Wednesday, January 12, 2011

Define that word

I have so much fun with word verification, as I have surely mentioned a jillion times. And, because I want to share my love with you, and hopefully SHOW you why I have fun with the annoying little buggers, I made a game.

Game is, simple enough: Define That Absurd Word!










Yea, it sucks having to decipher some of them. Yea it's a b**** when you don't see the word verification in time and close the window, thinking you have just commented, just as it pops up to taunt you.

But when they cooperate, it's just a little bit of fun to think of what the crap that word would ever mean. It's stupid, it's pointless, but isn't it nice to be easily amused?


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A thanks to Abby Minard, my amazing crit partner, for the Bee elle oh gee award! It made my day to know I could make someone smile! And then to get the proof to show off like it was diamonds was pretty killer too! Thanks Abby!

Passing it on to:
Katrina L. Lantz
Erica and Christy
Jennie Bailey
Shannon Whitney Messenger

Okay, another award!! WHOOTTTT!! This one comes from Katrina L. Lantz!!!!  Who is just a big bucket of awesome ALL THE TIME. Thank you Katrina!!

With this one I give you 7 things you didn't know about me(I hope): 1. my hubs got his hair cut Tuesday AND shaved down his beard from mountain man to distinguished business man without me knowing he was going to. I get home and seriously, no shittin', had a weird moment where I felt like I was cheating on my husband by kissing this sexy sexy man in my bedroom. Had to wonder if I had gotten in a serious accident on my way home and kissing a sexy stranger was going to be comma dream.

2. I HATE dark chocolate. HATE HATE HATE. Until I found Brookside Dark Chocolate Pomegranate. NOM! (but still hate DC)

3. Can't live without a throw on my couch. My mom told me recently that it is just expected of me to have a blanket wrapped around me. At the time I was on the couch. Wrapped in a Jack Sparrow-faced throw. It's just as good as it sounds, to be wrapped in a blanket with Johnny Depps face.

4. Just found out I had have 3 coats in the back seat of my car. That have been there since last year. I was going to bring them in but...who am I kidding, they will just end up back there in no time. I'm really just saving myself some work, bringing them back out.

5. "There's nothing sexier than a bread winner"(King of the Hill shout out!) is something ever man should know. And, whats more, UNDERSTAND.

6. I miss raising litters of kittens much more than I hated waking up ever 2 hours to bottle feed them. (cat sanctuary in my future where I can educate people on cat matters, home strays and unwanted, and save lil kitty lives!)

7. I have NEVER eaten Ben and Jerry's *sigh* It's just never come up.

Tada! Things about me!

This one goes to:
Jules Ausborn
W.B. @ Voltaire
Abby Minard
B.E. Sanderson

HERE is a repost by Rachelle Gardner that I liked about how to not get an agent.

HERE is a post by Shannon Whitney Messenger that seriously made me want to climb through the computer, surf the web, pop out on her side, and give her a hug. I thought I understood querying. And I did get the formula and the layout. But what I have been struggling with is my own hook and HOW to do it right.

Welp, my friends, she answered it for me!! Couldn't have been more thrilled to have that "AHA!" moment! Definitely good timing. I know so many of you are querying too this year, like me, and could use it. (you see why she needs an award!?)

Happy Wednesday!

53 comments:

  1. That was the best game I've ever played on Blogger! (It may be the only game I've ever played on blogger...but it was certainly the best)

    Oh, I bought my Mom the POC fleece blanket for Christmas year before last and have seethed with jealousy every day since that I didn't get myself one also. *sigh*

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  2. This seriously rocked my world!!!! I've missed visting your blog so much but I'm a sucker for word verification and this made me smile :)

    Fabulous awards! Well deserved!!! So glad to be getting back to my normal self! My husband is back to school and work next Tuesday so my life won't be such a mess :)

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  3. I think you need to make the word verification game a regular thing. You can compile the results and create the first word verification dictionary!

    I'm not a dark chocolate fan either but you have intrigued me with this pomegranate concoction. I will investigate...

    Congrats on the awards! :)

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  4. That was too much fun. A lot of work for you, I'm imagining. I hope you do it again.

    I love dark chocolate. You would hate some of the stuff my husband buys. Close to pure coco and little sugar.

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  5. Love the words Colene! I too HAVE to have a blanket on me at all times. When I go over friend's houses and watch tv or movies I feel all naked if they don't have a blanket on their couch for me to cover myself with. Of course, I never ask ;p

    Great query info- I haven't even started writing mine. I figure I'll start once I'm done with my revisions and the book goes out for its round of beta readers.

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  6. Oops, and Congrats and thanks for the award!!

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  7. Haha, those word verification things are so weird! I never believe they're real words. Congrats on the awards!

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  8. I hate when the verification pops up just as I close the wind, that drives me crazy and dark chocolate pomegrantes are the best. I've never eaten Ben and Jerry's or Hagen Daz either.

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  9. Great word defintions. I love them all.
    Congrats on the awards. BTW how do you insert the voting into your blog? Do tell :O)

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  10. Bah, word verifications. I should make a post on this too. Some people get pretty creative with them. Congrats on the awards!

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  11. I'll shave off my hair today. Maybe it helps >;)

    Cold As Heaven

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  12. Those word verifications were quite... interesting to say the least. :p For each one I voted for the exact opposite of what the majority of people think. :D

    Thank you for the award!

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  13. Too fun,

    I enjoyed that... something different in the blog world.

    Congrats on the awards! I alway smile when I come to visit... you are always so fun and upbeat!

    Michael

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  14. Luked for the win! Congrats on the awards.

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  15. That was fun! I love those word verifications too. So many of them sound like names for interesting characters...Like Putsley.

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  16. Clever, clever game! You got some great ones - love it! Congrats on your awards and to the worthy bloggers you passed them on to ~ :) Oh, and did you get my interview e-mail???

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  17. Aw, thank you for the award and for linking my post. You are far, far too awesome.

    I, on the other hand, am totally lame. HOW WAS I NOT FOLLOWING YOU?????

    Have corrected the #Shannonfail now. :)

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  18. That was a fun distraction. I now need to find a way to use "flagrag" in my current WIP!

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  19. This was hilarious! I can see why you've received so many awards.

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  20. First, that game was awesome! Such a clever idea. Second, thanks so much for sharing those links - those ladies shared loads of good stuff. Both are officially bookmarked.

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  21. Love the first game! It was very fun - thanks for posting it!

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  22. How fun, your word verification thingy. And way congrats to your awards! Nice to learn some new things about you. Go out and try you some Ben & Jerry's!!

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  23. Nice little word test! I also enjoy Messenger's post about the hooks. So important, and yet so hard to write!

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  24. The word definitions were fun and congratulations on the awards! Now to erase the thought of wrapping up in a blanket with JD's face from my mind...

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  25. Aw, thank you for the award! It's funny to get a Making Smiles award on a day I did a rant about Michael Vick. That was REAL uplifting. ;-) And as much as I loved the fun word quiz, I have to vote higher for the links to Shannon's and Rachael's posts. You give the BEST links!! So much useful information I might have otherwise missed without your linkage, girl.

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  26. Loved it. There's a man in my bathroom too and he weights 60 pds less than he did last year. It s#@ks that men lose faster than women.
    Nancy
    N. R. Williams, fantasy author

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  27. Teehee! That was fun! Thanks and congrats on all your awards! You are fab!

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  28. That was quite fun! Congrats on your awards, you're amassing them pretty fast these days!

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  29. The reason I love you so much can be summed up by this: Two dudes making yogurt. (yeah, that takes context).

    Thanks for the award, dude. :)
    erica

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  30. That was a lot of fun! Thanks for the game! And the link to Shannon's query post (it's really good). Glad it clicked for you - that's so freaking cool.

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  31. Fun as always. :0) Love my visits here. And thanks for the award. We're glad we make you smile! You do the same for us. EXCEPT. My tongue ADORES dark chocolate. But I would never hold that against you. You're way too cool. :0) (ooh, two smileys in this comment. either you made me really happy or my addiction to them is getting worse.) christy

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  32. coolio awards! those words were weirdly fun you are right.

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  33. YOU'VE NEVER EATEN BEN & JERRY'S?

    Colene! This must be remedied.

    I could teach a class on the stuff. Sad? Possibly. True? Definitely.

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  34. Congrats on the awards!!!

    I love your word verification game!!!

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  35. I thought I was the only person who made up definitions! Yay, I am not alone! (I was going to say, yay I'm not weird, but actually it probably just means we're both weird.)

    Eat Ben & Jerry's. Start with Phish Food, then move on to Chunky Monkey.

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  36. I used to get frustrated with word verification, 'cause of the lack of actual words, but I think you have the right spirit - just go with it. Maybe I'll name my next character after the next word verification prompt I get...

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  37. Is this post a great big whopping pile of awesome or what? Seriously! I love the word verification game. I often see a word and laugh out loud and the deffinition that immediatly pops in my head.

    Thanks for the links to the other blogs and CONGRATS on the awards :D

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  38. I love the verification words! Do you read Falen on Fiction? Yvie (who is actually Sarah's dog) does word verification words every Friday and I adore it.

    Also a great blog on hooks! I totally needed that right now!

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  39. That was really fun! I love the fishy lesbian... hehe! Congrats on your awards!

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  40. haha! that was a real fun word game. I seemed to pick the ones that got the least votes most of the time. What's that say about the way I think? LOL

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  41. Fun game, Colene! :-)

    Congrats on the awards! That smiley one is adorable. Don't you just love Shannon W.M.? I adore her! :-)

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  42. You are such a funster Colene but I liked the bit about mountain main to sex god the best! Hoot!

    Congrats on your awards and to those you passed them onto.

    I especially came by to thank you for responding to my 'disaster' post. I appreciated your thoughts. I kept my head above water and am now watching the river go down. I am still isolated in the CBD as am surrounded by water and no businesses are operating.

    BTW I have a Publication Party started on my blog. I'd love it if you could come by and read what authors have to say about getting published. Perhaps you could leave a comment about your aspirations. There are prizes each week. Please come by. The champagne's free!

    Denise :)

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  43. Haha.. that was one fun game!

    Congrats on the award! I actually really like dark chocolate, especially that Brookside one... they a blueberry flavor too ;)

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  44. I don't like dark chocolate either. I hear you like it better as you get older, but that's yet to happen to me. Congrats on all your awards!

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  45. Ha ha ... I love th word verifications. I've started writing them down too for use in my fantasy stories. I thought I was the only weirdo out there that liked those things..... lol. (And I man weirdo in the nicest sense of the word) :)

    Congrats on the awards! ANd thanks for the links! :)

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  46. Unpon is a word. It means not gourmet mustard.

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  47. Sounds like the hubs getting his hair cut was a nice bonus this week!

    I loved your word game, too! Defintely do it again!

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  48. Congrats on all the awards! Pomegranate dark chocolate sounds amazing (I love dark chocolate). And, I too must have a throw on the couch... but alas, mine does not have Johnny's face on it.

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  49. The word verification game is fun. Want more! Congrats on the awards too, and I strongly urge you to get some Ben and Jerry's in you as soon as possible. You won't be the same again.

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  50. Clever definitions for the word game. I like it when the word verif is weirdly connected to the subject of the blog.

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  51. I love the words. I chose the most popular choices on all but one.

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