New French Fries

I'm sure you figured out from my name that I adore french fries, but did you know what really started it? It was a fabulous place called Wendy's. (Someday I'll have to post my love affair with Wendys in general but today it's about the fries.)

Wendy's will now be making their fries thinner, crispier, saltier (using sea salt, which apparently is all the rage these days), and they're even going to leave a bit of skin left on.

I loved their fries before. I think a lot of people did. In fact this is the first time in 41 years they're doing this big of a change to their fries. And I gotta admit I'm curious to try the new thing. (Don't worry though, the price is still the same.)

You can bet I'll be reporting on what I think. I'm excited.

Has anyone tried them yet?

*Image is from Associated Press

Wordless Wednesday: Sometimes You Gotta Look Up

(This photo was taken by me in October 2010 at Disneyland in Anaheim California.)

Book Academy

This totally got lost in the shuffle but I wanted to be sure to share about this fun event. Last year Olivia and I went to the first Readers and Writers Conference and had a blast.

This year the newly named Book Academy Conference (the end of September) was even better and Liv and I got our friends Meagan and Heather to join us for the day.

I'm just all sorts of impressed with this conference. The price, check in, class topics, teachers, food, it's all just very well put together. Brandon Sanderson gave the keynote address about key elements that make a great story.



We split off to check out our first class. Don't these all sound great? It's just the few I picked to go to.

These are the Jokes, People Becca Wilhite

Don't Talk Like This: Your Voice and Your Character Emily Wing Smith

Writing Action Scenes: How to Keep Your Story Moving Larry Correia

Overcoming Writer's Block Rob Wells

The other fun part about the conference was the mingling and networking. After the conference I was invited to dinner and got to enjoy the company of some great people. Sheila and Shanda from LDS Womens Book Review, Jennifer and her husband J Scott Savage, Robinson Wells, Julie Wright, Don Carey, Krista Jensen, Tristi Pinkston and a few other nice folks that were at the far end or our enormously long table and I didnt get a chance to talk to.

If you haven't believed me yet, I'm telling you, people who read (and write) are fun! I had a great day and I love that my husband is super supportive of my reading hobby. Have you ever gone to a conference?

Kimiko Winner

A big thank you to everyone who entered. We had over 15 entries! I gave all your entries a number and used random.org to choose a lucky winner.

The winner of our Kimiko Gifts giveaway is

Bedelia!

Congratulaions.

(Email me and I'll connect you with Kimiko Gifts to get your prize.)

Friends Are Cool

At the bookstore the other day I walked by this lovely little book and thought of this great girl (Gnome sweet Gnome).

And seriously doesnt this look super cute?

So excited for the weekend. It's gonna be AWESOME. Game night with some neighbors, writing marathon day (my first one!) with my gal pals. What are you planning to do this weekend?

Wordless Wednesday: Even trains get thirsty.

(This image was taken by me at Disneyland in California in Oct 2010.)

Kids Vote

We all have a voice and a choice. Today I took my daughter along with me to vote. Even though she's four we had a good talk about what people in office do, why it's important to help them, vote for people we think will do good and learn about things happening in our community.

Then she even asked me questions. I'd call it a successful day!

We're going to hold our own family vote tonight when the older one gets home from school. I'm thinking perhaps we'll vote on our favorite Disney character or maybe what we'll have for breakfast tomorrow. Or who knows maybe we'll be really crazy and do a whole bunch.

What do you think we should vote on?