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Can you believe it's the last Friday in January already? I hope you all have a wonderful weekend. Got any plans?

I'm traveling...

Today I have the honor of guesting over at Elise Warner's blog. Please stop by and show some love! : ) I'm asking the question: What sells a book?

Friday Funnies

I could spend hours looking at these pictures...and have. ; ) Have an awesome Friday

25 things you never knew had names.

• This is from Buzz Feed 

  1. Tittle

  
  The dot over an 'i' or 'j.'

• 2. Lunule

  
  The white, crescent shaped part at the top of a nail.

• 3. Crepuscular Rays

  
  Rays of sunlight coming from a certain point in the sky. Also known as “God's rays.”

• 4. Ferrule

  
  The metal part on a pencil.

• 5. Gynecomastia

  
  Man-boobs.

• 6. Muntin

  
  The strip separating window panes.

• 7. Morton's Toe

  
  When your second toe is bigger than your big toe.

• 8. Arms Akimbo

  
  Exactly what it looks like. Hands on your hips.

• 9. Desire Path

  
  A path created by natural means, simply because it is the “shortest or most easily navigated” way.

• 10. Semantic Satiation

  
  What happens when you say a word for so long that it loses its meaning. Limit limit limit limit limit limit limit limit limit.

• 11. Skeuomorph

  
  “A design feature copied from a similar artifact in another material, even when not functionally necessary.” For example, rivets on jeans, copper color on pennies, the shutter sound on a digital camera, and the pointless handle above.

• 12. Brannock Device

  
  What is used to measure your feet at the shoe store.

• 13. Paresthesia

  
  The pins and needles feeling you get when part of your body falls asleep. Bonus! This is known as obdormition.

• 14. Phosphenes

  
  The lights you see when you close your eyes and press your hands to them.

• 15. Armscye

  
  The armhole in most clothing.

• 16. Wamble

  
  Stomach rumble.

• 17. Feat

  
  A dangling piece of curly hair.

• 18. Peen

  
  The side opposite the hammer's striking side.

• 19. Rectal Tenesmus

  
  The feeling of incomplete defecation. We've all been there.

• 20. Dysania

  
  The state of finding it hard to get out of the bed in the morning.

• 21. Mondegreen

  
  Misheard lyrics.

• 22. Petrichor

  
  The it smells outside after rain.

• 23. Philtrum

  
  The groove located just below the nose and above the middle of the lips.

• 24. Purlicue

  
  The space between the thumb and the forefingers.

• 25. Aglet

  
  The plastic coating on a shoelace.

Friday Funnies

You know you're a redneck when... ?

Who knows? Maybe this is the answer to paying outrageous fees for baggage. ; )

Guesting

Today I am guesting over at the fabulous Katie Reus's blog. Please stop by and say hi!

Friday Funnies

Every feel like that? I have.

Guesting

Today is my first interview of 2012! I'm over at Cindy Spencer Pape's blog. Please stop by and say hi! Also, if you missed it, Cindy has an awesome free read here.

I can honestly tell you it made me want to read more of her writing!

I hope everyone is having a wonderful 2012! 11 days and counting until we find out if we're having a boy or girl. ; )

Writerly Wednesdays: Kay Keppler

Hello and welcome to my brand new feature, Writerly Wednesdays. Please welcome Kay Keppler!

New Year’s resolutions. They’re a good idea, at least in theory. The end of the year is a time to reflect, to evaluate--and to hope. To plan.

In practice, however, resolutions suck. I write mine on Dec. 31 and start to feel commitment slippage by Jan 4. Total abandonment usually arrives by mid-February, accompanied by feelings of inadequacy and failure.

I can think of worse things than failing to keep one’s resolutions. Root canals. Epidurals. Allergies to chocolate.

But New Year’s resolutions--those promises to yourself that you’ll lose weight, save more money, get more sleep, quit smoking--if ever there was a recipe for failure, Resolutions R It. I’ve spent way too many holidays staring down the old year with a jaded, gimlet eye; gazing at the new page in the calendar with a tender, moist look. The look that says, this time I’ll win, this year I’ll keep my resolutions--only, by mid-February, to have that look change to one of jaded failure. Again.

Last year around this time, I was uncharacteristically contented and confident. I could make resolutions! I could keep them! I would be a better person!

And the miracle was, I did make a resolution (just one, but it was big)--and I kept it! Knowing that “losing weight” was too vague and too unlikely to happen, I picked an easy resolution to make: I vowed to become a better person.

Simple! Just about anything would qualify. Eat some brussels sprouts? A better person! Take a walk? Better person! Clean out a closet? Better!  

All through 2011, I succeeded with my resolution. I phoned home. Wrote a thank-you note. Met a deadline. All good. I even went for an “annual” physical--an event so rare that my doctor calls me her “invisible friend.” And everything I did meant that I was succeeding in my New Year’s resolution.

This year, though, not so much. “Better person”--that’s so 2011. We’re barely into 2012, and I’m already late paying my bills. I’ve eaten too many simple carbs, and I haven’t cleaned my office. “Become a better person” isn’t cutting the mustard this year. I need specificity!

So far this January, I’m much more irresolute about my resolutions. I haven’t really settled on anything. But I fear that I’ll be following in Mark Twain’s footsteps. He said that New Year's Day was the accepted time to make resolutions. Next week, as usual, was the time to begin paving hell with them.

I wish you better luck--and way more resolve--with your goals for the New Year!

 

 Kay Keppler has written in several genres including manga, contemporary romance, and coming in April 2012, space opera. She lives in northern California where she writes and edits fiction and nonfiction and lives happily in a 100-year-old house that's had a few plumbing problems. Now, if the duct tape holds, everything will be perfect.