Amie Stuart ~ On the Back Porch

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Happy Reading and Happy Halloween everyone!

Your magnetic personality gains an extra dose of cool glamour, but it’s definitely accompanies by a touch-me-not air. People might wonder what’s going on with you, but you just need a little space right now.

That was today’s horroscope……..yeah okay. I need space because I think I’m a touch cranky from the caffeine withdrawls….. Maybe…could be my immagination.

And from Julie Hill’s blog for November:

Leo:Get ready for a Fall workfest. Since more books are being released this fall than ever before, you’ll be promoting present titles like a bi-polar publicity maven.

New work will have to wait while you seek your fortunes in the public eye.

Screw that! And yes I know Mercury went retrograde 2 days ago….I’m going south for Thanksgiving.

I know I know I’ve been a very bad blogger lately and it’s probably going to continue until this book is done….Watched CLICK this weekend. Again, Adam Sandler is a freaking genius. It takes a special talent to make us laugh AND make us think. Watched MONSTER HOUSE too, it was cute but the making of it was even more impressive–really high tech. Went to Applebee’s last night–not impressed with the fish but the kid’s steak was good! Today I must write and go get #2 a Halloween Costume and some more PediActive.

In the mean time…I’m blogging at SEx today….and tomorrow’s my day at SFC.

Am I the only one fascinated by this topic?  I’ve always thought so, and if that is the case, it’s probably because I’m adopted.  I can tell you, in my adoptive family, exactly what’s nature and what’s nurture.  My brother is (probably) ADHD and it does run in teh family.  His son is just like him.  The older my father gets, the more like his father he is (in looks and personality).  I see a lot of my grandmother in my aunt, and the women in my father’s family are prone to wavy hair and premature grey (and I’m talking three generations).  Most of that is nature.  Which means none of it applies to me.  So what does?
I can tell you #1 son is a lot like me, he’s got my temperment (stubbor little shit) where #2 is more like his dad with the ADD.  That’s ADD not ADHD.  Though I think he gets his dreamer qualities from me

Over at Vanessa’s blog she’s wondering about the purpose of Myspace.   And what the hell does that have to do with nature vs nurture?

Anyone who knows me knows I am a horrible homebody who spends a lot of time reading romance novels and collecting recipes…I am actually writing my what I hope to be my first bodice ripper and its going to be sci-fi with of lots of ummm well you know..

That my friends, is nature.  Also known as my (biological) half-sister who’s living on the east coast working on her masters (and a romance novel). 

I guess, to some people, this doesn’t seem like much but when you have very little, it’s a lot.  I remember, from my adoption paperwork, my biological mother was a writer too.  She supposedly sold some short stories but I never managed to track them down.  I guess the apples don’t fall far from the tree.

First, a review of THE MARINE.

Can you say Wolves jumping the Chupacubra Shark, boys and girls? I knew you could.  (more…)

Witness reports seeing child thrown against wall, dunked in toilet

(And apparently didn’t call the cops?)

08:06 AM CDT on Saturday, October 14, 2006

By LAUREN D’AVOLIO / The Dallas Morning News The brutality will haunt Latricia Love.

She said she saw a Dallas man grab his girlfriend’s 3-year-old son around the neck, pick him up and force his face into a bowl of oatmeal – apparently punishment for soiling himself. Later, she said, she saw the man throw the boy into a living room wall and thrust his face into the toilet.

Hours later, the boy was dead.

And you didn’t call the cops or CPS or just flat out take the child and leave why? And then there’s the mother………

Earlier Friday, Ms. Davis said she saw the boy’s mother stuffing a car with her belongings. She said the woman appeared to have a swollen lip and bruised face.

“She told the man she wanted her child because she was packing up,” Ms. Davis said. “He pulled the baby back inside and slammed the door.

“He was lookin’ like he was real, real, real angry.”

Who left her child with a known abuser and didn’t call the cops because he looked real angry? I’m sorry, but you don’t touch my kids and if you hit me, I damn sure ain’t leaving my kids with you cause I’m scared.   I’m gonna call the cops and/or knock your ass out with an iron skillet, and like, leave.  For real.

I’m over at SFC today talking about something for the ladies………