Book Bodyguard
Feb 16th 2007
Claudia DainOn Writing!
Book Snobs? Isn’t that a bit harsh? I mean, just because I was taught in the 2nd grade that books are our friends, our wonderful, but defenseless friends and that they deserve our protection and care so that they will live to bring joy to others forever doesn’t make me a Book Snob. I prefer to think of myself as a Book Bodyguard. Once they’re mine, they’re under my protection for life. Loaning them is not on the agenda. Does the bodyguard loan out his client for a bit of potential roughing up? I think not. 
I’ve noticed that there are lots of hidden differences between those who count themselves friends. Hidden loyalties to certain ideas and preferences that can put a strain on a relationship beyond being what I think I can fairly call a Book Killer.
It goes way beyond books. I’ve recently made the move from a PC to an Apple. At this early stage in my defection, I can see no middle ground between these two camps. Apple people scoff at PCers and PC-users think that Mac Maniacs have their mouses up where the sun…you get the idea. As a person who thinks of computers as a necessary evil, I don’t have a dog in this fight. I fully expect that to change. No middle ground, right?
Coke or Pepsi. 
Nutrasweet or Splenda.
Reality TV or sit coms.
Tasty vegetables or beets. 
We have a tradition of choosing sides in this country, a proud position of preferences we will argue into the ground and defend until the commercial’s over. I know I will fight to the death before I ever let a beet touch my lips. How about you? What’s your preference?
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43 Responses to “Book Bodyguard”
DebMarlowe on 16 Feb 2007 at 2:09 pm #
I’m sorry to say I do fall in the middle of this particular battle. Does that make me a Book Bodyslob?
I do tend to treat my books carefully, but not obsessively, but I have learned the hard way not to loan a well-loved book unless I have another copy.
As for the other battles:
PC
Coke
real sugar–I’m afraid of what all those chemicals do to my brain. It’s already scare enough in there!
Reality TV–Project Runway! Top Chef! My exception? Boston Legal LOL funny! Shatner rules!
Beets–yuck. Most other veggies–yes! Red peppers especially.
Great Blog Space Ladies!
Deb Marlowe
Karen Hawkins on 16 Feb 2007 at 2:26 pm #
Oh, Claudia! You’ve hit a nerve here. My family can spend HOURS debating the Coke/Pepsi problem.
Here’s where I stand:
Diet Coke
Spenda
Mac Maniac
Sit Coms (my family is enough ‘reality’ for me!)
And NO BEETS!
No, really. NO BEETS!
Karen Rose on 16 Feb 2007 at 3:02 pm #
Does anybody like beets? I don’t think I’ve met anyone who does, or who has the guts to publicly admit it anyway.
Okay - I like TAB. Remember TAB? But if I’m in a part of the country that doesn’t sell it, I choose diet Pepsi. Only because there was a period back in ‘96 (my grudges hold a very long time) when I purchased several diet Cokes over several weeks and had them explode when I fought with the screw-off cap. Once I was in my NEW Honda and it spewed all over the ceiling. I still have the Honda (now proudly bearing 170,000 miles) but the diet Coke is no longer on the ceiling. Still, I remember. So it’s Diet Pepsi for me.
Nutrasweet, all the way. Without chemicals, life would be impossible. (See TAB, listed above.)
I used to have a MAC - it was a company computer. The company changed to all PC’s and they tore my MAC from my gripping, clawing fingers. But I’ve adjusted. Barely. Now I even poke fun at Mac people. They’re like VW Bug people - kind of sweetly maniacal about their passion. (I had a Bug in college, so I can poke at this population.)
Sit coms are okay, but I like my Sci-fi. I’m on Season 9 of Stargate SG-1, on season 5 of Babylon-5 and waiting on pins and needles for the release of season 2 of Stargate Atlantis. Will they survive? Will humanity be decimated? My heart races, just thinking about it. LOL. Notice the tactful absence of my opinion on reality shows . . .
NO BEETS. But I do like lima beans.
elsiehogarth on 16 Feb 2007 at 3:06 pm #
What a great Blog! Look at all the Goddesses! I just love it.
I am a “Book Bodyguard”. Is it wrong to lend a book and MUST have it returned in the same way? NO!?! So, I have stop loaning out books unless it’s a book I don’t want and then they can do with them what they please. I have been known to go out and buy a duplicate because I just can’t handle spine creases, dog ears etc.
PC
Pepsi(Coke makes me burp like crazy)
Neither Splenda or Nutrasweet
Sit coms
Beets(Love them. Next to avocados/tomatoes they are my favorites)
krissyinva on 16 Feb 2007 at 3:25 pm #
Let’s see…
I like Coke better than Pepsi, but I usually drink Cherry Coke or Pepsi’s Dr. Pepper, so maybe I’m just confused.
No Splenda or Nutrasweet for me please
I am more of a reality fan, but I do love sitcoms too
I’ve never actually tried a beet, but I love most Veggies.
Sabrina Jeffries on 16 Feb 2007 at 3:31 pm #
But, Claudia, “snob” rhymes so much better with “slob” than “bodyguard.” For me, it’s all about the rhyming.
When it comes to choices, I am definitely a PC person, although only because I can work a PC so very well. Writers have endless debates about Word Perfect vs. MS Word, and I always come down on the MS Word side because, well, I can use it so very well. I tried to learn WP once because everyone kept saying it was so superior, and I found the learning curve much steeper than I wanted to fool with. So for me, it’s “the devil you know.” I am a creature of habit.
As for the rest:
definitely Diet Coke
definitely sitcoms (the only reality TV I can tolerate is the house-fixing and antique-selling shows, and even with them, a little goes a long way)
Splenda if I can get it, except in Diet Coke, which must remain unaltered in its earliest nutrasweet rendition
I like pickled beets. Does that count?
Julia London on 16 Feb 2007 at 3:38 pm #
These are not easy questions!
I have a PC, but I want a MAC because of the commercials. You know, the series of ads where the MAC is so much cooler than the PC? I want to be cooler. (Claudia, do you feel cooler?)
I usually drink water, rarely drink sodas, but when I do, its caffiene free diet coke or dr. pepper.
Splenda. Sugar makes me comotose. That’s not to say I don’t eat stuff with sugar in it, because I do. Right now I am staring thru a sugar-induced haze at the screen. But had splenda been available, I would have chosen it.
Reality TV. All of it! Idol, Amazing Race, Survivor, Runway (LOVE it), Real Wives of Orange County (I’m ashamed to admit), even Nanny and Trading Spouses on occasion (my face is so red). But I really like the new comedies like Ugly Betty and The Office.
It is probably obvious to anyone who has seen me, but I am not very discerning when it comes to food. I will literally eat anything, beets included. Things I know I can’t eat are tripe and caviar. Everything else is fair game, especially right now while I am trying to meet a deadline that passed weeks ago.
Nicole Jordan on 16 Feb 2007 at 3:45 pm #
>>>our wonderful, but defenseless friends and that they deserve our protection and care so that they will live to bring joy to others forever
But, Claudia, I don’t want to bring joy to others. I just want to bring joy to ME! Which is what my well-loved books do for me. I do agree, there’s a difference between Protector/Bodyguard and Lover. And I’m a proud Lover.
As for the other stuff:
*** PC cause my very first computer was an Apple and nobody else in the world could read my files.
*** Word Perfect, absolutely. Word, I positively hate, although I’m forced to use it frequently cause everybody else in the business world uses it.
*** I’m with KarenR, love SF stuff. I cried when Andromeda went off the air.
*** Don’t drink much soft drinks these days — I’ve switched to bottled water cause of all the sports health nuts out here. With the dry air and high altitude in the mountains, caffiene really saps your strength. But when I do, I prefer Diet 7-up or Diet Sprite, and can’t really tell the difference, although my M-I-Law can.
*** And I like beets but I never get them unless I’m eating out cause my dh doesn’t like them, along with most other veggies.
Karen Rose on 16 Feb 2007 at 3:55 pm #
Hi Elsie - glad to see you here at our blog!!! Don’t you love the bikinis? Say hey to all the girls for me. And no, I’m not being good. (Elsie always signs her emails “Be good.”)
Oh, see now I feel bad because I like chemicals. Not bad enough, because I just guzzled the rest of my TAB and am snacking on goldfish crackers, not vegetables. If vegetables came in cute bags with pictures of fish, I’d eat them too. But I stand corrected (and amazed) on the beets issue. Some people do eat them!
ldavis9 on 16 Feb 2007 at 4:07 pm #
Just have to join in on this discussion.
Mac or PC - there are advantages to both but I currently use a PC
Coke or Pepsi - neither. Can’t stand colas at all!
Nutrasweet or Splenda - sugar is my favorite but will settle for Splenda
Reality TV or sit coms - neither. My TV watching has moved almost completely to dramas. CSI, Criminal Minds, Law & Order and Numbers. I’m enjoying the reruns of Jake 2.0 on SciFi and Star Trek Voyager on Spike TV.
Tasty veggies or beets - both. I like beets that are cooked but not pickled.
Sabrina Jeffries on 16 Feb 2007 at 4:18 pm #
Well, in a choice between sitcoms and reality TV, I’d choose sitcoms, but like ldavis9, my TV watching of choice is almost entirely dramas (all the Law & Orders, Studio 60, Cold Case, and Without a Trace) and true crime shows (FBI Files, Forensic Files, Cold Case Files–not to be confused with Cold Case–and just about anything where they talk about crime). Not sure why I’m not writing suspense, since I LOVE police procedurals of every kind!
elsiehogarth on 16 Feb 2007 at 4:37 pm #
Hello to all the Goddesses!
Karen, I haven’t told your “Stalker Laurie” that you are blogging here YET but I’ll let her know and the rest of the Ladies from the Readers Group so that they can also join in.
Take care, be good.
kimber on 16 Feb 2007 at 4:48 pm #
Books are definitly a friend so I try not to let them get “roughed up.” As for the other stuff:
PC
Coke if those are my only choices, otherwise any thing but soda.
Real sugar please, no chemicals
If the tvs on its on a movie channel
As for beets I love them but I think we are picking on the wrong veggie here. Brussels Sprouts. Now that is a truely evil veggie.
Rachel Gibson on 16 Feb 2007 at 4:57 pm #
Love beets but am not a real veggie fan. I’m kind of a picky eater. I won’t eat anything with corn thrown in it. If I eat something like stew, there can only be four vegetables in it at most.
Sugar. I loooove sugar. Which is why I don’t ever eat sugar, because once I start, I go on an ugly binge that lasts for days. While other women fantasize about Brad Pitt, my fantasies involve crushed up Smarties and a Pixy Stix.
I watch television shows like Judge Judy, Project Runway and Top Chef. Also any sort of true crime shows like City Confidential and the First 48. And yes, I did watch Flavor Of Love. When I’m not reading romance books, I read science fiction fantasy.
Claudia Dain on 16 Feb 2007 at 5:07 pm #
Look, you people can claim to eat beets all you want. I simply don’t believe it. Talk is SO cheap. I will have to actually see you eat a beet…and keep it down, to believe that anyone can eat a beet! LOL
As to feeling cooler now that I have my MacBookPro, it’s too soon to tell. Can I get cooler? Hmmm, not sure that’s possible. I just ditched my minivan after 17 years so I’m feeling pretty darned cool at the moment.
Sabrina Jeffries on 16 Feb 2007 at 5:20 pm #
Trust me, Claudia is about as cool as any author can possibly be. The MAC was just an enhancement.
Adrienne on 16 Feb 2007 at 7:09 pm #
The only issue here that I can wave my flag over is my deep abiding love for my Mac. I don’t drink cola, and I’ve never delved that deeply into my feelings about beets…onions are a different story, but beets? Not so much.
I don’t know if having a Mac makes me any cooler, though I’ll take any help I can on that front, but it makes my life so much easier. An example: A computer game for our older son. The windows installation has seven steps. The Mac instructions - insert CD, click icon.
Claudia Dain on 16 Feb 2007 at 7:27 pm #
I have to admit that the Mac is winning me over to the Computer Side of Life. I’ve been mostly computer illiterate for the past 10 years and the Mac is giving me hope that those days might end. I’d love for that to be true! It’s tough to be cool when you can’t read an attachment.
Skylar Masey on 16 Feb 2007 at 7:53 pm #
Great post Claudia! And you are so very cool, though I’ve known that for a long time!
I am so definitely a Book Bodyguard! Life gave me a built in sharer as my twin sister, who is also an avid reader. As such she likes to borrow my books. That’s okay only because we’re both perfectionists, which means no dog ears, no highlights and definitely (if we can help it since accidents do happen) no broken spines. The first time I bent an ear on one of my own books gave me pass. I mean would Kevin really have said Whitney take a flesh wound for the team? I don’t think so. But alas, sometimes those little zingers (you know what I mean!) are too good not to mark. So I am guilty of a little book bashing. But under no circumstances will I let my brother-in-law do away with my sis’s books. This is partially because quite a few are on that gray line between belonging to her or me.
In the debate over MAC vs. PC–I’ve used both. For design I’d take a MAC anyday. Though when I started working (in the real world) I had to adjust to the PC conformists. So 24/7 I’m now a PC girl because of economics. So I guess than makes me uncool. As if I didn’t have enough to put me in that category already. On Sabrina’s debate over MS Word to WP, I’ll take Word anyday. I ran WP on a DOS way back when and gritted my teeth then, plus I love Word’s graphic-related qualities.
My bf is all Pepsi, no Coke. My mother is Diet Coke Caffeine Free only, just like my grandmother. I myself draw the line at Sierra Mist. Sprite only for me thanks very much.
I am a romantic comedy, sitcom gal at heart, but I’ll take a good CSI anyday. I adore Men in Trees and Ugly Betty! The only Reality TV I indulge in is American Idol, ANTM & Project Runway, but if there’s to much drama my finger goes walking over the remote.
The simple thought of beets makes my stomach turn. Ugh! Potatoes and beans only please…hold the black-eyed pea variety. (Though I rock out to the band!)
Nutrasweet or Splenda..who needs them? I’m sweet enough! Lol!
OV_099 on 16 Feb 2007 at 7:54 pm #
Here’s Me:
PC
Diet Coke
well, the only time I use fake sugar is drinking Diet Coke, so that would be nutrasweet
Alas, neither for the most part, I’m a news junkie, CNN most especially. But don’t keep me from I Love Lucy, Star Trek, X-Files, and whatever else.
Ah, I guess I’ll go with the veggies since chocolate’s not on the list.
Lois
Karen Hawkins on 16 Feb 2007 at 8:33 pm #
Lois, that’s a good point! Why ISN’T chocolate on the list because I thi—
Oh wait. It’s probably because we’d all agree and Claudia was looking for fights. Boy, you put that chick on Mt. Olympus, drape her in a classy Grecian gown, stick a MacBookPro in her hands, and she starts somethin’ every time!
Well, here’s to those of you who eat beets (or say you do, anyway) . . . I’m beginning to think that you guys are also the ones who would eat that NASTY sauerkraut that they used to serve in my high school cafeteria. None of the kids at the Cool Kids’ Table used to eat it, but SOMEONE had to or they wouldn’t have served it every freakin’ Weds.
As for tv, kudos to whoever said they loved The Office. It’s terrific, though I like the British version a bit better. I think Steve Carroll is sorta hot.
Julia London on 16 Feb 2007 at 8:44 pm #
AAAIIIEEEEE!!! You think Steve Carrell is HOT? HAHAHAHAHAHAAA.
Not that there is anything wrong with that.
I don’t know if this is going to work out between us, Karen H. I was the kid eating the nasty sauerkraut (I am so not kidding — I will eat just about anything once), and I think Steve Carrell is sorta not hot.
Skylar, I had the same experience with WP. Back in the dark ages, I used the DOS version. when Word came into being, I thought I was finally living right. There’s nothing Word won’t do that I need it to do. I can’t imagine what WP would offer me now.
Sarah on 16 Feb 2007 at 9:48 pm #
I used to lend out books, but after some disappeared I have become snobbish about lending most of my collection. But if I do lend you a book, be prepared for cracked spines. I read my Jane Eyre paperback until I could remove chunks of pages at a time.
As for the other questions:
PC all the way
Pepsi (unless I’m buying the 20-oz plastic bottle… I think Coke is better then) And I prefer my pop as God intended: from a glass bottle or a fountain.
I don’t like artificial sweeteners, because I love SUGAR! I used to keep sugar cubes in my desk at work. Dieting is hard.
I like some reality TV, but I love a good sitcom (How I Met Your Mother)
Vegetables or Beets? I guess my answer won’t be enthusiastic, but vegetables. I can wholeheartedly endorse green beans, carrots, corn, and potatoes. Beyond that… it all looks like beets to me. Dieting is hard.
But how about something we can all agree on? I loved Karen’s new book. Why can’t I find any super hot Scottish guys to abduct and marry? I’m sure my husband would understand.
rumolay on 16 Feb 2007 at 9:52 pm #
I’m a bit of a book bodyguard as well. I learned the hard way - loaned a book out to a friend, got it back months later, tattered and torn.
As for my preferences:
Mac, all the way (much to the horror of my militant PC using mother)
Coke
Sugar (not really an artificial sweetener kind of gal)
Tasty veggies (although my husband insists on cooking beets and making homemade sauerkraut, and I have to choke them down every time - perhaps this is his revenge for me not doing any of the cooking in our household?).
Steve Carrell - sorta not hot. However, Jon Stewart on the Daily Show (former colleague of Steve Carrell), WAY HOT. Especially when he bites his lip as he tries not to laugh.
kimber on 16 Feb 2007 at 10:25 pm #
OK, where do I start? Steve Carrell has a new movie coming out. “Even Almighty.” Looks cute, he gets to be Noah. As for sauerkraut: I come from german decent and I can think of about a hundred things I would rather eat before that. But its not that bad…
kimber on 16 Feb 2007 at 10:30 pm #
Ok, so soon I will be known as the typo queen, oh well. Hard to type with a dog on your lap… “Evan Almighty” a sequel to “Bruce Almighty”. By the way, Steve Carrell is pert of the “Frat pack” bunch of hotties!!
Wirdald on 16 Feb 2007 at 10:32 pm #
Someday I’ll be able to afford a Mac, but until then I’m stuck in PC heck. I lust after Macs and just drooled over the MacBookPro yesterday. Ah, someday.
Used to like only Coke, then I gave up sodas one Lent, and at the end of 40 days I was so desperate for caffeine that “even” Pepsi tasted good. Now I drink both.
I use any sugar or sugar byproducts. If it tastes sweet (lead paint, anyone?) I’ll eat it.
Ew! No beets, only the good veggies.
I like both reality TV (Project Runway, Top Design, all of HGTV) and non-reality TV [I don't know if some of these are technically sitcoms (That's So Raven; Law and Order; Star Trek; MASH; House; etc.)]
Hmm, I guess I’m one of the weirdoes who’s on the fence about most of these things. I am even a crossover book snob/slob. I can mess up my OWN books, but, oooh, let someone else do a number on my books and I quietly steam and swear never to lend her/him a book again!
Karen Hawkins on 16 Feb 2007 at 10:36 pm #
Look, JuliaL, I said SORT hot. As in only SORTA. He’s better in 40 year old virgin. He’s such a dork, but so SINCERE. I love that. Tell you what, though, you leave him and Hugh Jackman to me, and I’ll leave you Brad Pitt. Deal????
And rumolay, Jon Stewart is WAY hot. As in I’d jump him if I thought I could get past his bodyguards and it wouldn’t put me on the To Be Watched List and ruin my chances to jump Hugh Jackman when he’s in town.
I looooove Jon Stewart! And yes, so much of it is how cute he is when he’s hamming it up — he’s just sexy as heck.
And Kimber, Lol! My dog won’t fit on my lap, but if he could, he’d be there all of the time.
Suzanne Enoch on 16 Feb 2007 at 10:44 pm #
Sorry to chime in late — just got back from seeing “GHOSTRIDER”. I’m such a sucker for comics made into movies. I’ll have to blog one time on my X-Men obsession.
Anyway, if chocolate counts as a sugar, then I’m in, 100%. Diet Coke, or Diet Dr. Pepper — and NO coffee. Blech.
Sitcoms — the only reality TV I watch is Supernanny and the news. Do they count?
Beets, yuck. For some reason they fall into “no vegetables with three syllables or more” category — like fancying up the name will make them taste better. I’m talking to you, asparagus. *g*
Suzanne Enoch
Julia London on 16 Feb 2007 at 11:39 pm #
Okay KH, that’s definitely a deal I can live with. Yuuuummmmm….
Claudia Dain on 17 Feb 2007 at 12:14 am #
Hey, if we’re talking sauerkraut, which my 100% German father loved, then you have to throw in pickled herring, courtesy of my 100% Swedish mother. On days when either one appeared on the dinner table, I drank a lot of milk and called it dinner. There are so many vegetables that are less than wonderful, but beets really is in a class by itself.
Actually, beets is the vegetable that’s been kicked out of class for bad behavior and is sitting out in the hall, throwing spit wads at the water fountain.
Julia London on 17 Feb 2007 at 1:33 am #
Okay, that’s three things I won’t touch: tripe, caviar, and pickled herring. eeeewwwweeee
Karen Hawkins on 18 Feb 2007 at 3:42 pm #
Tripe? People can EAT tripe? I thought tripe was … well, I won’t say what I thought tripe was, but it didn’t swim and the Health Department spends a lot of time keeping it out of our waterways.
As for caviar, I had it once so I could say I’d had it once, and that was enough. Like Enoch’s asparagus, just because they dressed up ’salted fish eggs’ with a fancy name - ‘caviar’ - is not enough to make me call it a ‘real food.’
Give me corn on the cob, slathered with butter and lightly salted … yummmm!!!!!!
TheNightPoet on 19 Feb 2007 at 1:22 pm #
So I have lent a book to an old neighbor of mine and never saw the book again!!! I was wanting to read it so bad at one point, that I knew I would never see it again, so I bought it…..yes again. haha Here’s the twist, my mom and I borrowed a book from that same neighbor and we never gave it back to her. (Not on purpose, I guess it’s one of those things where you forget you have it and then one day you come across it when you’re looking for something. Trust me, I want to give it back to her, but I don’t know where she lives now.) Ever since then, I don’t lend out my books! Also, I have kept every book I have ever bought! A lot of people tell me I should just go to the library and borrow them (to save money), but what’s the point of that??!! I want to have the book in my possession and be able to read and re-read it whenever I feel like it! Does anyone else feel the same way?
I prefer Coke, but I love drinking Dr. Pepper.
No Nutrasweet or Splenda for me.
I hate reality TV, and I’m not much into TV sitcoms, but I do love watching Criminal Minds and Extreme Makeover.
I can’t remember ever trying a beet, but I’m a picky eater. I like some vegetables, but I love fruit better.
I prefer PC’s.
~Andrea
TheNightPoet on 19 Feb 2007 at 2:03 pm #
So I have loaned a book to an old neighbor of mine and never saw it again! It was a book I loved too! There was one point a few years ago where I wanted to re-read it, so I bought it again. haha I haven’t loaned a book out to anyone since then. People have told me that I could just go to the library and borrow the books I read, but I love having possession of the books I’m reading. I want to be able to read and re-read the books I have read. Does anyone else feel the same way I do?
I prefer Coke over Pepsi, but I love Dr. Pepper.
No Nutrasweet or Splenda for me.
I hate reality TV and I don’t really watch many sitcoms, although I do love watching Criminal Minds and Extreme Makeover.
I don’t think I’ve ever eaten a beet, but I’m a picky eater. I like vegetables, but I love fruit more.
I prefer PC’s.
~Andrea
Sandy M on 19 Feb 2007 at 3:45 pm #
I am a book protector, and after being burned a few times too many, I don’t loan out my books til thay have been read, and if I really liked them, they stay here forever, or until I go on a cleaning binge and give them to the local library.
Never used a MAC, so it’s PC for me.
I’m a Pepsi girl, but love Dr Pepper more.
No sweeteners; it’s gotta be fattening!
I do not eat beets! But I love most veges and fruits, could easily be a vegetarian if I wasn’t married to a meat and potatos man.
Like some reality tv like Survivor and The Amazing Race, but not those ‘rich guy chooses who to marry’ ones. I love House and have watched Gilmore Girls since day 1.
winddancer on 19 Feb 2007 at 7:22 pm #
I am a book bodyguard. I will not lend a book. I will find homes for the ones that I can no longer care for. My book inventory has hit about five thousand so I have to weed some of them out once in a while.
Books are our friends. we do not hurt our friends. My daughter learned not to write in her books, if she did I took them away for a while. She learned that lesson so well that she refused to do her work in pre school. You guessed it. pages were in a book. the teacher finally put the page on a copier and gave her one piece of paper.
I am now teaching my grandchildren to love books.
Pepsi for me
Coke for my husband.
Thank heavens the twelve packs come in the long skinny boxes now. so they can fit side by side.
PC
and chocolate
not a beet in the far distance.
winddancer on 19 Feb 2007 at 7:28 pm #
Library will not work for me either. “borrowing” just doesn’t do it. I have to own the book. Know it is mine.
I am very involved in RIF. Reading is Fundametal. It is an organization that brings books to under privliaged children. To make a child understand that the book is theirs forever by taking a pen and writing their name on the cover and watch their eyes light up as they run to their mothers to show them their very own book. “See it has MY name.
Nicole Jordan on 20 Feb 2007 at 9:38 am #
winddancer on 19 Feb 2007 at 7:28 pm # edit this
>>>>I am very involved in RIF. Reading is Fundametal. It is an organization that brings books to under privliaged children. To make a child understand that the book is theirs forever by taking a pen and writing their name on the cover and watch their eyes light up as they run to their mothers to show them their very own book. “See it has MY name.
Wow, that beautiful, Winddancer… And very, very cool.
NicoleJ
Sapphirepw on 20 Feb 2007 at 11:29 pm #
I fall in the category of book bodyguard. I never loan out my books, having done so previously and never gotten them back. For me books are to be cherished like my friends and I would never intentionally hurt a friend. Not to say for those of you who call yourselves slob would hurt a friend. We just view book keeping differently.
I’m definitely a coke lover. I have a strong dislike for Pepsi and will even ask the waitress is it Pepsi or Coke. If they try to pull one over on me I send it back. True Pepsi or Coke lovers know the difference. lol I must have the real thing which is sugar. Sitcoms I prefer, if I’m not reading a book. Ya think maybe I’m
an addicted book reader? Beets, yuk .
Pam
Susan K on 22 Feb 2007 at 9:07 am #
I am a definite book bodyguard. I won’t loan my books out at all. I loaned my best friend one of my favorite young adult horror books in middle school and she lost it. I was very upset. So now I won’t even let other people TOUCH my precious books.
Ummm….PC or MAC….I am so computer stupid I’m not even sure of the difference. I’ve seen the commercials and I’m still confused.
PEPSI….I am a Pepsi addict!
Real Sugar
Neither really….My three shows are Grey’s Anatomy, Desperate Housewives & Brothers and Sisters. My next favorite thing to watch is Columbus Blue Jackets NHL Hockey. I do like CSI and some of those shows on Court TV but they scare me sometimes.
Beets…GROSS!!! I like carrots, corn, peas, green beans & cucumbers. That’s it.
Bridget Waters on 23 Feb 2007 at 9:15 am #
PC (I used to use MACS and I couldn’t stand them.)
Diet Coke or Pepsi (I don’t care which as long as it’s diet)
Splenda (Too much Sugar makes me dizzy)
TV Sitcoms (Where are the good old days when Seinfield ruled the world.)
Veggies (What the hell is a beet anyways? I remember them talking about them on that Old Cartoon Doug, but I didn’t have a clue what it was).
With that said, any spelling errors can go to the fact that I can’t read a word on this computer screen.
Selfish Addict on 20 Mar 2007 at 10:20 pm #
I love the idea of Bodyguard. I’m very picky about who I will let help guard and in the process enjoy. For a new baby or baby shower gift I give a stuffed animal and a book,with a card that says every child needs a favorite book and a best friend to share it with. I want to teach them early and there has never been a duplicate gift either. Everyone loves them. The only writing on my books is inside cover mainly my name and address,I want it back. I have given “special book” for special occasion for my neices and nephews,that I wrote a note about the occasion and how I feel about them etc. Without my name they know it’s from me coause I end with I love you,you know.As for the others coke or diet 7-up. Splenda hands down. On the fence with tv. Depends on which one. Ilike most veggies including beets(pickled is best). No tripe,cavier,or pickled herring. I do on occasion like anchovies on pizza.