMo KickOff Party in Westbrook on October 31st. Pix Here:
Went to my parents house for Trick-or-Treaters on October 30th. Pix Here:
I broke 10,000 emails this week!
And I only used 13% of my available disk space:
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*as evidenced by the three exclamation points.
This is a meme that is going around. How to do it:
Here’s the deal: Do a Google search for “YOUR NAME needs” (don’t forget the quotation marks) and see what comes up. For those of you who are reading this with a brain still stunted by turkey chemicals, when I say YOUR NAME, I literally mean your name, as in “Troy needs” or “Bill needs” or “Jenny needs”, etc.
“Lanna needs” generated 31 results, here are the best:
Not sure what that last one was about!
Oh, and bring on the marines!
I got this from Gillian’s Blog.
Okay, in November I am going to do something Crazy! I am going to write a novel. It may become a crappy novel, but, I am going to write one (dammit!)
The working title is Jesterfest, it will be a murder mystery/romance set at a clown convention. By the way, if you don’t know me too well, I am a clown and I love clowns, so this is not just another way for me to kill off clowns – however, I plan on having fun killing clowns anyway!
To prepare myself, I have made a collage for the book (pictured below). I used pictures of a couple clown conventions I went to plus stuff I got off the web. Isn’t the Internet awesome!
Can I write a book? Sure! Will it suck? Probably! Will I have fun? Definitely!
Now, I am somewhere in the collage. Can you find me? Edmund (my husband) picked me out right away – without any prompting!
(I am actually in two places, but the other place is in one of the group photos in the back and is hard to see even with the naked eye.)
The winners of the Area 6 Humorous & Evaluation Contest. We will all be going on to the Division B Contest on October 15th!
On Left: Lanna Lee Maheux, 2nd Place Humorous Speech, Woodford’s Toastmasters
Middle: Donna Doyon, 1st Place both Humorous and Evaluation,Greater Portland Toastmasters
On Right: Beth Bessler, 2nd Place Evaluation, Blueberry Hill Toastmasters
We had the Woodfords Toastmasters Humorous and Evaluation Contest on September 15th! Here are the winners:
Bill Stewart was the first place in the Evaluation Contest:
Samir Penkar was second place in the Evaluation Contest:
Lanna Lee Maheux (me) was First Place in the Humorous Speech Contest:
Bill and I went on to the Area 6 Contest on October 1st, (yesterday) more in the next post!
However, I very well might have good news on that front soon! I am superstitious, so I will wait until my first day!
Today I beat my best score at AOL’s SpongeBob Collapse.
Well he served me dinner anyway!
We went to a community spaghetti dinner, organized by Gov. John Baldacci and the American Red Cross Chapters of Maine to raise money for the victims of Hurricane Katrina.
This is the second time I have spoken with Mr. King, and I acted like a dork that time too (I made him a balloon animal when I worked at the Bangor Ground Round oh so many years ago.) (And I was just as dorky when I Met Peter Straub)
Mr. King and Gov. Baldacci served up the spaghetti, and I made a few balloons!
On Thursday, June 16th – the day after my birthday – my father, Walter Marshall Maheux had open heart surgery to repair a leaky valve. They did not put in a pig valve (much to the dismay of his co-workers, who were waiting for Dad to spontaneously start oinking or something.) Instead, he got a 25 gauge mechanical valve, which has a much longer shelf time.
I am happy to report that he is home and already raising cain!
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Click on the images to see larger photos.
Thank you for your prayers and well wishes! After spending the greater part of 48 hours in a hospital intensive care waiting room, I am overwhelmed with gratitude on how lucky I am. How lucky my family is. We are blessed.
Funny things that happened last week:
My father asked my brother to adjust his bed. Okay, he was egging Bill on to lift the bed up real high, tip it, everything that they should not be doing! (This was before the operation, of course!)
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They gave Dad an anti-anxiety pill before the operation. Bill’s friend (our cousin) Gene came in to visit,
Mom said about Dad: “He’s a little loopy!”
Dad said “Spooky? I’m not spooky?” He lifted up the sheet on the bed and fanned himself with it.
I said to Dad, “Loopy, Mom said Loopy.”
Dad replied, “Well, that’s right.”
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Bill made Dad an airplane:
Here is a very short video of Dad flying the plane. Enjoy.
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Saturday, two days after the operation, Dad said that he “decided to be macho and I stopped taking those pain pills. Then I decided that I could be macho and pain free!”
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Bill is on left, being a brat. Mom, controlling the remote (check out the larger picture to see more.)
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So that’s it! Have a great week!
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