A Magical Bits & Pieces

Seeing as how I’m on the grounds of one of my very favorite places (for the annual RWA conference), I figured a few Disney-related Bits & Pieces might be fun today.

1) Who’s your favorite Disney character?

2) If you’ve ever been to Disney, what’s your favorite ride?

3) How many times have you been to Disney?

4) If you could transport yourself to Disney World for just one hour, what would be a must-do?

~Elizabeth

A Say For The Tastebuds

Today’s Bits & Pieces centers around one of my favorite things–food.

Ready? Here we go…

1) What’s your favorite candy bar of all time?

2) What’s your favorite snack food?

3) What was your favorite dinner growing up?

4) Your favorite dinner now?

5) What’s your favorite meal of the day?

6) Are you a fast or slow eater?

7) In terms of dining, what’s one country you’d like to visit?

8 ) Have you ever tried a recipe you wish you hadn’t? What was it?

Have a great weekend, everyone!

~Elizabeth

Word Association Time

Here’s some quirky questions for all of you today, written in word-association style. I say a word or phrase, you tell us what comes to mind first:

1) Eighties hair band?

2) High school?

3) Summer?

4) Winter?

5) Mysterious?

6) Hot pretzel?

7) Murder mystery?

~Elizabeth

This, Just In…

We’re hip, we’re now…right?

Here’s some present-day questions for all of you:

1) What book are you reading right now?

2) What was the last movie you watched (either in a theater or at home)? Did you like it?

3) What was the last song you heard on the radio?

4) What was the last thing you ate?

~Elizabeth

One, Two, Three, Four (th)

In honor of the upcoming July 4th holiday, I have a few Bits & Pieces questions designed to make you think a little…

1) Where were you when you saw your last public firework display?

2) What’s your favorite (most magical) firework display ever?

3) What one patriotic song affects you most?

4) How do you plan on spending the 4th this year?

~Elizabeth

Summer Lovin’

There are just certain things that scream “summer” to me…

1) Reeces Peanut Butter Cup milk shakes at Barnacle Bills in Ortley, New Jersey.

2) The sound of kids playing outside after dinner.

3) Lazy days spent reading.

4) The beach.

5) Corn on the cob.

So, with that in mind, I come to you with some fun summer questions. Ready?

1) What’s your favorite summer drink?

2) What’s your favorite summer food?

3) What’s one thing screams summer for you?

4) What’s your favorite season? Why?

~Elizabeth

Pieces of You, Pieces of Me

I went to an art show at my daughter’s school the other day, and one of the projects they’d made was a name depiction of themselves. They wrote their names in big block letters, then added pictures of their interests in and around the lines.

My daughter turned the top of one “N” into a basketball hoop, the straight part of her “J” a palm tree. A violin was nestled inside her “E” and, well, you get the point.

So tell me, if you were given such a task now, as the person you are this minute, what sort of interests/hobbies would you choose to depict?

~Elizabeth

One of These Things is Not Like the Other…

 No, this isn’t a post about hot dogs but it’s the best I could do to illustrate the topic for today’s Bits & Pieces…

Oddities

1) What’s the oddest collection you ever had as a kid?

2) Who is your oddest relative (names optional to protect the innocent) and why?

3) Do you have any odd physical characteristics? What?

4) If you could do one crazy (and, yes, odd) thing wherever you are at this very minute (with absolutely no repercussions whatsoever), what would you do?

~Elizabeth

P.S. I’m off to Printer’s Row Lit Fest in downtown Chicago for the weekend. If you’re in the area, I’ll be signing at the Big Sleep Books tent at noon on both Saturday and Sunday! Stop by and say hi!

Improvements?

There’s a plus and a minus to change. And sometimes it’s hard to know which was better–the original version or the new and improved version.

In just my four decades (sounds better by decades than years) on this earth, I’ve seen a lot of changes. The squiggly chord I used to wrap around my finger while talking on the phone…gone.  Replaced, instead, by phones we take with us–some not much thicker than a piece of paper. Having this option has made us safer and certainly helped with convenience, but it’s allowed people to reach us everywhere. Even when we might not want them to.

Then there’s music. Instead of saving up our money to buy records, we buy CD’s. Instead of carrying boom boxes to the beach, everyone has ear plugs in their ears as they listen to favorite songs downloaded to Ipods. And while there is certainly a plus to this (not buying an entire album for one good song), the negative is missing out on some great album art.

Then there’s cameras. We no longer have to save up our rolls of film to take to the camera store. We can, instead, see them instantly via our computer screen. But since the dawn of digital pictures, I can’t tell you the last time I held a print in my hand…or put one in an actual album.

And then there’s good old fashioned outdoor activity like kite flying. Sure, we don’t have to head to the beach just to enjoy such an activity (saving gas/time)…but do we really enjoy the same experience via a Wii?

Thoughts to ponder, certainly. And a topic of some Bits & Pieces questions for all of you…

1) What’s something you miss about the past (technology wise)? Why?

2) What’s something you miss about the way things were done in the past (not specific to technology) that you miss? Why?

3) What’s something you absolutely couldn’t live without now that you  have it?

~Elizabeth

The Welcome Knock of Summer

In honor of the unofficial start to the summer season, I figured I’d base today’s Bits & Pieces on one of my favorite times of the year…

1) What would be your ideal summer day trip?

2) If you could go anywhere in the U.S. for vacation this summer, where would you go?

3) Best childhood vacation memory?

4) Ever have a summer romance? How old were you?

5) Favorite sounds & smells of summer?

Enjoy your holiday weekend!

~Elizabeth