Crusader Challenge-ma-bob

This is a Blogger Crusade Challenge, as presented by Rachael at Rach Writes.

The rules governing this challenge: 300 words or less, in any format, must utilize the words bloviate, fuliguline, rabbit, and blade. Also must include:

• one secret: I don't verbalize it (in fact this may be the first time), but I periodically have moments of panic about my son. Just this week, he was fevery (flu, I think) and took a bath and it took everything I had not to go in and check every five minutes. He's 12, but he was born early and not quite cooked (jaundiced, feeding tube, lights), and then had the flu at 14 months and had to be hospitalized for dehydration. I can still see him with his cozy stuffed rabbit (aptly named Cozy Bunny) he carried everywhere as a toddler—so sweet and fussy... only ever really liked us. It's hard to believe we're lucky enough to have the smart, social, healthy boy he is now, but that fear lingers.

• one lie (hidden among my peers, though I cheated... it's a detail, not a whole thing)

• one interesting quirk: I walk to work... and I read while I'm walking... in fact of late, I've taken to EDITING while I walk, though it's hard to write and walk, especially in gloves, but I manage (except when the temperature drops below about 20 and my ink freezes), but this is not without risks... I've been knocked in the head by low hanging branches many times (especially after a rain when they hand lower) and twice I've had serious enough falls to have injuries—once I knocked my jaw out of alignment, and once I broke a finger and sprained my ankle.

• one annoying habit: While my childhood friends might tell you it is my fuliguline imitation; the walk was amusing but for over a year my (darned good) Donald Duck imitation in my speech was the norm. Currently though, it is that I am a TERRIBLE stacker. HWMNBNOTI (He Who Must Not Be Named On the Internet for the uninitiated) thinks there is a single place for a thing to go, and it should always be put there, and I don't disagree, but HE thinks it is 'away' and I think it should be where it is most likely to remind me to attend to it.

• one of your best character traits: I'm not one to bloviate, but I think the single most important trait for a writer is one I have in spades... Tenacity. Call it persistence if you will, and I have that, too, but tenacity has a sense that of... even if it's delusional... and I sometimes think this writing business requires that... determination no matter HOW absurd it seems. (though I also like my silliness, even if it scares some people away)

• one of your favourite things in the whole world: Going to a Harry Potter movie with both of my kids. As they get older, there aren't a ton of things they want to do WITH me AND with EACH OTHER and without other friends... Harry Potter has been an experience we all had together and because I am the serious nut about it, but they LIKE it, and their best friends aren't nearly as into it... it is something the three of us go do together (in fact I think they feel obliged, but secretly like it). We had a blast at the midnight showing of the first Deathly Hallows. (I can pull off a near approximation for Pirates of the Caribbean (*envisions Captain Jack peering through his blade* mmmm, Captain Jack...) so there will be two this summer)


erm yeah... incapable of a 300 word post (I need much more time to write something that short), but there you have it...


SQUEEEEEEEEE:  This just in!  Made first cut at ABNA!!!!