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I have been working non-stop on my medusa site (ya finish one part, and 3 more spring up), and building Squidoo lenses as I’m trying to become a Giant Squid. I only have 13 more lenses to go, but that means that next week will likely be pretty quiet as well.

However, I do have more books to give away, so I’ll probably be doing that on Sunday or Monday, and I have a review coming up, so I shouldn’t be totally quiet.

I am sorry that I haven’t been posting, or reading blogs for the most part, but I’ll try to catch up when this is all over.

I have been active on Twitter since it’s my mini-break from site building, so if you miss me, just follow me at http://twitter.com/wordvixen

The lovely and talented (and I’m not just buttering her up because she’s feeding me Saturday!) CJ Darlington tagged me for a book meme. And since I’ve been MIA and so not up to writing a proper post right now, I thought it was the perfect subject for me.

Not to mention that it’s a pretty cool idea.

Two of CJ’s favorite bloggers decided to start a meme, where they each listed 5 Must Read Books, 5 Keep Your Eyes On These Books, and 5 Books To Look For Soon. You might think this is a tough call to limit yourself to 15 books, but wait! it gets harder.

The meme victi… volunteer, has to remove one book from each list, and then add 1 book (of his or her choice) to each list.

Now, the two ladies who started the meme as well as CJ limited the books to Christian fiction, however, I the rules don’t state that it has to stay that way. My added books are in italics.

My five MUST Reads:

Auralia’s Colors by Jeffrey Overstreet (WaterBrook)
The Stones Cry Out by Sibella Giorello (Revell)
Demon: a Memoir by Tosca Lee (NavPress)*
Broken Angel by Sigmund Brouwer (WaterBrook)
Beyond the Reflection’s Edge by Bryan Davis (Zondervan)

My five Keep Your Eyes On These:

The Accidental Demon Slayer by Angie Fox (Love Spell)
Feeling for Bones by Bethany Pierce (Moody)
Scarlet by Stephen Lawhead (Thomas Nelson)
DragonLight by Donita K. Paul (WaterBrook Press)*
The Legend of the FireFish by George Bryan Polivka (Harvest House)

FIVE BOOKS TO LOOK FOR SOON:

Cyndere’s Midnight by Jeffrey Overstreet (WaterBrook)
The Rivers Run Dry by Sibella Giorello (Thomas Nelson)
Shade by John Olson (B&H)
Field of Blood by Eric Wilson (Thomas Nelson)
Conspiracy in Kiev by Noel Hynd (Zondervan)

And look! I didn’t use a single affiliate link! Aren’t you so proud of me? (actually, I think I’m just burning out on site building, but take it while you can!)

Now, I’m supposed to tag 5 people, but I won’t. You guys are all bookworms, so I know you’ll do it if you want to whether I tell you to or not. So have at it!

I went to visit mom today. It’s often 2 months or more between visits despite being 20 minutes apart since I work second shift, and mom works 12 hours a day as a nurse.

My mother’s wanted to have an advice website for several years, and recently I bought her a domain and set up WordPress. We haven’t had a chance for me to show her how to actually use it until today.

I have created a monster.

Mother fell in love (instantly, I might add) with the theme I picked out for her. Then I showed her how simple it is to post. Once I realized that posting is just like writing an email (subject line is title, body is body, categories/labels are like the destination email address), teaching her was a snap.

Then she wanted to see what a blog looks like, so I brought her here. She actually read through several weeks of posts! And then I showed her Twitter. Oh no.

My mother actually posted her first tweet within minutes of ever even seeing Twitter. It’s a little disturbing. My husband called me while we were on another site, and while I was busy on the phone, she was loading up Twitter to see if anyone had responded!

But keeping odd hours makes her really sleepy, so while mom was taking a little nap, I decided to tackle a project that I’ve been meaning to get to, but am usually too distracted by the internet to actually do.

I have a series of Disney World affiliate shops, and I wanted a single logo that would work for most of them. It wasn’t what I had in mind originally, but I totally love it (the black with green stuff in the background is from a photo of the sidewalks at EPCOT at night). The more I learn to do with my photo editor, the more I love doing this stuff.

I didn’t get a whole lot done today, but it was worth it to spend time with my parents. Now I’m off to see what else I can do before hubby gets home.